Bass Jiggin’

What’s up fellow fish lovers! About a week ago my family and I all went to lake LBJ, in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. My dad rented a pontoon boat, instead of taking my mini boat out, so we could all fit on it. I took all my rods, my cast net, bubbler and bucket, and my new Plano Z-series tackle pack. We also brought a cooler and ice so we could keep the fish and filet them and eat them. We also got a thing of live Night Crawlers. I was going to be throwing worms under a cork, and also a jig with a scented artificial Craw Fish behind it. I threw on a small chunk of worm and flipped it out by a rocky shore. My cork instantly went under, and I had a fish on! I reeled it in, but it was to small, so we let it go. I flipped back out, watched my bobber go down, then set the hook. I reeled it in, and this one was a keeper! We threw him in the ice box, and kept fishing. Mean while, My dad was throwing a jig, and on one cast, while he threw it near a over hanging tree, the not slipped and the lure flung off! He pulled the boat over, and after a minute of searching, he spotted it in about a foot of water. He jumped in and got it, and as he retied it on, me and my sister realized we spooked all the fish from this spot, so we moved on. We fished for hours around the docks we normally did good at, and then tried some new ones, but did not see a fish besides to Bass that were not interested in any worms or lures, did not catch any thing, and did not even git to many bites. My mom finally caught a Bluegill on a small rooster tail spinner, but it was to small, so we threw it back. That was the only fish there who wanted to eat, so we decided to pack up and book it to the other side of the lake in some old coves me and my dad discovered a few years before, and had caught some keeper Bass in. We made it to some coves that looked like no one had ever been in for a long time. I caught one baby Bluegill, and was gonna take it home to put in my tank with Scar, but my bubbler ran out of batteries, so we let the fish go and headed to another cove. This was the cove we had caught a few Bass in before. It was actually near a stream that lead to a PLANT. We got our jigs out and started flipping. There was no one else in the cove except us, and fish were braking the surface every where! We new that with how hot it was, the fish would be down low, so me and my dad were fishing with deep running jigs with Crawls Behind them, sprayed with a garlic olive oil scent. I kept seeing big fish break the surface, so I switched to a small Buzz Bait. I was working the surface with it, when I saw what the fish were that were surfacing. They were about Fifty pound Grass Carp. I was kind of mad that they were Carp, knowing they would not hit a Buzz Bait, so I switched back to live worms. I had just flipped my cork out into the water when my dad, on the scented jig, set the hook onto something BIG! I started freaking out! I dropped my rod on the boat floor, ran and grabbed my net and ran to the back of the boat where my dad was still fighting whatever this monster was! Right before we got it to the boat, about a five and a half pound Large Mouth Bass jumped out of the water, shaking his head wildly! My dad got him to the boat, and I tried to net him but missed. He was barley hooked, and if I missed him again, he would most likely spit the lure out. I saw my dad pulling the fish toward me with the rod. I reached out with my arms extended and netted the fish! We put the fish in the box and started freaking out! When we got back to the marina, and were walking back to the car on some piers, I saw a giant Bluegill eating algae off a pillar under water. I put on a new piece of worm on my small hook and lowered it in the water. He ate it right away, and I got him in! I unhooked him and threw him in the cooler! On our way home, we stopped by HEB, and bought some Shrimp and Tilapia. When we got home, we cooked all the fish, and then ate the for dinner. The Bluegill was good, the Tilapia was okay, and the Bass was AMAZING! It tasted so good, I wanted to go back and catch his friend! We believe you should only kill a fish if you are going to eat it, and that is what we did!

That’s it for today so see yall’ next time on Hudson’s Fishing Adventures! Bye!