RedBonePitchin85 : Fishing Forum Posts

My PB (7.13) was when I was 17 years old and fishing with my dad at Bull Shoals. I was that knuckle headed 17 year old that didn't believe my dad, and I wanted to be power fishing off of the bank with a swim bait. But my dad calmly said there is a really good brush pile out here on this ledge that I always find good fish on, I'm over there rolling my eyes at him, like I've heard this before dad.... He handed me a 7'4" Heavy rod with an old ambassador reels on it spooled with 20 pound line, and at the end was a 1oz football head Black and Blue Jig with a Uncle Josh #11 Black chunk. He told me to throw it out off the front of the boat and just let it sit on the bottom for a few seconds, and give it a sharp but quick jerk. So again thinking in my teenager mind "this is just a big waste of time" I did what he said to do. When I jerked the jig I had some line that rolled up on the water. I remember it like it was yesterday, that roll of line went bye bye and the heavy tipped rod bent down hard and with all I had, I yelled "DAD I GOT ONE"!! I started to reel and that poor ambassador reel's drag was smoking, and my dad kept telling keep him tight keep him tight!! Finally I got him to the top of the water, and that big bucket mouth opened up. We all know that over whelming feeling when you see that. My dad scooped him up with the net. Ever since that day you will find me on those hot summer days with my SI going and me trolling those drop offs looking for piles of brush or rocks, and I always have a good Ol Black and Blue tied on.

So for me..... My all time favorite hot humid summer morning at first light is too water fishing. Growing up it was either a Spook or a Buzzbait. Now days with so many new lures on the market, what's everyone's choices? I was fishing last summer with a buddy on Lake Lewisville near Dallas.

He broke out a Whopper Plopper, and I had my old trusty Spook. We had lines in at 5:45a.m. and by 6:30a.m. I had 2 with combined weight of maybe 4 pounds, and he had about a dozen fish and a few over 3 pounds and 1 pushing 6.

Since that morning... I have learned to not let my "Old School Pride" keep me from catching fish.