Pebbles gets her PB fish....27# lbs......
4/15 Fri PM
Great trip. Took Pebbles out there with low expectations, turned out to be a great trip. Clipped on a NB bottle darter for her to throw....she was casting her Finchaser rod..made for easy casting of that larger plug......
We casted for about an hour with no activity at all. She kept asking me.....Are you SURE the fish are here??....lots of guys casting....no one is catching!.....I grumpily told her to keep casting...as the incoming tide and conditions were just coming together......
All of a sudden it turned on....like someone turned on a light switch...at 2am in the morning...
She got her PB bass, 27#, caught and reeled in herself with some coaching from me.
(She also got another larger bass, around 20#.)
It was quality over quantity. Between the 2 of us we managed 8 bass to 27#.
My largest was high teens. Smallest fish was about 7#.
The nicest part of the evening is Pebbles out-fished everyone who was there in that spot. The "sharpies" were drooling all over themselves so as not to ask "what" exact swimmer she was throwing,. Afterwards, when one of them let us use his genuine boga to weigh the fish, we saw it was close to my original eyeball estimates....#27....a very nice and fat fish.
Since it was her PB, we kept that one to show her kids, and released the rest.
Great night, made even better by "the one girl"...... out-catching all the guys on that beach., including me!
Very proud of my sweetheart.
She's holding the pics of her largest..which she kept to show her sons........Released the others..in the teens and 20's...a good night for us......and memorable night together..... because she listened to me to stay persistent....and it paid off.
** Disclaimer....Once she got into the routine of catching..I told her to keep on doing what had worked for her......She outfished in numbers and size, all the other guys on the beach that night....(including me)....
Just goes to show you don't have to be Pro-Staff, with 1000s in gear, to catch nice size fish......
**Fishing lesson 101.23 -- it's not the Gear that catches the fish, it's the fisherman/woman using it.
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