Mar 11 2019
Bruce Bernard
Slot Fish
Reservation Number : 20524
Property Name : Lake Encino
Reservation Date : 03/09/2019 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : Lots
Lures Used : Various
Saturday started off as a bust and ended with my catching an 11.33 pound bass. My biggest yet!
My fishing partner, John Bedore and I got to our chosen lake at 6:30 on Saturday morning only to find that we would not be able to fish there. After contacting Steve and explaining the situation Steve suggested that we move to Dunlay to fish a couple of lakes there. By the time we loaded our gear and headed out it was 10:00 and it took us until 2:15 to get to Dunlay. On the way to Dunlay we stopped at a restaurant to eat lunch and when we returned 3 of my rods had been stolen out of the back of the truck leaving me with only two that the thieves apparently couldn't reach easily.
We banked fished Encino lake and could see the potential immediately. We caught 7 fish fairly quickly and had 2 nice fish on the line that we were unable to land. We had not brought a trolling motor so we paddled around and used an anchor that I had brought to fan cast from various vantage points. We were catching a ton of smaller fish and a few larger fish mixed in but were having a good time just being outside fishing. At about 5:30 I made a routine cast and immediately could tell that I had tied into a large fish. After a 5 minute battle I brought the huge fish into the boat. I instantly knew that this was the largest fish that I had ever landed, She was huge and the girth was like no other fish that I had seen. We took a few photos and got her back in the water as quickly as possible.
We weighed the fish at 11.33 pounds which is my biggest fish by almost a pound. The beautiful coloration on the fish and the overall size made this on beautiful fish.
The day was surreal with all of the false starts and mishaps but I want to thanks Steve, Cole and Dave for going beyond the call of duty and working with us to get us on a good lake with very short notice. What started out as a tough day turned out to be one of the most memorable on the water.
Mar 11 2019
Bob Scheidemann
Slot Fish
Member Since :
2016
Number of Posts :
225
Bruce, Congrats on your PB! What a beauty!