Fishing Stories and Tall Tales

[MichaelAngelo]

Something exceedingly epic happened to us this weekend. I had to share it...

We arrived at my friend's cottage Friday evening and headed to the dock to start fishing. We were getting a frenzy of rock bass using plastics directly below the dock, so my friend thought he'd try something different!

He tied on a fire tiger Rapala J-13. This lure was a replacement I had just bought for him after I lost his original J-13 on its first cast earlier in the year. Nice lure, I commented that the fish could see it from across the lake and it was a sure-shot .



So off he went with the cast, and off went the lure... SNAP off went the knot. The lure sailed into oblivion. Of course, losing this darn J-13 on another first cast didn't make my friend too happy. He was rather frustrated. A group of friends consoled his loss.

Then I had an idea! But of course, the J-13 floats! We started scanning the water in front of us for the big green rap.

No sooner did we start looking at the water did we hear SPLASH



Sailing through the air, J-13 in mouth, was a triumphant 3lb smallmouth bass. He had beat us to it!

Well, at least we knew which lure they wanted .