New Angular: Fishing Hamilton: 2015

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Last night, I bought another 24 of worms, and grabbed a pretty sweet lure from Fish World.

Today, I wake up at 5:45-6am, get out of the house at roughly 6:30am.
Started off with my down rig with two hooks, and a sinker. I caught two tiny rock bass with 2 hours. After that, I didn't really catch anything for another hour. It seems like the sun was really starting to shine and the water got warmer because there was a lot more activity in the water. There was this humongous rock bass just looping around the in the water by the shore.

I then set up my down rig with a sinker, hook and worm, and a rubber lure that had a couple hooks on it. Put some attractant on the lure, and the bass didn't want *any* part of the my rig at all. So I added a little more attractant and I must have got some on the sinker because the fish tried to grab it. Then finally, the bass tried the lure but spat it back out *twice!*. Sneaky little bugger.

At that point, I figured the sinker was in the way so I attached the sinker to the swivel and the down rig was in a triangular formation. No luck.

At this point in late morning, I seen that big rock bass chase after some smaller fish, and it make me thing he was hungry. So I figured trying my lure I bought yesterday. So twenty-minutes pass, finally have it all rigged up with a 4" line that was tied into the swivel on my mainline. Drop the lure back in and I see it floating. The lure was a medium diver. Yes, was. I'll get to that in a bit. I never really knew it had buoyancy. So, rather than make a lot of noise and waste my attempt at the fish, I attached a sinker on the swivel inline to the rig. The fish immediately sparks interest in it but kept eying it. Added attractant, and BAM.

The bass had a lot more energy than the lake trout I had hooked Wednesday. I had to reel my rod in 3 times before it had given up. Grabbed my net, but being that this was my first time catching such a big fish, the lure got caught in the net!! I knew I had to act fast, so I ended up lifting the net and the rod at the same time while the fish was still hooked up to the lure. I tried to disengage the lure, but then my glove got stuck in the lure with the net.

Within 30 seconds I had disengaged the lure, net, and the fish. Admiring the size, I sat it into the lake and it swam away like a bat out of hell.

At this moment in time, I was thinking deeper, bigger! So I cut the lure off the small line on the swivel, and knotted a foot line together with the lure and the mainline with the sinker still on.

Go to cast my rod with the reel flipped and somehow my line broke closer to the reel and my lure ended up being about 15 ft into the lake.

An hour after, I decided to just pack up and head out. It was mid-day, just past 12pm and I rode home. With being so ambitious and thinking about wanting to catch more big bass, I went to Canadian Tire and grabbed four more lures of the same brand so I can go back out tonight, or tomorrow. Or both.

I didn't take any pictures because I was flustered again. But once I get the process down better, and quicker, I'll definitely take pictures. I swear it was a trophy rock bass. I mean, it had to be 5-7 lb., I'd say closer to 5 lb.. Had to use both hands to handle the fish and it was about the size of my trout net. Maybe a little smaller. I'd say maybe 10-12" in total.

Tomorrow or next weekend, I'm going to end up taking my GoPro camera with me and just put it on time-lapse taking pictures every 2 seconds. So I'll take a picture every two seconds while it is attached to a tree, or on the shore. That way, it's just a no-brainer way to take a picture. Grab fish, put fish to camera for two seconds, release. Easy-peasy. Less fumble with cellphone, etc..