MKMGOBL 2012 Fishing Season

[MK-M-GOBL]

Took me forever to do it but today I registered my 4 wheeler, canoe and got all my fishing gear ready for an evening on the water. I was out the door at 5:30 this evening Even though I got several bass in front of the camera, the winter and spring rust as it normally does got to me and I missed a lot of fish. I know two of the ones I missed were nice hawgs. I didn’t get them to the boat but from what I saw, they were one’s I wish I landed for sure. Next time

Funny part about the evening of fishing is that as I walked into the house, sitting on the kitchen table was my canoe registration stickers that should have been stuck on the sides of my canoe oops! It's a good thing F&G wasn’t out checking And for the record...they are on now.

Anyways, here are the first bass of 2012 that I thought were worthy of a photo opportunity.

[Dale]

good fish! makes me wanna get out there now 

[MK-M-GOBL]

Thanks Dale What does this bass make ya want to do

We headed for our town beach this afternoon for a swim and I ended up taking my fishing gear for after. While there I decided to try for some bass and ended up landing several average bass for all the kids to see.

While fishing the shoreline, I spotted a decent bass swimming by so I tired for him but he didn’t bite. I headed back to the truck for a different rod and some Senko worm to see if he liked them better. After catching a few small ones, I finally got the big boy to hit. I took him back to the beach area for a weight and photo and everyone at the beach area was in awe over it even though it wasn’t huge in my book. It was 3.7lb on my digital scale and as for the photo, well someone didn’t save it to my phone. No big deal seeing I’m sure I can catch it again

I left the family at the beach and head for another pond with canoe. The second fish I hooked and one of the guys I lost the other night and like I thought…he was a dandy. The scale flashed back and forth between 5.9 and 5.10 so I’m going with the 5.10

[Dale]

very nice!  a dandy for sure!

[shadow61]

  NIce fish!!  

[MK-M-GOBL]

Thanks guys Now I'm kicking myself in the butt for not getting out sooner in the summer

On to tonight...with the wind picking up this evening and my wife’s steak on the grill, loaded baked potato dinner, I decided not to take out the canoe. Instead I did a little pond jumping for some shore fishing and caught this nice little chunky bass. It put up a real nice fight

[shadow61]

  Fightin' Chunk is a good un!!
  Need to get new batteries for both my 4-wheeler & my trolling motor so I can get out!!!   I hate rowing....

[canuskingriz]

nice looking fish!

[MK-M-GOBL]

Thanks guys I’ve been slacking with adding new bass photos for the last week or two so sorry for the photo heavy post I’ve been trying to get my son off of the good old push button reels & on to my spinning rod set ups. The other day he missed a nice 2.5 to 3lber while casting a floating frog from boat ramp.

Then just last Friday in the photo below, he caught is first bass from the canoe, spinning rod and a soft plastic rig. About 20 minutes later he hooked into a nice lunker. The bass broke water and it was definitely in the 4+ range! I tried coaching him to just hold it and not horse it in but it was all Jake could do to hang on to my rod. I quickly slammed the trolling motor in full reverse to get us away from some underwater cover but the bass just keep taking drag and got into the tree top and Jake lost him

The evening was all about getting Jake time in the canoe, casting the spinning rod and to start teaching him how it feel the bite of soft plastics. So I think over all I’m absolutely thrilled on how the evening went   Watching the excitement of him landing the bass and then fighting the lunker was priceless especially as he’s yelling whiling holding on to the rod, “this one is huge Daddy! I mean really really huge” He'll get to fish that bass again and when we do, he'll be holding him

Now not all these bass are “hawgs” but they are real healthy bass and I lip em after they give me a good fight.…they get their photo taken. The 5th photo down is 3.8lb and the 12th photo is 3.4lb

 

[MK-M-GOBL]

I snagged this rig on the bottom of a lake I was fishing the other night. Do they really thing this is going to work? I understand it’s probably from a young kids but I couldn't help from taking a photo of it

On Saturday we went to our local swimming hole and I took my rod and here's a few of the bass I lipped while the boys were swimming. The 3.7lb I caught a few weeks ago & my wife didn't save the photo on my cell phone camera eluded me on this trip but it’s not going to stop me from trying

[MK-M-GOBL]

Hit the water tonight and lipped a couple of photo worthy bass. The first photo is 5.6lb that took my canoe rig for a little ride The other bass I actually caught twice on the same rig about hour apart but maybe 50 yards from the first spot. I’m 100% because the skin under his lip had a hold that my two fingers fit in as I held him. I bass I caught later had the same hole.

[MK-M-GOBL]

The 5.6 I caught the other evening pretty much fried my favorite reel So seeing we were driving by the Cabela's in Hamburg PA this weekend heading for a wedding, I thought it would be a great time to pick up a new reel I ended up buying a Daiwa AIRD 2500 which last night I broke in on a 4.3 with my son. He was out there with me trying to break in his new rod and reel set up that some how found it's way to the register The wife wasn't happy but she got over it.

[Dale]

Very cool!