06-14-2009, 09:00 AM
Had some Honey do's to get done today so i didnt fish the tournament out of CFP. Got done and was on the water by noon fished until 4 or so. Checked a few areas for some active fish and found most drops with boats all over them so graphed the first few hours. Stopped and fished the nuke and was swamped by pleasure boats and could get on any fish so i headed toward Soddy. Had a waypoint on my graph that i had fished in almost a year and really couldnt remeber what it was. Made a few passes and didnt see anything spectacular and was about to move on up river when big shad started coming out of the water around the boat. Two actually landed in the boat. Cirlced back around and made my first cast. Rod doubled and just knew it was a cat or big drum. The fish came up and my heart kinda jumped but it didnt break the surface and when back down. Get it coming up under the boat and im looking for my pliers to get the hooks out of what is most certainly a drum. Fish comes up and its a pig largemouth. Lip it and get it in the boat and start looking around like a kid that stole something. Get the fish back in the water and make sure no ones around or close by. Make another cast and get drilled again. This happens 7 more times on seven casts. Didnt have my scales but.... i caught 5 keepers one short fish and one of the biggest crappie i have caught ever. Took a picture of the biggest and its posted below. The smallest of the five fish was about 3lbs. The school of fish shut down after the crappie and i headed back to the ramp since i was pretty sure i had broken my personal best 5 fish sack and i felt like i needed to buy a lottery ticket asap. emoToast