BassERT, Turkey Lake, BASS, 4-8-10, my thoughts

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Well let's just say the weather had worked over the fishing in Florida until about 3 weeks ago.<br />Then the wife and I logged around 90 fish over three days last week'<br />I went today to see if the pattern was still holding and yes it was an X-10 kind of day!<br />I started at daybreak in the grass with a stiko sweet potatoe pie and they blew up on it like a topwater.<br />And then it quit... emoScratch <br />I went right to an area where the dropoff was in the main lower lake.<br />After wondering what went wrong, I found spikey tall weeds in 7.5 FOW and then it was every cast!<br />Turkey was playing nice with me and I threw every size of x-baits I had and caught fish on all of them.<br />I brought a 5+ in and it shook near my knee and I embedded a hook in my lower knee. Only 1 of the trebles was way in so I took it by the bend and pulled it out before I could unhook my fish.<br />It was one of those, "wish I had a partner" deals, but I never hit a nerve, so I let it bleed clean and continued fishing. emoAngler <br />Ended up with 34 logged bass and 1 coppernose that measured 11.5 inches.<br />In inches, I had 2 at 20" 6 at 18+" 8 at 16+" and all the rest were anywhere from 12 to 15.<br />All except 3 by jerking (slashing).<br />Got 2 days left and tomorrow looks like Tstorms, but Sunday is my last day before returning to East Ridge.<br /> emoBooHoo <br />I'll be happy to get back and maybe I will get some crappie hopefully. I have been staying in practice at the boat launch on Lake Washington here with the jigs.<br />I just hope I remember well enough to put some in the fridge emoHungry <br />Also I miss my friends and those that let me backseat. emoGeezer <br /><br />Here are some pics<br />The last pic was the rocket trails from the shuttle launch the other morning