Water Temp: 80 Degrees
Having had a night tournament prior to this get together, wife and I had to join unofficially since we were not going to join the group at 5:30AM. I got home from my previous night tournament about 8AM, packed wife's rods and we headed for Croton. Arrived at Croton by 9:15AM and had the boat launched by 9:30AM. We began working a rock wall near our launch area when my wife hooked up with a HUGE bass on a spinnerbait. He came to the boat smoothly UNTIL he saw us, then he dived straight down and the fight got intense. Wife played the fish a little and quickly brought his head out the water so I could assist and grab him for her. The slob weighed in at 4.3 LBS on the digital scale.
After the excitement from the big bass we continued working the rock wall in hopes of finding another with no luck. We rowed across the reservoir to a cove to see what we could pick up over there. Gak was mounting up so wife tossed out a frog to no avail. We bumped into a few of the guys and chat for a while but I could not talk too long as I was still skunked for the day. We went out of the cove to a weed flat near 40 feet of water. We tossed out the marker buoys and worked the flat. I was getting nothing on plastics so I figured if the fish were there they would see my spinnerbait shinning as it passed them. Well on my second cast on that bait I had one, Yipee! The skunk was now gone!
Although it was not as big as my wife's fish I tried some camera tricks to make it look big. Look at this baby up close...
