Nice Catch!

Sarah and I spent this last weekend at home.  She was getting prepared to go to Vermont and was cleaning and packing, so I decided to get out of her hair and do a little fishing.  I ended up doing pretty well over two days of fishing, even though the boat traffic was pretty heavy.  On sunday, I ended with the biggest bass I've ever caught in my life, and it was a smallmouth to boot!



At arms length



Er, again?



A little bit better with some scale in the photo



Modified photo with a measurement of my pole


It took me a little bit to get this guy in the boat, so I frantically dug for my camera and snapped those photos....yep, prior to releasing him.  Come on, it was the biggest bass I've ever caught!  That's got to be worth something right?  So I watched him swim off and sat there in almost stunned silence; I really haven't caught a fish that big in a long time.  So I cracked a beer and just enjoyed thinking about it.  Of course, that's when the boat pulled up next to me.  Two fellas in there trolling and the driver asks, "Having any luck?"  I looked at him like he was a moron (because I knew they watched the whole thing) and said, "Uhm, did you see the last one?"  He mumbled in a low tone, "yea."  So I followed with, "Well, I'd say I was doing fairly well then." 

The pulled off and proceeded to circle me for the next hour.  Long loops, but still, dogging a guy in a canoe?  It's not like I knew anything they didn't.  Tired of the company, I made my way downriver when the skies opened up and dumped a bunch of rain.  I donned the raingear and kept at it while EVERYONE else left the water.  It was blissful!  Unfortunately the rain didn't help the fishing at all and I basically got skunked the rest of my time out there, but I figured if nothing else I ended on a good note.