Thread: Interesting Fun morning

Been awhile since I fished this small lake since it doesn't have any shade but yesterday was cloudy so decided to try fishing for bass. Fished for them for almost two hours without a bite and out of desperation reached for the ultralight to get the skunk off. Nothing close so started casting to deeper water. Finally get bit and hook the biggest gill I ever caught from this lake, a 9" gill. After that it got really interesting. Whenever I hooked a gill it would get attacked by bass, seen as many as three chasing the hooked gills and they were taking them right at the bank. Would let them swim off to swallow them but only got the #10 hook in one before it threw it off. These were all bass in the 3-4# range, lot's of fun just watching them. Then I hooked a small bass about 6 inches long which jumped a few times and caught the attention of one of it's larger kin who took it right at the bank. Let it run with it and since it was headed for a brush pile set hook early and bass went airborne with the smaller bass now tethered to the line sliding up to the float. Somehow the little hook got stuck in the bigger fish corner of the mouth. Got both in after a couple minutes. First time catching two bass at one time, although it was unconventional. Bigger bass weighed 3.40 # and both bass were released , even the little bass darted away even though it was beat up a little. Only caught one bass but it was a lot of fun.