Eager Bass hooks self!
Catching Bass is a new sport for
us and we will try almost anything to catch some legal ones to eat. Since I’m so new at it, I normally miss a
lot of strikes, but now and then we land one or sometimes even two!
It was Labor Day weekend 2011
and we were camping a few days at South Bay RV Campground on Lake Okeechobee
here in Florida.
South Bay RV Campground is a
very good place to park your RV or tent since it’s managed by Palm Beach County
and has all the pluses for good camping, i.e., cement sites, water, sewer,
electric, internet and cable TV at only $26 a night! Naturally, we love the fishing so this is a favorite place for us
to camp for a few days.
We have camped at this park on
several different occasions since the purchase of our little 14’ “love nest”
trailer in 2009.
We never take our little Sea
Eagle inflatable boat into the main lake since there’s a rim canal in this area
and there’s plenty of fishing for such fish as Bass, Bluegill, Crappie, Channel
Catfish and some others.
The entire launch area has been
upgraded with new steel fishing docks and a cement trail for hikers.
Although most people fish for
bass, we usually fish for keeper size Bluegill or Channel Catfish, which we
normally catch. Most of them are returned due to small size, but we will keep
anything over 8” as they make a delicious meal.
What we like doing is catching a
very small (2” to 3” bluegill), hooking them up to a large hook and letting
them swim around until something bites…….. and it’s usually a bass!
While I was watching my bobber
for any signs of a bite, Karen’s pole had a small bluegill hooked through the
nostril just waiting for something to bite.
All of a sudden Karen’s line
started moving through the water at a rather fast rate. We picked it up and I made an attempt to set
the hook.
It didn’t take much to reel this
bass in although it was fighting all the way to our boat; it just wasn’t that
big to start with. We got it next to
our boat and Karen netted it.
When I picked up the bass, I could
see that it wasn’t hooked with the large hook we had put into the bluegill,
instead, the bass had somehow managed to bite open the swivel and it was hooked
with the thin wire that normally closes any swivel.
We couldn’t believe our eyes
when we saw the large hook literally hanging out of the bass’s mouth with our
bluegill bait totally gone.
The bass in this photo is only 14” long, but it still
put up a good fight for its size. This
just goes to show anyone who fishes for bass that they are normally hard to
hook, unless they just hook themselves
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