Finally Stuck That Fat Bottomed Girl! 9/4/17

[NJSquatch]

Took the wife out on Labor Day Monday for a summer farewell boat ride around the lake and was hoping to sneak in a few casts. I hadn't been out fishing in 3 weeks!

The conditions were "ideal"
Post frontal
Blue bird skies
WSW wind 10-15 mph.
Water temps ~68
oh and a full moon!

With all the boat traffic I had to hide from the washing machine in areas that typically do not produce.

Every check box filled for a skunking

Caught a 17" early on a t-rigged black creature bait. I have caught this fish in the same spot before. She has unique spots on her tail (non photo side of course).



Spent the next couple of hours fishing the shoreline around anchored boats partying it up with nothing to show for it.

Around 5 pm the wife wanted to go in for dinner. Reluctantly I said ok give me 10 more casts.

On the 4th cast I get a hit. The fish charges right at the boat and then surfaces. My eyes pop out of my head and I scream at the wife to grab the net! The wife makes a couple of ill advised swipes at the fish as it was going away from the boat. I had visions of her knocking it off the hook. A couple of more rounds and got the fish pointed in the right direction and into the net.

My NEW PB! at 5.8 lbs 21.5". Beat my old Pb from years ago in RI by 13oz. Man was I psyched! I think i might have let out a couple of f#*% yeahs.

Couple of quick pics and off she went. What a great way to usher in fall.

[thmyorke1]

Congrats on the PB! That bass wasnt following the rules on that skunk-indicator list

[Hookmanski]

Congrats man, that's a TOAD! Glad you got a nice one despite the conditions.

[tycomps]

Beautiful! she hit the creature bait too?

[Rich196]

That fish is a "BEAST"... Beautiful colors it has, CONGRATS. You know what they say, good things come to good people... Just sometimes they just take a little longer then we would like...LOL GREAT JOB!!!

[AndyS]

Congrats on the PB !!!

[FASTEDDIE29]

That's a phenom fish dude! Congrats on the Jerzy PB! Love it! Well deserved BUCKETMOUTH! It's the most wonderful time of the year..........

[NJSquatch]

Thanks Guys....can't wait for the fall bite!

@tycomps - big girl was caught on a 10" black/blue ribbon tail

[icebadger]

ok first off when i clicked on your title i did not know what to expect thank god it was not what i thought it was congrats on a huge bucketmouth that fish is very nice you both get an atta-boy for the "TAG TEAM" landing on that one the fish don't always listen to the conditions report when they are hungry and want to play nice.

[NorthJerzyG]

I don't "target" largemouth often, but I love hooking into a SLOB!!! Nice fish man!!! 👍👍