This article is about how big fish, stay big fish. We all hear the saying "they are big fish for a reason". Seems at Anderson Dam this is very true.
About 7 weeks ago on the dam, my son and i were fishing, i was using a crankbait and caught 2 fish right away. I always want him to catch fish so i took the crankbait off my pole and he tied it on. Before i could even tie my new bait on he hooked up, it was a huge bass, at least 10 pounds, he faught it for a while and just as i went to get in the water to land the fish for him, the fish turned his head and snapped his 8 pound test line as if it were 2 pound test trout line. The big fish was gone with my 18 dollar crankbait in his mouth, he is a big fish for a reason.
Yesterday we caught 6 bass on senkos and crankbaits, but the bass were all the normal size fish we catch these days and Anderson, good keepers. Last night, we were coming into an area where its pretty good just before the leave time of 8pm at Anderson. I tied on a Kelly Jordan prop bait, on the 3rd cast a really big bass swirled on the bait and completely missed it!! I fished the bait for 20 minutes more not even a look, so i switched back to my senko set up.I walked around the cove and out on to a spot that has heavy boat traffic but is very deep and is actually the first deep water spot out of this cove. I casted a few times and then felt weight, i set the hook and the fish was on. It felt like the average fish as it was coming right at me, then 10 feet from shore it turmed its head and threw the senko, after 20 years fishing i can tell a big fish from the way they throw the bait, when this fish turned his head i knew he was big but the bass, but the fishwas also gone, again, this bass was big for a reason.
Although frustrating, fishing so many weeks at a lake looking for some big bites, i had 2 in about 30 minutes but failed to land them, we must stay positive and remember only fisherman with lines in the water have a chance to catch big bass. Stay positive and never give up.