The other day Adam had invited me to fish a local lake that hasn’t seen much fishing pressure in the last few years and I couldn’t pass up the offer. Adam and a few others arrived at the spot before I did and were getting into fish every few casts. When I got there Adam had just released a 40” pike. He said he saw the wake of the fish charging toward his fly from 15 ft away before it inhaled his 6” long streamer.
I anxiously started casting away and it didn’t take long before a big largemouth hit my huge chuck and duck streamer. Baitfish and bunny leech flies were consistently getting bites. I figured if the fish were this aggressive they couldn’t refuse topwater flies, so I tied on a frog popper and caught a couple more bass. All the bass in this lake seemed to be pigs. Average size fish was in the 2-4 lb range. I needed a day like that. My past few outings I’ve had little or no luck, so having a bent rod really brought my spirits back up. Thanks again Adam!
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