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MarcusWed Nov-11-09 11:35 AM
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#11482, "RE: The state of the trophy bass union"
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Wed Nov-11-09 07:25 PM by Marcus

          

I got into trophy largemouth somewhat by accident, was always a 200+ days a year delta striper guy and never thought much of the largemouth. Caught alot of largies as striper fishing bycatch, but never really targeted them.

4 years ago I re-connected with a striper fishing buddy from my youth, that had trended heavily towards delta largemouth fishing after high school, while I just striper fished harder than ever. Fishing with him I learned very quickly the challenge of getting consistent results with the higher quality delta largies.

Pre-fishing the 2007 SnagProof tourney with him I caught a 10.1 on that little pathetic WiggleWog wakebait, my first double digit bass. She CRUSHED it!!

I caught many 6-9#ers out of the delta the next year, but couldn't get another double digit throwing frogs.

Last winter while striper fishing in 45 degree water in January, I had a monster largemouth swirl on my big wakebait. The beautiful bronze flash and 5' diamter flat spot on the surface gave her away. I changed my angle and speed and caught a 9#, 6#, and a 5#, and had another big one take a look but not bite. I saw the potential to say the least.

7 weeks later in late February, now 49/50 degree water and maybe 100 hours of mainly fruitless big swimbait fishing effort under my belt, playing around with speeds, angles, tides, weather, and mainly just alot of BANG BANG BANG BANG BANGING my head on a concrete wall, the concrete wall being the spot I knew she lived, the big girl finally ate it, a beautiful 14.5# 29" California Delta bass.

I went through the mental phase most of you may have gone through when you finally achieved Freshman Trophy Hunter status - you'd cracked the code and now the sky was the limit!! I fished even harder and was convinced I'd have a 19# fish with in a matter of weeks!! Reality set in, I boated a 10.5# a few days later, and my buddy missed a likely 13#+ fish on March 1 due to "angler awestruck paralysis" or similar, and it tapered off after that, they quit biting the big wakebait for me as the spawn developed, then I was back to striper fishing and was just dabbling in the largies.

I catch alot of those snakey delta 8 and 9#ers that were double digits pre-spawn, but I've learned that the time to get a teener out of the delta is February/March and that my dreams of the delta record fish are just that...dreams and quite the long shot. I think I've seen her a few times though, not sure.

Almost won HBC but she jumped off at the net!!! I never net frog fish either!!! Had I swung her in the $10,000 was mine!! At least I stayed in the boat.

Marcus

EDIT: That would be banging my head on the PROVERBIAL concrete wall

  

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The state of the trophy bass union [View all] , swimbait, Tue Nov-10-09 08:25 PM
  RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Bassinboys, Nov 10th 2009, #1
RE: The state of the trophy bass union, swimbait, Nov 11th 2009, #2
      RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Marcus, Nov 11th 2009 #3
           RE: The state of the trophy bass union, supermat, Nov 12th 2009, #4
                RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Nico, Nov 12th 2009, #5
                     RE: The state of the trophy bass union, fr0g, Nov 13th 2009, #6
RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Slough Crew, Nov 14th 2009, #7
RE: The state of the trophy bass union, swimbait, Nov 15th 2009, #8
      RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Urban, Nov 15th 2009, #9
           RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Nico, Nov 16th 2009, #10
                RE: The state of the trophy bass union, magmaster, Nov 17th 2009, #11
                     RE: The state of the trophy bass union, crotalus, Nov 17th 2009, #12
                          RE: The state of the trophy bass union, crotalus, Nov 17th 2009, #13
                          RE: The state of the trophy bass union, magmaster, Nov 17th 2009, #14
                          RE: The state of the trophy bass union, swimbait, Nov 18th 2009, #15
                               RE: The state of the trophy bass union, crotalus, Nov 18th 2009, #16
                                    RE: The state of the trophy bass union, bassindon69, Nov 20th 2009, #17
                                         RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Terra Ferma, Nov 20th 2009, #18
                                              RE: The state of the trophy bass union, dockboy, Dec 28th 2009, #19
                                                   RE: The state of the trophy bass union, swimbait 24-7, Dec 29th 2009, #20
                                                        RE: The state of the trophy bass union, swimbait, Dec 29th 2009, #21
                                                             RE: The state of the trophy bass union, swimbait 24-7, Dec 29th 2009, #22
                                                                  RE: The state of the trophy bass union, dockboy, Dec 29th 2009, #23
                                                                  RE: The state of the trophy bass union, Nico, Dec 30th 2009, #24
                                                                       RE: The state of the trophy bass union, CA Swimb8er, Dec 31st 2009, #25
                                                                            RE: The state of the trophy bass union, basshunter4u, Jan 02nd 2010, #26
                                                                                 RE: The state of the trophy bass union, flipit, Feb 02nd 2010, #27

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