Caught 4 this weekend, but lost one at the boat when he jumped out and shook himself loose. Gotta love it. But still a good weekend at my home lake.... 5.01 lbs, 2.12 lbs, and 2.01 lbs. The 2.01 pounder I caught with a Gambler EZ-Swimmer plastic swimbait on an Owner 1/4oz swimbait hook with an underspinner. First successful catch on a swimbait! Usually I have a bad hookset. Everything else was on my "confidence bait"; 1/16th Gamakatsu Weedless Wacky Jig, and used Gambler Sweebo worms again this weekend. 

The 5 pounder I used more of those laydown techniques from the Laydowns workshop. Yeah, a wacky jig, even if its weedless is asking for a hang up in a laydown scenario, but they work pretty well for me to trigger a bite. I tend to use it as a search bait too lol. The 2.01 pounder, I swam that swimbait right next to a laydown and it got bit... I had Brian's voice in my head saying "something swims by and it ambushes it.."

The other 2 pounder was hiding in some shade next to some grass by some bridge rip rap. 

Here are some of my catches on this mornings adventure, just posting the first one to start the session and the last one before I was off to work. Bass fishing is awesome and intuitive when you don’t “try” too hard and just do the “hard” work instead, without doubt! First one was 1.02 kilograms; caught at around 05:43 am, using a Z-Man HellraiZer 4" - 3/8 oz. - Matte Black, with medium fast retrieve, pausing and zig-zagging in roughly 0.6 meters of water…& the last one of the morning was 0.34 kilos; caught around 07:21 am, using a “Major Craft” Zonar Hunter ZHC55 crankbait 2”1/4 - 7/16 oz. - Red Craw, with a precise retrieve of occasional slowed pace to avoid rocks/submerged cover and other debris with twitches and bursts of speed in roughly 1.2 meters of water. 

Caught this one dragging a black and blue chatter bait in super muddy water.

Had to some fun pan fishing this morning at a pond with my grandson. When he is only 21 months old “everyone was a big fish”! 😀🎣

Caught this 0.90-1.36 kilogram bass yesterday morning at 05:35 am and it somehow bent my hook lolol

Is it just me or is this what y'all see when Brian lays into the infamous "Bobby"??? 😂🤣 😂 Nothin but love B!

Finished 4th out of 16 anglers in my little club tournament today on the Potomac River. Top 5 totaled 12.20 lbs and I caught 9 keepers all  in the grass with baby minus one knockoffs. My biggest ones came on a red and green one. Me and my partner also had well over 30 pounds worth of snakeheads caught. 

Here are some pics from my adventures this weekend. Only caught 3, but got 2 bullheads and a largemouth. Caught these guys on my Bait Finesse workhorse rod with my go-to/confidence lure... 1/16th Gamakatsu "weedless" wacky jig, and a trickworm. Normally I use a trickworm by Dave's Tournament Tackle which have a slower fall from any trickworm I've used. This time I used a Gambler Sweebo wacky worm, but I tend to use a lot of Dave's Tournamet Tackle trickworms. I don't compete so I'm not sponsored, but Dave lives in my area and makes all his tackle. Has a nice shop to boot and sells other stuff too. Figured I'd change up the worm shape for a couple weekends, as I think they were getting pressured on the Dave worm's lol.

Got out in my local restricted horsepower reservoir and got two on a shallow running crankbait.