Finally fixed the car brakes and took the wife out for a couple hour cruise.
After droping her off I hit the cove south of Jacksons for 30 mins.
Tossing a watermelon worm about 15 ft off shore, letting it sink and soft jerking back through the sparse minfoil, I let the bait settle, the line started moving out. I set the hook and the dance was on..
He was a fiesty lil'l bugger and put up a nice fight.. As I landed him in the boat the 10 lb. leader snapped.. Ha! this was one that didn't get away... Didn't weight or measure him as I didn't want to stress him out any more than needed. But I figure about 4 lbs give or take and around 16".
Zoar appears to be picking up with bass a little deeper now, about 6 to 10 feet of water.
Todays temp was 76 degrees..
Peter
