Took a chance and fished a small lake from shore where it can extremely hard to pull up fish.
After 4 hours or so total (two different days)we pulled in over 50 bass along with about 10 to 15 perch.
Just about all of this fish came out of two spots (casting in very similar area) that were about 10 yards away from each other.
Most of the largemouth were about 12inches (didnt bother snapping pics of them)
We caught some nice perch some over 1lb
And I caught 2 5lb and 1 3 1/2lb largemouths

All around weed lines.

None of the bass really "crushed" any of the lures just heavy line and a lot of fighting on the way in.

Pictures below

Yes I was the teen that you remember from the bait shop picture gallary.
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