Chubby Chasing

Spent a little time reconnecting with my southeastern upbringing today. Almost canceled due to homework and ever increasing winds, but glad I didn't! CPR'd heaviest LMB I've caught since leaving FL! Pulled a few good fish with the smallest at roughly 1lb, and the heaviest at 8# even. The two bigger fish pictured were fooled by a Texas rigged plastic worm. The smaller on a black and blue jig. The wind made boat management a huge pain in the ass, so I called it quits around 2.5 hours and the score heavily in my favor. Bass are still in pre-spawn, so get'em while the getting's good!!

Holy crap that's a hawg. It looks more like a common carp in girth and coloration than a LMB!

Damn that is a chunky bass. 

Dang!  That bottom fish looks like an 8lb Crappie.

-Mark-

Nice catch man! I'm super jealous coming from ohio and since I have yet to find any bass in the waters (only fished american lake so far)

If you have access to north fort lewis,  you dont have far to go for a lmb lake.  Pull up a map and look around.  Give you a hint-its not american lake.  But it's very close.  And Damn Dick those are some chunky bass!

On the thurston co. Side cat lake and fiander lake ?

Thanks guys! The girth on those fish especially the big one was pretty insane! You'd need some funky topographical sketch to get the full understanding of how round she was.

PBB53: Take YakBum's advice on that. The lake he's hinting around is one of my go to LMB lakes. I've heard fisherman's folk tales of LMB being pulled from American, but I've never seen one in person after almost 7 seasons of fishing there. It's a GREAT SMB lake though! Plucked this porker from there back in Jan.

Wheeler114: look a little closer to American 

Dang! Great catch!
Hope to see and fish with you again in NWKA events.

Thanks Hermes! Looking forward to it! Hopefully the possible sound closing doesn't shut our salmon tourneys down...

HOly crap!  super chub indeed!

Damn, Dick! First you go non Hobie for the day, then you jump the street and hit the small water for baby footballs?

I've often looked at that piece of water when passing it and not could not help thinking how bassy it looks. Thanks for proving it.

Nice catch man! I'm super jealous coming from ohio and since I have yet to find any bass in the waters (only fished american lake so far)

I know that America Lake has at least SMB, cuz I've done alright on em messing with the fly rod.  I know that a bunch of the little ponds on post have LMB if America doesn't.  I get after the bass on Sequalitchew (sp?) lake. 

None THAT chunky though!