The fish weighed 7.95 pounds and came from an area that we always catch smallmouth. In fact, we were talking after we landed it and neither of us had recalled ever catching a single largemouth from that whole stretch and here was a near 8lb fish in our livewell.
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I was using a crawfish colored crankbait and casting to a bank with rock and brush and it bit. I had lost two crankbaits in the last ten minutes casting to the shore and decided I would tie on a deeper crankbait and try to parallel the bank in a little deeper water. I tied on the bait and instead of casting deeper like I planned, I cast a 10-foot diver in about 5 feet of water, made two cranks and it bit. First cast with the bait (lost it a few minutes later) and I had a giant hooked.
It was pretty uneventful though. I told my partner I had a fish and said "get the net it feels decent" and then I saw my bait coming to the surface and knew then that it was barely hooked if I could see the whole bait. It dove down a few times under the boat and was hooked with one single treble and we still didn't think it was that big until it went into the net. Then we realized it was much bigger.
It held up for biggest bass of the event and sadly, it was almost half of our 16.61lb limit that day. If only we could have had some bigger ones to go with it. It's still a catch I'll never forget. We ended up the event in 8th place after two days but still had got a nice check for the big bass award.
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