Jitterbugging The Charles
Spent about an hour tonight fishing the Charles down by the Galen St. bridge. My intuition told me tonight would be a good night to throw top water hard baits. I started out with a heddon tiny torpedo in the frog pattern. I got three short strikes on that one but no hook ups. The I switched to a black fury but that got no action. Switched to a jig and white twister tail grub to no effect. Then I moved around and put on the jitterbug. I went back to the place where I started got the bites with the tiny torpedo and just keep throwing the jitter bug in a fan pattern. Then guess who shows up...a nice 18 inch bass. It followed the lure all the way back to the where I was standing. Then it turned away, so I quickly cast the lure back out towards where I last saw it and it struck the lure just 5 feet away from me. I set the hook and the fight was on. It thrashed and rolled and shook the lure with fury. But my hook set was solid. I fought for him for about two minutes before he gave up and let me pull him to shore. I forgot my net at home so I had to haul him up by hand. In all the fuss the lure hooked a sunken rag so I had to first unhook the rag before unhooking the fish. I freed both the rag and the fish when a dog walker came up to admire the catch. With the fish in on hand and the camera in the other I asked to guy to take a picture but as I handed him the camera the fish twisted out of my grasp and landed in the water and swam away.