Be at the launch in 45 minutes... Yup.

 Got this text at the end of the work day yesterday ( be at the launch in 45 ).  The obvious response was see ya there. We were on the water for 5:30 and had the just right conditions. We had the end of outgoing still happening and had plenty of cloud cover. We were feeling good about getting a top water bite after last saturday in the same spots had almost nothing more than a boat ride. Things started off pretty quickly with us both getting some good rises behind the baits and as Larry says the words i think we should move...I set the hook on a nice solid 31.5 inch fish that clobbered the pearl sad shad. Great fight with some long drag ripping runs and we were on the board!  Not 5 minutes later i get blasted again on the sad shad by a 30 incher on the dot. Right before we left this spot Larry hooked up with a 26 incher on a lunker city alewife slug go. We slowly made our way down river having some rises on the surface but no hook ups and not enough action to keep beating up the spots. We would hit them for 5 -10 minutes not hook up and move on. When time is short cant waste valuable sun light.

 We made our way down to a nice flat down river and found fish stacked up in less than 2 feet. Casting would scare the fish and you could see there wakes all over the place. It was really cool to see and even better that they were hungry. Larry hooked up on his first keeper of the day pretty quickly down here at 29 inches and he was pumped. 3 keepers in the boat in the first hour and a half of fishing was a solid start. We both got into some big schoolies over the next half hour. From 22-26 inches all on the surface which is always a blast. As were fishing Larry looks across the river to see what looks to be a striper blitz right on the bank. We motored over as fast as we could shut the motor down and started to fire our baits over them. My first cast had so many bass trying to eat my lure at the same time that they were bouncing of each other. They were on the smaller side but it was pretty awesome to see. Mean while Larry is getting 5 blow ups per cast and im laughing because somehow his lure didnt have a hook on it. Wiff wiff wiff wiff. Were cracking up enjoying this crazy action when his next cast became the greatest moment of Larry's fishing life.  And honestly one of the coolest moments for me to witness myself.

Working the slug go on the surface almost as fast as you can possibly reel this fish blast the bait and misses twice and right as its at the boat she didnt miss.. Bammmm! Fish on.  He didnt see the fish but i saw it and i looked and him and said " OMG Larry its enormous "  The sleigh ride started. This fish was pulling us over to the channel bending his rod to the breaking point and pulling line like a beast. He was in full panic mode and i talked his nerves down. Saying relax you got this.. breathe.. lol  He did a great job with that 7 foot largemouth set up. After 5 minutes that fish was in the net and high fives and hugs were had. 38 inches  23 lbs 14 oz.  What a truly amazing fish. Couldnt be happier for ya Larry. All the time we put in down there is paying off and it couldnt happen to a better dude. Thank you for having me out there again. Always a blast and we will remember this trip for a very long time!  All fish caught on Cobra Bait sad shads www.cobrabait.com and Lunker City Slug Go's.  All 9 inch baits.   Go down for the pictures.

By: Joe Jacobowitz