We decided to take the boat out to Chalco Hills to try for a repeat of our fantastic 2009 4th of July largemouth outing. My nephew Jacob had the opportunity to try out his new gift from Grandpa, a spinning outfit "Cabela's finest" as he told us. Jim and I fished plastics along shoreline cover, catching several 2-3lbers while Jacob practiced catching bluegill with a worm under a bobber in order to get used to casting a spinning reel. He quickly earned the nickname, "backlash" and will never live it down.
A couple hours into the outing, after Jim finished un-knotting another one of Jacob's bird's nests of a backlash, we casted Jacob's worm behind the boat and began trolling to our next spot. I turned around to see his bobber gone and a huge wave around it. Long story short, he caught a monster female largemouth that was, no doubt, the largest fish any of us have caught out of that lake...ever. Funny enough, he was fishing a bluegill rig. It weighed in at 5lbs on our old rusty spring scale, although I would venture a guess it pushed 6lbs. It's outings like this that can make a young guy a fisherman for life. Awesome catch!
