The weather is heating up and before it gets too hot later in the week, I headed to the SD River this morning. No need to rush, as it seems most of the bass I caught at the river ain't until later morning. I recently scanned over time stamps on numerous photos taken here and at Murray of healthier bass over the last 3-4 years and almost 90% of the time it was late morning or very early afternoon. A couple guys I know at the river get there very early and I kidded them that I do not need to show up till 10:30 or 11 because for some reason I have a tough time in the morning and they laughed. Anyway, I fished numerous types of reaction baits and plastic worms for over 3 hours and finally at around 11:20am(told you I had my first bite and missed it on the hook set deep in the stick-ups. Then at 11:32am, I picked up a very small bass flippin"a Texas rigged worm. Later started flippin' a Texas rigged craw and tossed it in an opening in the tulles and picked up another
small bass at around 12:15pm. It was pretty hot now and was working my final stretch when something picked up my Tokyo rig and headed towards me. I set the hook and landed a long 3.75lb bass. For a few seconds I thought I had extended my
little streak of catching a bass 4lbs or more to 5 straight fishing trips, but came up a little short.
Still very happy(and lucky) to catch it which made the drive home a lot more fun(or was in the cranked up A/C?).
This one would break McFish's line probably...ha ha
