We too had a rough day of it, our first day on the new lake. I did manage to stick one very nice fish on a Texas rigged Senko(Smoke w/Purple Flake). It was the only fish I saw all day long. As per everyones reports, we were fishing deep(TO ME 30-40 FEET IS DEEP.) NOTHING. So, we fished REALLY DEEP(+50 FEET) Thats were I got bit, at about 60 feet. I will say that the fish did pull harder than the average bass I'm used to pulling on. But, at the same time, I've never pulled a largemouth out of 60 feet of water, it almost felt like dead weight at first, until he got to color, then he really took off and the fight was on. When we saw him at color, he looked really big. He had a huge gaping jaw(you could have stuck a softball in his mouth), and he was nice and fat. He looked like he would have gone at least 5#, but he was just barely under 4#.

You'd like to believe some of the hype, and it seams that the quality of fish is definitely there. And I know that it is October and it is a bit slow all over, but the numbers just weren't there. Still, I'm not about to give up on it yet. I think we just need to pay our dues on this one and spend some more time on the water to learn the lake. But, at this point, I really couldn't tell anybody anything other than fish deep(REALLY DEEP) and that I got bit on a Purple Senko...and please practice catch and release.

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4:20 BASSERS

I did see an amazing 12.45 lb bass being weighed in and released. it was a beautiful fish and from what they said at the dock was just barely by a couple of ounces shy of the lake record. Caught in 35 ft of water on a purple Yamamoto grub.

4-5 fish including a 3-4 pounder? I doubt weather you have evr done anything more than throw worms into a mudpuddle anyway pal, but you need to get real.

Go try Powell or Mead, you can fish there for 4 days and not get bit till the last day of a tourny.

Go try netting butterflies.