While putting together Woo Bass, I was looking through photos and found these of myself. For us serious bass anglers, we've all been in situations where there's a slight element of danger out there. Fog, lightning, wind, flood conditions, rain and hail (or snow for us Yankees) all can make for an interesting day, to say the least. Sometimes, you can can add your partner to the list.
We came up on a group of schooling bass and they were busting right in front of us. I broke off on one and was retying my swim jig. When I knelt down, I felt my head jerk up about six inches and I hear, "What the...?!" My partner and I looked at each other, as he had just hooked into the biggest one of his life.
We came up on a group of schooling bass and they were busting right in front of us. I broke off on one and was retying my swim jig. When I knelt down, I felt my head jerk up about six inches and I hear, "What the...?!" My partner and I looked at each other, as he had just hooked into the biggest one of his life.
Normally in a tournament I would have fished through this, but upon encouragement of my partner because of the closeness to the jugular vein, we loaded up and headed for the ER. Lucky for me, the doctor was a bass fisherman himself. We exchanged a few stories of other hookings and discussed if black and blue was a good color for people, as well as bass. After about an hour, we were back on the water. The tournament director okayed our return, but made sure we took pictures.