Jim Hert
Jim moved to North Carolina and started catching bass! Here are some of his first catches - looks like the move was good!
1 LB 15 oz caught at 12:00 noon on Saturday Feb. 24 on a black/blue jig with a zoom black/blue glitter small chunk trailer. He was caught on that rip rap in the background in the corner on the right which is just out of sight. Where the rip rap bank of that small causeway intersects the main land. The water temp was 48 degrees at noon.
7LB 7oz also caught on the same black/blue jig at about 2:00 PM about 3 feet from the place I caught the 2lb bass. One of the few times in my life where I called the shot! I had just told Michael that sometimes in the spring when the bass a moving up shallow that a place like that could have another fish in it not too long after moving another bass out of there.
Down along that bank behind me where I'm holding the 7.7 I also caught a 4.6 and a 5.15. Michael missed one on that same bank. All of those fish were caught between 2:00 and 3:00 PM. We should have taken pictures of those fish too, but by then I wanted to get back to fishing to see just how many of these big fish we could catch! The surface water temp got just up over 50 that afternoon. The air temp was maybe in the high 50's.
We were pitching the jigs up around the visible cover and slowly hopping or dragging them out from the cover. All most all of the hits came right away on the fall though! Although the seven pounder hit while I was slowly starting to swim the jig back to me. BTW if you look close you can see my B.A.S.S pin on my hat that I got when I signed up a few years ago! :-)
The other two pictures were taken on Saturday March 3rd. That day started at 50 with rain and ended up at 45 with rain! It was raining or misting the whole time! Real pleasant day! The water temp started at 48.4 and ended and 48.8. I have no idea why it warmed at all with the air temp getting colder? Good question for the forum maybe?
The first one is a 3 LB 12oz
and the second one is a 5.5! Also caught on the same jig pitched up to shoreline cover that was in two to four feet of water. The bass were not way up on the bank, they were out in the outside edge of the cover.
I think I'm going to like bass fishing in North Carolina! At least I hope this wasn't a fluke!
