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Now after a couple of minutes went by while I was instructing Nancy about
working spinnerbaits, John didn't seem to want to see or listen to what I was showing and telling her about a spinnerbait and he kept on casting. John must have made fifty or sixty casts while I was instructing Nancy on this bait and he said, "We need to move to a different location because if there was a bass in here, I'm sure that I would have caught it already!"Now, with a smile on my face I told Nancy to make a cast right along the same weed line that John had been working during this time, but to slow her spinnerbait down and to maintain a steady slow retrieve back to the boat. Her first cast wasn't close to the weed line, so I told her to take
her time and concentrate, aim to where she was going to cast and try again. Now, after her first cast (not being in the area I wanted her to be, John said; "see, there ain't no bass in here so we need to move."I told John that I wanted Nancy to make a second cast along this weed line and then we'll head for another location if he wished. So Nancy aimed, cast and hit the area right where I had told her to start her retrieve from. She did exactly as I instructed her to do (as far as making a slow-roll retrieve), and then I heard her scream with excitement, "I got something!, I got something!" With her rod bending the way it was I then knew it had to be a fish with some quality to it.
She kept on reeling and the line would peel off the reel so I reached over and tightened her drag a little bit. When she got the fish close to the boat we all got a glimpse of it, and it looked to be at least a five pounder (largemouth) just as it came close to the surface. I thought to myself that I'd better grab the net for this one, and as I was getting the net I told her to keep the slack out of her line and hold the bass as close to the side of the boat as possible. I then reached under the bass with the net and pulled it out of the water and got it into the boat.
Both John and Nancy just starred in amazement at the size of the fish. I then got my scale out and weighed the bass to which my scale kept on going back and forth between 7.3oz and 7.5oz's... Nancy's excitement was just like a kid going to Disney World for the first time, but John was very envious because he thought that he should have caught the bass instead of her.
About a hour or two went by since Nancy caught the bass, and since that time John started showing a very frustrated attitude towards Nancy because she just kept on bragging about how women were as just as good anglers as men. Keeping in mind that John needed a partner for this new tournament trail and talked Nancy into enrolling into my school with him was all John's idea.
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