Finally hit the 5lber club

2nd time fishing on a boat. A buddy and I decided to hit up LA on Sat night for some full moon fishing. Launched at 360 around 9:30pm and came off the water around 12:30am. We left the ramp and went North about 30 seconds pulling up about 30 yards before some docks. Decided to throw a shakey head with my special pink/purple fleck finesse worm I got in the bargain bin. 3rd cast up to about 5 feet of water, bounce, bounce, GULP. Set the hook, the fish swam towards me so when my buddy asked "Is it a nice fish?" I said "Maybe 1.5-2lbs". Then the fish saw the boat, came up, turned and dove, then I knew it was a bigger fish than I'm use to and maybe a new personal best. My buddy said "I think I'll grab the net, I think you have a 5lber there". The fish came up twice and both times tried to dive under the boat. I'm not use this kind of fight since I fish 95% of the time on the bank. It was a great feeling. Finally got her to chill out and in the net. 5lbs on the nose. Hey fishbone, that is my impression of your smile ;D As you can see from the pic below, she was not that long, but was a little heavy with eggs (I'm 6'4" so she also looks a little small that way as well). I think my previous PB of 3lb8oz was actually a bigger fish...but I'll take it



We were on the water less than 5 min so I thought we were in for one heck of a night. I couldn't have been more wrong. We only got one more dink the next 2.5 hours. We fished docs pretty much the whole time mostly with jigs and TR senkos and cranks. Wish we would have caught more but it was still a great night on the water. My first time on LA in a boat, full moon, not much wind. Can't ask for much more. Looking forward to getting back out there during the day to fish. Beautiful lake!