Lake Georgetown PB 7/5

Hey guys,

I've still been fishing in the heat, just not posting as much. I realized I hadn't fished lake GT in quite a while and haven't actually taken the new pedal yak out there yet. Hard to resist the 8 mile drive to a quiet non-crowded local reservoir. I actually wanted to target both LMB and hybrids, and launched closer to the lower end of the lake. I metered some bait balls and dropped slab spoons and micro swimbaits on jig heads into the clouds for no luck, although I did have a missed strike fairly early on. As the sun started to set I decided to bust out the larger swimbaits and tied on a deps 175 glide bait in rainbow trout. I've been fine tuning my glide bait craft and putting more time into them. Not too many casts in, I tossed it up along some vertical structure and I get the "I must've hung up" feeling. It started pulling the other way, and so did I. Sadly the fight was somewhat anticlimactic, the usual open mouth headshakes skating across the surface but she gave up fairly easily. A long and skinny PB - 25" and 6 and a half pounds (the scale teetered between just under 6 1/2 to 6 3/4). She appeared to have ulcers inside her mouth on her upper jaw, I later researched that could be leeches and would explain the malnourished fish. I got a dink shortly after and figured I wouldn't out-do the giant so I packed it in. Fun to get a good one, but I'm right back on the quest for a DD!