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So let me just start off this report by saying this. I'm well aware that Log Boom Park is no secret to anybody. The only reason I cropped the background out of the photo on my last report was because I wanted people to share my excitement by watching the video to see where I was. With that being said, there will be no cropping in the photos I post today.

Today was beyond a 5 star day for me. It's not just because I caught 4 Largemouth Bass in just a couple of hours. It's because I managed to catch my New Personal Best Bass today! As if that wasn't already enough, I managed to accomplish my goal for the entire year on the second day that I caught bass! My goal was to catch a 6+ lber and be able to post on the 2012 Trophy Bass section of the forums. My personal best last year was a 5 lb 10 oz bass. I would have been ecstatic just to crack 6 lb 0 oz. Well, are you ready for this?

I CAUGHT A SEVEN POUND TWO OUNCE LARGEMOUTH BASS!

Last year, as you guys may already know if you ready my report, I lost an absolute giant at Log Boom Park. I was guesstimating it to be 6 - 7 + lbs. I only had a rod with 8 lb fluorocarbon rigged up and my line snapped flipping it the dock.

I encountered that very same nightmare today! I switched from my rod with 50 lb Power Pro to my other rod with 8 lb Berkley Big Game Monofilament to fish a more finesse technique. I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to keep that finesse technique under the wraps for now. But I started casting around the general area. I casted near the submerged logs, trees, docks, and even made some random fan casts out in the middle of nowhere.

I then decided to cast under the dock again and had no idea what I was in for. I set the hook and immediately my rod has a massive bow in it, my drag is going off and I feel the weight of a beast! As soon as I see the fish, my heart that was already beating a hundred miles an hour went into overdrive! I start freaking out because I'm scared of the same thing happening as last year with my line snapping. So I drag the fish all the way around the portion of the dock with the high railing.

Luckily for me, I had 2 people there who were willing to help me out! One person held my rod for me as I got down on my chest, grabbed hold of the dock, and put my body over the edge to try and lip this fish. I was scared of falling in but another person grabbed one of my belt loops on my shorts to keep me from falling in. The bass is just out of my reach and I inch a bit closer and after a few attempts, I get a solid grip on the lower jaw and pull it up! SUCCESS!

My immediate thoughts upon seeing the fish was that it was easily a 5+ lb fish at the very minimum. I run over to grab my digital scale and I am in for one of the biggest surprises of my life when I see the results. The scale went bounced between 7 - 1 and 7 - 3 and stopped at about 7 - 2. I had a small crowd of people who witnessed me weighing the fish on the scale. No funny business here. This fish was an absolute BEAST! Even after releasing the fish, my body was shaking for a good 30 minutes. I could not believe what just happened and was so happy I probably could have almost cried a single tear of joy! She was definitely a pregnant female that was full of eggs and almost ready to pop! She had a huge gut!

Anyways, now that the main story is out of the way I will finish up this report. When I first got to Log Boom, I saw a couple of people fishing and was happy that the dock wasn't full of people. On the very first cast, I hooked into a bass and weighed it up on my digital scale. My scale put it at 1 lb 10 oz. This fish was MUCH smaller than the fish I caught yesterday and estimated to be maybe 2 lbs. With that being said, I am now certain that my first fish was easily near 3.5 lbs while the second fish has to be a good 2.5 lbs at least.

The 7 lb 2 oz bass was my second fish.

My third fish was a 3 lb 13 oz chunk! It was thick and had a nice gut! Unfortunately, my hatcam was off for the first half of the fight when this fish was going absolutely bananas and peeling out drag! I managed to catch the last few seconds of it in the water while bringing it up. The fish fought ultra hard and it was super fun to fight! I was estimating it to be about 4 lbs. I was 3 oz off :D

My 4th fish was a 1 lb 8 oz bass that fought deceivingly hard! It may have been small but it had the heart of a pig. I accidentally deleted the footage of this as I was deleting clips to clear up some space on my SD Card.

So to sum it up, I caught 4 bass today! 1 of them was a trophy! 1 of them was almost 4 lbs! and 2 of them were about 1.5 lbs! Definitely a 5 star day!

Here is a link to the video of the 7 lb 2 oz Bass! I will post a video of the 1-10 and 3-13 later!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8TrSwZAamA

Boldasu

4/22/2012 9:26:00 PM

Wow that's a big largie i ever see in lake wa.Good job.I'm kinda jealous:)

fishnislife

4/22/2012 9:33:00 PM

Wow what a report! Great read, thank you. And congrats on your PB. Way to stick with it.

ChrisB

4/22/2012 9:48:00 PM

Super Cool man !! Lake WA piggy, short and fat.

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

4/22/2012 9:53:00 PM

thanks guys! i had a small measuring tape with me. i wanted to measure it but in my excitement i forgot to. i sort of wish that i had the measurements on length and girth but oh well. plus i didn't want to keep it out of the water any longer than i did.

dresscode5

4/22/2012 10:49:00 PM

Beast mode. If I had a bag of skittles, I would throw them at you!

tele_maniac

4/22/2012 10:51:00 PM

Awesome report Elijah!!! Thanks for posting.

topdawg47

4/23/2012 6:45:00 AM

Nice report & catch Elijah!
Anyone know what the largest bucket mouth is out of LK. WAWA?

bob johansen

4/23/2012 7:14:00 AM

Very nice report & a beautiful largemouth! Congrats!

N E 1 FISSION

4/23/2012 10:13:00 AM

Dang, totally cool, missed this report earlier. Props again,...

Aaidian

4/23/2012 10:30:00 AM

Grats on the personal best Elijah!! Love the Goonies hat cam! VGJ!

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

4/23/2012 10:47:00 AM

thanks a lot for the kind words everyone! :)

The Quadfather

4/23/2012 12:09:00 PM

That was a great video for obvious reasons. What may have been the most enjoyable part of the video was the IMMEDIATE! change in your breathing once you hook the fish. It was, flip to the dock... pause... twitch once.. and then you went all into intense deep breathing adrenaline rush mode.

BankBasser

4/23/2012 8:00:00 PM

Holy crap....bulging eye sockets and everything. Damn nice fish. Congrats on your personal best

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

4/23/2012 9:04:00 PM

@ quad - nothing gets my adrenaline going quite like hooking into a monster! i will never forget the power of that fish and how intense and exciting it was!

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

4/23/2012 9:04:00 PM

thanks a lot bankbasser! :D

SamFishing

4/23/2012 9:30:00 PM

Great report and awesome video. And Congrats for the 7.2 lb LM.

MotoBoat

4/23/2012 9:56:00 PM

Nice fish!! That thing has a Buddha Belly. I have only caught a few small largemouth around 12". And a handfull of Smallmouth up to the 18" range. At around 20sec into the video, the fight of a 7lb 2oz Largemouth is pretty much over. Is that typical? I have no idea, so that is why the question. A much smaller Smallmouth put's up a dog fight comparatively speaking. That fish really cooperated while walked along the dock for several feet.

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

4/23/2012 10:08:00 PM

@ motoboat - honestly, i have never caught bass this big before so i can't really say all too much. i have also never caught a pregnant female this big with a giant belly full of eggs. i was also very surprised that it did not resist very hard and cooperated pretty well as i dragged it around the dock. it shook around and resist a bit but not nearly as much as i expected. i did put a lot of pressure on the fish the entire time so i wonder if the fish sort of just decided to give up. also the fact that i hooked in such close quarters and had a ton of leverage on it since ii was quite a few feet above it may have had something to do with it as well. i imagine that if i hooked this same fish from shore and with a nice long cast that it would have fought hard the entire time. but i can't be 100% certain of that.

Amx

4/24/2012 1:49:00 PM

MotoBoat and Elijah.Loves.Fishin ;

The water temp has alot to do with the way that fish fought. It's still quite a bit cold for her, therefore the fight won't last as long, or as strong. And I'll say it, if the water temp had been in the high 60s or in the 70s there is a great chance that fish never would have been landed.

But a great fish with luck and good handling without horsing it brought that fish to the scale.

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

4/24/2012 3:17:00 PM

that is a very good point! i considered that but failed to mention that as well. a couple of the bass that i caught were lively and fought pretty dang hard but this big mama had to have been a bit sluggish with the water temps and all the extra weight she was carrying. and i totally agree that if the water temp was a lot higher than she definitely would have fought so much harder!

pika206

4/24/2012 11:06:00 PM

I can only imagine the sight of hanging off the dock trying to lip this bass from such a high dock! Awesome story and catch, you're fishing like a pro now, i can't wait until you're in the tournaments some day. +1 to the skittles comment.

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

4/24/2012 11:14:00 PM

thanks a lot pika206! without a bass boat, i don't think i'd be able to fish tournaments anytime in the near future! i still have a ton to learn and need to fish a lot more lakes to gain more experience before i could ever fish tournaments! unless i was fishing back boat with someone who already fishes tournaments :)

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