Headed down to Beaver lake last evening to attempt catching my first largemouth bass. My entire life so far, I have been using only spinning rods and reels and fishing for trout, so last week I decided to invest in a baitcasting combo and try to start targeting bass. The park shore was pretty crowded with swimmers which made it a little hard to launch out and get to the spot that I have been looking at recently. It is this nice little floating dock off the shore that is next to an untouched bank full of lilies, which made it look like some good bass habitat. Once I got out there, I started out casting a rubber worm on a drop shot, but got no bites so I switched over to a silver crankbait which I casted right in between the dock and the lilies and did small jerking motions when I got a pretty hard hit. Once I got the fish up along the side of my kayak, I thought that it was just a really big yellow perch, but once I got to looking at it, it turned out to be a 10-12 inch largemouth (released). My first bass! I was really happy with it even thought it wasn't too big. I casted out into the same area again and landed a little bit of a bigger bass (also released)! After that I decided to call it a day because it was getting pretty crowded and was a little too hot for my liking. Overall, it was an excellent day, broke in a new rod and reel, and caught my two first largemouth bass of okay size.