Went to Lake Cassidy after work 5:30pm-8pm. Only saw one boat trailer in the parking lot when I arrived. Loaded the boat and headed to north end of the lake where it's shallower to find some spawning big bass. I had been catching bass for past few weeks here but nothing big yet just 11". I used top water Perch Rapala size 7 and swim jig. It was a bit windy and sunny. So got into the lily pads to park the boat and found some openings deep in back by pads to cast too...first cast twitched my minnow and had a huge roll behind the lure...and figured I might of moved it too soon and lost my chance at a big one. Hit the same spot (key to this type of fishing is being able to cast not much margin for error or you spoke the fish) let it sit longer and sure enough he took it...good fight and big fish...got him in and took some photos nice 14.5" Bass. Biggest one this year out of Lake Cassidy and close to my lake record of 16". Let him go and moved to another spot further down the western shore and where I had got a huge crappie last week. Sure enough a 2nd crappie was there little smaller but nice 10" crappie. Got another bass 9" that I got on side when he rolled by my minnow. You do tend to snag some fish doing top water when they hit the lure but don't take it. So 14 mins in 3 fish and lots of action. Wind was still moving me around so moved further down the shore and hit a spot...let it sit not yet don't move it...bam huge bite set the hook and feel the weight and then.....bleep!!! F*%R*###~!!! the knot came undone!!! Lost a big one felt it but didn't see it. Going to try a different knot next time out. Bad part that was my last big perch colored rapala. Moved down the lake to far end and had a few more bites...decided to try and find same pattern and while moving across to new spot I trolled my minnow and fish on! A trout 9". Found a spot in back of far pads and had a few more hits looked like sunfish and sure enough caught one.

Not a bad day except for the knot issue...but found two bigger fish today and got a variety sunfish, trout, crappie and largemouth bass.

I will keep trying for the elusive big bass out of Lake Cassidy since I live closeby.

All fish caught photographed and released to grow bigger.

James