These Fellas Are on a Roll

Joe McDevitt holds the 3.06-lb. bass he caught today while he and Tom Acree were on the water. They started in West Neck Creek at 6:30 and had put three fish in the boat by 7:15, when they decided to move to Albright's Creek, where they quickly added more. By 8:45, they already were culling, and by 10:45, they had 10 solid keepers in the livewell.

About this time, the wind died down, so Tom and Joe decided to move to the wrecks down south, where they simply continued catching quality fish.

The duo had planned to be off the water by noon to avoid some of the holiday boating traffic, but the fish stayed active, and they just couldn't leave. When they finally quit at 2 o'clock, they collectively had boated 25 bass. Their productive lures today were white flukes and red senkos. "We couldn't tell which the fish liked better," said Tom. The bass were crushing both.

Once Joe and Tom had come off the water, they stopped at the marina store and asked Dewey to weigh their five best fish of the day. Here were the weights: 3.06 lbs., 3.05 lbs., 3.0 lbs., 2.75 lbs., 2.75 lbs. The math tells me this totals 14.61 lbs. Considering these anglers caught 13.5 lbs. of bass just Saturday, I see it as somewhat of an understatement to say that Joe and Tom are on a roll.

Another angler who had a good day today is my kayaker friend Charlie Bruggemann, who fished the oxbow at the mouth of Albright's Creek. Fishing the frog and a wakebait until 12:30, he boated 19 bass. His best three weighed 1-0, 1-3 and 1-4. Charlie tells me he'll have his blog updated sometime tomorrow afternoon with all the details and video, so take a look and get the full story.

In the meantime, my hat is off to all three of these folks. Can hardly wait to get back on the water myself to see if I can get in on some of this same kind of action. Good on ya!