A Man Who Knows a Thing or Two About Catching Big Bass

In his younger days as a Sailor based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Bob Glass (pictured left) already was gaining a reputation for consistently being able to find and catch big bass. Coincidentally, Back Bay was grabbing notoriety for becoming one of the finest bass fisheries anywhere in the country. It should come as no surprise then that shipmates repeatedly were asking Bob to take them to Back Bay on a fishing trip, and he would oblige.

The reputation that took root during those Navy days only has grown in the years that have passed since, as evidenced by Bob's trail of success in the Dewey Mullins Memorial Bass Tourney Series. For example, he claimed the Seasonal Lunker Award for this series in both 2012 and 2013, with bass weighing 5.71 lbs. and 6.89 lbs., respectively. He also was our 2013 Angler of the Year.

This past Thursday, Sept. 25, Bob continued his big-bass ways. He went out of West Neck Marina about 3 o'clock "just to see what was happening," to borrow his own words, adding, "I

hadn't been out in a while." He ended up catching this 7.34-lb. bass in West Neck Creek that afternoon. To get a better perspective of just how big this fish was, consider that the area in Bob's boat where this fish is laying measures 33 inches wide.

Another reason for last Thursday's trip was to get reacquainted with a buzzbait. As Bob explained, "I threw buzzbaits for years and did really good (with them), but nowadays, I can't seem to get away from the Senko." After throwing a buzzbait the entire two-and-a-half hours he was out last Thursday, Bob had caught four bass, including the one pictured here, for a total weight of about 13 lbs.

So what do you reckon his game plan was for yesterday's tourney? If you said "to mount an all-out buzzbait attack," you'd be absolutely correct. For three hours, that's exactly what he did... but without a single taker.

It wasn't until he went back to the Senko that he started catching any fish and managed, with the help of his partner, Randy Conkle, to boat 11.67 lbs., which was good enough to capture Saturday's 1st-place prize money. "If I hadn't gone back to the Senko, we may not have won," said Bob.