Who can blame him, either, when you consider he caught a mixed bag of 41 fish in Back Bay this past Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. That total broke his old record of 32 fish that he caught during a nor'easter this last fall.
As Ryan Land explained, "When the 250-hp boats are unable to launch, those are the days I get my absurd kayak numbers."
From there, Ryan went on to catch three yellow perch, three pickerel (two of which measured 20 inches), and one crappie, all of which were mixed in between what seemed like endless bass.
"Of course, at least 20 of those bass were 8-to-12-inch dinks," he said, "but it still was an absolute blast...and the kind of day I long for. A few other notable bass included a nice one over 3 pounds, as well as at least three more in the 2-pound class."
Ryan estimated his keeper bag would have weighed about 18 pounds. The feeding frenzy was going after every bait he had tied on, but the majority were hitting topwater. He ended up losing his favorite topwater bait to a solid fish...perhaps a pickerel...that broke him off. He also had a leader knot fail on his magic one-eyed striped rattletrap and lost several nice fish on a wacky-worm rig that had an undersized hook. He further had a 4-pound-or-so bass jump and throw a weightless Texas-rigged worm right next to his kayak.
In summing up his experience Friday, Ryan described it as "near-total chaos, between losing favorite lures, untangling rods, dunking reels in the bay, and getting multiple hits on single retrieves. I even watched a bass swoop in and try to take my lure from the mouth of a bass I was already hooked up with and fighting. It simply was beautiful," he concluded.
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