Finished up work and had a few minutes.....soI was poorly equipped to fish today, but managed to catch a few nice bream. The wind was blowing pretty good and I couldn't cast very far out past the weeds and grass to get to the fish.......I was fishing "Larry Dahlberg" style...all up in the weeds and bushes
I didn't have any corks with me, so I thought. Then I remembered I had one plugging my cooler! I pulled it out and rigged it with a twig. I had a scrap piece of gulp from the other day at AP, so I figured why not try it for a bream. Here ya go.....
The bream were not hitting beetle spins, so I stayed with the gulp
I caught a smaller bream and decided to try "live bait" for some of the bass I had seen swirling the water....
This little guy didn't bob the cork 3 times before he got SLAMMED!!!!!!! The bass that hit this thing hit so hard that the cork sounded like a chugbug coming across the water when it ran. I tried to set the hook but the bass straightened it out after about a 5 second fight
I got another "livie" on and BAMM again!!!!! The cork disappreared in the midst of a huge swirl...man that's cool to watch. The bait came out and when I pulled the bait to the top, this crazy bass slammed it again right on top of the water!!!! Awesome!!!! Here's yours truly trying to take a picture of the jumping bass rather than reeling the thing in
I lost this one too. The price you pay for being ill-equipped for big fish
I estimated this fish to be about 8 lbs. I tried this routine a few more times losing the bass everytime. Oh well, it was fun to hook 'em 
I managed 12 nice bream and lost every one of the bass
They were some big ones too. I'll be better prepared next time 
