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After a long day, I had the evening to myself and wasn't sure what to do. Thought I'd take the Kayak out to Lake Carr. I put the yak in and paddled into the wind making several drifts throwing shallow running crank baits with little luck. The wind began to die so I headed to the edges of the pads to start throwing top water. I was picking up small bass but nothing spectacular.

Then I saw a large wake pushing a school of bait... I pitched my top water to the side and the fish made an immediate U turn inhaling the Lure.


Normally I would have put one this size back but the hooks were into the gills and he was bleeding badly.
I paddled over to another boat to see if they had an Ice Chest I could stash it in- they didn't but were nice enough to give me a stringer and take a photo

It was a beautiful day on the lake- I picked up a few smaller fish but nothing else photo worthy.

Came home, cleaned the fish, put a fillet under the broiler with lemon, salt and butter, and cracked open a cold Beer.
Its a good day!

nice bass bman.

BOY , BMAN, THAT IS A NICE BASS. WHERE DO YOU PUT IN ON LAKE CARR? WHERE IS LAKE CARR ? I SEE THE BABY TORPEDO DID THE TRICK FOR YOU. THAT IS ONE NICE LITTLE PLUG, I HAVE ABOUT A DOZ. DIFF. COLORS IN MY BOX, TROUT LIKE THE TORPEDO ALSO.
GETTIN READY TO HEAD TO THE COAST FOR SOME MOONLITIN FOR TROUT.
PA

PA, It's on the West side of N Meridian Rd. Go in on Cedar Hill Rd on the North side of the lake. I used to go down Gardner Rd on the South side just to look at the lake.
Whatever you do - don't shoot the deer! They used to not care for that sort of thing along that section of land!

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.57958 ... &t=h&hl=en

Nice fish B!!!

Nice job Barry!

Man, she inhaled that Torpedo! Nice!

bman wrote: Came home, cleaned the fish, put a fillet under the broiler with lemon, salt and butter, and cracked open a cold Beer.
Its a good day!

Sounds to me like it was a great day

Very nice fish!!!

Carr can be a lot of fun. I love to fish a SPRO frog out there.

I am not sure how you can fish anything with treble hooks on that lake. Anything other than weedless would crive me to distraction.

Nice fish

HEY BMAN, THANKS FOR THE REPLY ON CARR LAKE. THAT MAP REALLY MAKES IT EASY TO FIND. I THINK I WILL SWING OVER THERE IN THE MORNING AND SEE IF THOSE BASS WILL INHALE ONE OF MY TORPEDO'S.
THANKS AGAIN .
PA

Thanks for all the comments-
The lake is low but there is room to launch a jon boat from the ramp.
It looked like folks had to push out a little before they could start running.

Grim Reeler- you are right about the coontail grass- its everywhere.
You have to search out pockets to work the topwater through and you will spend a lot of time clearing the hooks.

Both of those things make it a good place for they Kayak!

Man, you're tearin the bass up. Good job, Bman.