March and early April always mark the time of year I get "big bass" on the brain. Spring is always your best bet to catch your largest bass of the year. I think there are several reasons for the phenomena, most likely that the big bass are hungry! No matter the reasons the early fishing season has yielded me my largest bass the past few seasons. This March was no different, I had a chance to fish on Good Friday with my friend Zach Maxfield. We shared a trip early last year that produced Zach catching a fish over six pounds, and this year it was my turn at a heavy fish. We traveled down to Rock Creek Lake, a short 25 minute drive to try to once again hook a March monster.
The lake did not disappoint. We fished for about 3 hours, and I had 2 bites. One was chunky 16 inch bass and the other was a March Monster. It weighed in at 5 pounds 12 ounces. The amazing thing about this fish was that it measured right at 21 inches, it was tall and fat! A beautiful fish as you can see from the picture and it is still swimming to be caught again or to lay those thousands of eggs that she will have in another month or so.
It was typical spring fishing, throw some slow baits and mix in a jerkbait. Zach threw a jerkbait quite often, but no takers. I stayed with the Wig's Jig and plastic trailer from Hot Rod Baits form most of the trip, but the big girl fell for the Bruizer Big Daddy from Hot Rod Baits. This is a large creature bait I rigged up Texas style, it measures almost 8 inches when the tails are swimming behind it. I was using a heavy flippin' rod/reel from Quantum with 15 pound test line. It's big, and that is what big ones want this time of year.
Enjoy the spring weather if you can, and remember go big this time of year for that giant!
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