West Pearl River in Louisiana Yields 11.3-Pound Trophy Bass 

The marshes of South Louisiana aren’t notably identified for giving up trophy bass. The competitors for meals and brackish waters make it powerful for largemouth bass to reside previous 6 years of age. That’s why Ron Hindman of Slidell, La. has been touring to North Louisiana his grownup life so as to catch “The Big One.” 

“Toledo Bend, Sam Rayburn, Lake Fork, I’ve fished them all,” he stated. With quite a few journeys to what’s thought-about “Trophy Lakes,” all Hindman might handle was a 5.5-pounder on Toledo Bend. As the years handed, Hindman refined his bass fishing expertise and has grown accustom to the smaller bass that’s usually caught within the native bass tournaments.

That all modified the previous Tuesday when he was pitching a black and blue jig with a crawfish trailer. He was casting it into small cuts that drained out of the swamp. “There was this drain coming out a with a ton of structure in it,” Hindman stated. “I was about 15 feet from the drain and I pitched my jig into it.” The lure sank to the underside then he bumped it. “When I reeled in, the line went tight, so I thought I was hung up on a stump,” Hindman stated. “I reared back to pull it loose and when I did the stump took off!”Hindman battled the fish because it made three completely different runs earlier than turning on it’s aspect on the floor of the water. Hindman reached down and pulled it out of the water. “It was so heavy, I just kept saying — ‘It’s gotta be a ten…It’s gotta be ten!” After unhooking the fish Hindman managed snap an image of it along with his cellphone after which put it in his reside nicely. “My live well is only about 16 inches long so I had to bend the fish to get it in,” he stated. When he returned again to the weigh-in, the fish was positioned on the size and it flashed a complete of 11.3 kilos. He held the fish up for a more-than-normal quantity of images and proudly returned to the river the place it swam away briskly. At final the lifelong bass angler had caught his “big one” and all these years it was in his personal yard.

Keith Lusher

Keith Lusher is an award profitable out of doors journalist that resides in Covington, Louisiana. He owns and operates NorthshoreFishingReport.com and writes a weekly out of doors column for the Slidell Independent Newspaper. He additionally writes for the St.Tammany Parish Tourism Commission’s LouisianaNorthshore.com and Louisiana Northshore Explore Magazine. He is the previous host of The Northshore Fishing Report Radio Show and is on the board of the Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association. Keith contributes to quite a few publications each on-line and in print and prides himself on selling South Louisiana’s distinctive fishery.