. . .so he'd have a certified weight. If I catch a bass over 10lbs I want to be 100% sure it's accurate. But he could care less.

Makes no sense to me but what ever floats your boat.

I could be wrong but I believe it is agianst the law to keep bass from a trotline.

It doesn't make sense to you to have an accurate scale to measure with? What's the point of using a scale if it's not accurate? Why not just guess?

I don't want to be one of these guys that goes around saying my 8lber was a 10lber. If it's 9.999lbs, I want to know, because that isn't 10lbs, and yes, that matters to me, as it does to about 95% of bass fishermen.

You are correct.
Trot lines, jug lines, drop lines etc may only be used to take Non game fish, and catfish.
Gamefish may only be taken on a rod and reel.

Couldn't quite figure out exactly what point you were talking about but regardless we hammered the whites pretty good.

We ended up fishing the 3-5 foot flat north of the island that is a couple feet out of the water as you are leaving elm creek.

These whites had the biggest average size I've ever been on. We didn't catch a fish less than 10" and everything we kept was 14" or bigger.

We only kept 10 for a Saturday night fish fry.

Picked up a 4# largemouth on a jerkbait mixed in with the whites. Buddy caught a small largemouth on a squarebill. Mostly fished for whites in the morning.

That afternoon I caught several 2-3 lb largemouth on flukes rigged on a shakey head, buddy caught a 3 lber on topwater and a 9.25 lber on a pink/white fluke rigged texas style with a green tungsten weight (he says the green weight was the key).

Didn't fish for bass very long sunday morning. My son wanted to catch a bunch of fish. So I put him on a Pop-R and went back to that flat. He had a blast. We probably caught 50 fish in an hour or so. We brought home 23 whites and I have 5 lbs of filet in the fridge.

He had a blast.

Great report, sound fun! I need to get out there. Hopefully we catch some rain this week

Wow I can't believe I didn't know that. Then again, I haven't ran a trotline since I was a kid. All the more reason for him to be throwing them back I suppose.