Athens good one.

Caught this fat fish today in 2-3 ft of water, skipping docks. Way under a dock, so I know it wasn’t on a bed. Obviously pre spawn and weighed 10.20. 23-3/4” length and 22” girth!!! The fatest fish I have ever held in my hands.




Caught around 100 or so fish, 3 overs, and about 50/50 slots and unders. . No exaggeration. Went though 6 bags of watermelon red senkos and 2 packs of eagle claw wacky jig heads.

Heck of a fish. She’s about to explode.

Nice!

Awesome fish sir and what a day. I've sent you some PM's in the past and you have always been great. Congrats Steez and thanks for sharing !!

Awesome fish, congrats!

Congrats

NICE!!

She's a fat bottomed girl

What a pig! Good job.

Nice one. Are you skipping those with spinning tackle?

Thanks !

It was a fun day. Caught this fish on my fairy wand with a 6 pound leader and didn’t have time to get out the net. It actually jumped clean outta the water 5 times. The last jump, she landed on the rear deck and slid back into the lake on the Skeeters sponson. I knew it was a goner, but she was hooked good. Right behind the upper jaw bone. Perfect. It was never able to saw on the line. I was then able to lift her over the side by hand.

Unlike how you’d expect, I wasn’t worried. I was laughing hysterically watching this fish jump. I never expected to land the fish.

Kinda cool.

Yes. The lake was a little high today. Some docks had 2-3” of skipping room under them, so I was side arming a spinning rod. I usually skip with a bait caster, if there is plenty of room. If I hit wood, the bait caster explodes! Haha. So I reverted back to a medium spinning rod and a Senko to avoid backlashes.

Beautiful fatty!!

Nice one

She was pretty. Very green and white..and not a scratch or blemish on her.

What length rod are you using for skipping? A 6ft 8in. bait caster is what I skip best with. I use a 2020 Tatula SV TW and that helps a lot keeping from getting backlashes. I haven't tried skipping with spinning gear yet.

I’m not 100% sure. I know it was one of my Lowrider rods. The “ShakyHead” rod. I think it’s a 6’10” medium/fast.
I normally skip docks with one of my Lizard Draggers. Depending on the lake, I will use the Diawa with 17lb InvisX, the Chronarch DC with 12lb InvisX, or the Lews reel with 50lb braid.

I will have to give that a try with spinning gear.

Good job Steez. Now there's gonna be a line up to the main road of boats trying to get in there

Nice !! Congratulations Steez !

Congrats on a awesome fish!

Great fish!

Nice fish. Good job.

She jumped in your boat? Geez, you’re livin’ right, dude. Congrats on the slaunch donkey.

Big'in!

Excellent!

Super glad for you. Congrats. on a beautiful fish.

Great fish

Never fished Athens. Always on Fork but you have me wanting to go now. Congrats on a great fish

Nice!

Nice one!

Freaking toad man, congrats!

I like when they're plumped up like that

Awesome Steez!!!!

Awesome fish, sir. Glad you had a great day on the water.

She's a beaut clark!

Yup...ya done ruint that lake LOL! Good job, beautiful fish! I gotta get back over there, been over a year since I was on Athens

Nicely done, Steez!

Congrats, Steez!

Nice.

BOOM!! Nice one Steez!

Great fish.