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After busting on Union Lake I had to get back on the 'horse' quickly again so 2 days later I found myself on a lake that seems to treat me a lot better. Yep - Lower Crooked Lake again on May 5th for another spawn/prespawn bass bash!

To show I'm a rounded guy not with only bass fishing on my brain I stopped by the Red-tailed Hawk's nest tree to try to snap a quick picture of the big nest. The hawk was in a tree nearby but soared away before I could snap a picture of it too. It is a big, tall tree on a hill so don't expect too much from my phone camera please!

(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/red-tailed-hawks-nest20160505_103715.jpg)

I guess I just like nature in general though some people would call me a consumptive user (even though I rarely eat a fish).

After the photo op I went on my way to some shallow lake largemouth bass fishing - some of my favorite!

Here's one I caught shortly after on a Bullet Craw cast along the shoreline looking for cruisers:
(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/keeper-bass-bullet-craw20160505_112952.jpg)

Then I missed one on the Deposit Spin Titanium Revolution Spinnerbait thought it slammed it hard enough to almost rip out of my hand! I tossed a follow up Kustom Kicker Jigs Depo$it Swim Jig in crappie with a black/blue Angling AI swimbait trailer and WHAM! Got another decent keeper bass from a hole near shore between shoreline brush and weeds and emerging pads and other weeds!
(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/deposit-swim-jig-bass20160505_114524.jpg)

The next bass that slammed the DSTR spinnerbait (aka the studfinder) got it!
(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/dstr-spinnerbait-bass20160505_131241.jpg)

After that I was hitting some of the pad roots, floating bogs and holes in the bottom of the lake. I cut across the lake from a bog towards an old hole in the lake. I took a different angle than normal and can across one isolated pad root/bog combination way offshore. It was about the size of a small work desk. As I spotted it I saw a large bass shoot off the top of a cleaned spot on the roots.

I had no marker buoys with me so I added an icon on my handheld GPS for the spot knowing it would be hard to find again with nothing around it and being way offshore. I moved over to my little hole and some known pad roots and hit those for a few minutes.

But that big bass was calling to me! After getting no more bites I turned out from shore and started making my way back towards where I thought the bass had been I was off by a good 100 feet when I keyed in my GPS and traveled right to it then. Good thing I marked the spot. It will probably move in the future but it was good this day!!! Because I could just make it out on the partly cloudy, breezy day when I tossed the ole Bullet Craw to the spot.

I never felt the strike or saw the line jump but my primitive brain said "SET THE HOOK" so I did to a screaming drag and the feel of a snag. Then the 'snag' moved a ways to the side before half-jumping out of the water. I fought a beautiful hawg largemouth bass to boat and let it go after a quick picture!
(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/big-bass-offshore-bed20160505_142514.jpg)

I tried some other spots and missed a bite or two, caught some panfish but no more bass until on the way back to check my little row boat back in I tossed the Deposit Spin spinnerbait to a big laydown tree that has produced many a bass in the past. I was just coming down a main limb when part of the limb peeled off and ate the spinnerbait! WHAMMO! One final solid bass for the day! And Dan is happy again... The End.
(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/dstr-spinnerbait-bass-from-tree20160505_161517.jpg)

For now anyway.