Hit the water at 7 am but the fog was too thick for me to try venturing away from shore on my first time at lake Goodwin.
I worked the shallow shore line with a Sinko with no luck until the fog cleared. Then I tried throwing a brown split-tail plastic jig and got two small small mouths.
I took a break for lunch around 11 am to have a sandwich, so I drop shotted a live worm in about 10' of water and just set the rod down and drifted while I ate.
When I looked up from my sandwich the pole was bent over and I thought "hung up on the bottom" until I picked it up and that's when the fish took off with about 30' of line. I dropped my sandwich in the bottom of the boat and adjusted the drag on the spinning real worrying all the time that I might tighten it too much and snap the 10 lb test I was using. The fish never jumped but made 4 or 5 runs before I could get it close enough to the boat to see what it was. The flash of its side of bronze told me it was a small mouth bass, but the size didn't match what I'd been told about small mouths. This thing was big and I didn't have a net (I never thought I'd need one). I put on a glove and laid down in the boat and reached over the side and just scooped him in with my hand. Once he was in the boat I started laughing saying "I can't believe it" over and over again.
My wife and I ate that fish for dinner and there was still a small piece left over for a sandwich next day.

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