Keith Lusher 02.22.24
Invoice Dorris and his son Jimmy, have a mixed 100 years of bass fishing expertise between the 2 of them. The South Louisiana anglers have fished in every single place from the native rivers and bayous in Louisiana to trophy lakes like Toledo Bend and Lake Guntersville in Alabama. By the years the father-and-son staff has caught lots of large bass.
Nonetheless, not one of the fish they’ve caught prior to now measure as much as the fish that they lately caught in Bayou Lacombe in Southeast Louisiana. Jimmy and Invoice had been fishing at an area jelly jar match known as Bass Assassins.
The 2 had been fishing in separate boats and Jimmy wasn’t having very a lot success. “I picked up a small bass each every now and then, however I by no means bought on something actually good,” Jimmy mentioned.
That each one modified at roughly 11:15 when Jimmy entered right into a small canal simply off of the principle bayou. He began flipping a jig alongside the shoreline and made a flip into an space of water that was two toes deep. Jimmy felt the road tighten and set the hook. “I caught her and it made a run so exhausting I assumed I had a Choupique (bowfin) on my line,” Dorris mentioned.
Gauge Wagner was Jimmy’s teammate on today and after seeing the fish and recognizing that it was a bass, Wagner positioned himself to lip the fish on the aspect of the boat. He dropped down on his knees and hung over the gunwale. Because the fish neared he grabbed the bass with one hand after which bought his different hand round it and lifted it into the boat. Gauge began shouting… “You bought a ten! You bought a ten!” and Jimmy mentioned, “If it’s not…it’s not going to overlook it by a lot!” Jimmy put the monster of a fish into his live-well and returned to fishing.
About 5 minutes later his father Invoice, handed by as he was exiting the identical canal that Jimmy was fishing. Invoice was heading again to the launch and known as out to Jimmy “Guess what I bought?” to which Jimmy parroted his father with the identical query… “Guess what I bought?” It seems Invoice caught an 8 lb. 10 oz. largemouth bass in the identical canal a couple of minutes earlier than Jimmy caught his 9 lb. 1 oz. fish.
Each of the fish turned out to be private bests for the lifelong bass fishermen. “It was wild!” he mentioned. “For each of us to catch our private bests on the identical day – inside half-hour of one another – out of various boats is wild!”
