Caught my first bass!

I got into fishing recently. I figured it would be a nice way to get out in nature more and do something fun with my friends. For the past couple months, I’ve been going out every weekend with my buddies and haven’t had any luck.

For the first few weeks, I had no idea what I was doing. Using heavy crank baits on my medium spinning rod, not knowing how to present baits, but as the weeks went on I kept learning and trying new things.

Today I woke up early and decided to get some fishing in before work. Went to local park not expecting anything. I used a weighted texas rig with a black/blue googan blazing worm.

After 20 minutes I felt a bite! There had been many times when I was fishing and I thought I had a bite, but actually getting one- there’s no mistaking it now. Immediately set the hook, got scared the fish spit it out but still felt it on so I started reeling in. When I got close to surface saw this guy break and splash everywhere! Pulled him up and snapped a pic before throwing him back.

I know it’s not the biggest or most impressive fish, but all I cared about was finally catching one! Can’t wait to go out again soon and catch more.