Cold Front @ Cotton Port

Sir Charles with a Cotton Port keeper

Stuart Row, Charlie Shields, and I fished out of Goodfield Creek today for largemouth. We fished my usually spots down near Barley Branch and Crawford Branch with crankbaits, spinnerbaits and plastic lizards. Stuart started out with a Carolina rigged YUM pumpkinseed lizard with a chartreuse tail, and quickly picked up two nice keeper largemouth, Charlie added another keeper on a chartreuse and white spinnerbait.I finally got into the game with a healthy keeper on a Choo Choo bleeding chartreuse spinnerbait. We then went over to the lily pads and I picked up one largemouth on the Choo Choo. We went back into the back of Barley Branch (right fork) and caught a couple more good largemouth on the point at the back fork of the branch. Stuart had a nice bass on and had it come off half way to the boat - it put up a serious fight showing us some pretty good swirls, but we never got a good look at it - it made me sick when it came off. This could have been a trip making fish. Shortly thereafter, I delivered a 100 mph X-Calibur XCS100 to Charlie's forehead from a hook-set after a bass took a hit at it. It drew a little blood, but he had no time to lick his wounds because just as he got nailed by my bait, a bruiser carp sucked his lipless crankbait down and he had his hands full fighting the bugle mouthed monster. He got it all the way to the boat giving us a good look at it right before it made a final run and broke his line. I'd say it was easily a 20 lber - very impressive trash fish. Overall, we caught 7 bass (6 would have probably kept) and lost at least 4 others. The water was slightly more stained than Sunday and was at about the same level if not just a hair lower. We had a tremendous front come through last night, with a bunch of rain and cold temperatures. This afternoons temperature was in the low 60s with a wind (5 -10 mph) out of the north, so long pants and long sleeves were the uniform for the day. Tonight it's supposed to get down to 38 F!!! Yes it is May 4^th. I was very pleased with our catch this afternoon considering the front that's moving in could have made things much tougher.