Monster bass gave me the slip

The title says it all. I braved the elements today at lake Perris. I had a 3 hour window. 6am till 9am. I head to the front side of the Island and have a fish smash my buzzbait on the second cast. The wind was brutal 2-3 foot chop on the water. I head to the area where I got my fish a few days ago and make a long cast tight to the shoreline cover. I get a small backlash so as im pulling it free the buzzbait sinks to the bottom. I begin reeling as fast as I can to get it back up to the surface when I notice a huge wake forming behind my lure and the moment the blades start turning on the surface an explosion of epic proportions ensues. Bass missed the bait but it does a 180 and sprays water everywhere again trying to get that bait but it misses again. I just pick up my jaw off the ground and shake my head. A few years back I landed a 9.10oz beast on a frog at Skinner and the amount of water this fish I saw displaced was over twice as much. I got a glimpse of it wide green back and this fish was enormous. Next time maybe we will get the hooks in her

Ahh man!
Don't you love it when the top water sprays like that!!
Better luck next time and thanks for sharing.

The one that got away! Thanks for sharing, great story.

Sometimes the best fish stories are about the one that got away!

Back in the early days of Lake Perris, we used to kill the bass all around the island, especially the southwest rocky side, with this fantastic old school surface lure called a "Dying Flutter" made by Heddon!  Throw it up near the exposed brush, which was everywhere then,  give it a few jerks of the rod to spin those double propellers and make bubbles,.. and BLAM!  A big blowup and fish on!    I've still got a couple of those baits, but the hooks they used back then suck.  I'll bet if you used a quality bait similar to that you would do great, especially right now.
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Top water blow ups are the best! Sucks it didn't stick though

bigfish wrote:Sometimes the best fish stories are about the one that got away!

totally agree with you bigfish!!! great story haha!