By Craig Nyhus, Lone Star Outdoor News
Michael Boyd moved to the Lake Conroe area last year, and is still trying to learn the lake before getting back into competitive fishing.
While fishing on the lake with his buddy, Tommy Woodard, the pair found an aggressive spotted bass.
“We were pitching plastics around docks,” Boyd said. “I had a fish bite and set the hook, but he took the claws off of my craw lure.”
Boyd pitched again, had a hit and missed the fish. A few minutes later, Woodard pitched his craw into the same area, while Boyd was pulling line out after his cast.
“He set the hook,” Boyd said. “When I engaged my line I felt the tension in my line, too. The fish ate them both.”
Boyd felt the small Kentucky bass was likely the same fish he had missed twice earlier, and it clearly had both hooks in its mouth.
“He was a pretty hungry fish,” he said. “It was weird, it had been kind of a slow day. We joked if it was a record spot we could have played rock, paper, scissors for who got it.”
Boyd is no stranger to the unusual while fishing. More than a year ago, he snagged his favorite crankbait he had lost on the same hump a year earlier on Benbrook Lake, a story that also appeared in Lone Star Outdoor News.
