The number of Lunkers caught during the 2023-2024 year continues to grow... over the last weekend in February, 3 double-digit bass were caught.
“I was fishing by myself, and I saw her sitting up by herself on a big point, in about 12 feet of water,” he said. “I saw her on my LiveScope, and she came flying up to hit my bait. I wasn’t sure it was a bass, because it was so big on the screen. I got nervous – there were a few trees around, and I didn’t want her to get in them, but in a few seconds I had her by the boat. She never came up and jumped; she was just digging most of the time.”
Thibodaux lipped the brute and had her in the boat by around 7:45 a.m. He already had a 5-pounder and an 8-pounder in the boat. At 26 ½ inches long and 19 inches in girth – measured at Buckeye Landing where she was weighed – Thibodaux said “she made that 8-pounder look like a little fish, and it was really more like 8-12.”
Toledo Bend is ready to explode, Thibodaux said. People have been catching like crazy. He was catching his in 7 to 15 feet of water and all the big fish he caught had some spots of blood on their tails, but they were still out in deep water.”
Read more about it and hear from the anglers who caught them in the Louisiana Sportsman article here.