On Benjamin Suit?s third cast of his first day on the bass-infested Lake Baccarac, an 8-pound, 9-ounce bass inhaled a topwater lure. The 17-year-old New Iberia bass angler hooked it, reeled it in and released it with the sudden realization the senior trip he was on would be no ordinary fishing trip. One of the two men in the boat with him was just as excited, or more, to be with his son at Lake Baccarac in Mexico.
Kevin Suit, 48, of New Iberia, was a proud papa as he watched his son lip that bass, the first of 27 bass they caught over a six-day period May 14-20 weighing more than 8 pounds. Then the veteran bass fisherman started joining in on the fun and before the day was over the Suits had put seven 8-pound class bass in the boat. ?It?s absolutely fantastic bass fishing. You looked on the Internet and saw the reports, looked at the lodge and saw the pictures, you say ?It can?t be true.? It?s indescribable bass fishing, probably the hottest bass fishing in the world. We caught tons of fish,? he said. He accounted for the two biggest bass, an 11-pound, 14-ounce beauty and a 12-pound, 4-ounce ?hawg.?
Benjamin, who graduated from Catholic High School, where he was a standout pitcher for the Panthers, said after a while they quit photographing all the 6-pound and under fish.
So many weeks later, Benjamin said he?ll never forget the senior trip he chose over more popular and traditional destinations such as Panama Beach, Cancun, Bahamas, etc. ?The fishing was unbelievable. We caught bass all day and a lot of really big bass. I think we determined we had caught like 100, 150 fish a day. It was unbelievable,? Benjamin said. ?It was just an amazing trip. I never expected to catch that many largemouth bass in that short of a time span. My dad? He couldn?t believe it. He kept saying ?We don?t have fishing like this back home. I can?t believe we caught this many in this amount of time,? ? he said. Suit, an independent petroleum landman, and his son caught approximately 750 bass, of which about 150 of them were between 5 and 7 pounds.
Here is their big bass linescore: Fifteen weighing more than 8 pounds. Five weighing more than 9 pounds. Five weighing more than 10 pounds. And there were the 11-15 and 12-4.
All bass were released.
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Source: http://mexico-bass.blogspot.com/2010/09/senior-trip-in-mexico-lake-baccarac.html
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