The details are a long story. What whould you like to know? I just started fishing for big fish 4-5 weeks ago. I made 2 trips to a lake and fished almost the whole thing trying to find fish. The spot I had the most followers from (biggest also) is where I concentrated each time. First trip 4#+, second trip 4-8, third trip 4-5 bass to 8# and missed the big girl, fourth trip got the big girl. On my third trip after catching 7 bass total off of one spot on a 9" castaic, I tied on a 12" castaic while my buddy stuck with the 9". I started getting followers right away while he did not. And about 3-4 casts in to our pass she hit me, I didn't set and she followed it to the boat and took another nip at it(in old posts) The next trip after trying one new spot I headed queitly tward the big fish and on my second cast she rolled on it about 2 feet under the surface. Just a slow steady retreve, I had put scent on the lure. The second I set the hook she came to the surface, I coud see right away she only had the stinger hook, I just kept her up and comming. I had to swing her aroud twice to keep the line taught and grab my net. One flip and she was in the boat. I popped the hook and put her in my 150quart ice chest and went back to fishing where I had another big fish hit me , I set and felt her shake, the next thing I know I am hung in a bush or tree and she is gone. About 10min after that I set the hook on a branch underwater and my castaic trout comes up with a 4" castaic baby bass swimbait hooked to my trout. Very Funny! I am slowly going through my lures and trying to catch fish on each. So far I have had quite a few on the 9" castaic, 2 on the 12' castaic(6-8 and 12-7), 2 on a 7.5" optimum dark trout, 2 on my 12" MS Slammer (3-0 and 5-0). The slammer is looking good right now, as the Castaic bite seems to be done. I am going to give a more detailed story to worldrecordbass.com as I have been talking to chuck quite a bit.