Big Trip #1. The Hollow of Sand

Im my unemployed state, I decided to limit my "big" trips to two.  Both for bass.  Both were to be epic.  The time came to go on trip #1 of the epicness.  I can't divulge the name of the lake so we'll just call it "The Hollow of Sand" for now.  I had been prepping for this one all spring, and I was super stoked because I finally have a better feel for bass fishing, setting the hook etc.  I went armed with information from Zach and Dan at Fish Tech.  Those guys are full of useful info like "Don't use Panther Martins," " Don't use 4 pound test," and most importantly, "Don't use that mickey mouse rod."  The fishing started hot right off the bat.  My second fish of the day happened to be one of the biggest largemouth I have ever landed.  The first day we threw a variety of things.  hula grubs, shaky head anything, drop shot anything, etc.  Curtis got one on a sweet dragonfly that he had tied, and rallied up a few more on some clouserish bugs.  One of the highlights was watching Curtis break in a new Rouge spinning rod with a shaky head.  He had the technique down in a few hours.  The second day started a bit slower than the first, but upon finding some deeper pots of fish we threw some shaky goodness at them and they obliged.   The rain that was promised never showed up, but the winds did, and that was what eventually sent us back to In-n-Out one last time to get all animal style with some fries and burgers.  All in all, it was a level 8 epic trip with epicness all around, but trip #2 might just be epic-er.