When Greer Billeaud says he “figured out something” about putting good-sized bass in the boat at Toledo Bend, believe him.
The proof is in the pudding, er, in the monstrous size of a bass he hooked, then lipped less than a minute later on a late evening trip April 6 on a spur-of-the-moment outing with his young son, Hansen. The 7-year-old boy screamed with delight when he saw it the first time it rolled near the boat before the 33-year-old outdoorsman got a serious case of the yips once he lifted the “hawg.”
“They talk about ‘buck fever.’ I guess there’s such a thing as big bass fever, also,” Billeaud said a few days after he weighed the 12.50-pound bass at Buckeye Landing Marina on the Louisiana side south of Pendleton Bridge…