It was an early Christmas present for Gene Kidder of Opelousas, Louisiana. On Dec. 18 he was fishing Toledo Bend Reservoir with his son Lane. They’d not caught a fish on that bright 60-degree day until mid-afternoon.
“It was about 3 p.m. and we were running my Skeeter bass boat back to camp, when we made one last stop to work a submerged brush pile we know about in 12-feet of water,” Gene tells Wired2fish. “It was my first cast with an old purple Bagley B2 plug that had been in my tackle box for 20 years.”
The cast lure ticked the brush pile and Kidder felt a strike. But the fish didn’t put up much of a battle, likely because of the cool water in 185,000-acre Toledo Bend. The lake straddles the Texas-Louisiana border southwest of Shreveport, La…