Caleb Bell and his buddy Alex Rudd joked that they were going to catch a state record Alabama bass on the morning of November 18 last year.
“Alex knew the spot where he said some giants lived, and that’s where we headed that morning,” Bell tells Wired2fish. “We launched our boat and caught some live gizzard shad, then free-lined them with light 6-pound test fluorocarbon leaders. The water was really clear and those Bama bass are smart and shy.”
Bell was using spinning tackle with 15-pound test braided line tied to a 6-pound leader when he hooked his big ‘Bama bass…