The 31-year-old San Diego resident was fishing alone that Friday afternoon. He’d parked his car and walked to the shores of Lake Jennings, a place he’d fished often since age 8.
“The fishing wasn’t great that day, which was pretty warm in the 70s,” Henson tells Wired2fish. “I was heading back to my car that afternoon and made a cast along the edges of some tules. The water is clear and shallow. I started a retrieve and saw a bass rush out from the weeds to my lure.”
Using a 7-foot baitcasting rod, Shimano reel and 20-pound-test fluorocarbon line, he saw the bass hit his oversize soft lure, a Working Class Zero Battle Shad 7.5 swimbait…