I made a long cast parallel to a lily pad line but about 4 ft outside the lily pads were there is a drop from about 4ft to 12ft. I let it sink, then reeled up the slack, popped it a couple of times and I began swimming it on the retrieve. The bass took it a few cranks of the reel after the lure straightened out. It was an awesome fight! It dove immediately when hooked, then it headed straight up and made an epic leap about 70ft away from me. I kept it hooked somehow.. and said "awesome" after it jumped. Once I got it close enough to see how it was hooked (in the right corner of it's mouth) and played her clockwise around the boat.. we did 5 circles around the boat before she was tired out enough to land her. She measured 21". Probably 4.25-4.5 lbs.