Hank Cherry has been reduced to giggling to himself and saying, “Oh, my gosh,” over and over and over. An 8-pounder will do that to a man.
Cherry had moved away from the docks to some some islands of flooded trees and started flipping. He felt that familiar tap, tap, tap and set the hook on a monster.
“Jeremiah Lunker!” Cherry shouted as he landed the bass, then held it up to the Bassmaster LIVE camera and said, “There you go, dad, there’s your 8-pounder!”
Cherry’s father, Harold, is who taught him how to fish.
That big-bellied bass gives Cherry about 19 pounds. More importantly, it’s a 19-pound limit with two rats in the livewell. Cherry could easily cull up to a monster day.