Large Mouth Bass

My friend Tim and I have been getting up and going fishing at the local lakes around 4:30 am for the past few weeks. The carp have finished spawning as have the bluegills. The Largemouth Bass are still present, and we decided this Saturday to wail on a few. We also asked another neighbor of ours (also named Eric) to join us. We pulled down some coffee and rigged up for some early mornin' bassin'. All was slow for the first 30 minutes. Then the bass started to crash baitfish and we were able to horse a number of fish in. Among those was this fish (read Hawg) that Eric fooled with a top water plug: