When I was 15, I caught a crappie that weighed just over 4. We were slow trolling shad raps behind rubber core sinkers on the bottom in 35 ft of water, targeting stripers. I thought the lure had snagged some moss or line at first. I had never caught a crappie before, so I didn't know what I had, I just knew it didn't fight much, so I wasn't really impressed with it. Now I know how big that fish was, and understand why my dad got all excited.
My favorite "trophy catch" has to be the 2 back-to-back 9.5lb hybrid stripers I caught when I was 17. I got them both on 8lb-test on very long casts into breaking fish. I spent half the morning fighting 2 fish.
Your Best Trophy Catch... Besides Bass ?
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WookieeJedi
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Really looks like that...
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Posted April 10 2012 - 11:00 AM
I married a moonshiner's daughter and love her still...
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Stop wishing and start FISHING!!!! I want to kno
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- Favorite Lake or River:all bodies of water large and small
Posted April 10 2012 - 08:00 PM
I've caught a few 30" chain pickerel here at different places. I know there like baby northern pike(45") but what a fight.
My older brother found a hole under a rail road bridge and pulled out two 50" stripers(saltwater from shore)
My older brother found a hole under a rail road bridge and pulled out two 50" stripers(saltwater from shore)
The fish are out there just waiting for you to throw the right lure along with the correct presentation so why are you still here?
Motivation is the key to success.....
Remember on a bad day just throw the lure you never tried yet.....
Motivation is the key to success.....
Remember on a bad day just throw the lure you never tried yet.....
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Posted April 12 2012 - 01:19 PM
Wish I could say this was me- but I only got to take the picture. We were fishing plastic worm on a point- came off log pile at end of it. #10 mono and 45 minutes.
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- Favorite Bass:Largemouth & Smallmouth
- Favorite Lake or River:Burnsville Lake and Elk River
Posted April 12 2012 - 03:20 PM
Well here is a musky roughly 40-41 inches i caught and also nice fish everyone
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- My PB:Between 6-7 lbs
- Favorite Bass:Largemouth
- Favorite Lake or River:Ones with bass in it!
Posted April 14 2012 - 12:32 PM
a 15lb blue cat.
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Posted April 18 2012 - 08:29 AM
'Poon in my avatar.
Also shared in the catch of a blue marlin off St Lucia but the pics didn't come out (ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!). Guess I'll just have to get another
Also shared in the catch of a blue marlin off St Lucia but the pics didn't come out (ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!). Guess I'll just have to get another
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Posted April 18 2012 - 09:51 AM
A 30lb Striper on a light weight casting set up with 8lb test line. It was on for about 20 mintes. No net, had to land by hand.
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Posted April 22 2012 - 10:34 AM
Thanks again guys ! All cool catches
Chris at Tech, that Tarpon is SO cool I would just love to catch one of those 100lb + Minnows Don't they look just like a bait store Shiner ? ....except about a million X's bigger. I really want to catch the bass that can eat a Shiner like that one in your avatar LOL
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Chris at Tech, that Tarpon is SO cool
I would just love to catch one of those 100lb + Minnows Don't they look just like a bait store Shiner ? ....except about a million X's bigger. I really want to catch the bass that can eat a Shiner like that one in your avatar LOLPeace,
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#39
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Posted April 22 2012 - 10:48 AM
@ Fish Chris............a tarpon is the world's biggest herring and the world's biggest minnow is a white amur aka grass carp.
I can teach you all you need to know, but I'll never teach you......ALL I KNOW !
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Posted April 25 2012 - 06:27 PM
'Poon in my avatar.
Also shared in the catch of a blue marlin off St Lucia but the pics didn't come out (ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!). Guess I'll just have to get another
Chris, where did you catch that Tarpon?
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Posted April 26 2012 - 09:20 AM
Chris, where did you catch that Tarpon?
Hilton Head Island, SC
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here fishy fishy fishy
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- Favorite Bass:Largemouth & Smallmouth
- Favorite Lake or River:Johnsons in WNY or Oak Orchard in WNY
Posted April 26 2012 - 03:13 PM
A few crappie caught last summer while working some submerged trees for bass the one hit a 3/4oz jig the other hit a T1 spinner.
The pike isn't that big but i caught it in a stream that's about 5 foot across and 2 foot deep on a double fluke rig.
and then one of my sons blue gills not his first or biggest just the only pic I have on the computer.
I wish I had some of all the salmon and trout I caught back when i was a kid with my UL running down stream on the tail of running salmon trying not to break off. man i used to tick off a lot of the hardcore guys with all there big heavy tackle for the salmon run nothing gets more hardcore then a year old having to run down stream in hip waders to not get spooled by a ticked salmon or trout with a 5ft shakespear UL combo from walmart
The pike isn't that big but i caught it in a stream that's about 5 foot across and 2 foot deep on a double fluke rig.
and then one of my sons blue gills not his first or biggest just the only pic I have on the computer.
I wish I had some of all the salmon and trout I caught back when i was a kid with my UL running down stream on the tail of running salmon trying not to break off. man i used to tick off a lot of the hardcore guys with all there big heavy tackle for the salmon run nothing gets more hardcore then a year old having to run down stream in hip waders to not get spooled by a ticked salmon or trout with a 5ft shakespear UL combo from walmart
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#43
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Posted April 29 2012 - 10:42 PM
here are a couple of my good ones
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Posted April 29 2012 - 10:56 PM
couple more
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Posted April 29 2012 - 10:57 PM
musky
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