Dwight Hottle

What's a few ounces among friends

I'll play. I'm guessing 4.5 to 5lbs. Nice bass on topwater. I love it when they hit when you are distracted & not watching the bait.

I missed this earlier. WTG on a super night outing.

WTG. Congrats.

. Amen . Well said.

I'm sometimes a switch hitter. I can go brown or green. I fish for largemouth in the winter months when the smallies are not too accessible.

Nice jig fish Mike.

Challenge yourself & catch a trophy smallmouth to go with your trophy largemouth. Then you can concentrate on the trout species.

A spro popping frog pair.

Since you want to stay under $20 & you have a lot of perch in your local pond I suggest you look here. Check mattlures Eastcoast & Tournament soft baits in perch pattern.

Happy Anniversary.

Sweet. Beautiful bass.

X2

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Enjoy. Looks like a real cutie.

Looks like you have got that river catching dialed in. Congrats.

Thanks for serving & good fishing.

I would gladly trade him an 8lb Waldo for the same size smallie. I would even trade him two 10lb sheepshead for one 7 lb smallie.

Congrats on the new PB.

I'm still biting at the apple but mostly catching walleye & perch very few bass and no upgrades.

Well I think you weights are a little light. I have fished for trophy pike for at least the last 20 years. A trophy pike usually starts at 44 inches & 20 lbs. My best pike went 49 " and weighed 32bs. I have caught 46.5 " that weighed 26.5 lbs. My pike buddy caught a 46" that weighed 29 lbs. My 2nd best weighed 27lbs & measures 47". I have included a 24ber & 23 lber all bigger than your 25lbers. Take a look at the pics & you decide. Big pike fight like big pike not like 8-10 lbers. Since I have been pike fishing I have totaled over 50 pike over the 20 lb mark as a minimum. Say what you want but don't bull sheet me about pike.

A trophy pike is a true 20 lber.

You have never caught a large trophy pike. If you had you would not have made that statement .

Depends on your location. Florida strain largemouth shut down day after the cold front. Further north not so much as further south but still some negativity. The day of the cold front coming in can be ok. The first day after the cold front is less but not as bad as the 2nd & 3rd day.

Good thing he wasn't entered in the State to State contest, right Speed?