AK-Jax86

You will probably win because I'm limited to only a few hours sunday. And OPCC Monday is up in the air. I almost busted out the senkos thinking about the fish you were getting, after all that time with nothing lol.

You motivated me man! You said you caught your nice ones, I think it was when you posted that 23", in the rain so that's what I did. Stuck it out and the big girl came out when it was wet.

No I uploaded it to my gallery thing was trying to figure out how to put it here but gave up. And I will leave it up to you guys to determine the size lol because me and Czar think the scale was lying on this one! You can leave me at 2nd til Monday night lol going to OPCC so tryna get these 20s out my line up (which probably won't happen)

I like those craws I'm going to check these out

Frogs always work well

The weather produced a new big fish of the month! We were fishing gate I didn't get the monster I lost but I caught her little sister

Recently it has it's not like it was back when you and Dave fished there a lot. We haven't really caught numbers there just size.

Yea I was thrown off by the short rod too. Lou I was going to take out the baitcaster this morning but the weather was iffy so I just stuck with what I knew. I went out with Czar for a few hours was very very slow, he and I both caught 1, but WELL worth it!

Did it again what you catch em on

What size pole do you use? Because you ain't gonna be able to hold up with some of those Orange Park spawn fis froggin. I was using a 6'9" but now I use a 7' medium heavy rod. That's not a big jump but it makes a difference I feel

Nice fish Lou in tryna get out this weekend but plans usually fall through

I have an abu Garcia Orra sx and a revo STX

It's always good to get out fishing helps you get your mind of things

I understand that and I agree it's just easier to do something she you have someone that shows you. Like you said it's about training your thumb before I got my birdnests I had a nice streak of casts. My problem is the birdnests. I don't know how to get them out seems like when Urey I make it worse. The wind knots I get from using braid on my spinners can be bad too but manageable. I do to even know where to start when it happens on te BC Any insight to that would be helpful but every best is different lol

Yea it's looking more like I will buy another spinning rod and reel combo lol. My only problem is birds nests lol every baitcasters only problem

Fortunately for me I haven't ran into any people like you are talking about. I have had a few cops come and one told me to leave and come back after he leaves in case the person who called is watching, another was a female cop and she told me that people think they own the lake and they don't so I didn't have to leave. Other than that I get the occasionally person walking their dog asking me what I am catching and their stories of fish they've seen. It's funny when you get the kids and you catch a fish they along with their parents get all excited it's pretty cool. I don't think I would have reacted the way you did when the father is clearly trying to show his toughness in front of his family I would have to think really hard about not humbling him in that situation lol. Then he turns out to be a UFC fighter and kicks me *** and throws my fishing stuff in the water lol

Man I wish my high school or even college had fishing teams and tournaments! But I went to school up in NJ so fishing was the last thing people were doing, I wish I grew up down south I'm sure that most high schools and some colleges have fishing teams Good job guys 111" is crazy! All his fish were monsters ha. We just breaking the 100" mark down here in FL when it cools down we will be gunning for those high 100s Keep up the good fishing guys good luck in the late run for first, if that's even a possibility down here Main would have won weeks ago lol

I'm gonna have to go out and buy me a more stable rod for those glade fish. I have a 7' St Croix Medium Heavy Inshore Rod and a abu Garcia spinning reel. Lou keeps telling me to work on the baitcaster so I may just purchase a nice heavy rod and put one of my bird nested baitcast reels on it and get back to practicing.

All these past trips have came on braid. I only have one spool of mono and floro all other 4 are braid. MCS told me they are opening an Academy on our side of town about 10mins from me I can't wait for that save me a lot of time and gas.

I use 30lb Power Pro braid. They sell it basically everywhere, a majority of guys in the comp use it. I had to pick my girl up from work and stopped at this pond for half hour. Got 6 strikes but didn't land any of them. One cast I get a hit and set the hook feel the fish on and then it spits the frog, the frog floats up I reel it in and have it 2 feet in front of me then a huge wake comes from the left and the fish launches itself at my frog which just goes out the water and the fish hits the shore face first half it's body is on land and then shoots off. I've never seen anything like that before it was pretty cool

You guys have bigger fish in PA than we do in NJ. I still feel like a kid on Christmas when I hook into a 4lb fish. Especially on the frog strikes nothing beats catching a fish that way IMO.

Nice fish Jax! You are having luck with worms I may have to go back to senkos seems like that's what the fish want. Nice catches I went out but only managed 4 biggest was 18.

Yea man I am all too familiar with these stories I think I made them famous among our competitions lol. It's frustrating when we miss big fish but it's cool we can talk about it and joke around. Wait til you get the fish of your life time on and you lose her! Hard to get the picture out my head still to this day

What were you using?