Hawkeye1975

Hey all, I caught what I think is a spotted gar last night... This look right? It snapped my line (fishing for bass, texas rig pitboss) right when I landed him, then flipped and flopped, snapped a pic but could not get him in time to measure and weigh. But I reckon he's close to 35inches, 8-9lbs... Also pics of a couple nice largemouth I caught in the last week, same place, with texas rigged power worm or pitboss.

After Grove I headed to the big pond at Johnson... I landed a 4lb bass, a few nice 2-3lbs over the weekend and monday, but was skunked there today as well! And it figures your numbers dropped at the private pond. I guess it is the high pressure and sun following the low pressure overcast days we had. I changed my retrieve, depth, lures, I chanted, burned incense, did a fish god dance, screamed, yelled, cursed, begged, cried, and then had a sense of enormous peace and acceptance after talking to a couple of turtles about the meaning of life.

I catch and release, all those fellas back in. I just stringer up if I get a few in a row to take some group pics... was at Grove all day today for the first time and got skunked.

Ok good, only 50lbs off the record . I'm headed to the grove in 30min, I'll let you know if I catch and release another state record And I do remember landing one when I was kid in Minnesota, it was silver though and pops called em grunts or grinders

Hey all. I am new to the forum. I caught this guy Saturday night in C'ville... I am from Iowa, North Iowa, and grew up fishing mainly in Minnesota and Canada, been here 3yrs and finally beating the shores again... When I hooked this, picture below, I honestly didn't know what the dang thing was, and still am not really sure, but is it a white bass? And if it is, did I just throw back a state record without weighing it? The thing was certainly heavier than 6lb, maybe closer to 7-8lbs... Heck, that is 1.5lb bass and on the bottom, 1lb catfish in the middle, you can see the standard size metal stringer loop on the bottom.. It was heavy on, and crushed my t-rig powerworm, I was on 6lb fluro and I fought it for a good 10min because it was fighting like mad, never jumped, and I was *not* going to lose it trying to man handle it in. Tell me its a carp... I know it isn't... dang, I've never even heard of white bass... It was 9pm on Saturday, my wife was mad I was still out, phone kept vibrating, skeeters were eating me alive, hadn't eaten since noon, but after something had hit my line hard and I lost it around 8pm, I wasn't leaving... So I kept fishing around the little estuary leading down to the pond, which ran into a nice drop off... and sure enough hauled this guy out. Anyways thoughts was I landed?