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46 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Small northern pike are the most dangerous fish I've ever boated. They save all their energy for mayhem in the boat. 

I try not to even BRING them aboard lol

 

Its like trying to grab a toothy snake covered in stinky slime that’s shaking with a treble hook lure attached. #dangerous

[Jmurphy87]

The only few times that I have gotten hooked were by a fish while trying to get the trebles out but not past the barb. I have gotten a ewg hook in my ankle before while wading barefoot and fishing lol. The fish was running towards me in the water kicked up a bunch of debris in the water and I knew that it was getting close to me and then I felt it, that was very awkward. Trying to reach down and get the hook out of my ankle and keep my rod out of the water all while the fish was on the hook, good times. Luckily I don’t have much meat on my bones so that made it easier.

[Dominat0r]

Got a couple right when I came home from work. First spinnerbait bass in my pond. Both about 2lbs+. 

 

[J._Bricker]

For me today my best bite was on mean 2lb fish in the primrose mats on a Googan creature bait. My best fish of the day was a 5.4lb that inhaled a senko.

[casts_by_fly]

With the wind tonight and clouds all day I thought it would be a spinnerbait bite. I fished one for a good while to stay with nothing but a pickerel to show for it. Started pitching slow and fast baits, some other moving baits, and some frog work. Nothing doing. Went back to my original thought but downsized and went straight white instead of perch/bluegill.  The next hour and a half managed three with the biggest right on 3#. 

[thediscochef]

Finally got another chance to get out to the lake...been kinda sparse which is weird for me but thankfully I've been getting rewarded when I can go. I went for a brief time Sunday but the crowd was a bit much. Otherwise I haven't fished since last week's 7lber.

 

Started off with the ultralight and got a decent crappie. Another 7lb bass at the same ole same ole...though, this time on a texas rig. Then a little 2.5-3ish guy and the bite stopped...topwater got totally still. Evening done. Great 60 minutes. I do believe the 7lber is the first texas rig bass I've ever landed - I've thrown that plastic elsewhere this year rigged similarly at this lake and had swipes...I was searching furiously for it earlier in the day oddly enough ?‍♂️?‍♂️

[GreenPig]

48 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

Finally got another chance to get out to the lake...been kinda sparse which is weird for me but thankfully I've been getting rewarded when I can go. I went for a brief time Sunday but the crowd was a bit much. Otherwise I haven't fished since last week's 7lber.

 

Started off with the ultralight and got a decent crappie. Another 7lb bass at the same ole same ole...though, this time on a texas rig. Then a little 2.5-3ish guy and the bite stopped...topwater got totally still. Evening done. Great 60 minutes. I do believe the 7lber is the first texas rig bass I've ever landed - I've thrown that plastic elsewhere this year rigged similarly at this lake and had swipes...I was searching furiously for it earlier in the day oddly enough ?‍♂️?‍♂️

Excellent 

[Dominat0r]

Streak goes on! These count for Thurs 6/22. Some nice night fishing going on. Got 4 tonight, biggest being 3lbs exactly. First one was on a speed worm and the 3 after that were on 3.5" swimbait. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, thediscochef said:

Finally got another chance to get out to the lake...been kinda sparse which is weird for me but thankfully I've been getting rewarded when I can go. I went for a brief time Sunday but the crowd was a bit much. Otherwise I haven't fished since last week's 7lber.

 

Started off with the ultralight and got a decent crappie. Another 7lb bass at the same ole same ole...though, this time on a texas rig. Then a little 2.5-3ish guy and the bite stopped...topwater got totally still. Evening done. Great 60 minutes. I do believe the 7lber is the first texas rig bass I've ever landed - I've thrown that plastic elsewhere this year rigged similarly at this lake and had swipes...I was searching furiously for it earlier in the day oddly enough ?‍♂️?‍♂️

 

Whoa! Two sevens in a row!!!

[hokiehunter373]

15 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Funny you should mention that. Last night on the way home I was thinking of the time I was hanging crown and had a 2 1/2" 15 gauge nail hit something hard then curl back out and blow through my thumb. I patched it up and kept going. I was thinking that this couldn't be much worse, but yes it was. My last grasp for inspiration came from thinking about civil war soldiers having limbs sawn off without the benefit of anesthesia. Those were real men. I thought of them, called myself the P word, then got it out.

You can hold it together way more than me, man.  A couple Thanksgivings ago I was drilling into some brick.  Drill bit snapped as I had all my body weight behind it and I put the bit smack dab through the middle of my hand.  Only thing that kept me from passing out was the fact that I had the presence of mind to grab the sink as I was about to hit the floor and that kept me awake.  Luckily I somehow missed all the important stuff in that area of my hand.  I blame it all on having kids.  Ever since my wife got pregnant with the first I'm way more sensitive about anything like that.  Before kids I would have been trying to examine what makes up the inside of my hand and trying to complete the drill job without heading to the doc lol.

 

Congrats on all the fish and staying calm and collected

[galyonj]

If I had a youtube channel, Russ gave me a title for the newest video drop.

 

NEW PB takes yellow fishing STRING here there and EVERYWHERE

 

Yesterday a lot of things lined up just right and I got to get on the water with @TnRiver46 and our homeslice Bobby. I found myself without adult supervision, as SWMBO was out with a girlfriend that had passed through town. Russ and Bobby were nominated as my babysitters.

 

We had a good break in the rain, and a whole bunch of dirty brown water with nobody else on it. Couldn't ask for better.

 

Things started normally enough. I tried a few things playing with different presentations, but I wasn't really feeling what I had going on. So I decided to quit playing and tie on my problem solver. 

 

 

Caught a skipjack and a few little smallmouth…

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then things got weird. Felt a bump and had the least drum-like fight I've ever had out of a drum. It gave us the business.

 

 

And that's a fun-packed day of fishing with my boys. 

 

Then I felt another bump. We didn't know what it was for a while, but we knew it was not happy with us.

 

I didn't track how long it took to get this last fish in on a 6lb leader and a #4 hook, but I can tell you that it took all three of us to close the deal. It wrapped me up in the trolling motor, and Russ got that loose. Then it dragged me under the boat. Then it shot off the other direction. Then it wrapped me up in the transducer, and Bobby had to get that loose.

 

If we weren't all three laughing fit to bust, it may've been over a little faster, but…finally, the fight was over.

 

 

 

 

A 35" blue cat, on a ned rig, attached to 6lb line, on a medium-light spinning rod. It slimed me, but it was worth it.

 

 

I'm still laughing. What a day.

 

[thediscochef]

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Whoa! Two sevens in a row!!!

Shocked me for sure lol 

I'm having a good month ?

4 minutes ago, galyonj said:

 

A 35" blue cat, on a ned rig, attached to 6lb line, on a medium-light spinning rod. It slimed me, but it was worth it.

 

THAT is a feat of skill and teamwork...may not be the intended species but that's a monster for 6# line, regardless

[galyonj]

4 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

THAT is a feat of skill and teamwork...may not be the intended species but that's a monster for 6# line, regardless

 

Bro I could not have got it in without them. Not a chance. All I could do was let the drag do its job, keep pressure on the fish, and kind of make gentle directional suggestions until the tantrum was over.

 

It was absolutely hilarious.

[TnRiver46]

@galyonj’s catfish footage. The video didn’t start until after the fish had already wrapped the line all around the trolling motor and the transducer.

 

[galyonj]

I ought to put that little jighead in a shadowbox. It's earned it. lol

[thediscochef]

47 minutes ago, galyonj said:

I ought to put that little jighead in a shadowbox. It's earned it. lol

The 1/8oz micro chatterbait I used for a similar sized blue cat sits on my desk lol

[Swamp Girl]

@galyonj, you're a heckuva storyteller and the coolest cat fisher at BR, considering how you kept your cool again and again and again. I like your photos too.

 

P. S. - I also like your beard. 

 

P. P. S. - WHAT A FISH!!!!!!!!

[Blue Raider Bob]

17 hours ago, Eric 26 said:

@PhishLI Yeah I did something similar, I just bought an 18 gauge trim nailer loaded it up with 2-1/2 in nails grabbed a scrap piece of trim and proceeded to put the nail clean through the trim and my pointer finger on my left hand. Asked the wife to pull it out for me and her response was “you’re an idiot and I’m on the phone with my mom” ?

Eric we could start a whole new thread on this topic. I believe you once framed didn't you?

I shot a 3" through two fingers into a subfacia while up on a ladder with no one around. Nailed myself to the side of a house. Fortunately, I could reach my hammer and was able to pull out the nail from the house. Pulling the nail out of my fingers was much harder. Missed the bones though! That is just one of many painful adventures in the live of a former framer. I have also done the trim nail through the wood thing. OOCH!  

[galyonj]

Aw, thank you, @ol'crickety. I appreciate that.

 

My beard tells me it thinks you're pretty great, too.

[Swamp Girl]

Fished until 9:30 this morning. You all know I'm a Whopper Plopper junkie, but if the bass this morning knew this too, they weren't willing to give me my fix. So, it was mostly a soft plastic paddletail with a shaft-weighted hook and a 7" Texas-rigged Senko. I caught 28 total, with three 18-inchers (One was football fat.), a 20.25-incher (Post-spawn skinny!), and a smattering of smallmouth. The 20.25-incher did jump twice, completely clearing the water, so she might be thin, but she was plucky.

 

The photos lead with a typical fish followed by the 18-inchers followed by the thin 20.25-incher and finish with a smallie. 

 

The best part of the morning was paddling by a football field-sized lily pad patch and seeing a bass rise in the center. I didn't have a frog, so I skipped my paddletail over the top and KERSPLOOSH! Then, because I just had to catch something with a surface lure, I tried my chrome blue Rapala Skitterpop on the edges and caught three more. That was fun and I'll be sure to have my frog outfit when I return to that pond.

 

Oh, it was cold this morning. That's what a clear night sky at 45 degrees north will give you, even in June. Maybe that's why the bass weren't looking up and raring to hit a noisy Whopper Plopper.

 

[T-Billy]

I looked up the definition of the word awesome. This is what I found.

[Eric 26]

@Blue Raider Bob yes indeed I’m sure there are more than enough of us former (myself) and current framers to start a thread on this topic. Speaking of which those of us who’ve done it knows why I left a laughing emoji instead of a sad one ?

[Blue Raider Bob]

20 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

@Blue Raider Bob yes indeed I’m sure there are more than enough of us former (myself) and current framers to start a thread on this topic. Speaking of which those of us who’ve done it knows why I left a laughing emoji instead of a sad one ?

     Then you can relate to this! After starting a job selling materials instead of putting them together, I was driving through an under construction sub-division late on a Friday. The place was abandoned except for one dude who was up on a ladder waving at me. Dude is just a little too friendly, I though to myself, so I drove over to see what he wanted. He had nailed his hand to the top plate and dropped his hammer! His butt was stuck there bigr-n-you know what! If I hadn't have driven by, no telling how long he would have been there. Possibly till Monday morning! This was before cell phones!

     He was durned grateful when I handed up his hammer so he could pull the nail! 

[T-Billy]

14 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

@Blue Raider Bob yes indeed I’m sure there are more than enough of us former (myself) and current framers to start a thread on this topic. Speaking of which those of us who’ve done it knows why I left a laughing emoji instead of a sad one ?

There should be a thread on this in the everything else forum. I'm sure there are plenty of us here who've worked physical jobs that have no shortage of these stories. The first one that popped into my mind was the time I blasted myself in the nose with a 26oz framing hammer.

 I think Foxworthy was talking about @TnRiver46 with his, If you've ever had your nipple bitten off by a beaver line. ?

[TnRiver46]

There actually is a thread about people nail gunning their fingers , its not that old either