Hey guys,

Me and my dad headed out to Fauquier country today to fish a prviate pond that a friend of his from work owns. He was nice enough to let us fish from the bank in the morning while he was out running errands and then later on let us use his little jon boat to get out in the deeper parts with the trolling motor. His son had pulled a 7lber out of here and a friend had pulled an 8lb lunker out as well so we were looking forward to an awesome day on the water. That we had for four and a half hours of fishing.

I had my best day on the water catching 6 largemouth and losing one more right at the boat as I was pulling him out of the water (shook off my crankbait treble). I also hooked into another on a spinner that I lost and had two blow ups on my jitterbug and a hard hit and run on my senko that I missed. So I could have had over 10 today... but I'll settle for a best day for the season at 6.

I caught them early on a jitterbug and spinnerbait from shore (3 fish). The spinner was a chartreuse/white Red Eye Special. The other three fish came on a Mann's Shallow Diving Crankbait (2), and a blue/black Jig X jig with a blue/black vertical x trailer attached. This was my first jig fish ever so it was pretty exciting. Two of my fish went for over a lb (one at 1lb 1oz the other at 1lb 3oz) and my best of the day was 1lb 10oz. I also had landed two bass in two consecutive casts for the first time ever on my spinner today so that was another awesome first for me.

My dad managed to hook into a nice 1lb 15oz largemouth on a Rat L Trap and landed him on the boat. He lost another solid 1 - 1-1/2 lber right at the boat on the same bait. The craziest thing of the day happend on one of our last casts.

My dad decided to try out one of his Boo Yah Boogie Baits just for fun. Two or three casts in my dad calls for the net and I reel in and see his line running. It took him 2-3 minutes of horsing the fish in before we got it to the boat but then it took off one last time running under the boat bending my dads pole in a u-shape. I looked at him and thought he had finally hooked into a citation bass that he has been waiting for. Then we get it back around the boat, it surfaces... splashes/thrashes around and its a humongous catfish. This was the biggest channel cat I've ever seen anyone land in person. It was so hard to get him in the net we had. That alone took over 2-3 more minutes. After about a 10 minute ordeal we got him in the boat, me having to use two hands to lift the net because it was so heavy. He was hooked well and bled alot from the hook penetration in the mouth so we didn't weigh him but we snapped some pics real fast. We estimate the fish at 25-28lbs or so. My friend Jimmy caught an 11lb Channel at Mercer this year and this fish was easily twice as big and twice as thick. Unreal. My dad will post those pics later.

Here are the bass I caught. The first one is the biggest, then random order there after. Later guys.

The 1lb 10oz (Mann's Crank)

The Jitterbug Fish

Spinnerbait 1

Spinnerbait 2

Mann's Crank 1

My First Jig Fish:

Good write up of our day Jay, congrats on the multi-lmb day. We had an awesome day thanks to my friend and I can hardly wait to go back again. Here is my 1lb 15 oz LMB.

Here ia my extremely large catfish (estimated 25-28lbs) 34 inches. I just looked at the VDGIF web site and found out that he was definately a citation fish, I will be submitting my paperwork this week. The size for a citation is either 12lbs or 30 inches, I easily beat both of those.

There's no mistaking you two are related.  You and your father look just alike.  Nice fish and thanks for the pics.  

You need to get back out there and catch some of those 7 and 8lbers.  

I am hoping my friend lets us back out on the water again soon.  There are some big LMBs in that pond and I for one would like to catch one and get a citation for it and have a replica made for the house.

What a huge cat. Nice job on landing him!

Jay,

I was told that there are bigger catfish in this pond than the one I caught.

Jay,

I was told that there are bigger catfish in this pond than the one I caught.

How big....?  

That's crazy for a pond that size.  Does he have any pics of other ones caught in there?

Jay I am going to ask ask Danny on Tuesday about the other catfish that was caught. I was told by one of the guys in the office that has fished there.  We need to take Stephanie out there so she get get her first trophy catfish.

Wow, now that's a big catfish!