Ok i know, 3 lbs is nothing

but over here in philly, this is a pretty descent fish.....fought him for 10 minutes

he walked me halfway down the shoreline.....

if you know me, you know i always lose any fish oevr 3lbs......finally got this guy in

got him on a watermelon colored tube bait, weightless, nosehooked with a 3/0 texposer

Heres another pic.....

i wish i had a camera all year, its nice being able to look back....

Nice fish, you kept him tho?

You fought that fish for 10min.??? Were you using 2lb. test?

Nice fish.

Too bad you kept her, she might have gone five if you caught her again.  

i KNEW YOUR GUYS WOULD CATCH ME..... :-[

yes, i kept her, but where i fished her they are closing the fishing the end of this season for good....*** if you ASK ME, the party has come to an end.....

i dont mind keeping a fish on the last outing of the year,,,,,especially if i kept only 3 all year

if you guys cant see how part of the joy of fishing is every once in while keeping a fish that your proud of, cleaning the fish, and cooking yourself a nice auromic dinner then we are on different pages....

to me, thats a part of fishing

(sorry, i guess im getting a little defensive)

By the way,

6 lb test

probably more like a 5 min fight, but the way the fish kept swimming parralell to the shoreline, it was a quite fight

THANKS FOR THE COMPS

Nice fish. Nothing wrong with eating a few here and there. How did you cook it?

Nice fish. Nothing wrong with eating a few here and there. How did you cook it?

just a quick panfry with some qhite wine and viniger sauce...lemon, ect.

just learned the right way to clean them and the fillets came out great

That's a nice fish. Sorry to hear about your lake. You city guys don't seem to have a lot of options as it is.

I thought I had it bad having only 5 options to fish.  :'(

Sorry to hear that man.

yeah, well im lucky, at least im in the suburbs

a 40 min drive gets me to scotts run lake at french creek

a 30 min drive gets me to marsh creek

and this place- called the spring resevour is about 20 mins.....

so i had 3 good opotions...now im down to 2..some people fish the schukill river, and the susky, but thats not really my style, woulndt know where to start

most of the guys around here fish trout mostly in ridley creek, and valley forge.....only a couple guys fish bass...

Nice fish and sorry to hear about the lake closing.