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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I was finally able to get away and go fishing yesterday with a good friend. We went to the New River in Grayson Co. VA and waded across the river to fish the rocks below the dam at Mouth of Wilson...a very famous spot. We arrived at 5pm and by the time we left at 8pm we had caught 25 Smallmouth Bass...I caught 9 with the three largest at 17, 19 and 20 1/4 inches...the 20 1/4 inch fish is a Virginia Citation size and weighed nearly 4 lbs...Here are two pic's of my largest Smallmouth ever:
Yes, I am having it mounted! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Sweet hawg!  |
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Location: Flahdaw | Forget the fish....I thought you were gonna record something on your new Tak for us to listen to. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | WOW!!! Smallies give such a great fight! I love the way they run and jump like a trout, but pull like a largemouth. I always thought of catching a trout like having a wild horse on the end of your line, and a largemouth like having a grizzly bear. Smallies are like a combination of both. Must've been SO much fun. Congratulations!!! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Forget the fish....I thought you were gonna record something on your new Tak for us to listen to. Wow, did we get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? lol
One thing I have learned as I approach birthday #57 (next Saturday) is that "Patience is a Virtue"...
And also, you gotta have a life!
I have a vacation coming up...the probability of a recording is high... |
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Location: big island | hey...i have a shirt just like that one. minus the high watermarks. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Randy, if I'd had more time to think about it I would have taken Al fishing...
Hindsight is worthless however...lol |
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Location: big island | yeah. you'd probably have gotten several more bites. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Wow, now we've got fish porn too. What a great place! :D |
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Location: Michigan | 25 fish in three hours :D
9 of them by you :)
16 by your friend :eek:
where is the picture of the guy who caught twice as many fish as you :D
what a day of fishin :cool: GWB |
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Location: Utah | Is the fish going to sing when it is mounted? |
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Location: Right now? | That is one beautiful fish, Mikey. Geez, I'm hungry now ... I hope you didn't make your wife clean the other ones ... I want to see it after you have it mounted, too. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Hey Mike, What kind of strings are you gonna use on that bass? :p |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I recommend Berkley XL in six pound test. I'm sure some of you would rather use spiderwire or maybe elixers. :D |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I hope you didn't make your wife clean the other ones We didn't keep any others...all catch and release so there will be plenty of fish for others...these smallmouth are fabulous fighters...
the reason that my friend caught more than me is that he is an expert at this whereas this was my first time "flippin creek chubs" for smallies...I got the hang of it fairly fast though... :D
One last thing: I clean my own fish...unless she goes fishing with me...then I clean hers as well!! :eek: :D ;) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Red Power Pro 6# with a 20# fluorocarbon leader and a 1/0 or 2/0 Owner Mutu light circle hook, thank you... works for 95% of my fishing.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Hey Mike, What kind of strings are you gonna use on that bass? Dental Floss.... ;) |
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Location: Right now? | One last thing: I clean my own fish...unless she goes fishing with me...then I clean hers as well!! There ya go! You're a good man! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Someone said, "A bad day fishing,(or golfing ,or playing guitar), is better than a good day at work". |
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Location: GA USA | I think for the next southern get together we're going noodling. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I kinda like "Your life is extended an hour for each hour you fish".
Hey Jas, I'll watch...
Well, off to sleep for a few hours. Heading down to the Keys for some 'bugging' (aka spiny lobster) at 4 AM. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
I kinda like "Your life is extended an hour for each hour you fish". I find that when I'm fishing I lose all track of time. Hours fly by, feeling like minutes. I take the fly tackle out to the Chippewa River here, from time to time, and try to get smallies on. They put up a good fight, which is a blast on a five weight. Beats driving three hours north to hit the trout waters, too. ;)
Nice looking fish, MusicMishka! |
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Location: Right now? | OK; I know, I AM from "Joisey" (btw, I never talked like that in my LIFE), and I'm afraid to ask, but I have to:
1. What is "noodling"?
2. What is "Bugging" and what could it possibly have to do with spiny lobsters, lol!
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Location: South of most, North of few | Noodling is fishing.
Bugging is catching lobster. The mini season (sportsman season where the regular people are allowed to go out before the commercial people get out) is about to start. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Actually, noodling is using your fist and arm to stick into holes under water and under banks to get a large catfish to bite on and then "try" to swim to the surface with it still latched on...very popular in the South and has been know to kill more than one person who couldn't make it back to the surface when the 100lb or so catfish refuced to let go...not for the weak at heart...I knew guys with scars to prove the battles on their arms.... |
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