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I would be proud and take the picture just as he did, but I bet mama was proud of the way he smelled when he got home!!!!
Complete forgot to post this. Day after New Years when it was crazy warm and foggy. We didn't catch JACK squat all day until I got this guy in like 5" of water using a popping cork. I love catching this size Red because they fight for DAYS. It's like twice as hard and 3 times as long (giggity) as any Bass. My shoe is a size 11 for reference. I think he was about 23 or 24". Trying to go tomorrow and get @Bocephus to go with me, but I've scared him by telling him I'd pick him up at 5AM and he might have to listen to EDM for the 2 hour ride.
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First fish I've had on a hook in a little over 20 years. Decided it's time to get back at it. Caught a few small bream as well. Not a big haul but it was a good afternoon.
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That is an assload of Crappie Sammiches......
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Fished what I guess is some sort of retention pond in a business park about 2 miles from home today. Caught two of whatever this is, along with 2 small bass and about 15 blue gill. It was a good day.
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barlowlc
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looks like a green sunfish....sounds like it was alot of fun!!! Catch and release or Catch and grease?
barlowlc
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Can't say that anymore...lol... the are good to eat!!!... they're a bream species
Caught 5 crappie today at McDowell Park on Lake Wylie. 2 on a yellow Rebel Crik Hopper, 3 on a brown one. On extra light spinning tackle with 2 lb line it was a lot of fun.
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Was fishing around a point today, cast, walk a step, cast, walk, kinda got caught up into the fishing and not looking where I was going. Finally looked down and this guy was about 3 feet from my shin. Any idea what kind he is? All I know is he was fat.
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Copperhead... you got lucky.
Well, I was fishing at Copperhead Island ( Lake Wylie ). Once I saw him I slowly backed away. He never moved, seemed to be enjoying the sun.
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Hope you killed it. Damn them all to hell.
My father-in-law took PJ fishing and she caught her first fish (plus five more).
The trout at Price Lake were uncooperative but scooped this little guy up and put him on a log. He wasn’t doing well with the wind and choppy water.
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Congrats on her 1st fish !!!
we’ve been in fort pierce fl bait fishing and pre fishing all week for SKA Nationals. Today is day two we struck out yesterday. We’re running as far south as we have numbers to fish and working our way back. Maybe we’ll find one today.
Quick pic from this morning getting ready to pull off the dock.
Quick pic from this morning getting ready to pull off the dock.
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I have fond memories of the Hardee's and local tournaments. Getting up before Dawn's crack, netting pogies and heading out to the shipping channel at Morehead. I miss those days. Hard to beat the locals in their backyard. I even built a set of custom rods and reels to match the colors of the boat.
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Copperheads are not aggressive and usually will just sit still when you encounter them. They are hoping you won’t see them and that you will go away. I once got within a few feet of one before I saw it. It was coiled up in a heavily wooded area where I was working. Had to work there about an hour and it never moved. I have some pics of it around here somewhere.
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Here's the last one I snagged. The center seam in my boat is 20" so that's about what the fish was. It's been a tough spring for me for some reason, gotta take what you can get I reckon.
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Thats a big northern water snake, non venomous. A copperhead will have "barbells" across its back most of the time. We have encounters with water snakes all the time setting limb lines and bank camping. Most of the time they are pretty docile. Now after one falls across my legs or back and then flops into the boat it still shakes me up a little.
That's a chunk on a buzz bait if you've never done that before young man!
Went back to McDowell Park / Lake Wylie today. Didn't catch very many but what I did catch were good.
And there was one that got to about 15 feet from the bank, jumped and spit out the lure. That was the biggest one of the day. No pics of him, was kinda busy at the time.
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And there was one that got to about 15 feet from the bank, jumped and spit out the lure. That was the biggest one of the day. No pics of him, was kinda busy at the time.
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What about the ones you didn't spot?
I was thinking dynamite for the ones that can't be spotted!
Update from my previous post. We struck out again on sat and headed home early sun as planned. We’ve been fishing together for about 3 years now and are still a young team with high hopes to compete with the best of the best. We learned a few things this week we will use to help us in the future fishing unfamiliar water. Here’s how the week went.
Sat 4/10 - We left Wilmington at 4pm planning to drive all night and be in fort pierce for breakfast Sunday morning. Coming across the Isabelle Holmes bridge (haven’t left town yet) we had a tire come off the front axle on passenger side. I torqued the lug nuts the previous weekend to 145 ft lbs someone tried to steal a trailer tire there’s no other way all the lug huts backed off. Replaced the hub and put on a spare tire and we’re off again
Sun 4/11 - we make it to Daytona beach for breakfast at ihop at 6am. We get to fort pierce around 9am and can’t check in at our house until 3pm. We do some errands like getting fishing license, fill the boat with fuel, figure out beat place to launch the boat, and just killing time. Around 2 o’clock we launch the boat. The owner and myself are on the boat while one of our other guys is taking the truck and trailer to the house. A storm producing 75 mph wind and sideways rain hit us before we could get the boat tied up at the VRBO. We tied the boat up at some random persons dock and wait the storm out. Other than that Sunday was pretty uneventful.
Mon 4/12- We found a power steering leak on the center engine and we get up that morning with plans to fix that and kind of take it easy. Come to find out the power steering was leaking in 2 different places and no one had the part we needed to fix it. We figured out it only leaks when the steering wheel was at full lock so we buy a case of fluid and just keep the reservoir topped off.
Tues 4/13- First day of fishing. We push off the dock Tuesday morning with hope of find bait. King mackerel down there love blue runners and you have to catch them on rod and reel with sabiki rigs. It’s slow going catching them that day. We bait fished for about 8 hours and caught 10 baits the first day.
Wed 4/13 - The little hit of bait we caught the day before is not nearly enough so we leave Wednesday morning with hopes of filling the live well with blue runners. No such luck. I think we caught 6 more. Frustrated we head back to the house to make a game plan. We call around to some locals we know and get some bait lined up for us to purchase. $150/dozen but we had to have them. We ended up burning $600 worth of gas bait fishing and then on too of that had to pony up another $600 for 4 dozen baits.
Thurs 4/14 - We finally get to go fishing. We bought some gps numbers and get them loaded on the GPS on the boat. We just spot hop looking for life and marks on the bottom machine. We ended up catching a few very small king mackerel that day. We felt good going into day 1 of the tournament.
Fri 4/15 - First day of the tournament. Shotgun gun start at 7:10am for open class boats. Very foggy that morning we fished close to fort pierce and didn’t catch a single fish. Learned fri night the bite was south about 45 miles. Our game plan for sat was to either run north 80 miles to the 72 degree water or run south as far we had numbers to fish and work our way back.
Sat 4/16 - We did not make the 80 mile run one way to the north we put the gps on the furtherest numbers we had to the south. About 50 miles from the inlet. We can run out front of 90% of the boats and we did this morning. Ran wide open in the ocean at 69 mph for the 50 mile run. We get there and get baits in the water and marking good on the bottom machine. About 20 minutes later everyone else shows up and there’s 80ish boats fishing the same area. We worked out way back to the north towards out home inlet without a king mackerel bite.
Main lesson learned was given the opportunity to buy bait and have time to pre fish we will just pony up and buy bait from the start and spend our time/fuel finding fish.
We did get our plaque for winning division 9 last year.
The two guys on left fish with us some, owner/captain is second from the right and I’m on the right.
Sat 4/10 - We left Wilmington at 4pm planning to drive all night and be in fort pierce for breakfast Sunday morning. Coming across the Isabelle Holmes bridge (haven’t left town yet) we had a tire come off the front axle on passenger side. I torqued the lug nuts the previous weekend to 145 ft lbs someone tried to steal a trailer tire there’s no other way all the lug huts backed off. Replaced the hub and put on a spare tire and we’re off again
Sun 4/11 - we make it to Daytona beach for breakfast at ihop at 6am. We get to fort pierce around 9am and can’t check in at our house until 3pm. We do some errands like getting fishing license, fill the boat with fuel, figure out beat place to launch the boat, and just killing time. Around 2 o’clock we launch the boat. The owner and myself are on the boat while one of our other guys is taking the truck and trailer to the house. A storm producing 75 mph wind and sideways rain hit us before we could get the boat tied up at the VRBO. We tied the boat up at some random persons dock and wait the storm out. Other than that Sunday was pretty uneventful.
Mon 4/12- We found a power steering leak on the center engine and we get up that morning with plans to fix that and kind of take it easy. Come to find out the power steering was leaking in 2 different places and no one had the part we needed to fix it. We figured out it only leaks when the steering wheel was at full lock so we buy a case of fluid and just keep the reservoir topped off.
Tues 4/13- First day of fishing. We push off the dock Tuesday morning with hope of find bait. King mackerel down there love blue runners and you have to catch them on rod and reel with sabiki rigs. It’s slow going catching them that day. We bait fished for about 8 hours and caught 10 baits the first day.
Wed 4/13 - The little hit of bait we caught the day before is not nearly enough so we leave Wednesday morning with hopes of filling the live well with blue runners. No such luck. I think we caught 6 more. Frustrated we head back to the house to make a game plan. We call around to some locals we know and get some bait lined up for us to purchase. $150/dozen but we had to have them. We ended up burning $600 worth of gas bait fishing and then on too of that had to pony up another $600 for 4 dozen baits.
Thurs 4/14 - We finally get to go fishing. We bought some gps numbers and get them loaded on the GPS on the boat. We just spot hop looking for life and marks on the bottom machine. We ended up catching a few very small king mackerel that day. We felt good going into day 1 of the tournament.
Fri 4/15 - First day of the tournament. Shotgun gun start at 7:10am for open class boats. Very foggy that morning we fished close to fort pierce and didn’t catch a single fish. Learned fri night the bite was south about 45 miles. Our game plan for sat was to either run north 80 miles to the 72 degree water or run south as far we had numbers to fish and work our way back.
Sat 4/16 - We did not make the 80 mile run one way to the north we put the gps on the furtherest numbers we had to the south. About 50 miles from the inlet. We can run out front of 90% of the boats and we did this morning. Ran wide open in the ocean at 69 mph for the 50 mile run. We get there and get baits in the water and marking good on the bottom machine. About 20 minutes later everyone else shows up and there’s 80ish boats fishing the same area. We worked out way back to the north towards out home inlet without a king mackerel bite.
Main lesson learned was given the opportunity to buy bait and have time to pre fish we will just pony up and buy bait from the start and spend our time/fuel finding fish.
We did get our plaque for winning division 9 last year.
The two guys on left fish with us some, owner/captain is second from the right and I’m on the right.
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The spotted bass were biting at Lake Chatuge this past weekend. 4/17/21
Those are awesome spots.
Well, what were the weights? That sow looks pretty nice. Depth, technique, water temp?