OT: Caught an 8 pounder this morning
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My 2nd heaviest bass and very close to my heaviest.That’s a big boy
It was a private place. It's a drinking water reservoir for our town. But the surrounding landowners own the access. One of them gave me a key to their gate. The place is at least 30 acres, maybe more. Also caught a big flathead catfish, the first cat I've caught there in more than 10 years. I caught the fish in my avatar there as well.
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I grew up fishing Wateree. My family had a place there from '68 until my sister and I sold it after my parents were gone. Some of the very best days of my life were spent there. I fished there for more than 35 years. I never caught a bass over 5 lb. there. I did catch some nice stripers and a 10 lb channel cat, on a piece of hot dog. Those were days before the blue cats were released.
So did I. Still have a place on Singleton Creek Road . Been in the family a while . Parents passed a few years back and my siblings and I are gonna keep it for a while longer ! Grew up near there before moving to Kentucky for my job . Looking to get back down that way after wife retires !
Cool! I caught a nice Seabass this morning at the grocery store. Gonna bake it up tonight!
I love seabass, grouper and snapper. I almost never eat a bass, especially one over 2 lbs. Just not great eating. I'm sure I've caught the same big fish more than once.
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A Texas rigged stick worm (Senko style bait) with a 1/8 oz bullet weight. I use 30# braided line on heavy action rod with the drag as tight as it will go. I use superline flipping/pitching hooks for this technique because I've had a big bass straighten out a standard worm hook before. I was casting the worm on top of lilies at the dam and letting it drop off the edge. I don't usually worm fish, but they've been ignoring the jig lately (I caught a 7.93 a month ago on the jig) so I thought I'd show them something different.
Nice, just got home yesterday from the St. Lawrence River. Caught 175 smallmouth last week and 2 great northerns.
It is much to cool up there for me though, I'd rather be in the Everglades.
Smallies are on the bucket list. But they're in the Broad River in SC. I'll get around to it some day.
I was catching my small mouths on beds using a white superfluke Jr. Nose hook them on a dropshot and you can see them bite it 10 feet down.
i caught these just before the sun came up on the south end of clarks hill, a few weeks post spawn, but the only thing i did was a bullet in the front nose of the fluke, hooked weedless. landed a bunch around that size!
Caught lots of crappie over the years . My Dad and his friends had lots of brushpile scattered throughout the lake . Boy do I miss those days !
Yes, it's a good one for sure. There used to be this tiny cove in Stillhouse Branch that they spawned in. Spring can be a time of howling winds on the lake, but that little spot was completely sheltered. You could walk in if you knew the spot or beach your boat and mop up on them. That tiny cove was closed in by a sandbar last time I was on the lake. I also caught a lot of bass further back in that cove. It was a spot I always expected to get a bite or three.
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We collected Christmas trees and sunk them all around our cove. The crappie were excellent there for years.
I graduated from there in '88. I was born here and I lived near Kershaw most of my life. So we probably do.
Likewise, my friend. BTW, I'm related to some Hunters, but from Kershaw. It's so intertwined here because it's a small community. We told our daughter if she started liking a boy she should ask us to make sure they aren't a relative.
Dang dude, been fish'n entire life, nutin that big ever sniffed my bait. You gonna consume or put it on the wall?
Hope you made a copy of the key??? Lol!
Happy for you!