AK-Jax86

Went fishing this morning with my buddy to some ponds that are over 40 years old. We get there around 6am and his first cast we hear a monster attack his frog but he missed it, he said he thought it was a 12lb. Double digit fish are common in all the ponds in this golf community. At around 7:15 I cast my frog along the bank and see a huge wake come towards my frog and then nothing. I reel it in and let it sit by some pads. All of a sudden a 10# comes out of nowhere and grabs my frog I tried to set the hook but it spit it out. Now to the fish that was landed lol My buddy was using a tilapia colored trick worm on a weighted hook, and I switched to a Tsunami Swim Shad. He was walking along the bank and saw a 15# sitting by a mat. He throws his worm out and the fish crushed it he went to set the hook but the fish bit the worm off there was about 2" or worm left of the hook. So I cast my swim bait in that area and then out of nowhere two more fish show up next to the massive one. It turns around and as my shad is coming towards it the second biggest one slams it. I set the hook and the fight was on. Out of nowhere my Pflueger Presidential reel with 30# braid on a 6'9" St Croix Mojo Bass rod, breaks off!! Then the fish starts going back out towards deeper water. I grab my braid and then manage to pull the fish to land and grab it. When I took the hook out there was no way it was getting off it inhaled the swim bait. So we had to postpone our trip and go to Academy Sports and buy a new reel. I bought a Abu Garcia OrraSX30 with 30# braid. So that fish cost me $130 lol 24 inches

It wasn't czar it's our other boy. He is a member on this site hasn't been on in a long time though. I am going out with him this morning from 5a til whenever. Hopefully I have some good fish to post here!

Jacksonville is close to Orlando I'm looking for someone with a boat.

Kevin Van Dam just got busted in the Alex Rodriguez steroid scandal.

Yea man the bugs are annoying but I am always on the look for snakes! It just takes 1 moccasin to ruin your day. Some will run but there are some that will stand their ground and attack.

Yea man I love top water strikes. I was telling some like you said those highway ponds hold some big fish. The past few days I have just been throwing a frog and have been getting good numbers of fish and some nice big ones. Did you catch most of them by the shore line or further out? I have mostly all my luck casting across the shore.

I share the same sentiment

Awesome fish Lou!!!! Bank fishing ain't so bad hah. I've been exclusively throwing Stanley Ribbit hollow body frogs they love em! Nothing like the blow ups they get. What kind of frogs were you using? I got you beat by 1 inch, not sure what fstr is at and I know Czar is in the 90s

Bet he had a lot of fun

^^x2 put that line in the water and find out, with permission of course if its private

I keep seeing Spro and Booyah HAH those ones fail in comparison to Stanley Ribbit hollow body frogs! Try it and see how many more strikes and hook sets you get with it over any other frog. Try them out come back here and like my post lol

I buy myself a pack of Stanley ribbit hollow body frogs with their size 5 frog hook. Tie it onto my 30lb braid and I'm good to go. ALL FROG FISHERMEN I recommend Stanley Ribbit frogs they will change the way you fell about top water! No I do not work for them in any way

I use my spinning I have a pfleuger presidential spinning rod, also have abu Garcia revo and orra bait caster, on a 6'9" St Croix mojo bass rod with 30lb braid... I love it. When I get use to the bait caster I'm sure I will love frogging even more

Because I have only fished out of a boat once in my life and I want to catch some peacock bass too. And the golf course, it's actually a community like a mini town, is gated access 1 way in 1 way out and you can't get in without verification so it's not like I can go whenever I want to we have to wait for him to have time away from his family

I'm hoping to break my PB multiple times tomorrow morning

I'm not sure if he took pictures I will ask him. I thought I caught nice fish until he showed me the consistent 8, 9, and 10lb fish he has in his phone. His PB is 13 I think and he has caught 15 double digit fish at this golf course since April he said.

It was suppose to be me, czar, and this other member. Then it turned into me and the other member, then just him lol. I was up early with czar that morning fishing and wanted to nap before the midnight fish. I never did and figured I'd stay up. Last time I looked at my phone it was like 11:45 then when u did again it was 2 something lol. But he went by himself for just under 3 hours and he said he pulled in 27 fish his biggest being 11lbs! Me and him are going out Monday morning around 5 so if I have any fish to post I definitely will! I hoping to change my 19, 19, 20, 20, 21. I've been out so much over past couple days and I keep catching nice fat ones but everything has been 19". This morning I managed 4 of them and a total of 17 fish. My girlfriend came out with me for a little and she caught 7 I had he using the frog and she is hooked lol. She use to use swim baits and cranks cuz she ha constant action but now she's addicted to the top water action that the frogs get.

If there are big fish in there then it's worth fighting for!

Man I was froggin all day today and I killed em! I caught atleast 16 fish and probably missed another 16. I was using a black ribbit frog (used white and bull frog too) with a size 5 Stanley frog hook. I started fishing early morning I am going out tonight at midnight to do some night fishing with my buddies. Hopefully they. Ate dialed in like they were in the morning

Yea man we were killin em today! Lots of fish and lots of misses! BUT TONIGHT it's going down!!!! 12am fishing at the 30+ year old ponds hopefully we pull in some monsters tonight and make fishing at night worth it!

Yup and hit up a few fishing spots on ur way back

Next time drive it there it will be quicker

That's a lot if catfish nice ones I bet the grand kids loved fishing with grandpa

And it feels different holding and reeling going to have to really get use to that now

At first I was throwing a frog and gt backlashes few times so I tried a tsunami swim shad (the name of the bait I used to hook the Double digit) since it has a little more weight got a few nice casts then backlashes so I went back to spinning. I don't think my break was set up right for the heavier shad