swisspfau

they may make fun of you on the boat, but when you turn it into a video...then they understand and see how cool it is, after that they'll be wanting to get some of their own footage

keep that attitude right there and you'll be just fine, good fishing to ya!

jmaness - i was fishing around the wendell/zebulon area, right outside of raleigh one of my friends just sent me a picture from his camera, thanks for all the comments guys, enjoy this picture of my big fish!

oh i forgot.....apparently there is a much larger fish in there, "old joe" is his name according to the older gentleman who owns the pond, i'm thinking i might go back soon to see if i can take him for a ride on my hook!

unfortunately i did not, i was so excited and out there with just a few friends, we realized we had a tape measure about an hour later and that we should have measured it :'(

actually my girlfriend saw it swimming and called me over, she thought it was a snake because all you could see was a long black line near the top of the water, i was using a blue/purple worm texas rigged and tossed it past the fish maybe 5 feet or so and started reeling it in and twitching the rod, the first 2 times the fish casually kept swimming but moving very very slow, the 3rd time i stopped it right in front of its face for just a second...then twitched it again and that's when it bit, i didn't think it was that big of a fish until he popped his head up and then i knew it was a monster!

stated above, thanks!

hey guys, first post, i caught this bass on Saturday here in NC and didn't have a scale or anything, it was just a local farm pond, i was wondering if you could tell me how big you think it is, thanks and happy fishing! *****added a new picture on page 2!*****