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And the whole time you know you just swung into a 4lber. Then you get it to the boat

Speedbead with a hudd fish, didn't expect that? Nice one!

well why do you bother with those farm ponds? South fork is GREAT

If you want to do something about carp, go bowfish for them, or target them specifically on rod and reel and kill every single one you catch. If I snag one or accidentally catch one while bass fishing, there's no reason for me to kill it, I won't solve any problems. And even if I went out and shot 50 of them with my bow, I'm probably not going to have much influence. My favorite place to carp fish is also my favorite place to bass fish, lots of both, size and numbers. I'm sure they can hurt fisheries but I just don't see it happening around here.

The annual family trip to the Outer Banks was this week, which means non stop fishing for my brothers and I. The fishing was tough and it took us a while to find a decent bite, but we found some fish to catch. The main target species for us were sheepshead, they are an absolute blast to fish for and are great eating. We caught a total of 21 sheepshead, with one of the being a 22" 6.2lb stud that my little brother caught. As usual when fishing for sheepshead, there was plenty of heartbreak when fish would run around pilings and cut us off, or spit the hook. We also caught a few small tautog, 6 of them I think, while sheepshead fishing. Near the house where we stayed, a few people had underwater dock lights in the sound, and every night there were hundreds of baby 8-12" stripers that would school up and eat glass minnows in the lights, so we fished for them a little bit and it was loads of fun! One night we had a few larger fish start feeding in a light, and they turned out to be seatrout. They were very picky and you had to make a perfect presentation with a weightless live glass minnow to get them to eat, even then they would sometimes swim right up to the bait and refuse it! The only other fish that we specifically fished for and had success in doing so were these huge gar-looking things called houndfish. They would swim around in schools ranging anywhere from 5 fish to 100 fish, and a live mullet or strip of cut bait was rarely turned down if you got it in front of them. They aren't the best fighters but on light tackle they would make a few short runs and jump a bunch. 5 trout we caught fishing a dock light, the biggest two were 17 and 18" A good mess of sheepshead My little brother with his 22" 6.2lb giant A couple of sheepshead I caught An 18" striper that my brother caught while sheepshead fishing, the wad of bandaging on his finger should be a testament to why you don't use a brand new filet knife to trim a tag end of a knot on a boat while running on plane in choppy seas. Here is a big houndfish, over 40"

On a bass fishing forum it's interesting to see people worried about how hard a fish pulls. If I wanted to catch a hard fighting fish, bass would be near the bottom of the list. I like crappies because they are the only ones that I would consider to be tough to figure out. You have to pattern them just like bass, see where they are holding, what bait they want, and how they want it presented. Not bad on the dinner table either!

I'm not sure what the measurements are but the Booyah pad crasher jr. is probably my favorite frog to throw

Not worms, these

My brother and I each ordered an Inshore Abu Garcia Orra. My dad had some metered 30lb braid left over from spooling up his reels for our boat (every 10 meters is a different color so you can tell how much line you have out when deep dropping or trolling) so we put it on there, looks pretty cool!

Shaped like one of those Lake Biwa bass. Nice job!

I don't see why it wouldn't work. This lake is good for crappie too so that's my main reason for keeping it standing up, they like vertical structure.

Two 10' pieces of PVC in a cross attached to the base to keep it from falling over, and underneath that, a block of concrete.

I quit hunting them. They are fun but it's way too much work to make one taste good. Have to boil the darn things for an hour to soften them up to fry. Cleaning them is a pain too, that skin does NOT want to come off. I stick with rabbits. Skin comes off like it's nothing, and the meat can go straight in the frying pan, tender as can be.

My grandfather was throwing out some old PVC hose and a big pipe.....And that's when It hit me. Real brush is easier to sink but this stuff is a lot nicer to the hooks with fewer hangups. It's going into a private lake don't worry. Who else does this?

White super fluke on a jighead. It will catch them when the water is in the 80s and it will catch them when the water is in the 40s. Any clarity

Trout magnet and/or gulp minnows on a jighead

Well sometimes the man upstairs sends you a big one. This fish was completely dumb luck, my friend and I were trolling Shad raps out of a paddle boat on a 20-30 acre neighborhood lake having fun catching dinks when this girl bit. We fish this place hard every year and usually catch a couple big ones, there aren't many though. Our saying is "if it ain't 12" it's over 20". This one was 23" with a girth of 16.5", fish calculator says 8.5 but I'm thinking she was mid to high 7s That's three citations in four weeks!

Spots (from what I have seen in photos and videos) have a slightly more pronounced fork in their tail as well as pointer tips on their tail, largemouth have tails that look more rounded. Yours looks like it has what I think of as the tail of a spotted bass.

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That water is ORANGE

I would fish somewhere else. That stuff looks like what I call "Snot grass" and there isn't a single bait out there that won't get covered in that stuff. Judging from the photo you have a LOT of it there. Fish it in the winter and spring

70 degrees? Most of the lakes in VA right now are in the 80s

I would be drifting a T-rigged senko. Can't go wrong with that.

This morning I was throwing a deep crank on a point in about 15 FOW, bait stopped, I made the textbook sweep set, line took off to the side and the hooks pulled within seconds. I'm telling myself that I just hit a big carp in the side of the head with the crankbait.