Oh No! Out-Fished By The Wife!

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Yup...she out-fished me 3 to 2.    She just started at the end of last season, didn't really go much and only caught a couple of chain pickerel.  This year she's been going more but not catching anything.  Well today we tried a new pond but it turned out to not be much more than an foot deep mud puddle so we went to one of our usual spots instead.  Hadn't been there for 20 minutes when she pulls in her first bass ever on a chartreuse Strike King spinnerbait.  So I snap the pic, decide to put on a spinnerbait myself and before I can even get it tied on, she has her second bass and a new PB pickerel!  Like rapid fire in only 5 casts.  I really wanted to start casting right around where she was but it was a small area so I left her to it and moved on down the dam.  A short while later I caught a small largemouth and then later on I caught my own new PB chain pickerel.  I've caught others of similar length but this one was fat.  You can't really tell from the pic but it was heavy!  Put up a hell of a fight too.  Pulled drag like nobody's business and it went aerial 4 or 5 times.  Didn't weigh it though cuz it was foul hooked under the chin and I took a while getting the hook out.  Just wanted to get it back in the water.  The bass weren't anything to write home about but we both got new PB pickerels.  All in all I'd say it was a good day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[moguy1973]

Happened to me last weekend too. I started fishing with a jig and caught two shorts real quick when she came down to the pond and needed me to tie a swivel on for her. She the proceeded to catch two shorts and one keeper in about 20 minutes on a rooster tail. I did manage to hook a 3-4lber later that I wasn't able to get to the bank, so it didn't count. Oh well, can't win them all.

[AK-Jax86]

Last season my girlfriend use to out fish me she would catch more but I coughs the biggest. She loves whenever she can brag about out fishing me, so far this season she hasn't been able to brag yet

[Glenn]

That's awesome!  Way to get her "hooked"!

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Thanks you guys.  I'm proud of her.  She was getting pretty upset that all she was catching was pickerel.  Even during the winter months when we were trout fishing that's all she got.  You can tell from the pictures that she's thrilled to death about her first bass.  She's even happy about her pickerel for a change.

[deep]

Wow! WTG T. Joe.

[fish4five]

Congrats on the nice catches. Happens toe all the te when we're crappie fishing. My wife always catches more and the biggest... lol

[Siebert Outdoors]

Get use to it!!!      It happens to me all the time now.

Any more I consider it a successful trip when she catches more then me.

 

Congrats to you both on a great trip.

[flyfisher]

Congrats and nice job catching a PB ....it is definitely pickerel time.  Down here in VA i seem to catch 2-1 pickerel to bass here lately but luckily no bite offs yet

[Dwight Hottle]

You got to let them win now & then.  Congrats to you both.

[Bankbeater]

Congrats! Be grateful that she likes to fish.

[CoBass]

Nice job, congrats to both of you. A buddy of mines wife comes out with us occasionally. Wherever we go the first thing she puts on is a gulp minnow on a jig head. I can't even count the number of times she has outfished both of us with her pink rod and reel and her gulp minnow.

[Bluebasser86]

Good for both of you. I enjoy it when my wife catches fish almost as much as I enjoy catching them myself. I've taken her a couple times when I spend more time unhooking her fish than I do fishing myself, those are some truly great memories. 

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Thanks.  I'm really glad she was able to catch something.  Our last few trips together were fishless and miserably cold and windy.  I sometimes wonder how I got so lucky to have a woman who likes to fish as much as me.  Now if I can just teach her to get her own lures out of all the trees she gets snagged in Ill be in business.

[tomustang]

You got to let them win now & then.  Congrats to you both.

Speak for yourself

[tomustang]

Way to reel in your wife!! Good times.