Florida Bass Club September Tournament

[MCS]

You can put the fish on his slime protection board and then take a tape measure lay it next to it and atleast there will be 12" of slime that's not affected

 

The ones I have seen are bigger, the yakkers use them all the time. get one of the LMG.

[LgMouthGambler]

LGMouth, is there a way to extend that measuring  device to double it size. The device that you are mentioning, if I am not mistaken is to measure the minimum set guidelines for tournaments which is 12 inches right? or am I mistaken? I am sure there is a solution, to measure and photograph, your catches.

 

Yes its for minimum size for tourneys. Unless I have someone with me to take the pic, Im pretty much gonna have to hold the fish in one hand and ruler in the other, get the size, then take a pic. I could build another device, but that one cost me about $50 in materials and took many hours to construct. Its kind of big, so it stays on my friends boat because he has more room. To make one that would extend to 30" would be WAY too much room to take up on my boat. Keep in mind that I went by myself yesterday, with 6 rigs, a net, push pole, cooler, and my tackle bag. Still very minimal room. I was thinking of a way with something that stands up, like a yard stick or something, but again, room. I don't know. Maybe I can come up with something humane.

[CapitolP]

This is the first i've ever heard about fish's protective slime layers. I'll have to read up a little more, I certainly dont want to hurt the fish more than need be but at the same time I'm stabbing it's mouth with a metal hook so there is some harm involved with violently catching an animal in the face with a metal spike.

[MCS]

Oh Jeeze what am I fishing with Guy Harvey and the humaniacs? :S j/k fish can't feel pain, cold blood under developed cranial lobe...slime coat replenishes. Fish are tough, they live in some toxic conditions, get all tore up during spawn and by preditors. I have caught some pretty knargley fish. It is all good fellas.

[CapitolP]

Oh Jeeze what am I fishing with Guy Harvey and the humaniacs? :S j/k fish can't feel pain, cold blood under developed cranial lobe...slime coat replenishes. Fish are tough, they live in some toxic conditions, get all tore up during spawn and by preditors. I have caught some pretty knargley fish. It is all good fellas.

fish can't feel pain? good to know!

 

makes me feel better about my shark punching legacy

 

 

 

[BassinLou]

Just want to keep everyone up to date. There was a little power play over the last 24hrs, CapitolIP has moved into second place with 4 fish measuring 54.5". MCS has dropped to third with 47" and AK, still maintains a comfortable lead with 4 fish at 77".  Out of the 15 participants that we have competing 7 have posted numbers so far in Sept. The rest of us vaguely remember what bass actually looks like. LOL. Best of luck to all of you tomorrow.

[JaxBasser]

I fully intended on waking up at 5am this morning to get out and do some early fishing on my day off....yeah that never happened. Oh well I'll get after them tomorrow evening.

[LgMouthGambler]

By golly, I got it! Since apparently nobody answered my question, and Im assuming you have to have pics of the fish and length to count (even little dinks under 13"), Im noticing my 59" is deemed not worthy. So here is what I have come up with, and feel free to steal my invention to help protect the fish. Im gonna take the measuring tape and somehow affix the device to the side of either the front or middle beam of the boat. Since its only about 1-1 1/2" thick and about the circumference of a baseball, it wont take up any room that way. Then, I can just pull the tape up and out of the device and lock it down at a desired length. Measuring tape is metal, and mine is thick enough that if I pull out 2-3 feet it will still stand straight up even with a little bit of wind. Then I can just hold the fish up to the tape and take the picture. GENIOUS!

[BassinLou]

There you go LGMouth, where there is a will there a way

[AK-Jax86]

Lol yea nice LG way to improvise

[MCS]

Went out today to finish out my 5 fish. got three so only the two 15" will get posted up. wacky centipede and sluggo did the trick.

 

 

 

Sorry the second pic is blury and the tape is moved off zero a bit when I laid it down but it is 15" I assure you. LOL

Now rest of the month to cull, hope I can replace some of these guys.

[AK-Jax86]

Went out this morning around 5:45, MCS Im working closer to that 5 515 time. Caught a few nothing worth talking about though. Caught em on rage craws weightless with size 4 hook, was using my mono spool since I wasn't planning on doing any froggin.

I hear this huge splash to my right, and it's dark so I turn on my head lamp and look over that way. I see a huge wake and then I see pads moving like crazy. I follow the trail and then see two glowing eyes in the water. Gator was BIG I could tell from the distance between its eyes. I tried to snap pics with my phone but you can't see anything.

We are all FL anglers so we run into gators from time to time but this was the biggest, or close to it, gator I have seen in the wild. To see it in my part of Jacksonville is odd too. I've noticed a few this year when last year I didn't see any. But one of this size is very very rare over this way he must have came in through a culvert or something because on one side of the pond is a little woods then a community an the front side has a highway so it didn't cross the street and get in there. Hopefully it's just passing through and doesn't decide to reside here I've been fishing this spot for past two months I don't want to have to deal with him.

[AK-Jax86]

Here's the 19" I didn't post yet

[MCS]

Went out this morning around 5:45, MCS Im working closer to that 5 515 time. Caught a few nothing worth talking about though. Caught em on rage craws weightless with size 4 hook, was using my mono spool since I wasn't planning on doing any froggin.

I hear this huge splash to my right, and it's dark so I turn on my head lamp and look over that way. I see a huge wake and then I see pads moving like crazy. I follow the trail and then see two glowing eyes in the water. Gator was BIG I could tell from the distance between its eyes. I tried to snap pics with my phone but you can't see anything.

We are all FL anglers so we run into gators from time to time but this was the biggest, or close to it, gator I have seen in the wild. To see it in my part of Jacksonville is odd too. I've noticed a few this year when last year I didn't see any. But one of this size is very very rare over this way he must have came in through a culvert or something because on one side of the pond is a little woods then a community an the front side has a highway so it didn't cross the street and get in there. Hopefully it's just passing through and doesn't decide to reside here I've been fishing this spot for past two months I don't want to have to deal with him.

 

Where you see it at? PM if need be. Man I saw an 7 or 8 foot one run over on 95 one morning, right under the bridge for old st aug. came right around the exit and bam it was there. truck must of hit it. but there is a swamp, the canoe trail that runs through there and a creek right under 95. They are all over man, all over. But your right this year they are seen a lot more than last. Oh and by the way they put signs up at the law school. It is official.

[BassinLou]

This tourney is getting intense. Now you guys are jockeying gators for fishing spots. LOL. BTW, MCS and AK, you guys are both tied for first. Both of you have 77". Interesting....

[MCS]

This tourney is getting intense. Now you guys are jockeying gators for fishing spots. LOL. BTW, MCS and AK, you guys are both tied for first. Both of you have 77". Interesting....

 

Yeah but AK has one less fish right, he is only at 4?

[BassinLou]

That is correct. AK, is getting cocky and he only wants fish 19" or longer. You see how that game plan is working for Martin who only wants 20" 's. Still waiting.... (Had to mess with you Martin I couldn't help it).

[CapitolP]

Went out this morning around 5:45, MCS Im working closer to that 5 515 time. Caught a few nothing worth talking about though. Caught em on rage craws weightless with size 4 hook, was using my mono spool since I wasn't planning on doing any froggin.

I hear this huge splash to my right, and it's dark so I turn on my head lamp and look over that way. I see a huge wake and then I see pads moving like crazy. I follow the trail and then see two glowing eyes in the water. Gator was BIG I could tell from the distance between its eyes. I tried to snap pics with my phone but you can't see anything.

We are all FL anglers so we run into gators from time to time but this was the biggest, or close to it, gator I have seen in the wild. To see it in my part of Jacksonville is odd too. I've noticed a few this year when last year I didn't see any. But one of this size is very very rare over this way he must have came in through a culvert or something because on one side of the pond is a little woods then a community an the front side has a highway so it didn't cross the street and get in there. Hopefully it's just passing through and doesn't decide to reside here I've been fishing this spot for past two months I don't want to have to deal with him.

 

if you need some gator punching techniques just holler at me

[LgMouthGambler]

if you need some gator punching techniques just holler at me

 

A .45 ACP +P works pretty good when things get hairy.

[MCS]

if you need some gator punching techniques just holler at me

 

I think Martin has honed a technique far superior, something about strategic location of thumb  ......I will let him explain, he has a nice little how to video

[CapitolP]

A .45 ACP +P works pretty good when things get hairy.

Gotta go with "true" on this one

 

As evidence I refer to rule #24 of the gunfight

 

24. Do not attend a gun fight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with anything smaller than “4″.

 

Personally I carry a 9mm with federal HST 124 gr +P+ so I guess i'm breaking the rules, but then again i'm not carrying it because of the gator problem, I'm carrying it because of the human problem.

 

Pretty sure if it came down to it I could lauch a couple rounds through the base of it's spinal column and put it down. I do teach people how to shoot after all

[AK-Jax86]

This is gearing up to be a good month as far as competition goes. I haven't be out fishing nearly as much as I have been past few months. The weather is getting cooler and that's just how I like it. Hopefully by middle of next week the fish start to turn on again.

[BassinLou]

Consider yourselves fortunate for the cooler weather. We have at least a month and change before anything remotely changes down here, if not longer.

[LgMouthGambler]

Consider yourselves fortunate for the cooler weather. We have at least a month and change before anything remotely changes down here, if not longer.

 

What are you talking about? Its easily gotten 2 degrees cooler!

[BassinLou]

What are you talking about? Its easily gotten 2 degrees cooler!

 

LOL, that's good enough for you LGMouth?