Catch and Release

[AlabamaSpothunter]

3 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

thats not a half bad idea. My eyes are pretty good at night but an IR assist would be awesome for really tucking it tight into cover. 

HAHA, imagine a rod with a built IR laser tip.     I think I'd have to go with a dual/binoc setup, like two PVS14s on a lightweight bump or skateboarding helmet.   That's like a $10k setup lol 

[casts_by_fly]

11 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

HAHA, imagine a rod with a built IR laser tip.     I think I'd have to go with a dual/binoc setup, like two PVS14s on a lightweight bump or skateboarding helmet.   That's like a $10k setup lol 

in the UK NV setups were a lot cheaper.  I just checked and for a basic headset here you’re talking $1800 or so. In the UK I think you could get a basic one for a couple hundred bucks. I’ll have to check with my UK buddies and see what it possible. For $200-400 I’d consider one. It would be useful for this but also walking into my stands early and late. 

[GreenPig]

I'm a meat eater and that includes sub 3lb bass. I started removing 30 - 50 bass from my pond annually 25 years ago and I now have some big girls in there. 

[Cbump]

10 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Exactly, good luck eating Bass or any other fish from public bodies of water.   You can't eat the fish out of the Coosa imo.     

Let’s not lump crappy ponds you fish in with all “public waters”. I fish huge lakes and have no problem eating fish from them. And although I don’t specifically target bass to keep, if one isn’t going to make It I don’t shed a tear. I throw It in the livewell or cooler with any sand bass or crappie I happen to catch and fry It up. If you think bass is gross then you either just don’t like fish period or you don’t know how to cook. 

3 hours ago, Woody B said:

 Or after carrying them around in a live well all day stuff them in a sack to weigh them for a "mines bigger than yours" contest.   

 

 

 

Man. There’s a lot of “I’m better than you” in this thread. You mean the contests that got bass fishing where It is today? 

18 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

I'm a meat eater and that includes sub 3lb bass. I started removing 30 - 50 bass from my pond annually 25 years ago and I now have some big girls in there. 

Made my mouth water

[casts_by_fly]

16 minutes ago, Cbump said:

Made my mouth water

yeah, me too. This thread has me thinking about some 12-14” bass coming home with me.  Just need to pick a lake.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

22 minutes ago, Cbump said:

Let’s not lump crappy ponds you fish in with all “public waters”. I fish huge lakes and have no problem eating fish from them. And although I don’t specifically target bass to keep, if one isn’t going to make It I don’t shed a tear. I throw It in the livewell or cooler with any sand bass or crappie I happen to catch and fry It up. If you think bass is gross then you either just don’t like fish period or you don’t know how to cook. 

 

Man. There’s a lot of “I’m better than you” in this thread. You mean the contests that got bass fishing where It is today? 

Made my mouth water

I seemed to make a number of people quite emotional over my reply, I'm a crazy coming out of the woodwork, I'm a PETA type, don't know how to cook, etc.  All things I've never posted.   I'm not alone in the fact I don't enjoy eating Bass.   I also get some like them.   Some people eat Carp too.   

 

I do take "all your crappy ponds" you fish as a true insult, but I'll take the highroad.   I live within an hour drive in every direction of a major reservoir known for world class Bass fishing.    Find a better trophy Bass fishery than Lake Guntersville?  Find a better Trophy Smallmouth fishery than Lake Pickwick, and the rest of the TVA waters?  Find a better trophy Spotted Bass fishery than the Coosa, and Lay Lake?

 

I don't fish crappy little ponds, I fish well known lakes with proud Bass fishing histories.  Most importantly my home lake which is private is the furthest thing from a crappy little pond than you could imagine.    It's electric only, zero industry surrounds it, little to no fishing pressure.   Pristine, clean, deep, hundreds of acres, and is able to maintain a fantastic population of Alabama Bass which is exceptionally rare for a lake of this size.         

 

 

 

[Glenn]

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