Vorlin Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 Ok, so I have a Chihuahua... it's still bigger than my dog!! ROFL It was an odd day... at first no bass hitting. Then, a dink... then, a couple of decent keeper bass (each one a good dinner for one person by itself) and they were hitting wacky 4" senkos on a FAST retrieve??? I was retrieving quickly after thinking I was out of the strike zone and one tried to ****** the senko in a topwater strike, so I paused and then moved it again and he nailed it topwater!! If there is a goofy, bass-ackward way to do someting, I'll find it! In the heat of the day it had gone dead... so I went to the beaver huts to check for a little fun crappie action. Action was so hot that I tested myself to see how fast I could boat a dozen. I hit the stopwatch and boated 12, plus around 7 that got off, in 12 min 39 seconds. But the last one wasn't a crappie... it was a 9" dink bass that hit the crappie jig! So, I tossed the senko again. First one was a super dark colored, nearly black, 9" dink bass. Then things seemed to go dead... so I did a fan pattern around the banks in that area. Considering all of the ways I've seen 4" wacky rig senkos hit, I devised a retrieve to combine all of them. Cast, wait 30 seconds on slack line... pulse back halfway to the boat to swim the seko with kicking "frog legs"... let it fall and wait 30 seconds by my watch and then pulse back to the boat. On the 3rd cast, I had finished the 2nd 30 second wait period and started to pulse back again. On the second pulse, she hit: When she hit, I thought I was snagged on a tree... When she moved, I looked at the dog and cursed that I had caught another snapping turtle by the way it felt... When she did a short tail walk, I nearly soiled my shorts... When boating her, she felt like 12 lbs... The chain stringer barely made it around the nearest gill slit and the fit made me nervous, so I lifter her back out of the water and put her in a cooler filled with water (and the act of doing that broke the clasp on the stringer)... 3 witnesses at the boat ramp exclaimed she was a "Giant"... The state attendant at the park said she was easily a citation... One guy at the boat ramp said that she "dwarfed" another guy's 5 lb catch the day before, he estimated her at 11-13 lbs... A fist does fit in her mouth, and my hands are not small since I used to drill concrete for a living with a 2 handed roto-hammer... When I got her to an official station, she came in at 21 inches and ONLY 5 lb 2 oz ?!?!?!??!?!? :-/ :'( :-/ Even the person weighing the fish didn't believe it. So, we got another scale and it was the same result... I didn't measure the girth. My room mate took a pic with me holding the dog in one hand and the fish in the other. I'll have a jpg of it later today and will be posting it. Vorlin / Scott Quote
MattStrykul Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 wacky fast retreive!!! My brother and I were fishing a tournament at occoquan rez yesterday and caught them doing that technique. It was random, he reeled in real fast for another cast and one hit it, so we started fishing them fast aroudn grass and did pretty well. I know how you feel, that 5.2 lbs looks alot bigger than you'd think. This is my 5.2 pb that I caught at gaston in march...I thought it was bigger, and so did quiet a few people on this messageboard.... Quote
Vorlin Posted May 28, 2007 Author Posted May 28, 2007 wacky fast retreive!!! My brother and I were fishing a tournament at occoquan rez yesterday and caught them doing that technique. It was random, he reeled in real fast for another cast and one hit it, so we started fishing them fast aroudn grass and did pretty well. I know how you feel, that 5.2 lbs looks alot bigger than you'd think. This is my 5.2 pb that I caught at gaston in march...I thought it was bigger, and so did quiet a few people on this messageboard.... Hey that's the same fish!!! ROFL Here's the pic, see what you think. I got this one at Ni Reservoir: Quote
linesider7 Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 A 12lb bass more closely resembles a labrador retriever than it does your chihuahua... Quote
linesider7 Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 Nice fish....did you release it? Who? Me? I released the fish pictured in my avatar... It only went 9.5 Quote
MattStrykul Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 I was actually talking to Vorlin, but your fish is also very nice. That is a monster. Quote
linesider7 Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 I was actually talking to Vorlin, but your fish is also very nice. That is a monster. Thanks, wasn't sure who that was directed to... A lot of trouble to get a fish to your living room then to release it... Dinner? Taxidermist? Dog toy? Quote
MattStrykul Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 Yeah I just realized that was a dumb question. :-[ Also, when their eyes have that yellowish color I think it means they're gone. Quote
Vorlin Posted May 28, 2007 Author Posted May 28, 2007 Actually the deciding factor was when the state run park that I caught it in didn't have a scale... yet they're supposed to give citations. Go figure. > I had to transport the fish to an official weigh in and that pretty much finished any chance of releasing it. Yea, I did mention it to the attendant... they need a digital camera, scale, tape measure and all the paperwork for a citation right there. They could take the pic, do the weigh & measure and then you can get it released quickly while they make a certificate. I prefer to eat the 1-2 lb bass since there are so many of them and release anyting smaller than 13" or larger than 3 lb. As it was, I was VERY careful to ensure that I didn't waste any of this filet. If the fish had to die, I wasn't about to let it go to waste. Vorlin Quote
JayW Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 One guy at the boat ramp said that she "dwarfed" another guy's 5 lb catch the day before, he estimated her at 11-13 lbs... she came in at 21 inches and ONLY 5 lb 2 oz Sounds about right for a 21" Bass. I don't see how someone thought she was a 13 lber though. I saw a 12+ lb Bass that was 23" one time. The game warden shocked her out at Tenoroc's Hydrilla lk back in it's hay day! I was actually with the game warden that day helping shock fish. Long story! 8-) That fish looked like a football! It was unreal! The fish in my avatar was 13.1 lbs. It was back in '98. I caught her out of Lk Ariana in 12' of water on a rattle trap. Fattest fish I've ever caught! Quote
Lightninrod Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Nice Bass but those other guys had big eyes if they thought it was "11-13 lbs". Well written and interesting story! Dan Quote
Hale Posted May 30, 2007 Posted May 30, 2007 I caught her out of Lk Ariana in 12' of water on a rattle trap I would have never guessed Ariana to produce anything worthwhile! I used to ski out there all the time as a kid. (Grew up in Winter Haven and Lake Alfred) Quote
JayW Posted May 30, 2007 Posted May 30, 2007 I caught her out of Lk Ariana in 12' of water on a rattle trap I would have never guessed Ariana to produce anything worthwhile! I used to ski out there all the time as a kid. (Grew up in Winter Haven and Lake Alfred) I've caught a lot of nice Bass out of Ariana. I caught one a little over 10lbs also from there. A few years back, it was nothing to catch 30-40 Bass out there on a good day. The last few years... it's been hard fishing. I get into them from time to time, but they are hard to find compared to a few years ago. Quote
Guest avid Posted May 31, 2007 Posted May 31, 2007 so I went to the beaver huts to check for a little fun crappie action. Please remember this is a family forum. Quote
Super User SPEEDBEAD. Posted May 31, 2007 Super User Posted May 31, 2007 so I went to the beaver huts to check for a little fun crappie action. Please remember this is a family forum. Haha, you're not right...... ;D Quote
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