Hawg at the R&D facility

[thorhammer]

Every blue moon I will actually toss a plug in the pond out back on a Sunday evening...never disappoints. Got this girl yesterday, first cast, on a frog pattern jitterbug- my favorite plug as a kid fishing neighbord ponds and still is now. For scale, I'm about 24" wide across shoulders; she would likely push ten pounds in spawn.


John

[thorhammer]

Mods, please rotate.

thx.

[Crow]

  Nice one !

[El Pescador]

John!

Nice Catch Buddy Boy!!!

BUTT why is the bass taller than you?

Wayne

[foakes]

Rotated photos, John --

Nice bass!

Released her?

Best, Fred

[thorhammer]

Thanks, Fred! Yes, released- haven't kept a bass in decades, probably, unless bleeding badly from a  gut-hook. I mostly use top water or spinner baits for the little bass fishing I do anymore, very rarely a worm, so most are lip-hooked.

[Long Enuff]

Nice fish! I am, however, more envious of that readily available stress relieving body of water in your back yard!

[cwillis85]

Beauty John, I too do not utilize the local ponds enough but when I do, my daughter will catch a small bass every cast and occasionally I pull a football sized bass out. It can keep me sane when the Cobia aren't in town.

[mo65]

Nice lunker John!

[oc1]

Beautiful fish, beautiful spot.
-steve

[Maxed Out]

One can only dream of such a fish on the very first cast

Next time you need to have a normal size person pose with your fish. You would make a 30# king salmon look like a Brook trout

[steelfish]

  Next time you need to have a normal size person pose with your fish.

or use a beer can to get a reference on the size.


great catch by the way, I have the beach at 10 minutes drive from my house and used to cast with light tackle every 3 weeks few years ago, I have at least 2 years that I havent done it mostly becasue we dont have much shore fish on sandy beaches (because of the crazy tide that goes up and down 1/2 mile 2 times per day) and rocky areas are not that near.

[Benni3]

Big largemouth and great sunset,,,,love it,,,, my next question it what gear,,,,,

[happyhooker]

Nice 'un--take one of those any day if I could get it.

Frank

[thorhammer]

Mainly I feed the eater crackers (big shellcrackers) and a few blue cats that live under the dock while having a coffee or cold one depending on time of day. When we moved from the coast it was not happy day for me, so the place kind of found me I guess you'd say. After about the third look, I decided it would be good to at least have a little water. There's always a heron and geese, and this year we had an egret show up, plus a dozen mallards, assorted hawks and kingfishers, deer, rabbits, sliders and snappers, bullfrogs, etc.

Benni, I keep a few rods rigged in the shop (R&D lab for the neighborhood kids, but also have a 420SS on a whippy stick for myself and in this case, an Abu 5500C, I think the second one (of a LOT) that I ever got. It's on a seven foot graphite IM6 or 7 with cork grip, a Shimano something or other. I have a whole rack of 5500's on 7' cork handle sticks, most with 12 or 14 Stren original fluoro blue, as I grew up with. The little dinky reels these guys are using now remind me of the Ryobi VMAG 1 my brother had when we were 8.  These new reels the tourney guys are using look like a keychain fob in my hand, not a fishing implement, lol.