Hawg at the R&D facility

[Benni3]

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.

it works,,,, and your getting big fish and that's fabulous,,,,,keep up the great work,,,,,my freind,,,,,,

[xjchad]

Love seeing a big ol' bucket mouth!
Been too long since I've caught one...

[Fishy247]

Nice one! Great way to end the weekend....

[Gfish]

Hawg bass on a surface lure! Dude! That's not common anywhere I've ever fished. What is common is a first cast bass on farm ponds. After that, the ponds I used ta fish, they'ed all get spooked.
I've got one those frog patterned Jitterbugs, but I've always reached for the Hula Popper first.

[thorhammer]

well i would expect so, being you are in Hawaii lol. The hula popper hangs next to jitterbug...in frog pattern

[Shark Hunter]

Nice Bucket Mouth!

[Bill B]

Nice fish John....good to see you getting out on the water...BIll