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01/21/2014 11:46AM
quote missmolly: "Another one. In the past, I've always tried to get the fish as close to my head as possible to deliver a sense of scale, but those days are done. This summer, I'm gonna extend my arms!That doesn't do the fish justice when you have a giant pumpkin head like me."
01/21/2014 02:34PM
quote Arlo Pankook: "quote missmolly: "Another one. In the past, I've always tried to get the fish as close to my head as possible to deliver a sense of scale, but those days are done. This summer, I'm gonna extend my arms!That doesn't do the fish justice when you have a giant pumpkin head like me. "
Hah-hah! Actually, your fish make your head look like a ping pong ball.
01/27/2014 04:16PM
quote blutofish1: "Not me but my dad on his first trip to the BWCA. 5 1/2 lb. smallie. He was so proud of that fish. He passed away in April and the smallie was on the wall in his bedroom where he could look at it all the time."
This made me smile. Thanks for scanning it.
01/30/2014 01:50PM
quote Basspro69: "quote MagicStik: "Very nice fish !!!"
Yep, those are some good ones! There are a lot of nice smallies in this thread. I can't wait to get there again!
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Yep, those are some good ones! There are a lot of nice smallies in this thread. I can't wait to get there again!
01/30/2014 03:19PM
quote TomT: "quote missmolly: "
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Ok, that's a monster. I appreciate that you don't hold your fish out to the camera. It's easier to judge the actual size the way you hold it. I'm guessing around 21-22 inches and 7 lbs?
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My guess is 20.5" and right around 5lbs? Very nice filled out fish!
I am sandbagging a bit here...simply because my wife has caught two that I am very jealous of! :) I have posted them before but I will post them again later.
One thing I always look at is the distance from the hand to the end of the gill plate.
Magic
01/30/2014 03:25PM
quote TomT: "quote missmolly: "
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Ok, that's a monster. I appreciate that you don't hold your fish out to the camera. It's easier to judge the actual size the way you hold it. I'm guessing around 21-22 inches and 7 lbs?
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TomT, it was a big fish, but I didn't weigh or measure its length. It's not seven pounds, but as MagicStik wrote, it's nicely filled out. I have a pic of a bigger one with a belly sagging like a Florida largemouth, but it's a horrible pic. That fish was caught well into dusk and minutes from dark and my brother's underwater camera didn't have a flash. So, he left the shutter open as long as he could, but you can still see the sagging belly. It would have to be scanned, so there would be a further loss of resolution. MagicStik, I try to get the fish as close to my head as possible to give a sense of size, so I put my elbow behind my head. I think five pounds is a good guess!
01/31/2014 12:10PM
Love the pics with kids holding bass! I can't wait to get my kids on some quality SM.
Here are the two my wife caught back to back nights. By far the biggest bass I have had the opportunity to lip! I still remember how thick the jaws were when I stuck my thumb in their mouths! It was truly and honor to hold these fish!
Glass water, screaming drag, and these pigs doing belly flops that sounded like a beaver tail hitting the water.
The wife was quite a trooper as we had our first child a couple months after this trip. :)
Here are the two my wife caught back to back nights. By far the biggest bass I have had the opportunity to lip! I still remember how thick the jaws were when I stuck my thumb in their mouths! It was truly and honor to hold these fish!
Glass water, screaming drag, and these pigs doing belly flops that sounded like a beaver tail hitting the water.
The wife was quite a trooper as we had our first child a couple months after this trip. :)
01/31/2014 01:03PM
quote MagicStik: "Love the pics with kids holding bass! I can't wait to get my kids on some quality SM.
Here are the two my wife caught back to back nights. By far the biggest bass I have had the opportunity to lip! I still remember how thick the jaws were when I stuck my thumb in their mouths! It was truly and honor to hold these fish!
Glass water, screaming drag, and these pigs doing belly flops that sounded like a beaver tail hitting the water.
The wife was quite a trooper as we had our first child a couple months after this trip. :)
Wow!
Also, wow!
I love this: "Glass water, screaming drag, and these pigs doing belly flops that sounded like a beaver tail hitting the water."
P.S. - That first one has the nice, bulging belly, but that second one is one, big bulge!
01/31/2014 02:00PM
02/01/2014 10:45PM
quote MagicStik: "Love the pics with kids holding bass! I can't wait to get my kids on some quality SM.Amazing fish.
Here are the two my wife caught back to back nights. By far the biggest bass I have had the opportunity to lip! I still remember how thick the jaws were when I stuck my thumb in their mouths! It was truly and honor to hold these fish!
Glass water, screaming drag, and these pigs doing belly flops that sounded like a beaver tail hitting the water.
The wife was quite a trooper as we had our first child a couple months after this trip. :)
02/03/2014 02:20PM
02/06/2014 03:45PM
quote missmolly: "
Kawishiwi River 1999.
I wish the fish I just posted had the gut of your third fish!"
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That fish was powerful. I used a Rapala Fat Rap (perch) and it was made out of balsa wood. As the fish lay in the canoe it "thwacked" its head and shattered my lure into three pieces. I still have the pieces as a souvenir.
I didn't measure or weigh it as I just wanted to get it back in the lake. It was a big one. My 8 year old son took the pic., we were daytripping from a resort on Farm Lake.
02/06/2014 10:01PM
quote TomT: "quote missmolly: "
Kawishiwi River 1999.
I wish the fish I just posted had the gut of your third fish!"
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That fish was powerful. I used a Rapala Fat Rap (perch) and it was made out of balsa wood. As the fish lay in the canoe it "thwacked" its head and shattered my lure into three pieces. I still have the pieces as a souvenir.
I didn't measure or weigh it as I just wanted to get it back in the lake. It was a big one. My 8 year old son took the pic., we were daytripping from a resort on Farm Lake.
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I love that you remember catching that bass and that you wanted to get it back into the lake ASAP. A pal once hooked a fish that ripped the metal spine out of a Rapala F13, straightened several hooks, and slung it back at us.
02/07/2014 08:23AM
quote missmolly: "quote TomT: "quote missmolly: "
Kawishiwi River 1999.
I wish the fish I just posted had the gut of your third fish!"
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That fish was powerful. I used a Rapala Fat Rap (perch) and it was made out of balsa wood. As the fish lay in the canoe it "thwacked" its head and shattered my lure into three pieces. I still have the pieces as a souvenir.
I didn't measure or weigh it as I just wanted to get it back in the lake. It was a big one. My 8 year old son took the pic., we were daytripping from a resort on Farm Lake.
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I love that you remember catching that ass and that you wanted to get it back into the lake ASAP. A pal once hooked a fish that ripped the metal spine out of a Rapala F13, straightened several hooks, and slung it back at us."
"remember catching that ass"...... I don't think you should be talking about those things in the fishing forum :-)
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