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jimfish
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Location: Oxford Ct
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 Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: Messerschmidt 9/22 |
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Sometimes fate plays a hand in what happens where you fish,and what you catch. Ben & I decided to fish Messerschmidt Pond instead of Mudge because it fishes easier on a windy day then Mudge does. And also because we havn't been there in a few years.
In 4 trips there the largest bass I had caught was 3lbs.
We got on the water at 8am. It was cloudy, warm, and no wind. The water temp was 68deg in the am warming to 71deg when we left at 6pm.
We started with top water baits. I threw a buzzbait while Ben opted for a Spit N Image And for the 1st 3 hours Ben was really putting it to me. He had 6 bass and 1 pickerel to only 1 pickerel for me. His largest was 3lbs
By 11am the breeze picked up and what little sunshine there was just about disapeared. I finally catch my 1st bass on a Findbass Shiverstick(Senko Typ Bait)
And a short time later I also catch a 3lb2oz bass.
Messerschmidt has some beautiful dropoffs by the weedlines. I was working the dropshot by one of these dropoffs when I thought I was stuck on a stump. When the line just takes off. Don't yeh just love it when that stump turns out to be a 4lb 3oz bass.
Ben finally gets bact to the catching with a nice 2lb 5oz bas fishing the dropoffs with a crankbait.
I caught a few bass in the pads flipping a tubebait. So I decided to go back to the area where I caught my 1st bass. Some nice pads and some really nice falldowns there.
Ben looses a real,real nice bass on a falldown. It went under the tree and pulled free.
And a short time later I get the biggest surprise at this pond I could imagine. I hook into a giant bass in the pads on a HookerZ 5" tubebait. It took all my strength with 50#braid and a flippin' stick to yank it out of the pads. A real beauty at 6lb 6oz.
And a little further on in the pads again I get another beauty at 3lb 8oz on the tube.
We fish our way back to the launch with a few more bass.
We finished with 24bass a few pickerel. a couple of crappie and perch.
This is one time I can thank the weather forcasters for making a bad forcast. The sun never came out in the afternoon and the wind wasn't as bad as they said it would be.
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SenkoBandit
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Location: Vernon area
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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awesome fish jimfish.days like that are hard to come by  |
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Joined: 02 May 2007
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Location: Sharon
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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wow man! great fish!!!!
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lookn4bass
Joined: 28 Jul 2007
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Location: Clinton
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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excellent trip!
i love this pond because it is close to my house and it always produces fish... largest i caught out of there was a 4.5lbr last year... now that i know there are bigger ones and there are drop offs, i may have to switch tactics...
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Keith T
Joined: 06 May 2007
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Location: Mooresville,NC.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:08 am Post subject: |
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Hey Ben ......"Watch me pull another Lunker outta my hat"......Congrats
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Just4fun
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Location: Saybrook
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| Keith T wrote: | | Hey Ben ......"Watch me pull another Lunker outta my hat"......Congrats |
OMG,..I'm in tears!! ROTFLMAO!! 
Great job there Jim & Ben,...I sure wish I could get my boat into that place!
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Fish-head
Joined: 07 May 2007
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Location: Lancaster, SC
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Wow! Nice bass Jim. Great pics too.
Almost makes me want to move back to CT....Well almost. 
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Bass Addict
Joined: 27 Aug 2007
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Location: Wethersfield, CT 06109
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: |
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nice job. You killed it.
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Sorry honey, looks like we will be late again due to motor problems.
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Bass Addict
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Location: Wethersfield, CT 06109
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: |
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thank god you had the camera - its nice to be able to go back and look at those trophies.
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Sorry honey, looks like we will be late again due to motor problems.
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SkeeterJim
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Location: Newington, CT
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:10 am Post subject: |
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WOW! Congrats on some awesome bass Jim & Ben. Great looking pics too.
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SkeeterRon
Joined: 01 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Another AWESOME day on the water with JimFish...
Great job guys..
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