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Michael
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 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:59 pm Post subject: First Pig of the Year! |
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Headed out on the bike Tuesday and was thinking about yellow perch at the funeral home and private lake after seeing Phil's CTR report.
Started off around 3:30pm at the funeral home. Played around with a glass minnow Husky Jerk HJ-6, hot mustard muddler X-Rap XR-4, and silver shad Jointed Shad Rap JSR-4 but never saw any signs of yellows. Saw lots of those dinky bluegills but they wouldn't hit the XR-4 while doing the constant twitching retrieve.
Later I headed up to the private lake. Caught 1 7" yellow and a cookie cutter bass at one spot with the JSR-4 while doing a very slow retrieve. Never had any hits on the custom painted purple nurple X-Rap Shad Shallow XRSH-6 while doing the single jerk 5 second pause retrieve.
I then headed over to the area that has been producing the most for me at the private lake. Stuck with doing the very slow retrieve with the silver shad JSR-4. Landed another 3 yellow perch around 7" each and 5 more largemouths no bigger than 12" 1 pound. I then said, let me give it one more cast and try and get into the zone before I switch over to the purple nurple XRSH-6. Gave it that last cast and did the slow retrieve with the JSR-4 which led to a 20.5" 4 pounds 3 ounce largemouth!
Even though I was happy with the catch, if only it had some extra girth to it, which could make it hit 5 1/2 pounds.
After letting it go I gave the JSR-4 one more shot and switched over to the XRSH-6. Did the single jerk 5 second pause retrieve and caught a 9" yellow perch.
Hit the road just before 7pm. |
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RaMPaGeBaSsMaN
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Location: West hartford
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:11 am Post subject: |
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Great job great report slaying them already!
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Fi-Shawn
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| Awesome.....nice fish! |
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DirtyDawg10
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| Nice fish! |
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Justin Tralli
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Location: Glastonbury, CT
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:14 am Post subject: |
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Great job man! Nice fish! I dyin to get out for the first time and you're already catchin whoppers! Great job! Hey next time try not to put the fish on the ground to take a picture. I know the fish in your pond are important to you so if you keep them off the ground, they won't get fungus or get sick. The dry ground pulls the slimecoat off of the fish and it opens them up to bacteria. Great job big Mike!
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perfect hook set
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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I'm told its very bad for the fish to be laying on the ground like that.
The grass dirt etc ruins the protective slime on the fish.
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RHfisherman
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Michael you seem to love the Shallow Shad Rap SSR7 so where can you fish it and how do you fish it? |
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O-BASS
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:41 pm Post subject: NICE |
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nice pig mike! what a head on that fish.
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Michael
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| RHfisherman wrote: | | Michael you seem to love the Shallow Shad Rap SSR7 so where can you fish it and how do you fish it? |
The Shallow Shad Rap SSR-7 can be used in lakes, ponds, and larger rivers. Retrieves ranging from a slow retrieve with rod tip down, steady retrieve with rod tip up, or steady retrieve with constant jerking has worked for me.
With it having the buoyancy or the Original Floater, the SSR-7 makes a good topwater lure too. Cast it out, let it sit to let the ripples go away, then do a single jerk down. After the jerk, let the lure rise to the surface and stay there for 2 to 5 seconds before doing the jerk again. That lets it make a spitting sound instead of a louder pop. |
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Crest Daddy
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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is that one of those deliar scales you use to weigh your fish?
Just curious how accurate they are
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Crest Daddy
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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not denying that's a 4lber
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Michael
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| Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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CD,
I have a Cabela's digital. What you see in the pic is a cheap non-digital that I use for measuring. |
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