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Pappy
Joined: 06 Feb 2008
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Location: Derby, CT
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 Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: New Personal Best |
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Back out on Lake Spofford up in NH, with my favorite first mate who took some very good pictures for rookie, where we are on vacation. Today went out today basically looking for quantity not quality and any fish not just bass as the camp we were staying at was looking for fish to use with a game for the youth at the camp (its teen week). Hit the water at 1:30 and at 2:03 landed the largest bass of my fishing experience a 21" LMB that tipped my scale at 4lb 6oz. My previous best had been a 4#4. It didn't look that light to me. Not sure if the scale is off. It's one of those hand held Rapala scales. When I caught it I thought it was a 5 pounder for sure and the weight length charts say it should be around 5# 10 oz. It sure put up a nice fight making a few runs as it got close to the boat until it just tired. Regardless its an awesome fish for what can be a very stingy lake at times especially when it comes to size. Got it off a new hump I discovered out in front of a now closed alcohol / drug rehab center using my typical black grape zoom finesse worm on a drop shot with 6# test line in about 20' of water. Oh yeah, I wound up with a total of 12 other fish (5 smallies, 7 rock bass) most off a sunken island that isn't on the map. I gave the camp all the smaller fish to use in their game (all of which were being returned to the lake at the end, no worries).
Here's a couple of pics. Does it look like 4#6????
Here you can see the fish measured 21 inches on my golden rule.
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DirtyDawg10
Joined: 27 May 2009
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Location: Granby, CT
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Nice fish!! Congrats on the new PB. It's tough to judge weight through pictures but I can tell you that Tim (Fishface) caught a 20.5" bass last week that weighed in at 3lbs 14oz so that weight might not be too far off. Either way it's a great looking fish. |
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PECo
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Location: Avon, CT
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Yeah, according to Bluegill Terminator, I always catch the skinny fish, too. Nice catch!
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steven1smith
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Location: South Windsor
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Congrats on the new PB! I guess the new boat is working. 
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basswacka19
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congrats pappy!!!
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Phish
Joined: 22 Aug 2008
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Location: West Hartford
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Nice fish, Pappy. Grab a 5 pound weight that you know is 5 pounds and test the scale. Hard to tell in the photo without knowing your size, and like all good fisherman should, you're holding it out toward the camera which makes it look bigger  . Sweet day, and congrats on the PB. |
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Bluegill Terminator
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Location: Plainville
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| PECo wrote: | | Yeah, according to Bluegill Terminator, I always catch the skinny fish, too. Nice catch! |
I caught a bass that was almost 23 inches long but weighed in a 5 pounds 3 ounces  . I've caught my fair share of long skinny fish thats why I moved to lakes with plenty of forage. Also my buddy got a 4 pound 10 ounce largemouth bass last thursday that was barley 19 inches long so they can get pretty fat without eggs.
Congrats on the personal best! |
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chumley
Joined: 25 Sep 2007
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Location: tolland ct
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:09 am Post subject: |
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congrats on the new pb!!!!!!
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SkeeterJim
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Location: Newington, CT
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Congrats Walt!!
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CTBASSIN
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