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Offline Josh

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Biggest fish I ever caught.
« on: March 19, 2011, 02:02:43 am »
I went fishing at a local lake today.  The lake is fed by a small river so I decided to head to the mouth of the river as the water is finally high enough there to do that.  First cast into the mouth of the river and the fight was on!  I was using my ultra light rod with 4 lb test line and a small 1/16th ounce jig head with a shad colored bass assassin on it.  This stripe ran out almost all my line, I was having to chase him with my trolling motor to keep him from running all my line out.  I finally wore him out enough to get him to the  boat and I had to reach in and lip him because I don't have a net yet...  :)  Here he is... the biggest stripe I have ever caught... AND I caught him on an ultra light rod with 4 lb line.  It took like 20 minutes to wear him out enough to get him in the boat.  Thanks for looking!   :)



Just wanted to share it with ya'll.
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2011, 02:11:27 am »
Nice, and on ultralight gear...doesn't get much better than that.  Congrats.

George
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Offline Badger

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2011, 02:50:13 am »
  Stripers are a lot of fun on the ultra light, nice catch. Steve
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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2011, 02:55:28 am »
thanks guys! my bow scale says he weighs 12 lbs.. ;D.
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Offline ErictheViking

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2011, 03:16:54 am »
impressive. I've never fished for big mouth. they look like(on t.v. anyway) like a kick in the pants to try to wrangle. that is defenitely a story to last awhile. congrats.
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Offline NTD

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2011, 03:31:58 am »
That's a big fish!  Nice job Josh. 

I miss fishing, not much of it to be done here in the desert :( 
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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2011, 03:46:53 am »
Great fish and good story.   Ron
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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2011, 10:23:10 am »
Excellent fish and way to go. I bet that was was a hoot on ultralight.Ron
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Offline medic336

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2011, 11:50:04 am »
Nice stripe!!!! Which lake were you fishing in Josh?
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Offline cowboy

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2011, 12:12:23 pm »
That is a dandy Josh! Think i may have caught one almost that size once - makes me want to go fishing.
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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2011, 12:36:25 pm »
Nice fish Josh and well done with the light gear.  How much did he weigh?

I'm not really into fishing myself but my dad used to like fishing with ultra light gear, if I remember right he liked 2# test line.  One time, I was about 8 years old, we went fishing at a lake we used to go to, it had Northern Pike and LM Bass in it.  He hooked onto a 16# Pike and fought it for about 2 hours before it finally got tired, he did the same as you since he didn't have a net.  He tipped his canoe trying to get the fish in it, I was on shore watching.  He didn't lose the Pike
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Offline Rick Wallace

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2011, 01:02:57 pm »
SUPPER TIME!!!  Nice fish!!!
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2011, 01:28:49 pm »
The way fishing should be. Big fish on ultralight tackle!! :D
Thanks for sharing

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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2011, 04:12:50 pm »
Nice stripper, Josh. I've cought a few but none that big. This time of year the big strippers head up river to spawn in the shallows.
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Re: Biggest fish I ever caught.
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2011, 05:33:04 pm »
I bet that was a boat load of fun, Josh ;D, really nice fish. You'll have to come down here and chase some of those LargeMouths we have.
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