Reply With QuoteThat fella on the bottom looks like he manged to tear free from a hook a bit before you got him. It is never a bad day when your on the fish
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Things just happen sometimes
Like rain off and on for 3 hours with no raincoat
breaking the tip off your favorite 6 footer
combining different crappie apparel maybe ?
My jacket didn't match my t shirt
My ballcap didn't match either the shirt or the jacket
but then again sometimes things just happen
the fish were bananas all over the lake again though
upper end mudwater and lower end clear water all the same thing
so many short fish it defies imagination
but the good news is we left them biting with one limit
and the bite was too fast to use 2 rods !
the other good news is my pro bud met me on the way home with ....
a brand new very similar 6 footer
fish were holding up high in the mudwater
my newest condo was flat FULL of fish in 8 foot of water
lower lake fish were more settled and lower in the water column
tried a few different colors and not much stood out real good
got bit on just about whatever hit the water
some of my equipment is getting tired
one reel is showing its age ,but at around 30,000 assorted fish over 10 years
it tends to make me think it had a great life
she has probably seen at least a dozen or more good rods go south in her time
and she likely just needs some TLC
no worries though ,it is all good and ....
KABOOM is the word on my ballcap
p.s. 71 degree water ,fish holding in anything under 10 foot deep ,liked it moving, shad still spawning real good all over the lake ,snakes and birds abundant as well as fish not far from the banks and on a final note ....
if you lost the slab in that one photo , no worries i found it for ya
sum kawl me tha outlaw ketchn whales
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That fella on the bottom looks like he manged to tear free from a hook a bit before you got him. It is never a bad day when your on the fish
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I’m thinking that’s a real possibility!Originally Posted by SuperDave336
He probably has run into Ketchn before rippin lips.....
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He managed to get away the first time from the
Looks of it
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Fish didn't get the memo about full face shield and safety goggles required in ketchn's work area
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one thing for certain , some fish that escape me likely look like that .
that wound looked to be an older wound , it was trying to heal up .
really don't hit the part of the lake very much he was found in though .
do know I saw a boat there about 3 weeks ago tied up all day.
I saw it early in the day and my bud mentioned seeing the same boat there in the afternoon at the same spot .
but to be sure he was high in the water column and took my jig VERY gently on the fall ....
so it seems he "was" learning to bite a bit more carefully
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you know until you experience in person how I set the hook , you just don't realize how true that comment is .He probably has run into Ketchn before rippin lips.....
a terribly high number of items go south on my hook sets , I break rods , snap lines , break hooks ,rip lips and even pistol whip anything close at times , light hook sets ain't me ....
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LOL.....
So my question is did you loose the mm with the unpainted head or did you just decide the painted head with the mm would work better?
Orange/mm has boated a few fish lately that I've seen.....
Steve did one mm w/orange tail that I didn't think would work but LBG has been catchn some good'uns with it....
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LOL.....
So my question is did you loose the mm with the unpainted head or did you just decide the painted head with the mm would work better?
Orange/mm has boated a few fish lately that I've seen.....
Steve did one mm w/orange tail that I didn't think would work but LBG has been catchn some good'uns with it....
