Question time

As for me, I just like fishing. Size doesn’t matter. I do have to admit when they are so small when I set the hook and they fly over the boat I will move on fairly quickly.
They are many times I go out and do nothing but catch and release. Doesn’t matter that day if they are eight inches or seventeen inches. They’re going back.
Thats why I don’t post a lot of katchn pictures.
I also have a hand full of folks that are not as blessed as I am and only get to go once per month or less. So I love scouting. That’s the real fun I have with FFS. They still have to figure like we all do depth, what they are bitting you guys get the picture.
I have a guy going this weekend. If he takes my advice with everything lining up he should be able to catch a mess of fish. So for me it doesn’t matter, just like fishing.


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When it comes to many small, slow moving finesse lures, I don't have a choice what I catch. I'm talking over 30 fish of species and sizes every time I go. But as many have noticed from my posts, catching fish - regardless of size - on various lure designs and types, are the only reason I fish. So whatever bites my creations is fine with me and the guys I fish with! The more strikes the merrier! :highfive (In fact they're the ones that usually catch the lunkers.:yikes)

I am happy if I catch a turtle ..... as long as I don't get skunked!

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Originally Posted by ACAMS

I am happy if I catch a turtle ..... as long as I don't get skunked!

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that there is extreme bro , just saying :Rofl

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Originally Posted by ACAMS

I am happy if I catch a turtle ..... as long as I don't get skunked!

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Turtles count as a skunk buster? Naw!

I try to not catch turtles, there mouths are so hard they ruin your hooks. Quick story though, me and my pops were fishing at a nice pond one day behind some houses, and had a stringer of about 30 sunfish. My dad kept every fish he caught, and he only fished for bluegill with worms and bobber. Out of nowhere our stringer starts drifting into the water, and it was a massive turtle, easily over 100 lbs, made off with our fish!! But I got him back, kind of. We were out another day, and I hook into a snag, but as I'm reeling I notice something is alive, and it was the turtle, had him snagged in the hind leg. My dad and I are pretty amazed at its size and right when it gets to the bank, the line snaps. Good thing though cause little did I know those bigguns can stick their neck way out and reach back and bite your fingers off

Those snappers can get ya quickly. I use to catch them out of our pond. And they will take any fish on a stringer, they took many of mine from that same pond.

Saw a big'n in my pond this summer watching me feed bread balls to a school of sunnies and 4 small painted turtles. Both were waiting for bread.
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Had a neck almost as big as my wrist! I found out they mostly eat dead animals but will snack on small turtles and fish. Their vice-like jaws must have some power in order to collapse a turtle's shell like nuts with a nutcracker!

I still wonder where it traveled from to make its home in a manmade pond miles away from the nearest lake or river.

Bread is a surprisingly great bait. Saw a kid catch a 25 lb grass carp one evening on the cigar method, take a whole slice of bread and jist mold it around the hook and line and cast out. It was floating and hit topwater. He caught a bunch of catfish with it too

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Bread is a surprisingly great bait. Saw a kid catch a 25 lb grass carp one evening on the cigar method, take a whole slice of bread and jist mold it around the hook and line and cast out. It was floating and hit topwater. He caught a bunch of catfish with it too

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I use to work in a office park that had a pretty good size pond with some canals running off it. I use to feed 3-4lb channels with Wendy fries. They would come right up to the top and slurp them down.