2 fer Thursday

Hit a boat dock at lunch time yesterday , pretty much so so , I think a big bass in my condo might be why the fish never seem to be in that condo .
She grabbed the jig and tried to take the rod out of my hand . Went to the air tricks quickly , slammed herself off a gunwale of a boat in the air at one point , after the first hard run and reel screaming , we battled for a good bit .
Kept my 5.5 rod bent down hard and about half or more of the time I kept 2/3 of the rod under the water . She was my first fish of the day and the fish gods seemed to like me the rest of the day.
I managed a poor number at the dock of only 14 in an hour and had to work hard for them . They seemed to like a really pretty much ugly hand tie in a 4 color combo . :dono
Hit the lake an hour away after work and had only 1 solid good crappie rod and my short stuff 5.5 with me .
They seemed to also have a thing for the same ugly hand tie out there ?:dono
Beat all the other colors I tried by a mile and is still on the little 5.5 rod as I type .
Tons of just 10 inch fish in the mix and only 16 good keepers made it to the live well . Lost quite a few nice fish at the boat because the little spaghetti rod has zero back bone and won't flip a fish out of the water well .
Here comes the days downer , laid my 8 foot rod down on the gunwale and fished with my 5.5 hand tie as it was just hurting them . Out of the corner of my eye I saw a whack on the 8 footer as something laid down on that jig dangling over the side .
Unbeknownst to me as I was concentrating on the super light bites my 8 ft Rod had slid up under a cleat .......:yikes
and when I grabbed it up in hook set fashion .......
SNAPPED her right in half just above the 2 pc. joint ! :banghead
Made me a bit sad to say the least but I kept the tears back and kept ketchn .
Managed to ketch a bit over hundred total on crappie by days end in the 2 combined trips and also managed one more bass on lake 2 that liked the air as well but was much smaller .
and that was my 3 hour total ketchn on the 2 different lakes
sometimes it is what it is you know ,and in the end
KABOOM is still the word :highfive

If ya relocate that bass to a frying pan the condo will be vacated for others, just sayin.....:biggrin

Sounds like pretty good day considering. That's a mighty fine bass and I'd be tickled to catch anytime. Sorry about that 8' rod. I've been using mine lately, just bought the 8' ACC rod to try. I personally like the Thump City rod better. Might try the Pro Angler 8' rod or Southern Pro 8' rod as well one day. Sort of starting to pile up rods now probably should stop...... nah....lol :Rofl

lunch and crappie go good together...

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

If ya relocate that bass to a frying pan the condo will be vacated for others, just sayin.....:biggrin

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I never keep fish from that lake , but then again I rarely keep any fish from any of the lakes .
I walked her down to another slip for her release , hope she stays away from the condo .
I wondered why there were never any fish in it , not even any bream.
Seen that same thing on the other side of the lake last year on another one of my condos .
No fish there either UNTIL a big ole fish like her bit my jig one visit . :banghead

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Originally Posted by longhunter

lunch and crappie go good together...

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Ate my leftover venison meat sauce spaghetti when I got back to work :highfive

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Sounds like pretty good day considering. That's a mighty fine bass and I'd be tickled to catch anytime. Sorry about that 8' rod. I've been using mine lately, just bought the 8' ACC rod to try. I personally like the Thump City rod better. Might try the Pro Angler 8' rod or Southern Pro 8' rod as well one day. Sort of starting to pile up rods now probably should stop...... nah....lol :Rofl

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my arsenal needs to shrink a bit , and that rod was 10 years old , the boat captain says he will repair it and took it home with him :dono

Yes indeed, that is a mighty fine bass. I’ll take one of those any day, that’s for sure! Sorry to hear about the rod, but that aside a good day.
Bob

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Originally Posted by BobC

Yes indeed, that is a mighty fine bass. I’ll take one of those any day, that’s for sure! Sorry to hear about the rod, but that aside a good day.
Bob

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sure looks to be well fed for a summer bass don't she....
possibly the young crappie that visit that condo never swim away :banghead

The breaking of a favored fishing rod certainly thunders in ones ears.

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

The breaking of a favored fishing rod certainly thunders in ones ears.

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repaired her a few times over the years , her rod tip guide has been replaced around 4 times , her sister broke at the bottom of the guide above the joint due to my using it to push it together and it became lose side to side at that junction and it ended up scoring the rod blank and failing right there .
she started to due that as well and I epoxied her at that guide , her rod emblem on the butt plate is long gone too.
being she was "big" fish stick in my crappie travels ,she and her twin sister went on quite a few safaris
one thing for certain though without exaggeration ,she has slung way more crappie in ten years than you can possibly imagine :highfive
and in the end only one prototype survives and she a 7 ft. one pc. and made to sling whales as well .
hold your breath , I need her for the fall run ,just saying :crazy:

Be a few months until we are over the hump and into fall here. I sure am looking forward to it. Until then I think I am going nocturnal when time permits

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Be a few months until we are over the hump and into fall here. I sure am looking forward to it. Until then I think I am going nocturnal when time permits

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shade in the daytime here and or bright burn it up good sunshine if need be .....:Rofl

Nice catch. Sorry about the rod. Been there, done that.

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Originally Posted by chaunc

Nice catch. Sorry about the rod. Been there, done that.

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it seems the more I like them the less likely they will survive me , those particular sticks were actually prototypes given to me with the express instructions that I treat them as I would a real cheap rod and "try" to break them .
besides the design of them we came up with to my specifications , durability was of key importance to him before they went into production .
hear tell the new versions are not near as tough as those ,but to this day it isn't me to drop over a 100 on a rod ,heck over 50 makes me cringe ,as i know the life time of a rod in my hands is most often rather minimal if get to liking it to much,
that one and the 6 foot tica both went south this year and both were on my these will hurt crappie to the max list , :yikes :Rofl :banghead

you know i just gave it a count and I think that's 4 rods done this year so far , a lews , a bonehead , a shakespeare , and a tica .
and i think 3 or 4 reels too , hard on equipment is me , i don't play so nice and friendly like when it becomes me against the fish .
put the shimano on a vendetta and off to the races she goes , i know she wont take my abuse long , but she was on clearance and so was the shimano and in the end , if it cant take a bone breaking hook set and reel and cast like a champ , it needs to go to the landfill :Rofl

I ketched one of them too...

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and had ta change jigs, cause nothin else would touch it,...:Rofl

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Originally Posted by longhunter

I ketched one of them too...

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and had ta change jigs, cause nothin else would touch it,...:Rofl

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thats funny bro , i had to change jigs after my bass as well , just ripped the one and only plastic with me ,right right in half down the middle :Rofl
and ruined about 20 feet of mono raking it across EVERYTHING near the dock too :banghead