Old friends-new fun

2 fellas I worked with 20 years before I changed careers invited me to fish with them yesterday. It's been 23 years since we've seen each other but the friendship and fun felt like we still working together. We kept 73 bluegills, sunfish and perch. Caught numerous rock bass, gobies, a couple of large mouth and two big dogfish (bowfin/grindle). Best bait was my panfish bug with slab sauce tipped with crappie nibbles, Gulp maggots, waxworms, Slabinator Scent sticks, or a piece of crawler.
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These are my buddies. The bass and 10# dogfish were caught on my hand tied panfish bug.

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I'm the old guy of our group. Caught this one with a 1/64 jighead, G-sauce, and orange crawfish Slabinator Scent sticks.

Old friends I'm sure made the day more special.

Interestingly over 90% of these fish were males. We saw no evidence of beds. Surface temp was 62 degrees.

A basket of good eats right there. Thanks for the ride along.
Bob

Great times.

Good story. Thanks for the ride along.
Bob

Since this isn't the ul sub-forum I can reveal I was using my 7'3" White Bird ml rod made by Favorite, spooled with 4# hi-vis Suffix line. Used a panfish size Rocket bobber to deliver the bait. The whole combo was efficient and fun.

Fun times with old buddies and success to boot! Congratulations and thanks for sharing

That was good for all of you. Nothing better than a day with old friends. Nice basket of fish.

that there grinnel is a toad , them things are flat out mean fish , bet that was a fight !
congrats and KABOOM

That was a special day for sure.

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

that there grinnel is a toad , them things are flat out mean fish , bet that was a fight !
congrats and KABOOM

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Caught another one that was probably 7#. Great fight for sure. Interesting that grinnel and grindle both show up on a search for dogfish/bowfin.

Great report. Slabsauce rocks. Thanks for posting.


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I have to tell ya Slab, I wasn't a fan of G Sauce compared to the original but the G Sauce worked well on these fish.