ANOTHER PB !

Lil Red Riding in the hood does it yet AGAIN !
Man will she flat out make ya proud to know her ....
That set up is pure gold , never mind all the big bucks folks
AND GET this .....I am SO SO SO in love with her I went to find her a twin sister...
Already had the same reel waiting for her in the box if she could be found .....
Strolled into to Wally world to pick up some nibbles and floats and there one was!
A great deal for 31.99 no doubt , easily as good as any rod in the 100 dollar range and possibly better than some in 150 range ....
SHE RANG UP 11.00 Greenbacks folks , you should a seen this foot stomping music fool dancing , some folks near me looked quite concerned I tell ya ...:crazy:
The folks at the register thunked about calling security I bet , I prolly said WOW fifty 2 or more times , bought went back to see if it should be triplets ! :Rofl
ANYWAY onto the real story here , H and I went west to hunt ,dint ketch any hogs ,stopped by my friends place for a few as I was needed for a MAJOR shrimp consumption festival venue back in DFW in the afternoon ,,,,:highfive
we dipped jigs in the off color water , been raining and raining and was actaully raining when we hit the lake . :banghead
So we was stuck on the main crappie dock , make em bite or go home we said , no relocating in the rain , not our agenda to get wet was the deal ....
the fish were HOT , every drop got bit , color seemed to matter though as my FOUR color tube was just getting a serious workout and my fish ran larger ....
H ran a natural and even when they was SUPER TINY mine was still .003657 inches bigger than his ! :Rofl:Rofl
Now mind you this my attire consisted of my favorite Crappie.com Lucky T shirt and my favorite KABOOM ballcap ( and as I often say pants are optional ) :yikes :Rofl:crazy:
this likely had some significant play during this adventure .....:highfive
So we hammered till we had to go and managed to ketch some sort of obscene number of just regular ole crappie , no really big ones , a few nice ones here and there and tons and tons of small ones.
THEN it happened ....H got a nice crappie and I went over to his area and said I need one as well .....we was laughing it up some as my line was beside his and I felt a little pressure on my jig ....set the hook and the rod bent down and it didn't move ! Told him boy howdy bro just hooked a stupid big crappie FOR SURE !
It moved out away from the dock kinda slowly and I told hin IF it is a crappie we about to see the NEW world record if Lil red and me can handle such a fish ....well the reel started with the music and the rod REALLY bent hard and I told him this is FAR to large to be a crappie bro ......
It went on for a bit and he told me tighten your drag and quit playing around with it and I said dude NO WAY , I ain't playing and whatever is on the other END is for SURE BIG !
Well eventually it came to the surface after many many close calls with the stumps and dock legs and such and BOTH of us went HOLY WOW ! That is big ....
To bad it's a ding dong bass :banghead
9 lbs 1 oz. on the scale in the clubhouse and off she went ....post spawn ole lady and bet she was near 10 or better for sure a few months ago .....
So in the end does color actually matter you might wonder , I say for darn sure it does , nothing out there will beat miss lil RED riding in the hood in ketch fish situation , this here is a FACT !
and her twin sister waits to replace her when and if she ever gives up ...
KABOOM is what I do and I am a not actually well trained not so professional typer , do not try KABOOM unless you have been professionally trained to do so ,someone could get seriously injured you know :Rofl:Rofl:Rofl
p.s. that is my best/PB largemouth , this much is a fact ,,,,,just fyi :highfive
iffin you made it thru this post without tiring my hats off to ya btw :popcorn

Wow, $11….. that’s a good deal. I would have gone back and made sure there weren’t any others.

Congrats on the slingfest. Nothing like Kaboom. Glad you had fun. Oh, bass is ok I guess. :Rofl

Nah, that’s a nice one. Congrats on PB.

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Wow, $11….. that’s a good deal. I would have gone back and made sure there weren’t any others.

Congrats on the slingfest. Nothing like Kaboom. Glad you had fun. Oh, bass is ok I guess. :Rofl

Nah, that’s a nice one. Congrats on PB.

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will stop in next week on the rod and graze a bit more , did handle a second one that go , but SOMEONE had apparently stepped on the tip and flattened out the last eye ....:banghead
the green trash fish on 6 lb mono , for sure tops the scale with me , have managed a few ok/nice above 5 lbs. ones on a bit heavier tackle a few times , but never ever had such a bass hit my hand on tackle that light in my days ....
and never managed one that heavy either ,,,
when she came up she never jumped , this gave her more stamina for sure , she REALLY was a stream rolling splendid adversary ....:highfive

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Major KABOOM on the green fish brother!! Good job sniffing up the rod too. Sounds like we both had good days this weekend. I’m patiently awaiting your next telling of a Kaboom adventure.

The Bass definitely looks better than you in the picture. Your customary pose is missing. Fun read anyway. If you tried the "Jimmy Houston" with that fish I bet it would have slipped you some tongue! :Rofl

Wow, a beautiful catch! What a fight it must have been!
Bob

Rojo . you need to consider this ....

up late hog hunting , no shower and about tired of the adventure when she hit bro , it for sure gave me that adrenalin boost to make it home for a shower and then off to the shrimp festival :Rofl
kissing her lips might have caused serious injury , she might keep a pc. of one is my thoughts , although I will say this , after I put her up on the bank slowly , she never really fought or struggled and seemed to possibly realize it was not her last go round with some yeehaw wanting to take a picture with her :crazy::Rofl

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Wow, a beautiful catch! What a fight it must have been!
Bob

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that there no name reel was singing about as nice as it gets , hard to beat that song my friend , never heard one in my life that didn't make my ears perk up , but she does sing exceptionally well ....them cheap reels are the stuff , not kidding :highfive

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BTW , you notice that one crappie fish with the ripped upper lip , that was very likely caused by someone using a hook that is WAY too big .... :yikes .....:Rofl

That's the way to top off a good day and turn it into a great one. I bet it was an epic battle and favorite rod came through again. Great deal on the spare.

Very nice! Kaboom is the word


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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

That's the way to top off a good day and turn it into a great one. I bet it was an epic battle and favorite rod came through again. Great deal on the spare.

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Sir to say it was epic understates that wrestling match , that ole fish was wise and she made all the moves to escape flawlessly , she ran for a root ball and I turned her last second , though we were saying bye bye that run , then she ran right back at the dock and up under it into the dock legs , thought FOR positive sure she we were parting ways at that point , Somehow in the confusion she decided to go out from the dock after a few seconds under it and head for a brush pile , the only good news is by that point she was beginning to tire a bit and it was looking like I had a minimal chance to even see her , to that point I wasn't even sure what was on my line .
she did lots of open water train a rolling runs in the mix as well , not hybrid type runs , more like really big catfish runs .
She ran back at the dock and in my mind it is likely home plate for her , then right before the dock I put some serious pressure on her and up she came looking tired and ready to say when .....
soon as that occurred we marched to the shore down the main walkway and the rest was just photo opportunities...
AND BTW sir , she is highly likely to have been the toad that ruined the jig the week before under said dock ....just saying :popcorn

Those bigger bass seem to be home bodies and don't roam around much as long as there is food and shelter. Some years back I caught the same 5lb + bass four times in 11 day period off the same dock post. It was blind in one eye but really fat. Then gone, probably got caught and taken home. Since you released her you might catch her again. That would be cool.

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

Those bigger bass seem to be home bodies and don't roam around much as long as there is food and shelter. Some years back I caught the same 5lb + bass four times in 11 day period off the same dock post. It was blind in one eye but really fat. Then gone, probably got caught and taken home. Since you released her you might catch her again. That would be cool.

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she really wasn't sporting any highly memorable attributes other than her sheer size , that lake holds numerous bass over 10 lbs. best I can tell , it is a VERY healthy lake and produces lots of quality fish in several species .
Heard tell one fella managed a 14 on bass tackle and to be very sure up over 5 lbs. size range is a pretty much a super easy deal if you chase bass .....
that fella showed me about 6 or 7 fish in the 9 to 10 and up range this year during the pre spawn....
it is really an amazing 35 or so acre lake that really gets very little management , I do think our crappie lake cleaning service helps the balance , after years of trucking out a few thousand a year , we have noticed much larger fatter fish in all the species that thrive in there ....
My hopes is there might be a real real big crappie in there in the near future , the owner told me they used to ketch some in the 3 to 4 lb range way back when....that might be a fact , told me any crappie over 3 needs to go to his big clubhouse freezer for a mount , said he was sad they ate all of them back when and never had one mounted ....

interesting about the one eye , we had a one eye over at another lake that was big and liked to rob crappie off folks lines at the crappie dock there ....bet it is the easiest place to feed when you only got one eye