I weighed this one, he was a true 2 pounds.
Jr.
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I weighed this one, he was a true 2 pounds.
Jr.
Looks like he's 2-3" thick. What's the length?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jr Branham
Holy Moly ---What a fish :eek:
Hey, that's a gorgeous lunker Cracker!!!! Nice Big'ol Belly on him too!!!! I bet he gave you quite a fight!!!! Personally, I feel the big Crackers and Gills fight as hard or harder than a 5 lbs Bass....When they go sideways in the water on ya, it's like pullin in a garbage can lid with all the water resistance they can put out!!!!! :) :) :)
Nice looking fish,
good looking fish, outstanding !!
Very nice!
Good one no doubt.
Good Job!
He was thick, I wished I had him on my digital camera, but niece took pics on hers, printed a pic then deleted it. Seems like sometimes when skin mounts are done, the taxidermist gets the skin out of alignment, that is why I was showing the bottom pic, his skin is not "twisted" to make him look bigger.
Curious as why nobody asked where he was caught, but, I'lll tell ya guys anyway.....:D
He came from the general area that the world record "shellcracker" came from. Some of you guys know where that is. This fish is considered average, nothing to raise eybrows about, to the locals, to ME, I couldn't stop smiling for a week.:)
Jr. B
I am guessing he hit some type of worm.
Most bream are mounted in situational mounts like in a 10# bass's mouth or in a loggerhead turtle's mouth. So you know this one is huge
Jeebus!!! that's nice!
Very Very Nice !!!!!!
You caught him around Santee Cooper, SC. Lake Moultrie and Marion. I have a friend who decided to retire and move there after a few good fishing trips.
Not trying to down play your fish, but you were saying that is average. You are about right, though I grin from ear to ear and sometimes sound like a little school girl when I catch a two pounder.
Anyway my friend, Joe, brought home a mess of those fish from Lake Moultrie the were 3 1/2 lbs not one but the whole mess. I could not beleive my eyes... I bout shat. They looked like footballs and the forhead was coming over the nose like somebody smacked'm with a board.
There are some fine fish not just crackers but all kinds in Santee Cooper lakes.
Man that is a heck of a fish and something to be proud of. Thanks for sharing.
"In 1998, Santee Cooper had a world’s record shellcracker that weighed 5 pounds, 7 ounces caught in the Diversion Canal. We catch 4-pound shellcrackers every fall, and 2- to 3-pound shellcrackers are fairly common,” Lamprecht reports. The Diversion Canal, which connects Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie, seems to concentrate shellcrackers in the fall months. During the fall and winter, shellcrackers are caught in 15 to 20 feet of water. Anglers fish on the end of the current, right along the bottom. The fall run of shellcrackers usually starts the first week of November and continues through mid-December. Then shellcracker-fishing gets good again around Easter and runs through the summer months."
Can you imagine, 5 and a half pounds. Wow, thats a trophy smallmouth bass.
Wow that is a nice one.
I have seen smaller crackers than that easily break 6lb test line. I bet that was a nice fight.
Oscar
http://webpages.charter.net/jmayer54...s/evrcfish.htm
Well, I'm impressed. Really nice fish.
Nice Very Nice.
dang. i have never seen one that thick. monster catch. bet he was a fighter:)
that is a nice redear
Very sweet fish there. That also is a real nice job on the mount. Congrats, I hope I can get one that size one of these days...