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Author:
Michael
Date:
Apr 10, 2012
Subject:
Trophy Catch at Small Pond
Message:
Tuesday afternoon I headed over to a different small pond than the one I usually hit and fished it from 1:45pm til 6:20pm. Saw perch cruising the shore and tried throwing a 1/16oz white maribu. Had 1 grab it while doing a constant light twitching retrieve, but had no luck while bouncing it in front of them. They'd look at it but not hit it. I then decided to switch over to a 2" double rigged soft plastic worm. That had the bluegills going crazy! Stuck with a slow gliding walk the dog retrieve just under the surface. Lots of bluegills were following and hit it but could only get 1 to hit the hook. But then, while still doing that retrieve, I feel a stiff hard hit after seeing a fish come shooting out of nowhere. I set the hook and pretty soon a fish comes leaping out of the water! I landed a trophy 13 ounce pumpkinseed! [img:0f627e11ec]http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r614/mvsimko/9inch13ouncePumpkinseedatFuneralHome4-10-12.jpg[/img:0f627e11ec] I had 1 more pumpkinseed the same size grab the hook but lost it on the jump. Also had perch looking at it, landed a 1 pound largemouth, and missed out on a pickerel. When I got home, before filleting the perch and pumpkinseed, I measured the pumpkinseed. 9" length by 9" girth! My original PB pumpkinseed was caught years ago and was close to or possibly a new CT record. That one was released into the pond I caught it at.
Author:
PECo
Date:
Apr 10, 2012
Subject:
Holy crap!
Message:
You can tell that a pumpkinseed is BIG when you can lip it. :lol: Nice fish!
Author:
chuckc
Date:
Apr 10, 2012
Message:
That's a pig!!!!
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