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Michael
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 Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:09 pm Post subject: Trophy Catch at Small Pond |
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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!
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. |
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PECo
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:21 pm Post subject: Holy crap! |
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You can tell that a pumpkinseed is BIG when you can lip it.  Nice fish!
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chuckc
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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That's a pig!!!!
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perfect hook set
Joined: 24 Feb 2008
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Location: Danbury
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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haha, I once caught a decent gill on a dt 10 crank bait!
I am not sure if it was as big as yours though...
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fishfinder
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Should have held it a little higher and we could have called you Pumpkin head!
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BassRican
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:05 am Post subject: |
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Damn!! That's a sweet fish. Great job. 
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perfect hook set
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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really fishfiinder really?
that would be a funny sight though
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fishfinder
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Ehhh! Sounded funny at the minute but I also popped a few pills that day! LOL Not popping them recreationaly!!!!
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