Fear Not

[abkeenan]

1 hour ago, SplitG2 said:

Not 8's but 2 good ones that may have sniffed 7.  My 2 PB's caught back to back one night in July 2014.  No scale but the bigger one measured just over 22-1/2".

 

I recognize that water...................

[MoCarp]

16 hours ago, Cindyjo said:

I just finished reviewing the fish electro. data and all the comments.  Our home is on TR.  I fish TR constantly.  My fishing results are not as limited as the report.  There are many LMB in the 8 - 10+ pound range.  I see them often.  I catch them (5-8lbs.) on occasion. 

if you catch 100 LMB in a season what do they avg?  just like I hear about 20# carp are everywhere but when pressed people's eyes get big, bass are no different, I like many carpers own pretty good scales Ruben Heaton, have weighted a butt load of fish, all kinds.. a limit of bass, 3#ers is 18# couple of 5# gets you to 22# get to 24# and that will earn you a good paycheck.....way back in the early days I remember seeing strings of bass where the smallest were 5#!  ....fish are smaller today than they were just a few years ago, the fish below has a big head/small body something we are seeing, that fish could/should be several pounds heaver 

If you really want to know measure every fish you catch all season, a fishing notebook is a great tool,

 

its just not TR... many lakes are experiencing this...why? lots of questions, worse forage? too many bass? Biologists have numbers on TR that go back years,

 

[Cindyjo]

I spoke of the last 2 years.  4 years ago my neighbor had a bluegill on  a hook/line attached to our dock.  The next morning he found a 9lb 7oz LMB took the bait.  He released the fish.  

Of course this is 4 years ago.  Im not going to try to speculate why no 8+lb LMB were reported in the 2017 tournaments.  Should I be so lucky as to catch another 8+ LMB I will be sure to take a pic.  Although it seems rather self indulgent to do so at the risk of further stressing significant breeding stock.  Especially at the time they maybe full of eggs.

Just a thought.  All those lunkers caught and released, and never reported, have what?  Just vanished?  

[Flysmallie]

3 minutes ago, Cindyjo said:

All those lunkers caught and released, and never reported, have what?  Just vanished?  

 

Same thing happened to the unicorns. 

[gitnby]

10 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

 

Same thing happened to the unicorns. 

Wrong!

I just caught a unicorn last week on a banjo minnow using my Popeil's pocket fisherman.

 

 

[Royal Blue]

Wasn't there a report of a 10lb largemouth caught in 2016?  I think I remember hearing about that one, but they're super rare.  I have most definitely done better at night for average size, but most of my best fish have been caught over on that pond to the east.  I think it has to do with the crazy wakes and the insane pressure that Bull doesn't necessarily get.

[Quillback]

I know someone's brother that caught a 9.5 on a trotline a couple of years ago.  It was released alive. 

[Quillback]

I like this video, photography is really well done.  C'mon weather, warm up, I am ready to go fishing!

 

 

 

[big c]

Amen Quill !!!

[MoCarp]

I thought I read somewhere one of the lakes in California stopped stocking trout and the bass anglers got salty about it