12 inch Redear

[Quillback]

Last Saturday my neighbor and I hit one of the Bella Vista lakes in the evening. The plan was to get a few small Bream to use as bait on some jugs and then do a little catfishing once it got dark. Anyway we were working the shoreline for Bream, picking up a few bait sized ones. My neighbor has this bad habit of trailing a nightcrawler about 6 feet down under a cork off the stern as we fish the shoreline. Every once in a while he actually catches something on it, well that's how he got the mighty 12 inch Redear. Biggest one I ever saw. Sorry no pic, as it wasn't my fish. The catfishing was a bust, not a one did we catch. But the giant Redear made my neightbors day (and probably the hightlight of his year fishing wise). He's already claiming it weighed 2 pounds - next year it will be 3 lbs. I'm sure.

[gonefishin]

WHAT!! A 12inch Redear and no pics to prove it?? HMMmmmm sounds like a fish story to me.

HEH HEH just kidding. Really, that sounds like it was one nice fish.

[Terry Beeson]

- next year it will be 3 lbs. I'm sure.

... and 16 inches no doubt...

(I should know... been there, done that... )

[Quillback]

Now that I think about it, I should have taken a picture, with the fish next to a ruler, then say for example, when we're out fishing again and my neighbor says something along the lines of "Remember that 16 inch Redear I caught last summer?", I could whip out the picture and bring him back to reality.