today's fishing! (skunkage, i think not!)

[crankybait]

Alright... well it was like 65 degrees out, exremely windy. i was thinking, hey I don't think its ideal but i haven't been fishing in a while. So I grab some hooks, tiki stiks, and hawgsauce, and of course my rods and headed off to the pond. Ok, so i was going to wacky rig the tiki sticks and make a very slow retrieve... i casted out, dropped my rod, and casted out with another rod. then i wait a bit and do a little hopping retrieve. Ok, first cast and i catch this:


It's pretty cool, since every time i get a fish on the first cast i have a good day. Well, after that fish, i just had some bites but missed hooksets (the idea of just letting the rods sit wasn't too smart). i did land these lunker slabs of snot moss, though!

1 dink, 2 hawgs.
This one put up a tough fight...

and does anybody want to identify this weed?

Ok well then a mother with her 2 autistic kids came over... she was very nice and asked if her kids could throw rocks, so i figured sure, I'll be a good person. The kids have their fun, talked a bit about fishing... i ended up persuading the mother to buy them some spincast combos and take em bluegill fishing at Assunpink.
ok well then i headed to the nice spot (btw JB thanks for the tip about casting paralel to the bank):

and landed this, first cast into a littlle enclosure.

Then a few ducks passed by...

I headed down to the infamous fisherman's christmas tree, decorated with all sorts of lures... its a hard cast, but I've done it plenty of times. i got it down by now. here is the tree:

there is only one visible, but there are atleast 15 lures (including 2 of mine) up in that tree. Well, i casted right under it and landed this... had a random passerby take the pic. Looked much bigger in real life.


Well it was a nice day... really wasn't expecting a catch, but I'm getting good at this! Remeber the days when I'd be skunked on every outing... thanks for your help guys!

[Fishie1]

looks like my day today man!....I got 10 today on t rigged straight tail worms on channel drops on a small lake.....I also got one on a swimbait that was about 2lbs....put em in my lake.......looks like the senko worked good for yah.

[mack]

nice cranky!

[zooker]

so ya caught some moss and 3 fish.

cool

zooker

[crankybait]

yep my day was pretty nice... only went for about an hour, so hey whatever...if i had some spnnerbaits i probably would have done better in the wind.

[ToPwAt'R GuY]

Nice job Cranky.

[lizardsrule]

Nice day, however in my youth, I would be climbing that thar tree, and getting some lures rotfl.

Lizards

[skeeter944]

yeah,we climbed a tree at this one pond and got 2 jitterbugs and a bass pro shops cicada.

[crankybait]

Haha i doubt that branch would support more than 20pounds... if it snaps, a 20 foot drop. I have been known to occaisonally jump into a bush, or hop some throns to grab a bobber floatin and see whats on the other end.

[lizardsrule]

Addapt and overcome. Can You say golf ball retriever.

Lizards

[crankybait]

I have been thinking of ways to get those down... But treecutter was too short, casting up with like 200 test braid wouldn't be too good for my gear, climbing would mean falling.
The one idea that i think may possibly work is a rope around the limb, then making some sort of long sliding device to go along it that would have a serrated blade. The branch is thin, it would be quick cutting. The golf ball retriever may or may not work, because some parts have enormous line tangles on them.

[mack]

cranky whats the name of this pond?

[crankybait]

it is the holmdel park pond.

[fishinfortune]

that moss must have wieght 10 lbs

[ILfishinman]

i also caught a hawg myself, atleast a personal hawg, i went fishing last saturday when my buddy came down from chi-town area and we wanted to go fishin so we did, didnt really expect anything. started with a straight tailed worm workin is slow, and it wasnt working, then i rememberd an article called "cold crankin" so i tied on a rapala i found when i was walking along a river. and sure enough about 15 casts later over a point Wham , well more like "wtf im snagged" he felt like dead weight as i pulled him in and then when we saw him were all like omg awesome, and there are people sitting in their cars behind us prolly thinkin "those dumbasses, its too cold to go fishin" and we pulled him up on the dock and i did a lil victory dance lol. measured him at 17.5" and snapped a few pics with my phone and back on in he went. heres a pic, it was pretty cold and windy, hence the balaclava.

[flbassman]

Nice Fish Illinois!

[ILfishinman]

thanks ...... darn letter limit

[JB]

I knew I'd seen you somewhere ILfishinman...don't worry yer secrets safe
with the bassfishin forum gang......rofl

[ILfishinman]

lol nice one jb, i actually have a pic or two of me dressed as a ninja lol ninjas are awesome

[JB]

I noticed when I did my image search, that there were quite a few teens dressed up with ninja outfits, some with swards...any who...nice bass ya caught! feels good to get a bigger one doesn't it ?

[ILfishinman]

yea it does feel good to get a big one, im sure ive caughten bigger, when i was in michigan with my grandpa we didnt really measure them unless they were close to keeper, but anyway it was my biggest since then bass wise, other than bass a 38" muskie i got pics if ya want em hehe

[mack]

Originally Posted by ILfishinman

yea it does feel good to get a big one, im sure ive caughten bigger, when i was in michigan with my grandpa we didnt really measure them unless they were close to keeper, but anyway it was my biggest since then bass wise, other than bass a 38" muskie i got pics if ya want em hehe

id like to see them...they are pretty cool fish....i got them and pike in the river i fish..

[ILfishinman]

yea he put up a helluvuh fight, took me a good 15-20 mins to get him in, my arms were killin me afterwards lol. you can see the chompers on that guy in that pic, pretty big and sharp lol. also heres a vid me and my buddy did about a month ago for another site contest thing, yea you guessed it, im the fishing ninja lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKmFLBdEV1w

[crankybait]

lucky you... i went for only like an hour today before gong over a friends house because my dad had to go to the city. Crazy skunkage. Jigs are not my thing

[ILfishinman]

yea i went fishing today aswell, we had a halfday,if i had a car i would totally have skipped skool and went fishing but i went for a bit after skool and i got skizzunked too