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Re: Mt's Tip of the month
Reply #10 - Jan 29th, 2011 at 5:47am
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And REALLLY.   Huh  Grin
  
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Reply #11 - Jan 31st, 2011 at 1:43pm
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Big is over 45" and Really is over 55"

I have only seen one freshwater fish over 55" in person. Lake St Clair  Musky...

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Reply #12 - Jan 31st, 2011 at 6:36pm
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Salted Leech- Here's another biggie.

A 16 lb largemouth caught in a Texas Tournament (I will resendif jpg. picture didn't send). I think it was 27 in long with a 23 inch girth. Whoa.
  
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Reply #13 - Jan 31st, 2011 at 10:01pm
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Hey we fresh water fishermen don't have a clue what big and really big mean. Right MT?

We never have to fear for our life no matter what we haul aboard.
  
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Reply #14 - Jan 31st, 2011 at 11:00pm
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6 of us were on Capt. Yuris boat 3 years ago 100 miles offshore on a flat calm day. The young army kid yelled he had one and it commenced to kick his you know what. He was peering down into the depths when suddenly he yelled out that he had hooked a huge shark. Grunting and groaning he kept reeling and reeled up the head of what was once about a 60lb Amberjack (one of the oceans bad boys...If you think your tough you don't know Jack).

The shark, about a 16 ft hammerhead followed the scent trail of the jacks head having already eaten the rest of it. It was absolutely huge and incredibly awesome. I had seen lots of film on sharks and most show them gliding about but this was as impressive of a display of any creature that I have ever witnessed. It proceeded to swim in swift "S" curves on the surface looking for that Jacks head. It was clear to me that if you were in the water it was over. There could be no escape. The amount of water it moved, speed and the flexibility it showed were quite the eye opener.

We have a saying offshore....."every things bait"  Wink
  
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Reply #15 - Feb 1st, 2011 at 8:47pm
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The Ocean is in a different class with out questions. ANy fishing where you can  become the bait is on a differnet. level.

It is funny how somfish like the noise and thrashing sounds. On Lake Saint Claire you always run a big body bait in the prop wash while trolling. The Muskies Hit it there frequently.

THen there is top water and all you do is make noise. I have found that fishing from shore is when stealth is the most effective.
  
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Re: Mt's Tip of the month
Reply #16 - Feb 1st, 2011 at 11:08pm
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Big is over 45" and Really is over 55"

I have only seen one freshwater fish over 55" in person. Lake St Clair  Musky...

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If this was last year do tell the put in/harbor...just out of curiosity what was the weight on that there King...nice fish Wink
  
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Reply #17 - Feb 2nd, 2011 at 1:20am
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A general suggestion for the "Tip of the Month".  Since the QJforums are set up in such a manner as to be a sort of reference library, in the future you might wish to differentiate the subject line somehow.  Maybe something like

"Mt's Tip of the Month for Jan. 2011"

or maybe better yet,

"Mt's Tip of the Month:  Stealth Fishing".
  
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Reply #18 - Feb 2nd, 2011 at 1:27am
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And since we are now on the subject of unusual encounters with whopper fish, somewhere amongst my disorganized collection of vacation videos I have some footage of a whale shark being ridden by the first mate of our Hawaiian fishing charter. 

We happened upon the beast while returning from our charter.  We stopped for some video and the first mate said he'd be willing to give us some video we'd never forget.  I begged the captain to let me jump in for a ride, too, but he was having none of that.  I still regret not just doing it anyway.  We were already on the way back.  What was he going to do?  Take me home immediately?  That was already in progress!
  
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Reply #19 - Feb 3rd, 2011 at 12:53am
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PhantomJug wrote on Jan 28th, 2011 at 5:22pm:
I received a lot of flack from some canoe snobs when I carpeted the inside of my cedar strip canoe several years ago.


I'm little late to the conversation but its worth asking do you pack in a vacuum on your trips? Wink Cheesy

Sweet!! Grin

//windsailor
  
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