KBCraig
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what a pig! I've got several decent brownie stories, but this is my favorite, and personal best:
I was wading a fairly well known section of the Blackstone River in RI. It had rained for several days prior, and the water was high. So high, that it made what I would call...less than safe. I waded out into the usual area I start at and began blind casting with my 3wt fly rod...the fish are generally on the smaller size as they are stocked. I had no luck for the first half hour, when I saw across the river, set back under some over hanging brush, a trout sipping flies off the top. I tied on my go to fly for this river, an elk hair caddis tied in all black, with a copper rib. Now, it was time to wade into position...and this was a problem. The optimum casting position to swing the fly under the brush put me into a fairly swift rapid...oh well, no one ever got a good story out of playing it safe. I waded out waist deep as far as I could. I laced a perfect cast of about 60 feet just upstream, the drift was so perfect I can still picture it...and then I saw the fish come up and take the fly. On a 3wt fly rod, any fish feels like a monster. This fish, coupled with the current took me for a ride. 50yds down stream it took me into a slower run where I was able to land it. 22", aproximately 3lbs. Not the biggest fish ever caught, but an absolute monster for the blackstone, as anyone who has fished it will tell you. Unfortunately, I had no camera, so I admired it for a moment and released it to get caught again.
shot a 25lb bass in the race today after work. not a bad fish considering the visibility and overall lack of fish. this was the only fish i got today, my friend got a 15lber. like i said there is not much going on out there yet, give it a week or two and we'll start seeing the bigger fish out in the sound.
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Didn't have a scale but wouldn't be surprised that one was pushing 8 lbs.
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The next day, same lake. Still no scale but probably in the 6 lb range.
Dave
Awesome, where those local to New England?
Caught in Vermont last week.
Dave
From last Tuesday Jun 25th - Northern Pike 30" and 7.8 pounds, my largest one yet.
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If any of you notice the fish she is holding it was a 13" largemouth
Freakin' slayin 'em these last few weekends!
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This was fishing with the gf on last Wed. I didn't catch any new personal records that day (just a 17" largemouth and 27" northern) but for some unexplained reason it was a very memorable day fishing.
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If any of you notice the fish she is holding it was a 13" largemouth
On a worm? How did you rig it?
From last Tuesday Jun 25th - Northern Pike 30" and 7.8 pounds, my largest one yet.
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This is the reaction of someone with bare feet when the same pike with large teeth and a razor sharp hook still in it's mouth falls into the boat and starts to thrash around.
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Edit: Actually I thought the hook was still in its mouth, the reason it fell into the boat was because the hook broke.
See what u did there............
See what?