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Big_p
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Username: Big_p
Post Number: 65
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 11:49 pm: | 
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We were fishing on Lake Proctor and camping at Promotory Park. I think I was about 6 or 7 years old. My dad had an old Lone Star boat that would barely carry me, my dad and grandpa. We were fishing out in the deep water up the river. I was having all kinds of trouble getting those slabs up out of the brush and would get mad and throw down my fishing rod. Well my grandpa pitched out away from the boat and caught about an 8 pound Appalousa Channel cat. Not to be outdone I picked up my rod and cast out to the exact spot where he had hooked his. My minnow had no more than hit the water and it was off to the races. I was yelling Pa help me as I pulled with all my might. Him and my dad just laughed at me. There was no way I was going to turn this fish around. Well as I started over the side of the boat my grandpa grabbed my waistband and took the rod. When he finally landed the fish it was a 15 pound blue cat full of eggs. We went to the local bait shop and had her weighed and my pic took. That night as we were cleaning the fish my mom and grandma talked me into letting the fish go because she was full of eggs. My dad and grandpa got mad as all hopps at me but I like to think there a few huge catfish left in that lake thanks to me!  |
Picou
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Username: Picou
Post Number: 90
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 1:22 am: |
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Almost impossible to narrow to one. But here is a very memorable day of fishing.
I went to Louisisna to fish with Bigun many years ago. We picked up his friend and headed out for a morning of speck fishing. We were out there fishing, catching a few specks when all of the sudden I see smoke bellowing up from the driver seat. Bigun races to the back of his boat and lifts the seat to find flames coming from the battery charger. Once that fire was out we went back to fishing. Some time had passed and we were back to catching fish when all of the sudden Bigun's buddy collapses, screams, and falls overboard. He was hanging on to the side of the boat with one leg in the boat and one hand hanging on. He is hollaring for help and we are laughing at him for falling out of the boat. It was not until we got him back in the boat we learned his knee blew out just standing there. We headed back to the camp to get him taken care of. Well, once we had him taken care of Bigun and I began walking to the boat. There was a step up to get on the doc and Bigun -- being the big guy he is stepped up and split his head open a 2x6 rafter. There was a doctor there and he insisted I take him to the emergency room for stiches. Next was the task of loading the boat on the trailer and getting him to the e-room. Well, back then he drove a POS nissan that had the steering wheel installed upside down, the front end shook, and the brakes would not stop a square block in a sand pile. As I am hauling him to the hospital on a 2 lane road with a shell shoulder that is barely wide enough to ride a bicycle on, the woman in front of me locks up her brakes. Of course, it took less than a moment for me to realize that this truck was not going to stop in time so I whipped it over on the shell shoulder doing 55 MPH and passed her -- half in the ditch with a nissan single cab pickup hauling an 18' bass boat. When we got into town she pulled up next to us to apologize and she looks over to see Bigun with a face full of blood and I can only imagine what went through her head at that moment.
Well, we eventually made it to the emergency room and I took his boat to the house and went to tell the family he was in the e-room. If I am not mistaken, he proposed to my cousin that night or the next morning -- still under medication I am sure... 
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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Sluggo
Minnow
Username: Sluggo
Post Number: 7
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 9:02 am: |
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Probably not the best, but one of the most recent I can remember.
A couple of years ago we were invited up to a lake house that my sister in law's family owns in Brant Lake, NY. We would spend a week there drinking beer, BBQ'ing, fishing, skiing, etc. I was pumped. I am always looking for a different fish to catch and this lake would have a few I had never seen before. We made it up there in the middle of the night, and I woke up the next morning and walked into the living room to look out of a bay window onto a lake surrounded huge trees and flat as a piece of glass. I fished for a week straight pulling huge hand sized and bigger sunfish up from the bottom in the rocks, catching bass on lures, pickerel, and yellow perch, and a ton of bull heads. My wife's family was with us and her cousin's are extremely competitive. We all stared fishing together one afternoon and it turned into a little fishing tournament. I was spanking them so bad it wasn't funny and one of the cousin's finally get's mad a says he's fishing wherever I am, and doing whatever I do. We'd bait up, throw out, and his bobber would land within a foot or two of mine. Sit for about 15 - 20 seconds and mine would go under. He would soak bait. I'd rebait, pitch it back to the same spot within a foot of his bobber, just to irritate him, mine would go under, and he'd soak bait. I guess it was just one of those days where you couldn't miss. I rubbed it in aweful. Especially after he told me I wasn't a "true Texan" because of my choice of beer preferences during a discussion we had the night before. I'd hook one and look at him and ask him "You want to reel this one in?" just like we were doing with the kids. He didn't fish with me the rest of the week! I can't wait to go back. We averaged 4 cases of beer a day, fished all day, BBQ'd all evening, and sat around the campfire until 3 or 4 in the morning every night. It was an awesome time. |
Humper
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Username: Humper
Post Number: 5
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 9:07 am: |
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When my son caught his first fish! We went down to a local creek that flows into the west end of lake Lewisville when Noah was about four years old. Noah hooked a small brim and the fight was on. He hauled that "Monster" in and carried it back home with him. He went to every neighbor's house and showed them his fish which he had named "Rick the fish" after one of our neighbors.
Best fishing day ever!
Fishing bites, I'm just here for the beer!
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Charles
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Username: Charles
Post Number: 29
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 9:14 am: |
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With my kids perch jerking at my dads house. We can sit there all day catching perch. |
Rudey
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Username: Rudey
Post Number: 26
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 9:30 am: |
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There are too many to count, from when I was a kid to taking my own kids...
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
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Richard
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Username: Richard
Post Number: 16
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 11:30 am: |
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Here's one of mine. Me and grandpa took my daughter fishing and had a blast. After we caught some bass we switched to bream. She had me and my dad running all over the place catching small grasshoppers for her to use.
Don't ever shave drunk!
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Chicken
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Username: Chicken
Post Number: 51
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 11:34 am: |
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Watching my son (who is five) catch his first decent size fish. He faught that thing for minutes and all the sudden he became a fisherman.
(so he thinks) |
Picou
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Username: Picou
Post Number: 95
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 11:45 am: |
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree Chicken...
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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Fishinaggie88
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Username: Fishinaggie88
Post Number: 8
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 12:36 pm: |
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No one timne in particular other than fishing with my grandpa. He has been gone for 25 years now and I still miss him. |
Chad
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Username: Chad
Post Number: 21
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 12:53 pm: |
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Every day that I can go fishing with my dad. Ever since we sold our bass boat, he never fished much anymore. I know it's still something that he loves, but he just doesnt have time or something gets in the way of it. So when he does, I cherish it. My dad and I dont get along all the time, but one thing that I do know is that we have never been in an arguement while outdoors. So anytime and everytime I can fish with my Dad has got to be my best times of fishing. Catchin alot or none, I love it.
-Chad Critchfield-
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Buzzbait
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Username: Buzzbait
Post Number: 3
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 12:54 pm: |
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I took my dad this past spring to Somerville for his birthday. March 17, St Patricks Day. My buddies have been tearing them up in the last few weeks and I told dad i would take off from work and take him fishing. We(4 of us) ended up with 70 plus whites. i have fished a lot with my father but this was one of the best.
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Picou
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Username: Picou
Post Number: 104
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 12:58 pm: |
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I know that feeling, lots of great memories fishing with my paw paw.
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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Wes
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Username: Wes
Post Number: 25
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 1:21 pm: |
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prob picou falling out of the boat at purtis creek :-) only good thing that happened that year fishing. Mike and I had a running bet, most fish, biggest fish and biggest butt whopping of the year. Expensive year for me that year :-( but it was worth it to see him fall out of the boat. |
Bigun
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Username: Bigun
Post Number: 8
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 7:11 am: |
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Wes, that probably would be mine also if I saw it.
Picou, that was a pretty memorable weekend. About everything that could happen, happened that weekend. You forgot to mention that we caught limits of nice trout each trip also. And I did not propose. I woke up in Lafayette and my wife purchased a ring from my sister who runs a jewelry store. I guess after 9 yrs though it was time.
I've made so many fishing trips in my life it is hard. Probably the trip I brought my daughter and she was whining because it started raining. And I told her "in a couple years, you will look back at this and say it sure was fun fishing with your dad in the rain that day". Sure enough, she lets everyone know she fished in the rain with her dad now to show she is a fisherman. |
Barnaclebill
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Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 47
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 12:30 am: |
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One of fondest memories was once when I took my two oldest sons down to Baffin bay. We had a hard time catching bait, so when we got to where we were going (tide gate bar) I asked him to take the cast net and see if he could get us some mullet. He took off down the sandbar and came back about 20 minutes later with some bait. Nathan and myself already had 4 fish in the box. Eric said "That ain't fair, the next one is mine" so he made a sandwich and sat down on the console eating it when my 7'6" Fenwick bent over and line started stripping off of the reel, Eric jumps up and out the boat, only to lose his footing at the gunwale , ••• over tea kettle into the knee deep water, he comes up sputtering and spitting spitting out bologna sandwich and makes his way over to the rod. he sets the hook and the fight is on.. He finally begins to make headway bringing it in. He gets it up close so I send Nathan to get the net out of the boat... " Dad, it's not in here" I HAD FORGOTTEN THE NET AND ERIC HAS A MONSTER TROUT ON and it was hooked in the cheek. Well he finally played into about knee deep water and Dad daves the day,, I make a grab for her and get lucky. I end up bear hunning her all the way back to the boat.. it was a 31 inch sow trout that tipped the scales right at 9 lbs 5oz.. I think that's the day Eric became a fisherman... BTW he was about 14 or 15 at the time.
Born to fish-Forced to work
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Marion
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Username: Marion
Post Number: 9
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 8:37 am: |
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I had taken my 2 girls fishing for catfish but we hadn't caught a thing after a couple of hours. The perch kept taking the worms of the hooks. I finally put some small hooks on and they started catching perch as soon as the hook hit the water. I bet they caught 50-60 perch in the next 1 1/2 hours. They sure had a good time. |
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