Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Fishin' 2012

New Pond record! A friend caught this 22" 6+lb LMB in our 4 year old lake. Caught at high noon on a bright sunny day on a Watermelon Senko in about 10 feet of water.

Nice!!!

wow Captain1 that is healthy looking bass

Great looking fish.
Like the way he's holding him.
Did you put him back?

I love the coloring on the fish. Very pretty fish.

Yes, we put him back in after the pictures. He was cleanly hooked in the mouth. Later that day I caught a 4 lb fish making it the best big bass day for that pond. The 4lb fish had swallowed the hook and I cut the line. I hope that it survived, because it was also a beautiful and fat fish. I have read that gill hooked fish rarely survive but that swallowed hook fish can make it. is that so?
Here is another angle.

Bluegill pics from fishing my lake on Saturday. If you look closely you will see many different strains of regular and hybrid bluegill.

Good Lord! what incredible bluegill! What an accomplishment.

Bruce would be proud.

nate, that female looks like she's going to explode! Beautiful fish!!

These pics are the definition of success.

Captain1, a gut hooked fish usually can make it; hopefully it wasn't bleeding at all, or at least too badly.

n8ly ,
by hybrid you mean CNBG and regular BG strain cross actual HBG?

Captain1....does your shirt say "Lake City, Colorado"?

My brother has a cabin in Lake City near the Packer Massacre site.

We've been going to Lake City every summer the last 40 years.

Zep, yes- that's my buddy that caught the fish. He vacations in Lake City each summer. He leaves next week for a month in Colorado.

wow...small world
a month in the Rockies...lucky dog
that's my dream one day
June/July/August = In Colorado escaping Texas heat
Rest of the year @ Pond in East Tx and/or College Football

N8ly, can you tell us more about the strains of BG? Interesting just how dark many are...

Captain, I don't know if they all survive swallowing hooks, but this one of mine passed the hook.

Zep, he is a lucky dog between jobs and has a couple months to play. He plans on hiking the 14ers and trout fishing over that time.

Bobby, most of my hybrids that I have are bluegill mixed with green sunfish or bluegill mixed with redear sunfish (not pictured).

CJ, I have raised and stocked bluegills from pretty much every major hatchery in the United States. I also get bluegills from many of my other ponds.

I have the lake so full of every kind of predator, that bluegill would eventually become extinct if it werent for raising and supplementally stocking them.

I caught 8 small bluegill for my 6ft back yard pond and cut the line and left in the hooks they swallowed. They lived two years and grew to full size.

I've also used lures as decoration in my aquarium, seen the hooks rust up in a matter of days and also read that the acid in the fish dissolves them even faster (seems possible).

Never had a bleeding fish live however.

Got to fish my pond for a spell today while catching BG to transport to my neighborhood retention pond. This LMB was just over 4lbs. and caught on a shiner:

Healthy looking fish, bro. Male or female?

Randy, I don't know for sure, but I think female. It had a pretty angular bulge in it's gut, so it seemed pretty healthy.

I feel this LMB was stocked in my pond in '05. At the time of stocking, it was at least a year old at 12-14". It was during that 2005 Bass Master Classic, and a lot of those LMB that I got had injuries in the center of their lower jaws. This bass had that sign on his jaw.

So this LMB could be 8-9 years old. He/She's survived a lot of scumbag poachers, and perhaps I've caught it a time or two in the past.

I dont know about the green carp but the rain sure looks beautiful....