but it just wasnt meant to be.

Got a little time to slip off yesterday...actually I didnt....gf wanted me at home to help clean butttttttttttttt

Slipped off to Long Island and went to dock X to soak some minnows and jig a little. Caught a few lilns on a jig. That bite quit, put a minnow on a white....well, beat up white jig head....saw a little twitch, then as the boat rocked, the line would get more tension on it, like it was hung up. Picked it up and there was a head shake.....felt like a good fish. Told my buddy it felt good but Ive been wrong before. Already had a 14"er in the boat and this one dwarfed it. Big white male crappie. Ive caught a couple 16"ers and it was bigger then them......of course as soon as it gets to the top of the water, the jighead I thought was stuck good, deep in the roof of the mouth, popped out. ......oh well, guess I will keep at it.


Wished I could say it was the biggest Ive lost, but I lost a big black crappie back in the spring that I honestly think would have gone close to 3lbs. Oh well, thats why they call it fishing and what makes you want to keep coming back for more and more.


OH YEAH....went back to the honey hole after that and caught a 1.5-2lb bass.....got around a chain (but I got it in easily ) and lady comes walking by and says "thats what happens when you fish around other peoples property"

The honey hole not only produces crappies but plenty of "brown eyes" if ya get my drift.

nice.....ill be at em up that way here in the next month......last year bout mid sept was when i starting killin em!

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Gotta go.......FISH ON !!
I only fish on days that end in"Y"

"Almost" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades--but you'll get it next time; and next time it will be 17.25" and still angry about being hooked the first time.

I wonder how the woman would have reacted if you said, "that's what happens when other people build their property over the top of my best fishin' hole."

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dont worry crategus....he dont count...it was meant to be an attention getter and sarcastic lol.....oh and by the way crategus, those are some BEAUTIFUL fish you got in the pics thread.

Stay On Them Treed. Had A Year Like That Last Year, But Ended Up Catching My Best One Ever Finally After Losing Some Monsters.

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Thank you TreedNC, and like I said, you'll catch him next time.

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Tied my personal best in the spring....so Im not complaining too much lol. Couple years ago, I had a big fish on hooked while thrown across a cable across a boat slip....ripped his mouth and he fell in came back two weeks later and fished that dock and didnt do anything....tied on a little 1/64th oz oddball jig I had tied up.....plain round head, orange chenille, yellow marabou tail....had a good fish on, (and a net with me )....wound up being a 16" fish with a mangled up looking mouth healed over in the same corner I hooked the fish a couple of weeks ago that came off

(To be honest, Id rasther have a 17" black crappie anyway......although Ill take the white lol)

Or responding by saying that's why I'm fishing on Duke's property that they are nice enough to allow me to fish for free and they are nice enough to allow you to pay to have a boat dock.

tough luck treed......and you are right..crataegus surely is catching some pretty fish...

Good call, Todobien.

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