Thread: a Trophy ?

that fish was in the 12 inch range and so ridiculous thick it wasn't funny . pretty sure it was in the 1.5 lb area.
i guessed 1.2 on a crappie a week or so ago and the digital said 1.21 so i am pretty sure i am guessing close on that fish .
i released it and for sure have never held one that big .i often wonder why north texas don't seem to have but a half dozen total .
i have noticed an up tick in them the last 2 years in my area when they seemed non existent at all before that

thats a bute !!

Not braggin, just the luck of location. I've caught quite a few 11 & 12 inch redears in the last 10 years. The really put up a fight too! Worms on/near the bottom seem to be the best way to catch them.

Ketchn, that’s a good fish anywhere, and I’d be proud to hold it in a pic. Very nice. 5 or 6 of those about 10” makes a meal fit for royalty, like you or me. Love the fight, I can tell it’s a cracker or a gill before I see em usually.

Fishfish, also nice. I’ll take em all, love their fight.

I ketch so very few of them I never do realize what is on the line until they are close to me , kind of fight like a big black crappie early on with more of a deliberate pull like a black bass and then seem to go into corkscrew mode when they get close to me .
one thing for certain they would be cool to see more often around here but for unknown reasons they just don't do well in these parts ?
I often wonder why they are not more common in the local waters and am always very surprised to see one .
I used to know a spot about 2 hours south of me that held numbers of them but no big ones and for some reason all the sudden they went about gone there as well ?
I also read a fisheries summary on a local lake they manage real close for big black bass and the population there of them all but disappeared as well over a few years ?

Originally Posted by Fishfishwish

Not braggin, just the luck of location. I've caught quite a few 11 & 12 inch redears in the last 10 years. The really put up a fight too! Worms on/near the bottom seem to be the best way to catch them.

yeah they are a bottom sunny from what I know and we drop shotted a cooler full back when on a grass flat one day . they have now left that lake for the most part and I don't understand why they do so poorly around these parts ?

Originally Posted by StantheMan2567

Wow, that is a nice one. Release that one to make more?

I never keep them anymore . I did one time about 5 years ago on a place that had numbers of them and now that spot has about none ?

That’s definitely a trophy in my area!
I don’t understand why they don’t get bigger around here.
Especially in your part of the world, on getting bigger.


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