Thread: 13 hard earned keepers today

very nice

Which lake is this?

Nice stringer Wooduck. My day went downhill fast. Ran down river with boat motor acting weird. Had to come back and get minnows out of truck bed. Where I wanted to fish had wind against the tide and everything I touched went bad. Motor died on the way back. A couple of nice guys in a Skeeter tied up and bright me home. Eooduck helped me load the boat. I should have went to work!!

Did manage a few fish. One nice striper. One 14” crappie. Small catfish.







Wooduck, if you got it, post it.

Thanks guys. Now to investigate the motor issue.

Dayton

Nice work fellas. Hope you get that motor fixed without too much trepidation, Dayton.

Nice stringer of fish! And that's a nice slab, Dayton!

I got out myself, slow half-day. Mostly a shake-down cruise to make sure my boat and ready. Caught this 11", an couple other smaller ones, and this big chub. I read online this species is called the Shenandoah Tarpon

Hey, wasabi ... you sure that's a "Chub" and not a Skipjack Shad ?? I've caught Skipjack Shad (aka Blue Herring) in Tenn ... on jigs & on minnows ... and they jump when hooked, just like a Tarpon, such that they have the other nickname of "Tennessee Tarpon".

No, I am not 100% sure it is a chub. I’d never seen a chub this big so searched yesterday after catching it and found a picture posted by some VDGIF folks who identified it. It sure looked similar to their picture. It’s at this link

Fallfish: Little Tarpon of the Commonwealth | VDGIF Blog

Reading more and i’m Thinking it is a “fallfish” which i’ve Never heard of but have to believe the internet