Geez. Fishermen LIE.
 

Haha.

I pulled up to the ramp yesterday at Clearlake. A couple was unloading fully decked out kayaks. I park and set up there. I like dragging my kayak to the ramp so I don’t take up any real estate with my drawn out process.

I say hi, and asked about the fishing. The dude Lays out a load of crap. So funny. He told me to hit the coves east of the Ramp. Uhhh, okay. The fish are not shallow this time year.

I then save his lying ass from running over his winch strap with his duelly truck. His wife looked at me like I was invading her private lake. I gave her the friendliest hello and good luck wish I could muster. Just laid it on thick with love.

Oh well I did what I thought would produce fish. I went towards deeper water. It was tough until I found a submerged tree out in the lake. Outside looking in, it looked like I was being stupid and just casting out in the middle of nowhere. But damn, I crushed them. Couple of young kids boated up for advice. I showed them exactly what I was doing. Told them to use their graph to find sunken structure. One kid took a pic of me and texted me the pic after I shouted my number to him while socially distant. He texted me a selfie with a giant later!

I never saw that first couple again. But an old dude that wanted to talk about his colon cancer said they didn’t do well.

I made a vow never to lie in fishing. I might exclude info, I’ll never volunteer it, but never lie. I don’t need the karma-nut kick

I tend to shut down when folks start talking about health problems, but fishing keeps my interest.

Did I tell you about the 3 foot long trout I caught?
(It's been done but not by me.)

If anyone ever wants a pic of the huge fish I caught .... I draw them one.

But I don't lie :D

I know I shouldn't do this, but my daughter and F yesterday in the Keys:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1604251479.jpg

It is apparently called a Lemon Shark.

He, like you, knows his stuff. You should get to Charleston where they live and go fishing. He'd love it.

I once caught a fish this BIG!!

I will never beat the one my wife caught, so I am happy with all the small ones I catch!

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How's that old saying go? "There's lies, damn lies, statistics, and the locations to my favorite fishing holes..."

Largest fish I ever caught was about 9".
Where I'm from we measure them between the eyes.

:)

Mine's bigger than yours, blush, fish I mean.

I caught a 6' gar. Kind of.

We were crappie fishing at my boathouse. We kept hearing this thumping sound coming from under the boathouse.

We started looking closely into the water and we could see the head of a gar sticking out and it was thrashing back and forth. It was stuck in the ladder bracing of the boathouse.

We got a nylon rope and looped it around it's snout and yanked and pulled the sob out. As soon as we got her out of the water she started pouring out eggs by the hundreds. Apparently she could cruise through the ladder until she got preggers and got stuck.

So, actually, I lassoed the thing.

Not me but.... https://kfor.com/news/local/151-9-pound-world-record-paddle-fish-caught-in-oklahoma/

Remember, when a fisherman shows you how big the fish he caught was, measure between the thumbs.

My best fishing story, which is really two, is when we lived in Minnesota where we were on the lakes or the St. Croix River probably 60 days a year. We were up north in a huge lake, whole family in the boat and went into a very secluded cove, 20 foot opening to what was a big pond.

First my mom hooked something. Little by little she got it to the boat, an 18' bass boat. Got the fish close to the boat and all of a sudden it came out of nowhere and was probably a 50 lb muskie. I googled that and put a pic below. It was MASSIVE! And scary as hell. Everyone jumped back in the boat. We just cut the line.

Later that day in the same cove I put on a white spinner bait and started casting toward some lily pads. Time after time, smallish 10 lb northerns would jump out of the water and catch the bait, sometimes hooked, sometimes they spit it out. It was amazing to watch the fish jump a solid foot or two out of the water.

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I think the biggest accomplishment there was that the guy could hold up a 150 lb fish like that.

Since half the people who saw this are now drooling or dead, I can put it on the internet.

I had a very large customer. We all know the name. Took them sturgeon fishing. Guy caught a 10’ fish. Took him over an hour to bring it in. He went pale. And green. And paler. We thought he was going to have a cardio event. Fish caught. He went to lie down. We went back to fishing and enjoying ourselves.

He wasn’t the worlds most popular guy. Great fishing day. And,he lived.

"Buy a man a fish and tommarrow he'll be hungry.
Teach a man to fish and he'll learn to lie, drink beer, and wear an ugly hat"

151 lbs is not a world record for paddlefish size, this is the largest caught with a rod and reel. Those things get WAY bigger than that and they have been around for 125 million years. They exist in China and the US. We had a similar size paddlefish hanging on our wall from when I was 10 until dad remodelled after my mom passed 12 years ago (24 years).

Dad caught ours in the Missouri River in Montana. It is a snag fishery where you use a heavy surf casting rod, Dacron line, and big treble hooks cast from shore. When you snag one, you run down the bank trying to reel it in and need a helper running ahead pulling branches out of your way as the bank caves in...

These are living dinosaurs.

I haven't put the boat in the water since I got it. Dam failure shut down 4 lakes, up and downstream. The river is only 1/2 mile away, and looks fine to me, but no can do. I'll fish off the company pier, but no way will I fish from the bank.;)

Haha. Bank fishing is tough.