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Subject: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: olddude Date: 30 May 13 - 08:00 PM they are in to spawn here at Lake Erie, I bet Garry and I tonight caught 30 .. many over 6 pounds .. those are nice smallies. I never keep Bass, my favorite fish, they will fight you and jump and fight. What fun |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: Bobert Date: 30 May 13 - 08:17 PM Yeah, fun to catch... Lousy to eat... The upper Potomac River in Maryland is considered one of the best places to fish for smallmouths, bar none... Caught many of 'um there over the years... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: Little Hawk Date: 30 May 13 - 08:20 PM If Julia Roberts was a fish, she would definitely not be a smallmouth bass. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,olddude Date: 30 May 13 - 08:27 PM You are so right Bobster, lousy fish to eat for sure. Lots of folks like them but not me. I love catching them. what fun |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: bobad Date: 30 May 13 - 08:37 PM I have a Sri Lankan friend who loves eating bass, but he is a chef and knows how to prepare them in a tasty way unlike most white bread North Americans who only know breading/flouring and frying. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: frogprince Date: 30 May 13 - 08:43 PM You sadistic SOB's! How would you like to bite into a burger and start to notice something funny in there just in time for somebody like you to give a yank, and rip a hook through the side of your face, and yank you up dangling in the air by the thing. And I thought Dan was a decent person! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 May 13 - 08:48 PM I don't know jack about smallmouths, but I'm intimately familiar with their largemouth cousins. They also have a reputation as poor eating, but I think it's because people treat 'em like overgrown sunfish and leave the skin on when they cook 'em. A bass has to be skinned and filleted. If you don't want to go through the extra effort, throw 'em back. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: olddude Date: 31 May 13 - 09:03 AM Froggie a smallmouth bass won't care, he will look at you and say what the $%#$@ throw me back before I get mad ... yup that's a smallie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,Johnny J. Date: 31 May 13 - 09:19 AM . . . dangling up in the air . . . Don't you use landing nets on your side of the pond? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,olddude Date: 31 May 13 - 04:10 PM never for bass, want to release them unharmed and not tangled up in a net. When you fish for fun why would you care or do you not fish for fun on YOUR side of the pond |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,olddude Date: 31 May 13 - 04:16 PM and you don't dangle a bass, you reel them in, reach in the water grab them by their lower lip which freezes them, you pick them up and unhook them then throw them back. Use a net for a big salmon or trout not bass not ever |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,Johnny J. Date: 31 May 13 - 05:35 PM When you fish for fun why would you care? Because I care about the welfare of the fish. Get them in the net as fast as possible, lift out (with wet hand, it causes less distress) unhook (barbless hooks, do less damage to fish and also to anglers!), put back in water facing up stream, allow fish to swim away. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,olddude Date: 31 May 13 - 09:55 PM Bass are rarely fished in a stream, yes you can catch them spawning in a creek but mainly they like lakes and ponds. Trout, salmon yes but not big bass. You find them in a lake or pond mainly |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,olddude Date: 31 May 13 - 09:57 PM and the purpose of a net is so you don't lose the fish makes it easier to land them, it doesn't cause less stress actually quite the opposite. And I was a fish warden for 5 years |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,Johnny J. Date: 01 Jun 13 - 05:42 AM If this old wreck of a body I inhabit was still up for it I would really like to fish for bass on your side of the pond. Unfortunately even trout and grayling are beyond me now. Not sure I agree with you on nets though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,olddude Date: 01 Jun 13 - 10:22 AM I wish I could take you. Been going down about every night. Last night I got one big smallmouth over 7 lbs ... what a great fight they give. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,Johnny J. Date: 01 Jun 13 - 07:59 PM Catch one for me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: JennieG Date: 01 Jun 13 - 09:16 PM I thought this was about a blues singer with a deep voice and large lips...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: olddude Date: 10 Jun 13 - 09:01 PM got about 10 tonight all around this size. No worries they all released unharmed just took his picture then put him right back smallmouth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: olddude Date: 10 Jun 13 - 09:15 PM here is one more this one I took off the boat dock and again released unharmed. One guy came over and told me "if you don't own a boat you are not allowed to fish here asshole" I walked into the marina told the owner, he came out and said "He lives here and can fish and #@#!@ place he wants and if you don't like it find another place to dock your boat" There was a time in my life I would have laid him out but not now I learned to be more mellow always someone who thinks they own everyone stuff huh .. another |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Smallmouth Bass From: GUEST,Ebbie Date: 10 Jun 13 - 11:36 PM Nah. Loud mouth bass are too noisy. |
