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Mark and I
fished five-hours of shoreline today. Jeb went to the Ravens/Steelers game! We
were not on the water for more than
a half hour when Mark 'almost' caught a
six-pound plus largemouth.
I took this photo, and as the fish got closer to the
boat, Mark knew
he had a big one. I put the camera down, and got the net. Mark
got
him to the boat, we both saw him close-up, and the fish spit the hook
just
as I was reaching into the water with the net. I think it was just
at that
second, Mark had slack on the line. We both cast back into the
water and did a
systematic sweep of the lunkers home habitat, but to
no avail. The boat went
silent for about a half hour as Mark and I both reflected and sulked over the
big-one that got away. |
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Mark stuck
with a Cavitron buzz-bait all day . . .
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. . . and
caught four one-pound bass on the day. |
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I on the
other hand switched between my spinning reel and
baitcaster using spinner-baits,
chatter-baits, worms and a
roadrunner, and caught one fish on the day. It was a
chain
pickerel that I caught on a Blakemore roadrunner.
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Check out
the lump in his stomach. It perfectly matches the headfirst
body
of a bluegill. The pickerel looked like he just finished Thanksgiving dinner and
was bursting at the seams!
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Pickerel are
in the pike family and are called chain pickerel because of
the chain link
pattern along the sides of the fish. They can live up to 10-years old and get
three-feet long and in excess of 7-pounds. They are a
lively winter fish and are
top-flight ambush predators. Mark models the
fish for me, as I get some close-up
photos of his rows of teeth. |
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Round 2 of
migratory goose season is December 18 thru January 29
and the resident goose
season is from December 9 thru February 15. |
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We might
have to do a 'cast & blast' combo 'fish & fowl' trip. Mark has
the Remington
12-gauge pump and I have the Browning, Semi-auto Gold Hunter. We've seen a
goodly number of geese come over the tree tops, 'cranking' for
a landing, within shotgun range, but then bank and get the quack out of Dodge as
soon as they see us. It got up to 65-degrees today, with both the Ravens and
Redskins winning. |
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