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Old 12-09-2014, 12:57 PM
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Default Re: The "Best of 2014" thread.

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Amazing pics gents.

I don't have any jaw-dropping pics, but I have a few favorites from this summer.

The bass is twenty inches long and according to the length-weight charts is damn-near five pounds.

The pickerel is over twenty-four inches long. Not much by pike standards, but it's the biggest chain pickerel I ever caught.

What is amazing to me is both of these fish were caught in the same tiny heavily-fished pond located in a park. These bass are so heavily fished, at least one bass a day will barf up somebody else's plastic worm after you catch it.

Despite the fishing pressure, this pond manages to reliably produce good-sized bass. I believe it's due to pure serendipity that the minority of bass fishermen that kill bass just haven't discovered this pond....yet.
Just more evidence that any fertile pond is capable of producing trophy sized fish if some people can restrain their greed long enough to put the bass back in the water instead of on a stringer.


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