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Hooked a big one!

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Hooked a big one!

Postby briansII » January 6th, 2014, 10:03 pm

The thing was massive.

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Not sure how I feel about it.

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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby Bernard » January 6th, 2014, 10:36 pm

On what pattern please.
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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby flyster » January 7th, 2014, 6:13 am

Whaaaat, no tape measure?
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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby John Harper » January 7th, 2014, 8:08 am

The elusive and rare Western Breastfish, looks like an IGFA record!

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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby WadeK » January 7th, 2014, 8:58 am

Was it a wild one, well proportoined, with nice <ahem> fins? Or was it more like the broodstockers, Big, but in a mishapenly obese way?

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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby briansII » January 7th, 2014, 9:00 am

flyster wrote:Whaaaat, no tape measure?


Easily a 36 incher, double digit. Thought about using my boot as a comparison, but I was afraid to get too close to the monster.

....I must confess. I did not hook and land the beast.

Nor this one.
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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby Jimbo Roberts » January 7th, 2014, 9:47 am

I've seen similar evidence of monsters on the Guadalupe during the tubing season.
I often wonder what the rest of the day was like for them after they have been released?

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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby RichardCullip » January 7th, 2014, 10:09 am

Hopefully she wasn't wearing it when you hooked into it. ;) ;)
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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby Sasha » January 8th, 2014, 7:54 pm

:bananadance:
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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby clee » January 8th, 2014, 10:04 pm

I would have kept and mounted that one. Catch and release ethics be damned!
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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby briansII » March 31st, 2014, 11:59 am

I must be on a roll. This one isn't as big as my last one, but with more spawning colors.

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I think the sequins are a nice touch.

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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby flybob » March 31st, 2014, 6:12 pm

DUDE! Where the heck are you fishing?
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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby Sasha » March 31st, 2014, 6:43 pm

flybob wrote:DUDE! Where the heck are you fishing?





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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby briansII » April 1st, 2014, 7:58 am

flybob wrote:DUDE! Where the heck are you fishing?


It's a place better said in the delicate section. ;)

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Re: Hooked a big one!

Postby clee » April 1st, 2014, 10:08 am

I think I found the hen's mating pair:
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Apparently quite the trophy.
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