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Blog
5/8/2008
My first "sight fishing" Bass

It was early on Saturday, May 3rd. I woke up and took a 5 minute walk down to the lake. I only carried one rod, with no extra tackle, just a texas rigged junebug lizard with a screw in weight.  The lake has a asphalt path that people walk and jog on, which turns into a wooden bridge here and there out over the water. I walked out on one of the bridges and saw a very large bass sitting still on a bed. I have fished this lake for almost 7 years and this is the first time i have seen a bedding fish, other than the thousands of bream and crappie. It was dead still, just sitting there, not moving a muscle. I pitched the lizard at it and it still did not move. I thought for sure it would have been spooked, but no. So since it did not move, i pitched at it again, and again. It must have been 15 times, then WHAMMO! It nosed down on my lizard and sucked it into its mouth. I set the hook and it proceeded to pull drag and go up under the bridge i was standing on. I grabbed my spool to attempt to stop it, which in turn popped my 14lb Fireline at the knot. I was left standing there with my heart pounding a mile a minute, empty handed. "SON OF A...!!", i said over and over. I was able to get a good look at it when it turned sideways and estimated it to be around 11 lbs. I was so pissed, standing there with a nice Pflueger in hand with nothing in my pocket to tie on, just my broken line swaying in the breeze. I walked back home and told my son what happened and even left my friend Marni a comment on her getREELed blog. I had to tell someone. I grabbed my other Pflueger President  that has newer line on it, cut off the crank bait i had tied on, and rigged it with another texas rigged lizard and a screw in weight, then proceeded to go back down there and complete my mission. I did not expect to see that same fish down there in that same spot, but since this was the first time i saw a bedder here, i figured there must be another somewhere. I walked down a little further on the bridge and low and behold, there was another. It was not as big as the first one but none the less, it was a quality fish. This time i must have thrown at it 25 times. It was stubborn like the first one and did not move one bit. Finally, i saw it nose down and suck in the lizard, i guess it was tired of me massaging its back with this lizard over and over. Kind of like when someone scratches your back, but in one spot... it gets old after a while. I set the hook and had dejavue all over again. It tried to go up under the bridge and was successful, wrapping itself around a piling and getting stuck. it turned on its side and sat still for a minute, then was kind enough to swim back around the piling in my favor. We wrestled for a minute then i brought her in by walking her down to the end of the bridge, as she was too heavy to sling up over the rail. I must have caught a hundred bass in this lake, some of them being one pound, some being eight and nine pounds, all by just throwing in hot spots i have learned over the years. This was the first time i SAW one and targeted it. I would have thought SEEING one would make it easy, but they are stubborn when on a bed. I will turn 41 on mothers day, so like they say, there is a first time for everything, and sometimes a second time shortly there after, if you are lucky.
3/10/2008
chicago asshole fisherman
I saw this video on Youtube and I laughed my ass off. There is little or no fishing being done in it, which reminds me of the days where I give up, drink beer, and drive the boat (a ghee-noe with a trolling motor, on a pond) for others to fish until I am unable to do so anymore. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. When the fish don't bite, you have to get on their level, wet. I tried to embed the video in the blog but it did not work, sorry. Do not litter.
3/4/2008
Whoa!
This place even has a BLOG feature? Cool!
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Personal Info
Last logged in : Jan 5, 2009
I say : "use what mother nature gave you, before father time takes it away"
The crib : Raleigh
Status : Single
Occupation: Plumber
Smoke/Drink: Yes/Yes
Frame: 9ft. 11in. Bulky
Orientation: Straight
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General : Carolina Tarheels, Carolina Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes, Durham Bulls, fine malt liquor, beer, fishing, fragmob, hayabusa, State fair food, Football, Xbox360, The Internets, Music, people who hate Duke University, Skyy Vodka, Triton boats, Pflueger reels, Chocolate milk, Chocolate candy, Chocolate, Bacon, Camera phones, the truth, the worlds view of the United States.coaching city football, mobile devices, grilling, cooking, drinking, laughing
Movies : A clockwork orange, Reservoir Dogs, Tombstone, Bumfights, Hooper, Hang em high, Colors, The kingdom, Full metal jacket, Caddyshack, Animal house, Southern Comfort, Big Wednesday, One flew over the cuckoos nest, Goodfellas, falling down, Talladega nights, Friday night lights, Forrest Gump, Waterboy, Castaway, Rudy, Up in Smoke, Dirty Dingus Mcgee
Music : Al green, James brown, Sly and the Family Stone, The O'Jays, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Beastie Boys, Parliment, Bob Marley, The Isley Brothers, Biz Markie, Earth Wind and Fire, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Muddy Waters, The Roots, Tribe Called Quest, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Outkast, Notorious BIG, Dr. Dre, NWA, EPMD, Eric B. and Rakim, KRS-ONE, Masta Ace, Mos Def, Nice and Smooth, Wu-Tang Clan, The Pharcyde, Gang Starr, De La Soul
Peaves : Customers who say "thats too much", Some of the people on flickr, having change in my pocket, nose pickers, George Bush, People who only comment on their own blogs/moblogs, Green Peas, hairy bars of soap, Snooty females, Last call, Gene Simmons, Racism, and that bitch Nancy Grace
TV : Fox NFL Sunday, Family Guy, First 48, LA ink, Sportscenter, Mad Money, Judge Mathis, Cops, Overhauled, AFV, anything on Discovery Channel except Smash Lab, Most Shocking
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