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black mamba said:
I used my "older than I am" big Queen stockman at work today, and now I'm enjoying Diego and Red catching up on BFC.

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Nice tag team Jeff.😍
 
We’re in West Virginia for the next few days fishing for trout. Today we had a hard time getting on them; this was the rig that saved the day. I wasn’t going to post the trout pic, but the resident instigator 321Bandaid 321Bandaid threw down the gauntlet! So here they are. By the way nice catch WinMag775 WinMag775 . I noticed the crappie jig in the corner of that cat’s mouth.
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Crappie71 said:
We’re in West Virginia for the next few days fishing for trout. Today we had a hard time getting on them; this was the rig that saved the day. I wasn’t going to post the trout pic, but the resident instigator 321Bandaid 321Bandaid threw down the gauntlet! So here they are. By the way nice catch WinMag775 WinMag775 . I noticed the crappie jig in the corner of that cat’s mouth.
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Nice. Those will be some good eating.
I bet they would be a blast on a 2 wt fly rod.
 
WinMag775 said:
Were about to see a 20lb+ mountain trout taken on an ultralight set up.
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mountain trout? 😳 looks more like a medium size grass carp to my 6 (with bifocals) old i's.

I caught at least 100 of them from the Mississippi River, "growing up" in Clinton, Iowa, from Sabula to the "Quad Cities"*.
(*"Quint Cities" after Bettendorf, Iowa, joined never caught on by the locals.)
I hooked a "big one" (a estimated 20 pounder, according to my dad) when I was 5, fishing with my dad, in Sabula, Iowa. 😁👍
It broke my Zebco 88 rod & reel. 😭 (the Zebco 88 was a unitized short (around 2.5 to 3 foot, but to tip kid's rod, the reel part of the handle.) We never landed that fish.
I think that carp was the first fish I "caught" ... tho it is possible I hooked and landed some bluegill and crappie, when I was 4.

Smoked carp is yummy. 🤤
 
afishhunter said:
mountain trout? 😳 looks more like a medium size grass carp to my 6 (with bifocals) old i's.

I caught at least 100 of them from the Mississippi River, "growing up" in Clinton, Iowa, from Sabula to the "Quad Cities"*.
(*"Quint Cities" after Bettendorf, Iowa, joined never caught on by the locals.)
I hooked a "big one" (a estimated 20 pounder, according to my dad) when I was 5, fishing with my dad, in Sabula, Iowa. 😁👍
It broke my Zebco 88 rod & reel. 😭 (the Zebco 88 was a unitized short (around 2.5 to 3 foot, but to tip kid's rod, the reel part of the handle.) We never landed that fish.
I think that carp was the first fish I "caught" ... tho it is possible I hooked and landed some bluegill and crappie, when I was 4.

Smoked carp is yummy. 🤤
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My great grandfather called them Bugle Nose Bass😆. The best fish I have ever tasted is smoked common carp at Lake Erie.

Growing up, we would ride our bikes to carp fish during summer breaks. We had a few local apartment complexes that had established ponds with 20lb+ carp. I had Wheatie balls with vanilla or anise extract as our secret bait. Those big carp would make a pole disappear if the button wasn't pushed in. 40 years later I can still remember the sound of a Zebco drag being cooked by a big ole carp!
 
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