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Huskybass said:
Somewhere, Big Red is smiling.
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Dude its time to upgrade your profile pic, perhaps a bigger bass?

2026 u can do it!

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(not me👆)
 
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temery said:
Weight? 9#? Getting back to fishing was my goal in retirement. It's been ten years. This summer it'll happen.
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I'm going to spend next summer fishing the Quabbin Reservoir like old times. They do rent boats. Got everything freshwater in there.
 
Kitaman said:
I'm going to spend next summer fishing the Quabbin Reservoir like old times. They do rent boats. Got everything freshwater in there.
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I've had a Quabbin boat since 2006. Great fishery.
 
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temery said:
Weight? 9#? Getting back to fishing was my goal in retirement. It's been ten years. This summer it'll happen.
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I'd be happy to help you get back into it. Fishing has been my passion since the age of 7.
 
Huskybass said:
Right about 8 1/2 lbs. Biggest bass I've seen in CT personally.
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I was in a tournament with a friend in Brimfield, probably 40 years ago. The guy who had the biggest bass was disqualified. He entered the tournament with his young son. Caught an 8 pound bass, but didn't have a cooler so he just left it on the floor for six hours.

They were kind enough to weight the fish, but told him upfront that he'd be disqualified because it wasn't alive. I don't remember what the prize money was, but it was a lot.

A game warden was there and he told me people will shove weights down the fish's throat to add weight.
 
Huskybass said:
I mainly fish out of 43 and 8. All 3 gates offer access to great areas for Smallmouth Bass and Lake Trout. Although I never target Lake Trout, they make a great "bycatch" when Smallmouth fishing. View attachment 114455
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Back in the 70s, I went with a friend a couple times a week for probably two or three years. But he only wanted to troll for Lake Trout and that is boring as hell.
 
Huskybass said:
I mainly fish out of 43 and 8. All 3 gates offer access to great areas for Smallmouth Bass and Lake Trout. Although I never target Lake Trout, they make a great "bycatch" when Smallmouth fishing. View attachment 114455
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Don't sleep on the pickerel, bony but sizable in the Quabbin. And the smallmouth and rock bass are excellent.
 
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Kitaman said:
Don't sleep on the pickerel, bony but sizable in the Quabbin. And the smallmouth and rock bass are excellent.
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When you catch a large mouth bass, you can stick your thumb in their mouth and kinda hold them, it supposedly paralyzes them a little bit so you can take the hook out.

I fished with a friend all the time for largemouth bass, but I caught a large pike. I swear to God, he saw me starting to put my thumb in his mouth and he laughed. When I pulled out the hook ... nothing, those teeth are so sharp. I didn't feel anything until I pulled out my thumb. He's said look at your thumb - nothing, nothing, nothing, then about 30 pinpricks of blood.

I always did catch and release, but I have to admit pike given a nice little fight.
 
Huskybass said:
I mainly fish out of 43 and 8. All 3 gates offer access to great areas for Smallmouth Bass and Lake Trout. Although I never target Lake Trout, they make a great "bycatch" when Smallmouth fishing. View attachment 114455
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Sorry to derail this thread, but my parents have a pond in their back yard and its full of bass. Over a decade ago, due a neighbor using a ton of fertilizer, we had a massive die off and every fish floated belly up (bass, catfish, yellow perch, etc). A few years ago my brothers and I caught a few big bass (maybe 4 or 5 total) that are 3-4 lbers and transferred them to my parents pond. Over the years they have spawned and produced literally hundreds of small little bass <.5 lbs that aren't getting bigger. As of now the pond is exclusively bass. I've been told we need a apex predator in the pond to cull the little ones to get more larger sized bass. Does anyone knows where I can get some pickerel, either purchased for stocking or a great location to catch some near Cheshire I would appreciate it. Apologies again for derailing the thread. If anyone has advice please DM me!
 
TheRealKBuks said:
Sorry to derail this thread, but my parents have a pond in their back yard and its full of bass. Over a decade ago, due a neighbor using a ton of fertilizer, we had a massive die off and every fish floated belly up (bass, catfish, yellow perch, etc). A few years ago my brothers and I caught a few big bass (maybe 4 or 5 total) that are 3-4 lbers and transferred them to my parents pond. Over the years they have spawned and produced literally hundreds of small little bass <.5 lbs that aren't getting bigger. As of now the pond is exclusively bass. I've been told we need a apex predator in the pond to cull the little ones to get more larger sized bass. Does anyone knows where I can get some pickerel, either purchased for stocking or a great location to catch some near Cheshire I would appreciate it. Apologies again for derailing the thread. If anyone has advice please DM me!
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I lived in a lake in Monson, Massachusetts when I was a kid. On a yearly basis, I would catch two or three five pound bass. An otter family decided to take up residence one year. By the next year there were no more bass to catch.

I guess it's better than losing fish to chemicals, but as a kid who had just caught the fishing bug, it really sucked.
 
temery said:
I lived in a lake in Monson, Massachusetts when I was a kid. On a yearly basis, I would catch two or three five pound bass. An otter family decided to take up residence one year. By the next year there were no more bass to catch.

I guess it's better than losing fish to chemicals, but as a kid who had just caught the fishing bug, it really sucked.
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Your post just brought back a memory from when I was about 10 years old. I had moved from NYC to Newtown, CT during the summer between 2nd and 3rd grade. After learning to fish for a couple years, I caught a Largemouth Bass that was about 20". We took some pics and released her back into Lake Lillinonah. Apparently, the kid I was with bragged the Bass up to 27" and people believed him. He even mentioned the "27" Bass" on Facebook not long ago. I never said much...who was I to ruin a perfectly good fish story?😃

p.s. To this day, the longest Largemouth Bass I ever caught was 24.25".
 
Huskybass said:
Your post just brought back a memory from when I was about 10 years old. I had moved from NYC to Newtown, CT during the summer between 2nd and 3rd grade. After learning to fish for a couple years, I caught a Largemouth Bass that was about 20". We took some pics and released her back into Lake Lillinonah. Apparently, the kid I was with bragged the Bass up to 27" and people believed him. He even mentioned the "27" Bass" on Facebook not long ago. I never said much...who was I to ruin a perfectly good fish story?😃

p.s. To this day, the longest Largemouth Bass I ever caught was 24.25".
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Most five pounders I caught, which is about where I maxed out, at were about 14 inches.

I think I mentioned this a few years ago… But from what I remember, the largest largemouth bass was caught down south somewhere in a very small farm pond. You never know where you're gonna find a great catch.
 
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