I went fishing today

[landon410]

talked to future father in law today, his brother just caught a 71lbs catfish

3rd biggest in illinois record books
not sure which type of cat it was, but 12lbs line....... 71lbs catfish

holy crap, once i get a picture i'll share

 

[HuskerPower52]

welp now Im going fishing cya later guys

Go Huskers

 

[Red_Alert]

welp now Im going fishing cya later guys

Go Huskers

Good luck!!!

 

[landon410]

got acouple different angles of that walleye... or saugeye

and acouple of some of the bluegill

 

[Red_Alert]

That is the damnedest fish.

I bet that's a good ice fishing lake.

 

[landon410]

ive never ice fished it, but i will.... takes about 3 hours to get there, but the quality and quanty of the fish we caught... i think i might be visiting grandpa a little more often

 

[iruletheskool]

catch and release is lame.

 

[HawkeyeHater]

Catch and Release is not lame...........


Unless I'm going to eat it that day or atleast that week, I never keep a fish.

1. Fresher the better
2. Let the Fish get bigger
3. Not going to clean a fish for it to sit in the freezer for 2 months....
4. Let the Fish get bigger
5. Who wants to eat a Cat over 20 lbs anyway......
6. Let the Fish get Bigger

 

[iruletheskool]

1. why fish if you're not looking for food?
2. there's plenty of fish
3. why fish if you're not looking for food?
4. Bigget than a 20 lb cat?
5. nobody
6. I ruined the pattern, but why fish if you're not looking for food?

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

I have one rule I've followed my whole life, and that is don't eat largemouth bass. Of course I grew up fishing basically every day and my dad is friends with several pro fishermen and they all say the same thing.....largemouth are simply game fish, you catch them for the thrill and release them unless you're planning to mount one on the wall. I guess I didn't make that one rule myself, I was taught.

 

[SFNL]

Nice catch Landon

 

[HawkeyeHater]

1. why fish if you're not looking for food?
2. there's plenty of fish
3. why fish if you're not looking for food?
4. Bigget than a 20 lb cat?
5. nobody
6. I ruined the pattern, but why fish if you're not looking for food?

1. Fun
2. Yes, but they could always be bigger=funner
3. Get away from Gf/wifey
4. Um, yeah... I've got dozens.. biggest= 58 flathead in Canel by North Platte
5. Actually they can be good eating, but you need a clean tank and one week to let them clean out
6. Get a tan

 

[HawkeyeHater]

I have one rule I've followed my whole life, and that is don't eat largemouth bass. Of course I grew up fishing basically every day and my dad is friends with several pro fishermen and they all say the same thing.....largemouth are simply game fish, you catch them for the thrill and release them unless you're planning to mount one on the wall. I guess I didn't make that one rule myself, I was taught.

+1....... I've kept one largemouth since I was 11.....

It has been sitting in my freezer for 3 years, I NEED to get it mounted but I have other priorities to spend 300 bucks on... 7 lbs 14 oz 24 1/2" Female who had just layed her eggs... caught near North Platte..

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

+1....... I've kept one largemouth since I was 11.....

It has been sitting in my freezer for 3 years, I NEED to get it mounted but I have other priorities to spend 300 bucks on... 7 lbs 14 oz 24 1/2" Female who had just layed her eggs... caught near North Platte..

Damn that is a hell of a largemouth for around this neck of the woods. My dad caught a 6 lbs 13 oz largemouth when I was with him and that one now sits on the wall in my parent's basement. The very next summer I caught 3 master anglers but none were larger than my dad's so I released them all. I'm lookin' for one in that 7 lb range myself.

 

[HawkeyeHater]

Thanks....

The thing I'm most proud of is the fact that it wasn't out of a farm pond, but a public interstate lake...

It was dumb luck that I got it though, I was actually dayfishing for Cat with about a 2" bluegill running about 10ft from the shore just above the moss line... That bass took it and after about a minute of trying to keep it out of the weeds... I lost....... I actually caught the fish by hand!!! My buddy got me close but I actually had to jump in about 3 ft of water and grab the fish, cuz he had wrapped my line around a group of reeds about 7 times.

I've swore on Gamakatsu circle hooks ever since.

 

[landon410]

the wifies uncle caught this saturday in illinois

trying to catch small mouth he hooked this beast

 

[landon410]

thats 71 lbs 14 oz

 

[Red_Alert]

Fuckin' bad ass fish right there.

 

[landon410]

i think he was using 12lbs line
that makes it even crazier!

 

[salty]

I'll swap a redfish trip for a walleye trip.