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Hawk

Hawk

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We used to fish behind the dam at Lake Ray Hubbard in the spring, when the flood gates were open.
We had to use flippin' sticks with Abu Garcia bait casting reels and big slabs to get to a drop off on the other side of the channel, where the fish waited for bait to drop down to deeper water. It was a loooong cast to get there.
You always knew when you hung a big striper or hybrid. It felt like you were fouled on the bottom, until your line started to move against the current.
We caught some big fish back there!
Also pi$$ed a lot of people off.
Usually, we were the only two catching fish, as no one else had the gear to cast that far.
 
Missionary

Missionary

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White Sturgeon are just one type of the 25 or so variants. Sturgeon in general average about 16 feet in deep water lakes. In 1827 the largest known sturgeon was caught being 24 feet long and 3463 pounds From the Sturgeon artical at Wikipedia.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Years ago my folks had a place in Baja and I aquired a taste for seabass . Never hooked a real monster and we fished light rigs with heavy line like you would for lake trout .
Years later , like 3 yr ago during Shark week , I learned that the seabass we were a side on the menus and that the great whites , big females , like to hangout for the seal pup season . I hate it when a 10# bass 10 ft down becomes a zip-pop on a 25# set up with 15# leaders . The wash tub was full anyway . That just gives you a sick feeling in a 16' Glasspar 5 miles out of the bay and 3 off the beach knowing that a beast big enough to chomp a hole through your hull just did a smash and grab on 10# and 12-15' of line .

Over all it was a good Mom's dad , my Dad , my boys , and possibly a 20' Great White hanging out snacking on bass ....
 
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popper

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Good ol sandy slabs. You can cast those a mile. Unfortunately if you don't keep them off the bottom they are gonners. One of the reasons I started fly fishing. The other was uncle willed an EagleClaw neat portable rod rig, fly, bait and spin in a flat pack I could put in suitcase when traveling on business. Tried the fly thing (old martin reel) near Calabasas Ca in the mountains. Dang trout just stayed on the bottom of the mountain pond looking at me. Tried the bait caster at St. Pete during time off. Rays kept taking the shrimp off.
 
Ian

Ian

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I got one of those Eagle Claw pack rods years ago, never used it but my Dad swore by his and bought several, told me to get one while they were still made so I did. I prefer graphite for spin and fly but if it has to be fiberglass, Eagle Claw made my favorites...aside from the 6' rods that were like a broom handle for 4' and wet spaghetti the last 2', I like a more linear flex.
 
fiver

fiver

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I don't know how Eagle Claw got the stiffness in their rods back then, but I sure wish they'd do it now.
I had a rod from them for years and years until I cut a groove in the eyelets bad enough to start fraying and eventually cutting my line when reeling in.
really miss that rod,, I could tell you what my bait was bumping into sand, rocks, weeds, etc. all gave a different tick in the aluminum handle.
 
Missionary

Missionary

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When I was about 12 I learned a new appreciation for fresh water ponds when a small bluegill that was being reeled in got bit in half by something else lurking about below the surface.
Saw a 3" Rapala get bit in half near the surface by a 3 foot northern Pike on the Paw Paw River (SW Michigan) about 2 years later.
 
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popper

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Took a backraods trip from DFW to Whitewright and Bonham yesterday. Had to get out of the house for a while. This is Baily Inglish's old 1836 private 'fort' to protect against Indian raids. Yea, partly a recontruction. Went to Rayburn house, so-so but did see the anchor from the USS Rayburn (SSBN) and his 47 restored Cadillac. Not much activity in either town.
Doc removed cancer from skull this morning. Weird to feel (hear?) the 'rope' and stapler action when closing the incision. Felt like a foot long but nope, maybe 3". Time for breakfast and ice pack.
Was going to post pic I saw of something like a horse drawn baler - actually 1873 locust sweeper. ~250,000# of dead locust 'swept' from the plains states then - paid by the pound. Tangs to scare the hoppers up, hit a steel plate and dropped into a trough. Bad times from Ne to Tx that year.
 
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creosote

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Popper.
Hope the ice Pac works.
All I remember about locusts growing up in Utah, was " the seagulls ate them."
We mostly called seagulls Mormon bombers.
 
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popper

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Reminds me of the pic of the catfish on the flatbed semi hanging on the wall of the bait shop at Lavon.
 
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