Saturday night heartbreak

[BOURBONBALES]

So I just thought I would pass on this story from my weekend. I went to an after derby party on saturday night with a friend and I didnt know anyone there so I thought I would bring up fishing to see if I could get some conversation going. Well the guy who was hosting the party and some of his buddies quickly joined in and they were telling me how they really like catfishing and crappie fishing, and I told them how much I enjoy bass fishing. Well the guy hosting the party tells me how he really didnt bass fish but he lucked into a bunch of good bass a couple weeks ago on some nightcrawlers while fishing for some cats. I asked him where and he told me a strectch of creek that runs through his friends farm and I was interested on how he did. He proceeds to tell me that they had a bunch of small ones but that they had about 8 largemouth that weighed about 6 pounds each or so, and also had a smallmouth that went a little over 7 pounds. ( he said they had a rapala scale) Well by this point I am trying to be the guys new best friend hoping to get an invite for the next trip to this honey hole!!!! So I ask him if he had any pics of these hawgs that he caught cause I would love to see them....he says "NO I DIDN'T TAKE ANY PICS BUT I GOT THE FILLETS IN THE FREEZER IF YA WANNA SEE EM." Speechless........I finished my drink and got the hell outta there!!!

[BASSKING]

I don't ever keep any of the bass or hardly any of the fish I catch I would never feel any different about someone who does. Its not the end of the world. The guys pays for a liscense spends money on equipment and puts hus time in to catch fish and if he puts them in the freezer than that's his right. Its not ilegal especialy if they were all 6 or 7 pounds. He was well within his rights to do so and it changes nor effevts the way you fish. So, IMO, you shouldn't look down on him cause he keeps the LEGAL fish he catches to put on the tabel.

[buzzking]

I'm surprised he didn't try sell you some property...right on the beach LMAO.

[tfmuch]

There was a time I had to bring fish home to have meat on the table. I really don't like fish that much, if I do bring some home its usual Crappie. Today I tried to catch some crappie and had no luck so I brought 2 nice Bass home for the better half to eat. I am a Bass fisherman, tournament fishermen, and sportsmen, but I think if a person is fishing legal and want to fillet his catch it is his right. Belive me there are plenty of Bass in the lakes I fish, Ky Lake and Lake Barkley, Why do people become so arragant as to try and make everyone else live by the own rules.

[SlopFishin]

8 fish from a CREEK weighing 6 pounds each? LOL, that guy was full of shat.

[ryan_ekubass]

8 fish from a CREEK weighing 6 pounds each? LOL, that guy was full of shat.

i hope he still had his waders handy from that creek cause its getting DEEEP.....

[lil skeeter]

why is it so hard to believe that someone caught these fish? this is the main reason i dont post my days on the water and what i caught or didnt catch because someone is always ready to piss on somebodys parade or let them know that they dont know what they are doing. now that i got that off my chest, does anyone have any advice for prefishing the T word?

[DJD]

why is it so hard to believe that someone caught these fish? this is the main reason i dont post my days on the water and what i caught or didnt catch because someone is always ready to piss on somebodys parade or let them know that they dont know what they are doing. now that i got that off my chest, does anyone have any advice for prefishing the T word?

I think it's hard to believe this guy since noone I have ever known has caught that many fish that big in one trip. That includes fishing for pre-spawn, bedding bass or post spawn in Florida. So it sounds like a fish story to me.

I think the guy was just bragging and telling fish tales. JMO

[lil skeeter]

I think it's hard to believe this guy since noone I have ever known has caught that many fish that big in one trip. That includes fishing for pre-spawn, bedding bass or post spawn in Florida. So it sounds like a fish story to me.

I think the guy was just bragging and telling fish tales. JMO

the guy might have been bragging, but most of the fish stories ive heard the big ones have always gotten away

[SlopFishin]

lil skeeeter, it's not that I find it hard to believe that anybody could catch all those big fish. It's that I find it hard to believe they caught them in a creek. 99 times out of 100 a creek cant' support that many big fish simply because it won't have the fertility and food chain to do such. However, if the creek were somewhat close to and connected to a large lake I could believe it from the standpoitn that maybe those fish ran up the creek to spawn.

[lil skeeter]

lil skeeeter, it's not that I find it hard to believe that anybody could catch all those big fish. It's that I find it hard to believe they caught them in a creek. 99 times out of 100 a creek cant' support that many big fish simply because it won't have the fertility and food chain to do such. However, if the creek were somewhat close to and connected to a large lake I could believe it from the standpoitn that maybe those fish ran up the creek to spawn.

this may have been that 1 in 100 creeks running through his farm. i cant say this man is stretching the truth until i know all the facts about this story. i mean we dont know what creek he was fishing, where this creek is and just how big it is, but to some of us it dont matter because we dont know anyone who had a day like this or even a day like this of our own.
im also one who will keep a mess of crappie, bream, and bass for the dinner table no matter how much negativity it receives.

[DJD]

this may have been that 1 in 100 creeks running through his farm. i cant say this man is stretching the truth until i know all the facts about this story. i mean we dont know what creek he was fishing, where this creek is and just how big it is, but to some of us it dont matter because we dont know anyone who had a day like this or even a day like this of our own.
im also one who will keep a mess of crappie, bream, and bass for the dinner table no matter how much negativity it receives.

I'm with ya there..if it's legal then do what you want with the fish you catch.
But this dudes fish story sounded like he exceeded the daily creel limit didn't it? I thought 6 was the daily limit? Anyway I don't believe it but that's just me.