Well, Jason and his family invited me out to Fork to celebrate the 4th. So, I headed up there after work yesterday. I only took one rod, and just went up there to have fun and relax.

Jason had 2 fish in the night and I lost a thinly hooked buff at the boathouse this morning (yeah...I was ticked).

Anyway, here are my pics from the trip...

Beulah in all her majesty.





Jason likes to cast.






Watching for fish crashes.



Fork sunset.






Fireworks.





Jason's 22 lber.

A cool video of Jason casting a spod. I thought he was going to hit me with it when he came back.

cool!

You mean jason actully wanted to catch that 22lber

lol, Jason actually woke up for a fish under 25#.

Nice fish!!
That cast was awesome! How long was it?


GG

He thought it was a buff. We actually thought it was going to be bigger than that. It was a very deep bodied fish, but not super thick.

The funny thing was that he just had a catfish on another rod and wasn't back asleep yet. For some reason, I heard drag but no alarm. I asked him if he heard it, so he got up, noticed the line wasn't in the alram, and picked it up. It didn't put up much of a fight, which is why he thought it was a buff. We saw that it was a carp right before I netted it. Since we thought it was going to be an upper 20, we took a pic and weighed it...only to be disappointed in its actual weight.

so if its not over 25 then you dont want it right?

Quality pics and Quality vid

So, Paul, did you celebrate British Thanksgiving yesterday?

It usually isn't weighed if it looks to be less. We typically just unhook it in the net and let it go. Unless it's a buff. Those are definitely weighed and photoed.

GG, I don't know how far his cast was, but if I had to guess I'd say in the 70 yard range.

BTW, that vid was taken with my camera. I am pretty impressed with the quality.

cool!

congrats jason wish i could have been there.

oh...how many foot rod is that?

probley a 13ft maybe 12ft

I thought it may be a 13ft.

I think JJ has the same as mine XLNTs 13 foot - Love em

mine are rarely used though.

soon to be reunited with the water though

Beautiful pictures! Really nice looking carp.

The one in the video is a Nash Pursuit spod rod, 12' long. He was hitting further out, but I just happened to film him while he was going for one of the mid-range spots.

As for fishing, Jason is using the ACS MIA II rods.

Justin, that common was a total quasi. It had a great hump on its head. So much for only the buffs being like that in there.

Yeah, several of my carp from there have had a pronounced hump, including my PB.

looks like you all had a great time - off fishing in france next weekend

Great pics and fish. Looks like an excellent July 4th to me.

Great Pics, Fishlady!! Next time, see if you can get Jason to smile even tho his fish weighs less than 25 lbs.

Congratulations on a Good Trip to the Lake, & Good Fishin',
LlindeX

man thats a wicked cast that spod looked like it was gonna take ur head off krista