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#7149311 - 02/08/12 08:41 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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#7149322 - 02/08/12 08:43 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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#7149325 - 02/08/12 08:44 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 12/16/10
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Loc: Little Hope, Texas
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Kinda fishy is right, but that's still a BIG Fish!
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#7149342 - 02/08/12 08:47 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 04/25/10
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Loc: Crowley, TX
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Interesting!
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#7149444 - 02/08/12 09:07 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 01/09/12
Posts: 88
Loc: Mesquite,Tx
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Wow, he can be my partner in the tournaments.
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#7149903 - 02/08/12 11:15 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Pro Angler
Registered: 03/13/08
Posts: 781
Loc: Okie side of Texoma
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I used to fish that lake 3-5 times a week. I was too young to drive and would have my mom drop me off after school. She'd pick me up at dark. Lake is loaded with giant bass.
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#7149918 - 02/08/12 11:28 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 02/22/04
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His parents e-mailed me the story this morning, probably because I've got a page on my site about lunker records.
I was going to post this here. I must say, it looks like it was dead for awhile, not just a few minutes after he let it go, as he reported, but that's just me when I look at the tail with sections missing, like dead fish get.
I hope he really caught it.
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#7149971 - 02/09/12 12:08 AM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Pro Angler
Registered: 03/13/08
Posts: 781
Loc: Okie side of Texoma
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His parents e-mailed me the story this morning, probably because I've got a page on my site about lunker records.
I was going to post this here. I must say, it looks like it was dead for awhile, not just a few minutes after he let it go, as he reported, but that's just me when I look at the tail with sections missing, like dead fish get.
I hope he really caught it. I agree. It looks dead. The coloring, eye and tail all look just like a dead fish would. To me, it doesn't look a pound over 11. But bad camera angles can make simething look bigger or smaller.
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#7151023 - 02/09/12 09:56 AM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 01/23/12
Posts: 108
Loc: South Tx
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where is this place located?
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#7151085 - 02/09/12 10:09 AM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 03/10/11
Posts: 167
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I don't know if this is true, shady, or what. My buddy lives near Pleasanton, and lets just say I've heard a lot of "Tall Tales" from locals pertaining to fishing and hunting. Once again, I'm not trying to hate and I hope the young man caught that fish legitimately. Puts him on a pretty select list of fisherman.
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#7151105 - 02/09/12 10:13 AM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 01/11/12
Posts: 13
Loc: CA Delta
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That fish has been dead longer than Osama Bin Ladin!
Edited by afchris (02/09/12 10:20 AM)
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#7151264 - 02/09/12 10:47 AM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Outdoorsman
Registered: 06/14/06
Posts: 52
Loc: lake fork,tx
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it looks like a fish at the end of its life cycle,about to give it up.the color is to good for a dead floater,still a BIG old fish...
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#7151276 - 02/09/12 10:52 AM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 05/12/10
Posts: 222
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Some one needs to teach the young angler catch and release not catch and freeze.
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#7151349 - 02/09/12 11:06 AM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 03/13/08
Posts: 781
Loc: Okie side of Texoma
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where is this place located? Northern California
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#7151683 - 02/09/12 12:14 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 07/11/09
Posts: 165
Loc: Central Kansas
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Some one needs to teach the young angler catch and release not catch and freeze. DId you not read the article? It says he tried to release it. However, the comments say that another man watched him snag it as it was floating on the surface dead...HMMM....Makes ya wonder if he really caught it or not??
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#7151687 - 02/09/12 12:15 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 09/19/10
Posts: 1998
Loc: Tyler Tx
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where is this place located? Northern California I lived there in the mid 90's, love that place...
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#7151709 - 02/09/12 12:18 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 05/27/09
Posts: 3999
Loc: Denton Texas
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Haha... he is getting called out now for snaggin the fish. What happend to integrity.
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#7151776 - 02/09/12 12:33 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 12/02/10
Posts: 447
Loc: Missouri Guy Fishing Falcon
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Haha... he is getting called out now for snaggin the fish. What happend to integrity. It's getting lost on our youth, just like every other moral in this country. They are just not being taught honest, integrity or any morals for that mater anymore. Damn big fish though.
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#7151829 - 02/09/12 12:46 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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TFF Team Angler
Registered: 06/11/05
Posts: 3149
Loc: Ray Roberts
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It didn't fight because it was dead. It didn't swim away because it was dead.
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#7152014 - 02/09/12 01:32 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 03/13/08
Posts: 781
Loc: Okie side of Texoma
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where is this place located? Northern California I lived there in the mid 90's, love that place... Heard the back lakes are shut down to fishing. Those were some of the best frog fishing waters I've ever been on. I taught myself how to bed fish on those little lakes.
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#7152411 - 02/09/12 03:30 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 02/27/07
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I wonder how many of you would have kept that fish if you caught it when you were 13 years old? It's just a bass, we can grow more.
Now before you go off chastising me, I release every bass I catch, other than the very few that die on me because of circumstances beyond my control. But I don't get mad at someone that wants to keep their limit if they so choose. That's why we have fish and game laws to begin with.
I'm getting tired of people going overboard with the whole catch and release thing. If he caught it in a legal and sporting manner, its his fish to keep. When you catch an 18 lber you can let it go if you want or keep it. Keeping a few every now and then probably helps the population, especially in small lakes like that one.
Rant over, carry on.
Big fish, good for him.
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#7152441 - 02/09/12 03:38 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 10/02/06
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Loc: Colleyville, TX
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Wow! That's a big fish.
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#7152448 - 02/09/12 03:39 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 01/29/08
Posts: 3395
Loc: Flower Mound, Texas
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I wonder how many of you would have kept that fish if you caught it when you were 13 years old? It's just a bass, we can grow more.
Now before you go off chastising me, I release every bass I catch, other than the very few that die on me because of circumstances beyond my control. But I don't get mad at someone that wants to keep their limit if they so choose. That's why we have fish and game laws to begin with.
I'm getting tired of people going overboard with the whole catch and release thing. If he caught it in a legal and sporting manner, its his fish to keep. When you catch an 18 lber you can let it go if you want or keep it. Keeping a few every now and then probably helps the population, especially in small lakes like that one.
Rant over, carry on.
Big fish, good for him. ^^^^This
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#7152743 - 02/09/12 04:48 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 01/21/12
Posts: 182
Loc: Diamondhead, MS
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How big is the lake?
I personally choose to catch and release. However, if someone wants to keep fish thats totally up to them.
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#7152811 - 02/09/12 04:59 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 12/02/10
Posts: 447
Loc: Missouri Guy Fishing Falcon
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I wonder how many of you would have kept that fish if you caught it when you were 13 years old? It's just a bass, we can grow more.
Now before you go off chastising me, I release every bass I catch, other than the very few that die on me because of circumstances beyond my control. But I don't get mad at someone that wants to keep their limit if they so choose. That's why we have fish and game laws to begin with.
I'm getting tired of people going overboard with the whole catch and release thing. If he caught it in a legal and sporting manner, its his fish to keep. When you catch an 18 lber you can let it go if you want or keep it. Keeping a few every now and then probably helps the population, especially in small lakes like that one.
Rant over, carry on.
Big fish, good for him. Apparently from his friends comments, he didn't catch it in "a sporting manner". He scooped up a dead fish and tried to claim he caught it.
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#7152871 - 02/09/12 05:09 PM
Re: 13 year old boy catches a 18 pound bass
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Registered: 03/11/08
Posts: 59
Loc: sterling city, tx
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COLOR IS TOO GOOD TO BE A FLOATER????....LOL...Looks terribly dead to me...
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