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 No wading net and Girlfriend is getting hooked. Redfish/Trout
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04/22/17 02:00 PM
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Falcon Lake Guide
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Angler
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I am a bass fishing guide on Falcon . Oh boy do these redfish pull like no other !!! Next thing on the list is to get a wading net . You can't lip these fish like bass lost a lot of fish . Fishing slow like I was for bass paid off . Felt like I was jig fishing except with a monster on the Other end with the redfish . Lost about a 28 and another 21 and a few trout . Girlfriend calling me every name in the book . 
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Re: No wading net and Girlfriend is getting hooked. Redfish/Trout
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04/22/17 05:28 PM
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Tommar
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Nice catch and a beautiful red!
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Re: No wading net and Girlfriend is getting hooked. Redfish/Trout
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#12213582
04/24/17 03:37 PM
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Posts: 1,153
Grinder55
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Just holster them big reds up on your side like ya would a six gun when ya don't have a landing net.
Nice pic bro' ... nice pic !!!
Congrats on your catch.
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Re: No wading net and Girlfriend is getting hooked. Redfish/Trout
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04/25/17 01:24 AM
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Anderson Guide Service
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I am hard headed and don't use a wading net. When he gets close, swim him by you and bring your free hand up behind him and grab him by the back behind the gills. You can get a good hold and get your thumb and F you finger in the top of the gills. It is kinda hard to describe.
Trying to lip a fish could get you cut if he decides to bite down. I had one bite me the other day when I was moving fish around in the box. It was the first time that ever happened!! I though he was dead and just grabbed his lip to move him and the sucker bit down and got me. They don't have big teeth but they are sharp!! I had a customer try and lip a trout before while we were wading and that really didn't turn out well...
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Re: No wading net and Girlfriend is getting hooked. Redfish/Trout
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04/25/17 04:56 AM
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Grinder55
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Redfish have been known to be able to bend a quarter from what some old salts told me 20 years ago ... , so be careful.
Some tremendous crushing power by redfish mouth along with their sandpaper lips that grip.
I wouldn't advise any angler to stick their hand inside the mouth of any saltwater fish.
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Re: No wading net and Girlfriend is getting hooked. Redfish/Trout
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04/25/17 03:51 PM
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Andrew Taylor
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awesome post man, nothing like that redfish fight 
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Re: No wading net and Girlfriend is getting hooked. Redfish/Trout
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04/29/17 05:30 PM
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Gitter Done
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Nice post and fish. Good job.
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