Wow, I don’t see that being an “one upper”, just a young man who caught a hellacious bag and wanted to share. More proof that these young scopers will dominate the tournaments.

Why not start a new thread and have ALL the attention? it could have read “Massive Lake Palestine Bag - 39 Pounds”

It’s not too late

Congrats on your 5 pounder, nice job 👍

Nice jab, your ignorance just came through loud and clear.

I would definitely question why 5 fish are being kept for a photo shoot, but hey, it was for a “tournament” now, dad came around to include that part. Congrats Pake, hope you were able to win your tournament.

Maybe Tim Clark and RHBC can have all the rest of the attention on this thread, it’s a great catch, congrats again

Nice fish!!!

Congrats Tim & Jeremy! Y'all set the bar high right off the bat for big bass of the year! Congrats Pake and Hayden... what a sack! That's a day many will only dream about!

Hey minesoooooota
Multiple double digit bass (greater than than your state record) ain’t uncommon on Palestine

What’s your point?

Sitting in shorts smoking a cigar and drinking Blantons right now on the porch in se Louisiana

Wanna see a pic of an 11+ from pk?

A 12+ from Camelot bell?

Cabin fever got the best of ya?

Btw nice catch OP and nice catch Pake!

I'll guarantee he would not talk to Brian like that to his face. Brian and his family are salt of the earth. I know them well.

Why is it that about once a year we get some obnoxious person from up north that comes on here stirring the pot. Last year it was Jeff from Iowa this year its this joker.

Congrats to Tim Clark and Pake & Hayden!!

I follow Pake on fb. He’s one of the good ones .

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I'll guarantee he would not talk to Brian like that to his face. Brian and his family are salt of the earth. I know them well.

Why is it that about once a year we get some obnoxious person from up north that comes on here stirring the pot. Last year it was Jeff from Iowa this year its this joker.

Congrats to Tim Clark and Pake & Hayden!!


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Ken,

Thanks for the constructive criticism.

Can I ask a few questions and respond?

Do you think if a random not well known poster from this forum did exactly what Pake and Brian did on this thread it would be well received?

You wouldn’t know if random not well known poster is “salt of the earth”, but merely a stranger with another stranger holding up a 5 fish limit that they caught fun fishing and for whatever reason wanted to show TFF on a thread created by socaltom to congratulate Tim.

Then let’s say dad of stranger chimes in to say “these boys know how to take care of fish” and “oh, by the way, my son didnt mention he was fishing a tournament”….his son in his post said he was fun fishing because his tournament was cancelled.

Do you really truly believe everyone would have treated the random not well known posters the same? Shouldn’t they be?

I have several friends who are very talented fishing guides, I don’t know a single one that advocates for keeping a 40 pound bag in a livewell for photos, some don’t tournament fish because they’ve seen a lot of dead fish. All of them are very quick to put the single fish in an already filled livewell and then quickly take a photo and release. Maybe a total of 30 seconds the fish is out of the water. Those are special fish, and most guides I know are the ones protecting the resource the most. It’s, their livelihood. They’re the teachers/leaders of the best way to handle trophy fish.

Did you notice all the “kindly written” inquiries as to why they took a 5 fish photo went completely ignored?

Did you notice how much defense and justification there was after I said something like “a lot of livewell time for a glory shot”?

I’m embarrassed by the photos of multiple fish I kept years ago, I’ve learned and moved on.

You and many others on here are operating under a lot of assumptions. I live in central MN, I’m not from central MN.
I didn’t vote for Biden. I didn’t start the George Floyd protests. I don’t have BLM propaganda littering my yard. I’m not from El Paso.

Im from East Texas. What difference does it make? There are people on here living hours away from lakes they consider “local” to them. Have you put everyone else through this screening process? Or is it as simple as saying I’m from “x”,TX which makes everything ok? Take a peek, lots of “outsiders” in TX, especially DFW.

If you think I’m the only one stirring a pot, look a little closer, your fellow “Texans” appear to do much the same.

I’ll let you know next time I’m in TX, maybe we can go fish Pinkston together, bring Brian along. Interested? PM if you’d prefer.

I'll guarantee he would not talk to Brian like that to his face. Brian and his family are salt of the earth. I know them well.

Why is it that about once a year we get some obnoxious person from up north that comes on here stirring the pot. Last year it was Jeff from Iowa this year its this joker.

Congrats to Tim Clark and Pake & Hayden!!


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Ken,

Thanks for the constructive criticism.

Can I ask a few questions and respond?

Do you think if a random not well known poster from this forum did exactly what Pake and Brian did on this thread it would be well received?

You wouldn’t know if random not well known poster is “salt of the earth”, but merely a stranger with another stranger holding up a 5 fish limit that they caught fun fishing and for whatever reason wanted to show TFF on a thread created by socaltom to congratulate Tim.

Then let’s say dad of stranger chimes in to say “these boys know how to take care of fish” and “oh, by the way, my son didnt mention he was fishing a tournament”….his son in his post said he was fun fishing because his tournament was cancelled.

Do you really truly believe everyone would have treated the random not well known posters the same? Shouldn’t they be?

I have several friends who are very talented fishing guides, I don’t know a single one that advocates for keeping a 40 pound bag in a livewell for photos, some don’t tournament fish because they’ve seen a lot of dead fish. All of them are very quick to put the single fish in an already filled livewell and then quickly take a photo and release. Maybe a total of 30 seconds the fish is out of the water. Those are special fish, and most guides I know are the ones protecting the resource the most. It’s, their livelihood. They’re the teachers/leaders of the best way to handle trophy fish.

Did you notice all the “kindly written” inquiries as to why they took a 5 fish photo went completely ignored?

Did you notice how much defense and justification there was after I said something like “a lot of livewell time for a glory shot”?

I’m embarrassed by the photos of multiple fish I kept years ago, I’ve learned and moved on.

You and many others on here are operating under a lot of assumptions. I live in central MN, I’m not from central MN.
I didn’t vote for Biden. I didn’t start the George Floyd protests. I don’t have BLM propaganda littering my yard. I’m not from El Paso.

Im from East Texas. What difference does it make? There are people on here living hours away from lakes they consider “local” to them. Have you put everyone else through this screening process? Or is it as simple as saying I’m from “x”,TX which makes everything ok? Take a peek, lots of “outsiders” in TX, especially DFW.

If you think I’m the only one stirring a pot, look a little closer, your fellow “Texans” appear to do much the same.

I’ll let you know next time I’m in TX, maybe we can go fish Pinkston together, bring Brian along. Interested?


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I mean, you're not wrong. If you are a part of the "in crowd" on here you get treated much differently than the ones who speak their minds and don't conform. Some of the stuff you post is meh, this one however is spot on.