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400 fish, 2 guys, six hours is a bit more than one fish every two minutes. Doable, but man would that bite have to be HOT!!Jeff
it was on I would love to show take someone there with me but I am afraid then everyone and all their buddies would know.......MM
Make you a deal... you take me, I promise not to tell a soul and not to go back without going with you, and I'll back your story. I believe 'ya, and the numbers show it can be done. You just need someone to back you up. I volunteer. <G>Jeff
you must be faster than I, b/c it took me about 5 hrs. clean 'em.......MM
fellas, the bite is pretty hot right now, i quit counting after 175 today, but only brought home 11 that were 9+ ins. pretty much the same yesterday, took home 9, I'm pretty much getting tired of catching 4-8 inchers already, i know i shouldn't be saying that!! i was in 14ft of water catching them between 10 and 14fow as soon as my jig got to that depth, fish-on! if i was after numbers, man i don't know, i guess it takes about 10-15 seconds for the jig to sink, so you do the math!! the bigger ones i would have to raise to about 9 ft before they would take it. while fishing today i decided i wasn't going tomorrow, but I'm going to put the vex on the charger just in case!!!i can help it, it's just addicting, you know what I'm talking about! fish-on!
500 fish is a bit of an exaggeration, unless you caught one fish a minute for 8 straight hours which would be absolutely impossible. I love a good fish story as much as the next guy.
#1. I doubt that you caught 375#2. If you did catch that many' then your ethics are to be questioned.#3. Why in the H--L would you keep 6" when you're on them like that? I have no problem keeping 6" panfish when thats all that I can catch, or to make a dozen .........but come on man. #4. Alot of guys feel this way but wont say it.' Sorry if I offend you with this post.
I think it is possible to catch that many gills in a day of fishing on a good spot. A few years ago 6 of us caught 135 walleye in one night on a popular walleye lake. We also had a big mess of channel cat, crappie, and white bass that night. The group only kept 18 eyes out of the 135 but I bet not many guys believed us when we told our stories about that night.If you haven't done it it's hard to believe.By the way nice mess of fish. I hope I can get on them like that some day.Just hope I have the camera if I do.mikeHi Mike I think I heard that story before. Do you know Coondog?/
Bart** Thank you. Atleast you have some guts. Its funny how i have got my balls busted on this site in the past and this guy cleans a school out and is gaining support. Just goes to show how wishy washy, chk sh-t people really are. Sorry i speak my mind
Isporman,If you look, I congratulated him on his catch, but stated everyone should practice selective harvest. He was catching them to clean and give to his family. I don't have a problem with that. If he did this every time out it would be a different story. His first trip they kept 50 or so between the 2 of them. That is not overharvesting. No one can catch fish like that on a consistent basis. You made your point, some agree with you, others don't. I personally have never been on a school of keeper gills that size. If I were, I would not keep that many for 3 reasons. I don't want to clean that many, don't want to eat that many, and I would leave some for next time. That does not mean I would not sit on that school and catch everyone I could, but release all but the 30-40 I wanted to clean. At least he cleaned them and they are going to get eaten...unlike the a-holes that catch short fish and throw them on the ice to die instead of releasing them to grow to keeper size. These are the guys you should be critisizing.Give the guy a break...he had the day of a lifetime....
375 would prob b an understatement and if there were 50 under 6 inches that would b pushing it we had fun and marcum man is having a fish fry for his family whom i know they r good people and i dont think your going to b invited i would like to go fishing with u so could watch u carry the fish when done with a day on the ice if u tyhink could lets go someday
Hell...............I seen what the picture of fish look like,let me see what the picture of fillets look like I bet the picture of fillets weighs 11 lbs..lol.......