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Title: Did something today i've never done before ...
Post by: 1Badboy on Jan 25, 2012, 05:53 PM
caught a 4 pd smallmouth off my sounder !
was pulling it back up and felt a tug and some weight and figured some how i hooked a branch , nope nice smally...especially for the pond
only had about 1/4 " of hook exposed , cant believe it got hooked !
anyone ever done that before ?
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Post by: dylan8351 on Jan 25, 2012, 06:05 PM
That's great!
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Post by: Vtgooseman on Jan 25, 2012, 06:15 PM
Thats pretty cool!
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Post by: dave b. on Jan 25, 2012, 06:22 PM
Everbody is going to be jigging with their sounders now! ;D BTW what color and size sounder were you using?
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Post by: fishnmachine on Jan 25, 2012, 06:24 PM
That's cool. You never know...... :tipup:
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Post by: dylan8351 on Jan 25, 2012, 06:28 PM
Everbody is going to be jigging with their sounders now! ;D BTW what color and size sounder were you using?

Or better yet... GPS coordinates to where you were? Lets get this place packed so no fish is without a sounder in their mouth! ha
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Post by: 1Badboy on Jan 25, 2012, 06:39 PM
it was the plain ole lead ball ones with the spring and its no secret...joes pond , biggest thing i ve caught there in the last couple outings  :-\               
AND IT WAS ACCIDENT ! 
DOH !
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Post by: slopoker on Jan 26, 2012, 04:07 AM
i havent caught but have witnessed first hand at hortonia, my buddy was setting up his jacks and we believe a bullhead was taking his sounders. never landed them but was quite entertaining!
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Post by: sonny88 on Jan 26, 2012, 05:12 AM
I would have immediately gone and bought a lottery ticket!
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Post by: oldbuck on Jan 26, 2012, 05:21 AM
I caught a walleye on a yellow one many years ago.
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Post by: blufloyd on Jan 26, 2012, 05:29 AM
Two rockbass on strike indicator last summer on fly rod. The pheasant nymph looked better to me.
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Post by: Lavman on Jan 26, 2012, 07:30 AM
Bobby: You should send Capt'n Joe a PM and let him know so he can try using a sounder on the slammer perch over on Bomo! ;D ;D
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Post by: pooley on Jan 26, 2012, 07:34 AM
got a small pickerel that way years ago.
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Post by: Superpole on Jan 26, 2012, 07:36 AM
Since I started putting blades and beads on my leaders I usually catch a pike on a sounder every other year or so.  It's nice when the sounder comes back, usually doesn't.
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Post by: coldsteel on Jan 26, 2012, 11:38 AM
that is sweet and a nice smallie especially through the ice..any pics?
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Post by: 1Badboy on Jan 26, 2012, 12:39 PM
that is sweet and a nice smallie especially through the ice..any pics?

nope
wish i would ve but i had to run a 100 yards to my shanty and get my 5 yr old to see it and then get it back before it got sleepy...and my little isnt much for taking pics  ;D
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Post by: coldsteel on Jan 26, 2012, 12:49 PM
that just means you will have to do it again with a 5 lb smallie
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Post by: MikeVT on Jan 26, 2012, 12:50 PM
Seen lakers do that a couple of times on Champlain.   Pretty cool when it happens.
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Post by: 1Badboy on Jan 26, 2012, 05:15 PM
that just means you will have to do it again with a 5 lb smallie

if i did i actually have to weigh it and get a lottery ticket for sure  ;)
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Post by: Fish-On-VT on Jan 26, 2012, 05:25 PM
Wow! That's awesome!!  :clap:
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Post by: vtfisher49 on Jan 27, 2012, 07:06 AM
@ Lavman....that comment about CJ was funny $h!t right there ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Lavman on Jan 27, 2012, 07:53 AM
@ Lavman....that comment about CJ was funny $h!t right there ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D