Caught this 9-6 today in 6-8ft of water. Rocky point with water temps hovering just above 50 deg. Caught her on a 2in shad rap. My new personal best!
UPDATE: Just for the record, she was released immediately after the picture was taken and she was weighed. It takes a long time for a fish to grow to that size and I feel much better knowing I could catch her again one day versus seeing her on the wall.
Awesome fish man...congrats!
Very nice fish on a little bait! What rod/reel/line were you using?
Beautiful fish. It looks like you crushed your old PB with this big girl. Well done!
Congrats on the hawg!
You know what they say, elephants still eat peanuts!
Congratulations ~ !
That's a Trophy For Sure . . .
A-Jay
Awesome catch! Congrats!
Jeff
Congrats!
Wow! Fantastic! Congrats.
awesome catch congrats on the new PB
Wow! nice fish congrats.
Great fish congrats!
Congrats on the new PB!
A cold weather PB! Congrats!
Sweet. Congrats on the new pb.
Way to go!
Great fish. Congrats on your new PB.
Very nice, congrats.
That's a beautiful NC Hawg...great start to the season and we haven't even made it to March yet! Congratulations!
Nice big ole gal! Congrats!
On 2/13/2013 at 8:40 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Very nice fish on a little bait! What rod/reel/line were you using?
I caught her on a 7' 6" Duckett cranking rod with a Lews Tournament speed spool 5.4:1 spooled with 12lb Trilene 100% Fluorocarbon. Thanks for all the congrats guys! Couldn't ask for a better start to the year!
Te shad rap was actually 2.5 inches long. I noticed I left the .5 off in my original post. Amazing that big girl wanted that tiny little bait regardless.
On 2/14/2013 at 9:58 PM, stanlje2 said:I caught her on a 7' 6" Duckett cranking rod with a Lews Tournament speed spool 5.4:1 spooled with 12lb Trilene 100% Fluorocarbon. Thanks for all the congrats guys! Couldn't ask for a better start to the year!
I have the same setup with the 7' rod. Love that combo.
Congrats on the new PB. Awesome fish!!!
Wow, thats a nice fish, congrats
Nice congrats! Awesome fish, makes me want to go out even more.
What a toad!
Wow, WTG!
That's a might fish, congrats!
I love it, congrats
That's a fat lady!! Congrats!!
Man that's a monster
I need to get me a boat seems like that's the only way to land a fish like that. I haven't really seen anyone post something that big from shore
On 2/20/2013 at 9:55 AM, AK-NJ1986 said:Man that's a monster
I need to get me a boat seems like that's the only way to land a fish like that. I haven't really seen anyone post something that big from shore
Don't be discouraged. She was only about 20ft off the bank in shallow water.
That's a toad. Good to see some people still turn them back !!
Very, very nice and congratulations! That one is a real chunk.
Very nice ! Well done.