Uhhhhh, Paul, I think he was talking about you.

A hair less than half the weight of Jay's fish big one at just 25 pounds, but landed on the first cast ever with one of his maple Musso copies. That plug is now either blessed or jinxed.

Good one. Same area as J's ?
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Beautiful! Pretty work man and on your own! WHAT??? Awesome! Congrats on the release!!

When the bar needs lowering, I'm the guy.

JLH needle making something out of a slow night.

It's great to see the needle is getting fished!

Yeah good catch. At least someone caught something. Been a while since i did something other than practice casting
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not as long as I Paul, I have not caught since last year :(
maybe soon, guess I will miss catching in June as well as May.

George you look thinner than that bass, good going

Here is a nice bass from earlier in July that fell for a black maple metal lip. Hard to believe but this fish was actually a couple of pounds heavier than the one I got back in early June. Fish was released after getting a quick weight and a few pics.

Wow, you got it this year. And without eels.

Hell of a catch
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Thats a monster, Congrats !

It was a funny first half for me. I had a couple of nice fish but my offseason plans never seem to translate into what really happens when he fish show. What I think I will need and build never seem to work out with what they want. The plugs I spent the most time on I didn't end up fishing much and the one that was my best producer was just a prototype I was just planning to mess around with in the canal.

The plug in its mouth is the white one from the first picture. I made it to fish the canal subsurface but it ended up being my best plug all spring Sorry its crappy cell phone pic, wasn't in a good place for pictures.

Highlight of my first half was this darter fish. Its my biggest fish yet on on one of my darters. I think I got those yellow eyes at plugfest 3 or 4 years ago.

Absolute pigs. Well done.
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Here's a 38" fish on a 5" needle.

Early season keeper on green/white swimmer, not caught by me.

Somebody here got 100# fish on his own spook...here's a teaser.

Nice one!

Throwing Timber I would say
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Me too

I just knew u guys would score this week.... Congrats

Wasn't Vic.
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Prof M?

now that I see the plug on my computer, I agree, looks like a Paul plug

but Andy is not telling so just a guess

oh ya, white boots if that is the builder/angler in the pic, white boots I know someone with white boots

It's no "secret" , he has the other pictures and I'm sure he'll see this. I was just happy to be there and see it happen.
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And there it is! Nice job Dan.
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Congrats Dan!
That is a hell of an accomplishment
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Awesome.
That raises the bar a bit.