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Originally Posted by Clammer
if you caught a 11.2 would you tell [where]
IMO I would be rEALLY surprized if it came out of Tiogue / there are afew places very close to that hold bigger fish ><
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Not likely, just like the MA record wasn't ever caught in the pond it was suggested it was caught in, but I know from talking to several not only what body of water it was caught on; but on what and where. The herring run feeding this pond makes for big fish and I caught a 9.2, the 6.5 shown alongside it, a 5.5 and 4.5 on about a dozen casts prefishing for a bass club tournament back in maybe 1980. I didn't have a camera with me, but was lucky enough to run down to the other end and find a shore guy who was kind enough to snap this photo and then I ran back to where I caught them to release.
Of course didn't we get about 6" of rain that week and the winning weight ended up being 2.5 lbs, so much for pre-fishing when mother nature has a hand in it. I've hit that same spot every year I freshwater fished about the same time of year when the herring were moving in and never duplicated it again, but boy wasn't it a fun day. I saw a friend drop one that possibly was in the 12lb class on a connected body of water, the mouth was just massive, but he shook loose near the canoe.