hundred dollar lures

[gone fishin]

AWWWW for cry'n out loud Larry ---- throw the fish back!!! All else looks like keeper !!! Fish about 5 pounds!

[BigFish]

You guys are way off....that fish is identical in size to the 16 pound mount at One Shot on the Canal. We did not have a scale or a tape but we layed it out and it measured 24 inches in length.....I have a huge fist and when we were holding the fish (before we released it) I took my fist and it fit in the fishes mouth with room for me to move it in a circular motion.....quite a fish mark my words. 5 pounds...7 pounds...I don't think so! I must say that fish was over 10 easy. But alas....I guess I really have no proof...but I believe me...I was there!

Fishchicks 2nd day fishing ever! Her first day she caught a 3 pound large and a white perch she could have gotten a state pin for...released!

[RoyL]

Sorry guys still haven't made it home for the pics. i did go fishing and caught 15 largemouths my biggest were 6.11, 7.5, an 8lb. Not bad for Wachusetts Res. Not on swimbaits, but live lining big Yellow perch.

[BigFish]

Damn nice fish...Roy you da man. That one you are holding resembles FishChicks in size.....how long was that?

[Flaptail]

Avery good friend of mine named Dan Morin recently got a 16.6 pound laker out of wachusett. He specializes in the use of yellow perch for bait. He comes to the cape and we go jigging in ice fishing season for 3 and four inch perch. he keeps them alive in a tank just for fishing wachusett. the ones that croak he freezes and uses on the bottom for lakers as well. Dan used to fish the beach hard in the old days, he is amemeber of the one night, 1000 pond club. Monomoy of course.

[RoyL]

Thanks Big fish the fish was 23" long with a 17" girth. Flap I saw the picture of that 16+at B&A nice fish I take my hat off to your buddy. People dont realize the great bait that yellow perch can make. It's just such a natural and aboundant bait that all fish feed on.

[Flaptail]

Roy, in the old days when I lived in Worcester we used to go to Wachusett and fish small jointed Jitterbugs (black) on hot summer nights along the shore, we would walk for miles and take huge bass that way, many six and larger. Also, we would get some tremendous Smallmouth that way. Dave K, another friend who now lives near me on the cape but originally from Berlin MA., got what easily would have been the state record smallie one night easily.had to be near ten pounds. But we never kept any, just caught and released them. ( we were not supposed to be in the areas we were in night or day) We used to ice fish it. Got to Spags in Shrewsbury, buy a bunch of cheap tilts, take off the red flag and spray paint them white and gray and set them at night and leave them till the next night, man what fish and some of the tilts were dragged through the holes! It got hairy though and a couple guys we knew that were doing it also got bagged and we eventually quit that scene. Got to be a twenty five pound plus Brown in there, you keep at it maybe you will get him!