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Shore Fishing => Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports => : BenCantrell April 02, 2017, 10:55:05 AM
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Made it out yesterday to the Clinton Lake spillway for my first local fishing trip of 2017. Was hoping for a fair hooked gizzard shad for my lifelist, but the only one I caught was snagged in the side. Been trying to get one of these hooked in the mouth for seven years!
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Since the shad weren't biting, I switched to a heavy inline spinner. I had to clean algae off it after every cast, but eventually I got a solid hit from a hybrid striped bass. I've caught a few over the years, but I had never photographed one. Was glad to get a nice example of one showing the broken stripes.
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Snagged a silver carp that nearly spooled me, but I didn't take a photo of it. Several hours went by without a fish, and then I got a good THUMP and had a short but spirited fight with this guy. 7.5 lbs on 6 lb line!
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I had been there for quite a while, so I opted to end on a high note and leave right after catching the second fish. A buddy invited me over to have tacos for dinner, and I volunteered my catch to have them be fish tacos. I only cooked up half the fish and it easily fed five people. Those tacos were good!
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On the 6lb test, impressive. Ive always used that as a the impressive benchmark to myself, when the fish weight is more than the pound test rating of the line or leader, I'm impressed. I realize a fish weighs about zero in the water so the correlation is flawed but still....
JOE
PS: how's the so cal employment offer lookin ?
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That's a chunky fish!
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PS: how's the so cal employment offer lookin ?
Still waiting to hear back. I think I was the first person they interviewed, so it might be a while.
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Beautiful Hybrid! I caught an 11 pounder many many moons ago back in PA and that thing kicked my butt on the 8#. That is a VERY impressive catch boss! Beautiful!
(What, are you too good now than to take any pics of silver carp!?!? LOLOLOLOL)
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Haha, in Illinois you're asking for abuse if you post pics of yourself proudly holding up an Asian carp. I posted the silver carp photo below on facebook last year and had a bunch of guys jump on me for releasing it. They called the DNR and reported me (nothing came of it).
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