re: OT - Any largemouth bass fisherman here?

Canoe, trolling motor, night....


LINK

quote:

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By Capt. Bert Deener
Originally published in the May 2010 issue of GON


One-thousand one-hundred thirteen bass 10 pounds or better and counting. No, that was not a typographical error… 1,113 bass 10 pounds or heavier. That is not the number of double-digit bass caught in all of Georgia over the last decade. It is the number caught by one individual, Pat Cullen, of Valdosta, over the last four decades.


The best part is that Pat has not fished Lake Castaic in California or some of the famed trophy bass fisheries in Texas, all options that few of us can afford. He has done it by fishing waters equivalent to those available to all of us here in Georgia. He has never paid club dues for special waters or any other fees (except state-park fees when fishing a state-park lake). All but a couple of his trophy bass have been caught from lakes within an hour of Valdosta — hardly a well-known destination for trophy bass. I have seen his determination firsthand as I left the boat after six hours while he stayed 16 hours because he knew the big fish were going to bite. And they did!

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No excuses.










ETA- The best part, if you read the article, is that he doesn't use a $70,000 glitter boat covered in stickers, dressed up in some kind of race car costume and blue sunglasses. He is in a canoe, wearing blue jeans and a ball cap.


He is to bass fishing what the Master's Concession Stand is to sports. He's a $2 egg salad sandwich. The best god damn egg salad sandwich you ever ate in your life.