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Glad you had some good weather for fishing! Well done on all the great fish!
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Well for spring break Brendan and I made a trip down to Tennessee to fish the famous Dale Hollow Lake! I will keep this just a short summary of the trip as I will have a write up on Big Carp News about the trip.We arrived at the spot Sunday evening and set up on a spot called the point, we would be staying til Saturday morning. There were a few anglers to our left and we stopped down and talked to them before setting up. Their names were Douglas Reed and Marco Koning, they were both some of the nicest people I have had the pleasure of sharing the bank with! Even though we had our own food they insisted on cooking breakfast and dinner for us for the week and man was it good! We had a lot of fun joking around and sharing stories over the week, including watching them bank some incredible fish!The fishing started out kind of slow but we did start to catch from the first night! Over the course of the 6 days that we were there Brendan and I hooked around 40 fish but only landed 25 because we were fishing snags and lost many due to the snags, including a few big fish. We both broke our personal best mirrors by quite a bit! Brendans new PB mirror is at 25lb even which beats his old one by 4lbs! My new PB mirror is now 32lb 8oz which beats my old one by 16lbs! Overall we had an absolute blast on this beautiful lake!Kind of picture heavy!My rods:
Brendans Rods:
My first fish at 27lb even
Brendans first fish and new PB mirror at 25lb even
My new PB mirror at 32lb 8oz
A 31lb 4oz common
A 30lb 14oz male
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a 21lb 14oz common
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15lb+
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17lb+
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sorry double post
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Congrats, that is a beast!!
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Congrats, that fish has awesome colors on it!
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Awesome fish dean! Looks like a blast!
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Dude what is with you and all the mirrors lately! Great stuff!!
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Nice looking fish Brian
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Super healthy fish, looks like the new swim has potential!
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Great fish Brian! The buffalo will be more active when it warms up a little more if they are already in there, hopefully the spring should produce a few bigger buffs. I know they are in there
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You guys had an awesome day! That pike is hilarious as well, never know what you might hook into!
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Definatly a great day, and two mirrors to make it even better! Well done
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Man that is one hungry fish.
I think this fish likes to getting caught lol
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That's awesome. I always get excited when catching a carp you remember.
For sure, always exciting to see a recapture!
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On this topic I thought it would be cool to post all the recaptures of a Two-Tone from here Michigan. This fish has been caught a total of 9 known times now! It's lives in a fairly decent sized pond which surprised me that she gets caught as much as he does. The first capture of her was by an old CAG member Alex in 2008 when this water was a very hard water to fish with a low population of fish, but now the pond has a high population of fish and is significantly easier to catch out of. She seems to have lost some weight due to the population increase, close to 7lbs of weight loss in 6 years. Four of the times it was caught was by a fly angler who frequents the pond and sees her often. We have been here 3 times and had it 3 times!
Here she is the 9 times she has been caught with weights and dates if capture, it starts off at 29lb and ends at 22lb 14oz
Alex with 1st capture in April 2008 at 29lbs
Alex with 2nd capture in October 2008 at 26lbs
Miles with 3rd capture in July 2013 at unknown weight
Miles with 4th capture in August 2013 at unknown weight
Miles with 5th capture in August 2013 at 23lbs
Brian with 6th capture in August 2013 at unknown weight (forgot scale)
Me with 7th capture in a August 2013 at unknown weight (forgot scale)
Miles with 8th capture in October 2013 at unknown weight
Me with 9th capture in April 2014 at 22lb 14oz
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Great looking fish, love when they go fin up like they did in a few pics!
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Great fish Captain, and I like the turtle haha!
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Great haul Adam! Can't wait to see some of the fish you pull out of the river this year!
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Awesome fish, that first one looks like a tank!
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BTW have fun judging between the two koi and that mirror lol
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Ok well I will throw this fish in just for the heck of it even though the top few fish are on a whole different universe of awesomeness and blow this out of the water lol
22lb+ two tone recaptured for the 9th documented time
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Thats a great report. Two tone, crazy fantail and great fish.
Good luck at dale hollow guys! Hope you guys have new pb mirrors when you report back!
Thanks Adam, I hope so as well! Gotta bump up that mirror pb lol
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Well done guys! Don't waste all your good luck before Saginaw
Haha don't worry Vince we are saving a little for you Ohio guys
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Release pic is awesome. Austin how big was the 2 tone last time you caught it
Thanks guys! We didn't weigh the two tone last year unfortuantly as we forgot our scale. Although Somone else who caught her weighed her in at 23lb last year 5 days before Brian and I caught it. It used to weigh 29lb a long time ago.
Dale Hollow Trip!
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Thanks for all the kind comments guys!
Got the Midwest regionals this weekend, so to anyone going c ya there!!