Saugertime

[agelesssone]

fished with TNBRONZEBACK yesterday up around Rome.
We hit the water about 7:10, 14 degrees.
Motored up to his favorite spot and started fishing.....well, he did.
I've fished with him before and know his feelings get hurt pretty easily so for the first two hours, I left the plastic sleeve covering my hook so no fish could get stuck.
(If John's guest catches more fish than him, he'll fake a phone message from the wife, telling him he's urgently needed at home). Not wanting to go home early, I sat in the back, every once in awhile complaining that "dang! missed another one!"
So, John is in the front SNAGGING one here and there, all shorts, and he decides we'll move downriver to another "hotspot".
Get there and I decide to take off my hook protector and immediately hook a fish. Beautiful fish, vivid colors, but.....short. And I got the stinkeye from John, prolly cause I caught the first fish from his honeyhole.
Fished this stretch a few times with John boating another short. I had already replaced my hook protector, not wanting to incur the wrath of Captain Blythe.
We wandered into a creek area and started marking schools of fish off the bottom. Knowing they wouldn't be walleye or saugers, I figgerd to catch a couple, John wouldn't mind me catching a couple of oddball fish, would he?
Putting down a.minnow on a small hook, I hook up with a fish, got my 6' light action rod bowed up good. Landed a chunky LM bass and tossed it back.
A few minutes later, I landed a nice crappie, tossed it back.
Now Capt is getting agitated with me catching all the fish and states "there's no fish here, lets move.
OK!
Motored back to our original spot and I looked at my watch. Almost time to get off the water and we ain't put a keeper in the boat so I figured it was time to take off the gloves, so to speak.
Took off my hook protector and commenced to fish with my special jigging motion, that I can't reveal here, and BANG, hooked into a nice 16 inch female sauger, fat, like the guy in the front of the boat.
He, naturally, observed my techniques and copied, and BOOM! he brings in a fat 15 inch female.
I figgerd we're in the keeper zone and gonna load the boat with keeper fish....WRONG!
Captain Ahab decides that he has to go home NOW! I'm thinkin he's coming back the next day and clean up on'em, but hey, it's his boat, I can't say nothin.
So, if y'all hapen to get an invite to fish with TNBronzeback, don't come back and say somebody shudda told me what it's like to fish with him.
Consider yourself informed!

[TNBronzeback]

I noticed you left out the part about your "hotspot" you took us to. Lol. I think your phone isnt even connected to service, you just put it up to your ear and blabber on to the voices in your head and make stuff up. Lol
But i will give you a pass on that. I only lost a few jigs in your honey hole.
Clearly your colon had backed up into your brain and your thoughts on where saugers hang out were pure crap....crap that you later polluted my beloved boat ramp with when we got back. LMAO.
It was a fun trip. We did OK...not as good as i would have wanted but we still boated some fish.
And since mr Merv spilled the beans on me, i think i owe it to everybody on this forum and thier loved ones that when Merv is in your boat, just the site of him makes people so angry, they just start spraying steel shot in his direction. He said they were shooting at a duck....i didnt see any ducks so im sure those guys knew him and wanted to take him out at any cost. If i were to guess, he probably took them out on a trip, set the humminbird to DEMO to "show them all the fish he found" but never put a line in the water for them. In between the shotgun blasts, i heard a guy yell something about Cpt Merv couldnt catch crabs from a $10 prostitute or something along those lines. So if your gonna be in a boat with Merv.....wear some kevlar.
And im not fat.....i just had on ALOT of clothes!
Yeah....im fat. Lol
It was a good trip man, i enjoyed it...as always!

[jaybird]

you guys are killing me with this bro-mance thing.

[skillet]

Damn, do I feel left out!!! 😕😢


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[agelesssone]

Damn, do I feel left out!!! 😕😢


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I'm pretty sure you would have made the boat exceed it's safe weight limit.

[TNBronzeback]

Its ok Skillet......the whole Merv was in the boat i was wishing it was really you. LOL.

[XxthejuicexX]

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[TNBronzeback]

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Its OK juice...the whole time Merv was in the boat, i was wishing it was really you.

[skillet]

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Why they gotta be so mean???? I mean, we have feelings too!!!


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[skillet]

Its OK juice...the whole time Merv was in the boat, i was wishing it was really you.



So you do say that to all the guys!!!! I thought we had a something special!!


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[TNBronzeback]

So you do say that to all the guys!!!! I thought we had a something special!!


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Its OK skillet....the whole time Merv was in the boat, i was wishing it was really you! LMAO

[agelesssone]

Its OK skillet....the whole time Merv was in the boat, i was wishing it was really you! LMAO

TNBronzeback! Make up your rabbitassed mind!

Your mantra Sunday was, "I'm so glad you're here, Merv, instead of that whiny ass skillet"......but even he wouldn't have been as bad as juice (shudder). That guy gives me the willies. Every time I glance around at juice, he's staring at me.

[skillet]

TNBronzeback! Make up your rabbitassed mind!



Your mantra Sunday was, "I'm so glad you're here, Merv, instead of that whiny ass skillet"......but even he wouldn't have been as bad as juice (shudder). That guy gives me the willies. Every time I glance around at juice, he's staring at me.



SMH....I’m deeply hurt by your words.




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[XxthejuicexX]

TNBronzeback! Make up your rabbitassed mind!

Your mantra Sunday was, "I'm so glad you're here, Merv, instead of that whiny ass skillet"......but even he wouldn't have been as bad as juice (shudder). That guy gives me the willies. Every time I glance around at juice, he's staring at me.

That was because you were catching 3 hybrids at a time while TN and I watched and caught nothing.........









Not because I'm into older balding men or anything............

[XxthejuicexX]

Its OK skillet....the whole time Merv was in the boat, i was wishing it was really you! LMAO



HA!

You tell that to all the guys I see.

[TNBronzeback]

That was because you were catching 3 hybrids at a time while TN and I watched and caught nothing.........


Merv schooled me EVERY time i fished around him last year. Lol. Thats always rough fishing around a guy who is tripling your catch rate and all you can do is look on. Lol






Not because I'm into older balding men or anything............

[agelesssone]

John, some days are good, some days are bad.

I was fishing alongside a friend of mine in Bryant Grove last year, had my neighbor Roger with me.

Ya gotta understand, Roger is a bigger albatross even than juice, skillet and YOU combined!

We are trolling 30 yards apart and chit chattin, we watched him pull in 7 fish whilst we caught one! And we were trolling the same baits, same speed, 30 yds apart!

We wound up catching 7 fish while my friend? caught 35. So, it happens to all of us sooner or later. It won't happen to Roger of course, at least not on MY boat!

I talked to that friend today, they couldn't buy a fish on Priest and I figured they should be hammerin them by now.

I thinkin of goin in the rain tomorrow and see if I can find them and entice them into committing hari kari.

[TNBronzeback]

HA!

You tell that to all the guys I see.
I may have a certain way with the fellas? LOL.
lets hit up Normandy man, ive got a hot tip on eyes! Ive got a new rod thats itching to get broke and $50 in jigging raps i need to get snagged up.

[agelesssone]

I may have a certain way with the fellas? LOL.
lets hit up Normandy man, ive got a hot tip on eyes! Ive got a new rod thats itching to get broke and $50 in jigging raps i need to get snagged up.

Hey, if you've got a tip on Normandy, let's hit it.
Normandy regularly kicks my butt like I'm a red headed stepchild.
If you've got a hot tip, let's go check it out, can't beat us any worse than some.of our other outings, right?

[TNBronzeback]

Hey, if you've got a tip on Normandy, let's hit it.
Normandy regularly kicks my butt like I'm a red headed stepchild.
If you've got a hot tip, let's go check it out, can't beat us any worse than some.of our other outings, right?

That was a total joke for Juice! Lol. Ive been there 4 times total, 2 with him and have laid a big goose egg all 4 times. Im gonna rid that lake of my memory and pretend those trips never happened. Just wad up a $50 bill and toss it in as i drive by. Lol.

[agelesssone]

WTF are you doing up at this hour in the AM?

I just happened to have one of my sleepless nights but I don't have to go to work, unlike you.
I'm going back to bed and try to get a few hours sleep and hit Priest in the AM, sometime.
Although, Woody's tackle did make me up a bunch of 1 1/2 ounce jigs that I painted up, tied some hair to them and am itching to put them in front of some walleye/sauger.

[TNBronzeback]

WTF are you doing up at this hour in the AM?

I just happened to have one of my sleepless nights but I don't have to go to work, unlike you.
I'm going back to bed and try to get a few hours sleep and hit Priest in the AM, sometime.
Although, Woody's tackle did make me up a bunch of 1 1/2 ounce jigs that I painted up, tied some hair to them and am itching to put them in front of some walleye/sauger.
Junior was up and hungry...i took first shift so the wife could get more sleep.
Jigging is fun....if i could catch all the fish i wanted to jigging the rivers, you would never see me on slack water again. Lol

[XxthejuicexX]

Hey, if you've got a tip on Normandy, let's hit it.
Normandy regularly kicks my butt like I'm a red headed stepchild.
If you've got a hot tip, let's go check it out, can't beat us any worse than some.of our other outings, right?


Yeah.... no such thing as a hot tip for Normandy. If you really want to waist some time and gas we could go. I've caught a total of one keeper walleye from that lake. Jimmy lost a nice one a couple years back at the boat too. That is the highlight of the walleye fishing on Normandy. TN and I just swing and miss... actually that may be a little bit of an understatement. We get hit in the head with a foul ball while standing in the on deck circle and never make it to the plate, Fun times!