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    Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

    24 inches. 6.5-7 pounds I'm guessing. Caught on a 4 inch yellow texas rigged swimbait. Not the best picture as I was in a hurry to get her back in the water, and for the life of me I couldn't get the fish to fit in the frame.

    Went out to fish for a few minutes after work. Still in the work clothes. Glad I went. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

    Sorry if you're getting tired of my fish pictures. This one was just too good not to post. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

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    Re: Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

    "Still in the work clothes."
    The sign of a true addict, indeed. [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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    Re: Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

    Good looking fish. Not to worry. If someone doesn't like your fish pix they don't have to look at them!

    I have a large fish in one of my smaller ponds (I have 12) but I don't know what it is. I was watching one day when a duck (about 3/4 the size of a grown mallard) dove down for some pond grass and a large dark shape gave pursuit. The duck did not surface and there were no feathers floating to the top which suggests the fish swallowed it whole with no struggle.

    My guess is that it is a big catfish or a whopper large mouth bass.

    The largest bass I have ever seen come out of any of my ponds is about the size of the beauty you are holding in the picture.

    If I keep feeding the channel cats in the catfish pond I built I suspect they will get HUGE.

    Keep the pix coming!

    Pat
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    Re: Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

    Pat - Largemouth Bass regularly eat other fish up to a third of their size, so it's definately possible. I've even seen two dead bass on the shore before that were about 16 inches each.... one had its head stuck in the mouth of the other. Clearly bit off more than he could chew. hehe

    I've also seen bass take down small ducklings, large snakes swimming on the surface and even young muskrats. They'll try to eat just about anything that moves.

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    You should import some Jackfish to give the Bass a little competition! [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

    Egon [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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    Re: Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

    While fishing on Lake Whitney many years ago, we found a largemouth bass swimming very slowly along on the surface of the water. We were really sure of what we were seeing at first, but I eased the boat alongside and my brother dipped it up in the dip met. It was about a 2 pound bass that had a pretty large sunfish or perch stuck in its mouth. I've no doubt they both would have died if we hadn't come along when we did. But we separated them, put both in a live well for awhile to see if they would recover, and they did, so we released them.

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    Re: Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

    Life feeds on life.

    I used to have a top water lure that was a rubber mouse with a treble hook sticking out its backside. Mice do swim across water and make a bass target. I saw a bass go vertical out of the water and take a sparrow off a branch a couple feet above.

    One particular mess of bull frogs I brought in to my mom and aunt to clean all had really full guts so they opened them up to see what they were eating so much of and it was little snakes about a foot long. They were all stuffed on snakes.

    Frogs make pretty good bass bait. I suppose ducklings would too but I am too tenderhearted.

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    Re: Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

    Pat, part of Lake Whitney has some pretty high white cliffs and the swallows build mud nests on those cliffs. Right under the cliffs is deep water (the Brazos River channel) and I've read that baby birds frequently fall in the water and are eaten by the big catfish in that area. I read one article that said those baby birds would be the best catfish bait, but like you, I'm a bit too softhearted to try that.

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    Gee. Bird, Just like in those nature programs on TV where sharks wait below the cliffs where some sea birds nest. I guess it gives them variety or something to eat till the baby seals start to swim.

    Funny how although we know logically that life is life and baiting with a small fish to catch a large fish or baiting with a frog to catch a fish really isn't so different from baiting with a baby bird, mouse, or whatever, still we seem to pick and choose who is cute or not acceptable for bait and who is OK for bait.

    If you get hungry enough you can eat the bait or use about anything for bait. I think it is interesting how different animals get sorted into different niches (food, pet, labor, etc) by different cultures. Some will eat no cattle, some eat horses, some eat dogs, some avoid the cloven hoof and so forth, a hodge podge of mostly indefensible customs, essentially not logic based or at least obsolete in todays world.

    I'm surprised some misguided Bambi Cult wasn't out there at that lake petitioning for a safety net so the little birds could be rescued. Of course as a point of fact, the parents who don't do what is required to preserve their young or a baby bird that increases its chances of plunging to a catfish's dinner reduces its presence in the gene pool which, although is not beneficial to the individual, is certainly beneficial to the species.

    A personal dilemma: We feed lots of black oil sunflower seeds and Niger thistle seeds in multiple feeders in our back yard for the entertainment value of getting to watch the birds. They would make it without our efforts but through our efforts I think there are more cardinals and such in our area. We discriminate against blackbirds and are downright opposed to the beautiful and expert flyers, the barn swallows (insectivores.) I call them feathered mud daubers. I would spend several hundred dollars erecting a nesting facility if it would prevent their nesting on our house but I see no way to accomplish that. So we knock down nest after nest after nest after... If you miss a nest and the nestlings survive they will return each year to their point of origin to nest. It is important to "get all the nests" or the problem gets worse, much worse next year.

    In effect, through our choice of live bait, which birds we feed, which we shoot, and so forth we are playing God on a small scale.

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    Re: Biggest Bass I\'ve caught in the pond yet!

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    some avoid the cloven hoof

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    I'm not familiar enough with different religions and customs. I knew about those who avoid the uncloven hoof, but not the cloven hoof.

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    We feed lots of black oil sunflower seeds

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    So do we, and I wish the birds wouldn't scratch so much out on the ground to take root. I've got lots of 2 to 3" high sunflower plants. Of course they don't get much taller since they get mowed every time I mow the yard. [img]/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]

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    feathered mud daubers

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    As in the attached picture of my front door in June 2006?

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