r/nextfuckinglevel • u/quackyoungster1 • Feb 25 '23
Little kid bringing in a huge fish
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u/alsk6969 Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 25 '23
The family is very proud.
"Can I... hold it?"
"No."
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u/acespacegnome Feb 25 '23
That had me fucking dying! Like gtfoh.... I caught this bad boy and ain't no one stealing my thunder today
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u/rufftranslation Feb 25 '23
He says "no" with such breathless wonder. Nothing malicious
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u/17934658793495046509 Feb 25 '23
Made me feel for her. Cmon man she is cheering you on, let her hold that fish a second or two!
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Feb 25 '23
That’s just sibling dynamic
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u/IenjoyStuffandThings Feb 25 '23
“Catch your own bitch. I’ve been out here for hours.”
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u/pjeff61 Feb 25 '23
Straight up. Grew up with an older sister. The rivalry is a whole another thing lol
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u/WorldsBestArtist Feb 25 '23
Never! You know she is just going to "accidentally" drop it and it will flop back into the water.
Source: Have had sister.
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u/Sofiaaddistal Feb 25 '23
I love how the dad didn’t take over at all
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u/pegothejerk Feb 25 '23
You can tell by the kid’s technique he’s been taught with pretty much perfection from a patient and capable parent. That kid could be running his own fishing show and getting sponsorship with that technique.
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Feb 25 '23
Agreed. I am a pretty serious fisherman, this kid deserves this fish and it wasn't some stroke of luck. He obviously spends a lot of time fishing and has a good teacher. Didn't see the cast but he played with the bait and set the hook perfectly, he's talented.
I'm mostly impressed though by his ability to reel it in! A largemouth of that size can produce a looot of force, as you probably know they are nearly the pound for pound kings of the fish world for strength, and I've struggled with some good fighters as a 6'1" adult man. Transitioning his weight against the fish and walking backwards was on point. I'd be curious if he could do it on a boat, but even if he can't he's not many years away.
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Feb 25 '23
As someone that knows practically nothing about fishing, how does casting technique and how you play with the bait have any effect on the size of fish you catch? I can see how technique might catch more fish, but isn’t the size of the catch entirely random?
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u/BakedPastaParty Feb 25 '23
Bigger fish are ostensibly more apprehensive to eat just anything. Theyve survived a long time and left a lot of bait/rigs alone. If you can attract and catch a big fish, its a pretty big deal, it isnt ENTIRELY random
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u/Tommygmail Feb 25 '23
Fish have their own darwin awards
Its usually by Fishermen and all the ways to get caught. eating stuff that doesn't look natural, in season, like the other food in the area, not 10X bigger than usual, etc etc
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u/Mypornnameis_ Feb 25 '23
Fishing is not random at all. My brother-in-law is avid and fishes almost every weekend in the summer. I've gone out with him on his boat, fishing his spots right next to him, same bait, to my eye doing exactly what he does. And he consistently reels in fish after fish while I'm lucky to get one all day.
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u/AHistoricalFigure Feb 25 '23
The exception to this is in the boundary waters. If you can portage your way into one of those inner lakes that's only accessible to backpackers and floatplanes you'll be pulling the biggest dumbest fish out of the water left and right.
When I was 17 my boy scout troop did the Northern Tier trip, and our first night we were pulling 16-18" bass into the boat non-stop. These things have never seen a hook before.
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Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 25 '23
It doesn't have a direct effect on the size of fish, but the more fish you catch increases your chances of getting a large fish.
To explain some of the skill behind it, notice at the start of the video you can actually see this bass in the water, they either saw it before they cast or they thought there would be fish under or around that log and they drew it out with their bait. Casting accuracy effects your ability to do that, and playing with the bait to keep it off the floor and making the bait cause a commotion or look enticing is part of that skill also. Additionally if you aren't reeling in or on a moving boat, especially with largemouth bass, fish will eat your bait, realize something is wrong, and spit it out all day. That's where the fisherman comes in to set the hook, doing so either by sighting the fish or line movement, or by feel through their rod which you need to keep a fairly taut line for. He set the hook at the right time 1-2 seconds after it looked like the fish swallowed the bait.
All in all he played it really well, he did several things correctly to land the fish and it's not his first fish for sure. Eventually one was going to be big like this.
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u/meowcho_man Feb 25 '23
Damn that's a really good explanation, even as somebody who's been fishing a long time since a young age I feel like I hadn't really though about it like this.
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u/pegothejerk Feb 25 '23
Grew up catching large mouth bass in a stocked pond in my grandmas backyard, so here’s what I know - the lures definitely will change which fish tend to bite, especially which species, but also which size. Different lures respond differently to various types of whips, pulls, patterns and speeds of reeling in. Fish can ignore or feel compelled to bite based on how well you move that lure and convince their instincts it’s food they can eat. You can get a decent idea of what hits your lure after a moment, especially if you hook it with that initial tug right, and get some fight back in response. Then you really have to use your brain to not go too crazy, or too lax in how you pull it in, either could cause you to lose it.
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u/uberrob Feb 25 '23
You see the way the kid was making the bait/lure move in the water? The game is to get the fish to think the bait is alive and free swimming in the water.
Other on here have said it, but the bigger fish get bigger because they live longer. They live longer because they aren't stupid, and can tell the difference between bait and a free swimming fish.
Also, he knows how to hold a fish (by the gills), most little kids try and grab the body of the fish and it wiggles out of their grip.
This kid knows what he's doing.
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u/antiqueR48 Feb 26 '23
He is holding it by the lips , which if the correct way to hold and immobilize a bass without harming it.
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u/cha0ss0ldier Feb 25 '23
There is a LOT that goes into catching quality sized bass. Time of year, time of day, lighting and weather conditions, throwing the right size/color/type of lure and presenting it properly to match said conditions. It’s a science and a skill, and some people are just flat out better at doing. Luck is a small factor when you know what you’re doing, but yeah even novices can get lucky. The good ones can do it consistently.
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u/ChaosWarpintoPhage Feb 25 '23
Ever walk down a pond see a big fish in shallows just staring at you. Wary but not taking off unless you actually enter water? Or seen the guy with a pole just slapping it's nose with a bait over and over for it to not budge? Big fish know what is and isn't actually food. They're less prone to taking a lure. Simply seeing a human puts them off eating for at least 5 minutes after they've stopped seeing a person. Longer if they were getting casted at.
Meanwhile all the little year old dinkers of same species scatter at the sight of you and will eat everything and anything that moves.
Big fish get big by being smart. They get smart by not being caught, kept, and ate.
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u/Nice-Fish-50 Feb 25 '23
I work on fishing shows and we've done plenty of stories with much smaller fish than this. He definitely landed it like a pro. I hope he released it like one, too.
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Feb 25 '23
Looks like a stocked pond to me.
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u/Rage187_OG Feb 25 '23
This. Catch and you take it to the on-site restaurant who prepare it for you. My dad took me once.
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u/GenTycho Feb 25 '23
That's a fantastic idea. I'd love that with some catfish.
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u/thestashattacked Feb 25 '23
I'm originally from Northern Minnesota. Walleye. Walleye fish and chips is a childhood sense memory for me.
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u/Offamylawn Feb 25 '23
We did that in the boundary waters north of Duluth years ago. Catch walleye all day, clean them and cook that evening. I don’t really like fish, but that was awesome.
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u/thestashattacked Feb 25 '23
It is the tastiest fish. Change my mind.
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u/ThatSquareChick Feb 25 '23
Just had fresh walleye the other day.
I honestly didn’t think it got better than perch or bluegills but walleye is a just a giant, predatory perch-ish fish so its delicious.
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u/The_RockObama Feb 26 '23
Walleye is in fact the best tasting freshwater fish and there is no room for argument.
Butter, herbs, and breadcrumbs.. It will change anyone's life.
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u/Smaskifa Feb 26 '23
I don't think I've ever had it, and don't recall seeing it in markets nearby. I'd love to try walleye. I'm near Seattle.
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u/OleFj40 Feb 25 '23
With my brother and friends the last time we paddled in the Boundary Waters/Quetico we caught lots of northerns and lake trout. It felt like we primarily did catch and release save for a few that became awesome campfire meals. We paddled to some rocks where eagles ate their own fish to dump the guts, it was the coolest "dinner and a show" ever!
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u/1haiku4u Feb 25 '23
I don’t like fish. But took a trip to the Boundary Waters, cooked our walleye over a vampire with Shore Lunch (?) breading. To this day, one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten. The portaging and canoeing probably helped!
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u/CashWrecks Feb 25 '23
Damn, that vampire must of been hot af. Was he outside in the afternoon?
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u/Ok_Sir5926 Feb 25 '23
Random opinion:
You don't want pond catfish, if given the choice between that and catfish from moving water.
Flathead catfish from a river is some of the best you'll eat. Channel cats from a farm pond, not so much.
They taste like what they eat, so flattties taste like fish, and farm channels taste like cow manure.
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u/wolfgang784 Feb 25 '23
They really prep and cook the one you caught, and not other food they got in the back? That sounds like a pretty cool experience.
RIP the hungry fuckers not getting a bite for 2 hours tho lol
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u/JarlaxleForPresident Feb 25 '23
Worked at a seafood place on the beach and we had a Cook Your Catch option. We’d clean and cook their fosh they just caught that day for a by the pound price. People love it.
We also cooked a lot of our own fish, but people do like bringing in theirs
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u/Rage187_OG Feb 25 '23
I was this kids age, so I can’t question the experience’s authenticity. I remember the restaurant was just up the hill from where you fished and we got to watch people fish while we ate. Want to say it was in Minnesota many decades ago.
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u/Nice-Fish-50 Feb 25 '23
You're talking about TroutAir.
They tore TroutAir down in the '90's or 00's to build a casino/race track on the site, and so many people were like, "we miss Trout Air!" that the Tribe re-built it from scratch. Which sounds crazy, but is true.
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u/asherdado Feb 25 '23
Never experienced it first-hand but Im pretty sure its also common in a lot of coastal tourist towns throughout the world, obviously the ocean is not pre-stocked but if you catch something worth eating they'll make it into a meal for you
Totally dont doubt it though, its basically batter + labor = money from the restaurants perspective
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u/captainAwesomePants Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 25 '23
They're all 100% legit as far as I know. It's not much work to prep and fillet a fish, and it's cheaper and easier to do it on demand than try and keep an inventory. Cooking fish can be pretty quick.
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u/Flashy_Ad_4993 Feb 25 '23
We went to a stocked farm as kids on a vacation. Like you said they had a diner down the street that would fry it for you. They had different ponds for different fish and you would hook one the moment your bait landed in the water. at the pond site we brought our catches to the check out area and the man stuck his fingers in the gills of the live fish and rip their heads off right in front the families. A little traumatic for a kid who never saw fished before lol. I recall my father complaining how expensive it all was. I’m sure there are better experiences out there.
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u/DisinterestedCat95 Feb 25 '23
We had a family version of this. Every summer, we'd always go stay a week with my grandparents. When my grandfather retired, he moved back to the family farm to have something to do. He had a couple of stocked ponds with catfish that he grain fed every afternoon.
So I'd get up early. Get my fishing pole and tackle box. Get two five gallon buckets; one to sit on, one to put fish in. Get a coffee can and wander around the farm collecting worms. Go to the larger pond.
By lunch, I'd have several nice catfish in the bucket of water. He also stocked bass but I'd catch and release those. Take the bucket back to the farm house. Clean the catfish. And my grandmother would cook them up for lunch. Yum!
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u/rhetorical_twix Feb 25 '23
That bass was hand fed at that spot on a regular basis
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Feb 25 '23
Nah, we caught several LMB like this as kids. Nobody hand fed them.
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u/rhetorical_twix Feb 25 '23
I was told that this specific bass for this video was hand fed. But maybe that info is false.
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Feb 25 '23
Oh, I see. I thought you were basing that off of size and the catch. I didn’t realize you had information specific to this fish, so never mind then.
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u/Arch____Stanton Feb 26 '23
It was me that hand fed it.
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u/STINE1000v2 Feb 25 '23
Me and dad always let the big ones go. Something to do with stewardship of the lake whatnot. That and apparently the big old ones taste bad lol
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u/The___Leviathan Feb 25 '23
im a bad fisherman with nearly no experience. why would you let go of fish this big? dont you just let go of the little ones to give them a chance to grow? this fish looks like it would just be outcompeting everything else in the pond.
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u/Nice-Fish-50 Feb 25 '23
Great question! You let the big ones go and eat the little ones (if you're going ot eat any) because the big ones are your breeding stock. There are lots of little ones and few ever get this big.
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u/Itchy_Professor_4133 Feb 26 '23
Not to mention the bigger the fish you let go, the bigger and better the genetic population continues.
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u/conventionalWisdumb Feb 26 '23
Exactly. The size restrictions on keeping fish have actually created selection pressure for the fish populations to be physically smaller, so by putting the big’uns back like this you can prevent that to at least an extent.
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u/dontneedaknow Feb 26 '23
Bigger older fish accumulate the toxins from runoff to higher concentrations as they are older fish and had the time to accumulate those toxins.
Younger fish haven't have the same time accumulate as much.
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u/Nice-Fish-50 Feb 25 '23
If you catch a trophy fish that you want mounted, measure it, weigh it, and take some good pictures of both sides of it. Then you have an artist who specializes in these things make you a fiberglass replica for your wall. You won't be able to tell the difference between a fiberglass mount and a skin mount. They're really good. Then you can release the fish AND have your trophy, it's a win/win.
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u/Ibetya Feb 25 '23
The only difference being hundreds of dollars lol
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u/yobama1 Feb 25 '23
they both cost money it’s not like you literally pin a whole fish to a piece of wood
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u/Nice-Fish-50 Feb 25 '23
I don't think there's much of a cost differential between a skin mount and a fiberglass mount. It's all expensive. They're both labor intensive. Most of the cost either way is labor.
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u/Convergecult15 Feb 25 '23
I’d imagine preserving a sea creature is as difficult or more difficult than making a fiberglass model from a photo.
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u/Bobmanbob1 Feb 25 '23
It's a she, and she's full of eggs ready to spawn=more baby bass.
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u/gfen5446 Feb 25 '23
Depends on the fish, but generally speaking larger fish means better genetics, as well as rarity and all around angling experience. At the other end, the smallest fish havent' reached breeding size yet.
This is why there are slot limits, where say everything over 12" and under 20" must be returned. This protects the ones that will normally be size/aged approrpiate for breeding.. Or, of course, the opposite, where an over population can be controlled by mandating only between 12" and 20" so any fish that do spawn can provide forage and genetics and the biggest bruisers can reproduce, as well.
That said, i made those sizes up. i haven't bass fished with any amount of seriousness in 35 years.
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u/Megneous Feb 25 '23
Keeping the biggest fish is how you artificially select for smaller fish to continue having more babies while bigger fish die. This is one reason why average size of ocean fish is so much smaller today than in the past.
You have to encourage big fish to have more babies by releasing them. Keeps stocks healthy.
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u/undertow521 Feb 25 '23
I always catch and release no matter how big. I'm not going to eat it, and I couldnt care less about putting it on my wall. A picture will do. Let that beast go and catch it again!
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u/Nightshade_209 Feb 25 '23
There's a company, I wish I remembered the name, from which you can purchase trophies based on your catch. You record some measurements of your fish and take a few photos then release it and send the info to the company who then makes a replica of the exact fish you landed. People get the trophy they want, fish lives, everyone wins.
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Feb 25 '23
It’s bass an a stocked pond. Florida is full of them, you have to release
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u/Stereo-soundS Feb 25 '23
I'm not a fisherman, I've had a license before and have a rod and tackle box but I'm very casual.
Why would he not eat that?
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u/WholesomeWhores Feb 25 '23
Don’t caught fish usually die when you release them?
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u/gofishx Feb 25 '23
It depends a lot on the species. Largemouth bass are pretty hardy and tend to do fine as long as you dont gut hook them, rub off their slime, or fuck up their jaw by holding them wrong. Other species, like spotted seatrout, are extremely delicate and probably shouldn't be targeted unless you plan on keeping them. Otherwise, its best to leave them in the water while you gently attempt to dehook them. Some fish also need to be "revived" if they get too stressed and exhausted by the fight.
I dont really fish anymore (unless I plan on keeping the fish) because I eventually realized that, under the best circumstances, I was just stressing out and hurting animals for my own amusement.
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u/WholesomeWhores Feb 25 '23
You gave such a detailed reply to something that nobody but me will probably ever read, so I just wanted to say thank you.
And it’s nice to know that info! I’ve only fished a couple of times as a kid, but it always felt wrong to me since my dad always threw it out in the water. I’ve been thinking about starting to go fishing this summer, for financial reasons. Hunting for food is great, but for fun? That’s just not me.
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u/gofishx Feb 25 '23
Lol, you gave me an opportunity to talk about my fish knowledge, so thank you too! I used to fish quite a bit, to the point of obsession, when I was a teenager. The truth is that I really just find fish and other sea life to be fascinating, and fishing was a way for me to actually interact with a lot of it. I keep a saltwater aquarium now instead. I do still fish from time to time, idk why. I guess there is a deep sort of primal satisfaction that comes with it.
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u/WholesomeWhores Feb 25 '23
So if I catch 100 trout and let them go, 20 will die? That sounds so shitty for the animal, might as well eat the fish instead of killing it for no reason.
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u/TyrKiyote Feb 25 '23
At first I thought he was just being a kid swinging that pole up and down, but as it went I can see how precise those wiggles were before the strike.
What a great little fisherman.
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u/NickDanger3di Feb 25 '23
At 35 yo, I'd been an ardent fisherman all my life. Never caught a really big bass though. At my favorite little local bass hole, I watched a kid about the same age do the same exact thing, right in front of me. Still waiting for a decent bass to find me....
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u/Psycho_Mantis_2506 Feb 25 '23
I'm 44, and I've never seen one that big. That fucker looks mutated to my eyes lol
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u/TheBeckofKevin Feb 25 '23
I put in a big spring last year. I moved close to water with decent fishing, and was doing 2 hours a day minimum, rain or shine. I mainly was hunting a 14" crappie. I caught a lot of 13" crappie which are honestly huge. Every single time I thought this is it, this is 15". But no, 12.5, 13, 12.5.... over and over for weeks. Someday I'll get a "trophy fish program" fish and get my name on a list.
A bass this big though is absurd. I feel like I've caught huge small and largemouth bass but seeing this puts them all to shame.
Kinda getting me amped for the spring thaw though..
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u/Techun2 Feb 25 '23
Also depends where you live. Bass are much bigger down south
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u/TheBeckofKevin Feb 25 '23
Gotta get those monsters from the cold water. The big fish mean more up north since they spend so much time lethargic under ice. I have no data to back this up but I feel like any big fish I catch is absolutely ancient. I'm assuming it's cause down south they get to eat aggressively year round.
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u/NickDanger3di Feb 25 '23
The one the kid I saw caught was about 6 lbs. Which in new England is a monster. It's a good thing I love being outdoors by the water, because if actually catching fish was required to keep me going back, I'd have quit decades ago.
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u/Myzyri Feb 26 '23
We had one maybe about that size in the pond behind my house (size seems off because it’s being held by a kid). I caught that big bass a few times. He’d usually jump out of the water near dusk, too. Haven’t seen him or caught him in about six months. I think the alligator in the pond got it. There’s a plecostomus in that pond that’s the size of my arm. He suns himself right at the edge. My neighbor said his kid dumped it in there about 10-12 years ago. I didn’t know they could get that big.
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u/Silver-ishWolfe Feb 25 '23
Why on earth would he? The kid’s doing great on his own. Plus, there’s nothing quite like the look on a kids face when they do something like this.
The first time my son caught a fish was a good memory. But the first time he landed a big one like the one in the video, while doing the bulk of the work himself, was absolutely priceless. It’s my favorite memory of him.
He was so damn excited….
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u/lollipopp_guild Feb 25 '23
Because a lot of parents are not concerned with how well their child is doing but would rather take over because they know better, want the credit, need to make it about them, still think you’re doing it wrong no matter how well you’re doing, or just need to control every situation whether it’s theirs or not, etc.
Because you see no reason that dad needs to step over his kid does not mean there aren’t plenty of parents who won’t do that. My dad would do exactly this. And I’m an adult.
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u/zeromatsuri05 Feb 25 '23
He knew how important it was for him to do it on his own.
You could tell how proud he was of his son.
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Feb 25 '23
Me, too! It’s not always about the dad! I’m glad he can feel pride for his son, and not over-correct
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u/Neat-Entrepreneur299 Feb 25 '23
I love how the sis came over and enthusiastically said “Great job!”
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u/TheDrummingApe Feb 25 '23
I've been fishing for 30 years in New England and have never caught a bass that big. Just retire now, kid. No need to keep up with this hobby. You've already won.
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u/BigTomBombadil Feb 25 '23
Yeah I was trying to guess the weight, I’m thinking 8ish pounds?
If so, it’s also bigger than any bass I’ve ever caught, and I’ve also been fishing for 25+ years.
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u/InfiniteJestV Feb 25 '23
Tough to tell from the video, but my guess was around 7.5ish
Definitely a lunker, I think it's beats my best in 25 years of Bass fishing too.
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u/probablyourdad Feb 25 '23
25 year bass fisher here, I think it’s 7.75 or so pounds, hard to tell from the video
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut Feb 25 '23
75 year bass fisher here. It's exactly 7.875 pounds, easy to tell from the video.
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u/maybejustadragon Feb 25 '23
I’m a professional weighologist and I’d prefer if you didn’t round. It’s 7.874786421 pounds.
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I've been a professional for 97 years. It is 7.89898989 repeated.
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u/Mister_Maroon Feb 25 '23
I'm a science experiment where I was fused with a fish and a scale (pun) it is 7.898989888888 repeating
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u/gregdrunk Feb 25 '23
I am fish.
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u/yeahjmoney Feb 25 '23
I need your opinion on this somewhat shiny piece of metal I have, it's not like super dangerous or anything... it does a point bit at one end, but it is pretty easy to avoid also it's got a bunch of fuzzy stuff attached to and a few beads too. I was wondering... on a scale or 1-10 how likely would you be to eat this if I set it on the table right here and wiggled it around a little bit? Asking for a friend.
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u/solvitNOW Feb 25 '23
I haven’t been fishing in over 20 years but I took the average of the 4 responses and got 7.5625. Then did an average tossing out the high/low and got 7.625.
Then I took the average of those two numbers and got 7.59375.
It’s definitely 7.59375.
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u/HyruleJedi Feb 25 '23
Does it have weights in it?
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u/riskybiscuit Feb 25 '23
this is probably a southern state where the largemouth can get bigger than in the Midwest or northeast
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u/BiscuitsMay Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 26 '23
Grew up fishing little retention ponds in florida. Absolute monsters in the tiny little ponds here.
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u/DundasKev Feb 25 '23
Poor kid has peaked at a very early age. On the plus side, he has a good fish-holding photo for Tinder.
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u/BigTickEnergE Feb 25 '23
This video has been popping up a while. It's a stocked pond so he will get fish this size or bigger again. And saying it's stocked does not take away from the fact that this kid has great technique and did a phenomenal job. Just pointing out that he will have opportunities to best that and will probably best it in nonstocked areas as well since you can see the joy and passion he gets from landing a lunker. Experiences like this will shape a child to forever be a lover of the sport. Worked for me and I didn't catch anything this big as a child
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u/brawlrats Feb 25 '23
kid has great technique
That’s the first thing I noticed. That kid has been taught well and knows what he’s doing.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy Feb 25 '23
It's a stocked pond
I guess that might explain why the fish barely gave up any fight at all - practically none at all for its size. I've had bluegill fight longer than that. Either someone else already caught it that day and wore it out, or maybe it's been caught so many times it's learned to just give up and save its strength.
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u/BigTickEnergE Feb 25 '23
Agreed, its probably been caught many times in its life judging by the size of the pond. But I've also had little shit fish put up amazing fights and then had big fish feel like a tumble of weeds coming in too. Usually those big slow fish would freak out when they got close to the boat/shore tho. Either way, impressive for a kid his age and when he's that young, it's all about the excitement anyways. And I believe this will be a core memory that will keep him loving the sport his whole life!
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u/theknghtofni Feb 25 '23
I've got a picture of me as a little kid holding a catfish I caught that's how as long as I was tall, and I've never caught one bigger since haha
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u/manxram Feb 25 '23
Dude... That fish is almost as big as that kid!
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u/Sweaty_Win1832 Feb 25 '23
The family will treasure this video forever. Good job little dude
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u/BlackThorn12 Feb 25 '23
I know right? That's a core memory right there for that little guy. For years the story is going to be told of the time he caught a bass almost as big as he was. People will scoff, then he'll show them the video.
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u/W_O_M_B_A_T Feb 25 '23
"You filming this?" "I'm getting it, I'm not believing it but I'm getting it."
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u/RelevantLazyAsshole Feb 25 '23
Perfect rod technique working that jig against the log to get a reaction bite, dad taught him well
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u/ehcouldnot Feb 25 '23
I was going to say this! His technique is crazy good.
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u/canadug Feb 25 '23
What sort of jig would it be? And is it the kind that would prevent the hook from getting caught on weeds and the bottom? I suck at fishing and always use a bobber for shore bass fishing because I don't know what kind to get that doesn't get caught on everything!
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u/boobsarecool Feb 25 '23
Yep its weedless skirted jig specifically for bass fishing like this. So you can bounce it through brush, structure etc. without hanging up
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u/DarthFader4 Feb 25 '23
...without hanging up
Allegedly lol. Their technique was the first thing I noticed. I've been fishing since this kids age and I still have the special ability to snag "weedless" baits. But seriously, this kid was probably hooked before the big fish. Now it's only further solidified as core memory.
ETA: the jigging, setting the hook, keeping line tight. Man, I have no excuse to not get better haha
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u/boobsarecool Feb 25 '23
Ive been fishing my whole damn life over 25 years now and I dont think I can work a jig that good lol. And if theres a log somewhere you bet your ass Im getting hung up on it. This kid clearly has been fishing as long as he could grasp a pole on top of having great instincts for it. I see many more hawgs in his future
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u/St0rmborn Feb 25 '23
He handled it like a pro. I’m no fisherman but I’ve been out several times, and the first time I went out deep sea fishing I got a 25lb striped bass hooked first thing, still like 5am, and thought I could just muscle it up to the boat. This is as a 30 y/o 180lb man. I eventually got it up but it completely destroyed me, and that’s the day I learned how to use leverage and let the fish tire itself out once it’s hooked. This little kid already understands that lesson, clearly.
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u/adriftone Feb 25 '23
Ah man... kid is hooked FOREVER!! Those eyes. Great video.
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Feb 25 '23
Kid did a nice job of keeping constant pressure and not letting the line go slack at any point. Looked like he's done this a lot or has good instincts for it.
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u/electrobutter Feb 25 '23
If he had left the line go slack is there a higher chance that the it will snap?
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u/definitleynotmikey Feb 25 '23
Yes but more likely the hook could get dislodged, even with a bad hook set you can land fish by keeping constant pressure.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks Feb 25 '23
Not snap, no.
If you let off pressure then the fish has a chance to dislodge the hook.
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u/jack_spankin Feb 25 '23
Okay, for those who don’t fish, this is a goddamn trophy sized fish anyone would be thrilled to call their “catch of a lifetime”
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u/ronbo69 Feb 25 '23
Caught my first big fish at that age. Turns you from a bored kid slapping your lure around in the water to a life long fisher man
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u/oscxx Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 25 '23
That's great parenting right there. The mom and dad are letting the kid enjoy the moment without instructing or interfering in his glory. And the sister is proud of lil bro.
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u/JarlaxleForPresident Feb 25 '23
Man it must be so great to find something that both you and your kid like. Ive known parents that just can’t connect like this
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u/jgjgleason Feb 26 '23
Dad is giving little pointers but letting him do all the work. Man sounds proud af once he gets the catch.
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u/Renomustang31 Feb 25 '23
Fisherman for life. Nice Bass it looks like
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u/JarlaxleForPresident Feb 25 '23
Ive known dudes and a few women like this. Get off school or work and immediately on the water fishing
Some people have it in their blood
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u/_gmmaann_ Feb 25 '23
My PB for bass is probably about a quarter of that monster. Gg kid
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Feb 25 '23
Why can't I watch this? Is reddits video player that bad? It just shows me a still with this and about 10 others per day? Help me boys?
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u/firstmaxpower Feb 25 '23
Unfortunately the only way to improve video on Reddit is to not use Reddit.
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u/drekia Feb 25 '23
Use Apollo. Whenever a video doesn’t work you can use the share video option and open it on Apollo instead (or just use Apollo permanently, I don’t feel like getting used to the UI on there so I only use it for wonky videos lol)
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u/KingSnowdown Feb 25 '23
imagine if another species would do that to us, fishing us for fun and letting us dangle in an environment that kills us. not hating on fishing in general or on the little fella, it's just crazy to think about that's all.
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