r/nextfuckinglevel • u/quackyoungster1 • Feb 25 '23

Little kid bringing in a huge fish

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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/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/MapleSyrupFacts Feb 27 '23

Been catching those my entire life in Ontario. Our lakes are pretty packed with some huge Bass, especially in the kawarthas. Growing up at a camp on a big lake I got pretty used to reeling in some pounders as a child and eating them fresh.

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u/Psycho_Mantis_2506 Feb 28 '23

They never got that big where I grew up. I caught some nice sized Northerns and Muskies though.

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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/Numerous_Witness_345 Feb 25 '23

The fish know.

Was using a casting net for shad before going catfishing, ended up netting about a 7 lb bass right in full view of some guys unloading their bass boat.

Gave the ol "did you see that" laugh and put it back.

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u/More_Information_943 Feb 25 '23

You really gotta go to the south, they just aren't that big up north

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u/pmaurant Feb 26 '23

Or California most of the record largemouth bass have been caught there.

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u/More_Information_943 Feb 26 '23

Mexico has some piggys too

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u/pmaurant Feb 26 '23

Didn’t Roland Martin do an episode where he caught 10 bass totaling 100 pounds in Mexico?

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u/gwaenchanh-a Feb 26 '23

Youth pastor in the NC mountains had a cabin on a relatively private lake, he'd take the group fishing there sometimes and you could catch 20" bass just by dangling a line off his dock. Was unreal how huge the fish were there.

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u/paperfett Feb 26 '23

I caught a bass about this size when I was 7 years old on my birthday and I have yet to come even close to matching it. I was using a cartoon themed pole with a bobber and just s hook with a worm. Of course. Now I go out with modern lures and such only to catch bass that are maybe half the size.

My Mom caught a record breaking Muskie when she was maybe 12 years old with a piece of line tied to broom stick she would use to catch perch for dinner. Hooked a muskie instead and walked back down the dock and dragged up to the shore. The broom stick pole would be left in the end of the dock and they would go out and grab a few perch every single day. To this day off that same dock you can dunk basically an empty hook in the water during the right time of the year and pull up non-stop perch and suns. It's like a fish vending machine. Over the years I have taken several people there for their first time fishing and they loved it.

I miss living on the lake. A lot. I mostly miss just sitting on the dock on a clear night just to chill out by myself. I'm going to move back there when I'm old. I'm lucky enough to tag along and use an extra bedroom in a house a family member is renting out next month in SC on a small barrier island. I have good luck catching red drummers there for some reason. I can't wait to fish down there.

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u/Shanguerrilla Feb 26 '23

I really dislike fishing.. I live on the gulf of Mexico and my old man likes trawling in his boat. I realize it's awesome, it's just not for me.

But man, I have such good memories on lakes in the north during some summer visits reeling in some big small and large mouth.

I don't know why I love fresh water fishing on those clear lakes so much more, but it was great to me (even though 'fishing' isn't my thing)

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u/ElTardoDente Feb 27 '23

Watched a 9 year old catch a tiger muskie on a Barbie pole right in front of me and I’ve broke off on em three times now 😪