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Fished Shelly Pond tonight to try something new. I marked eight fish from 4:30-6:00. They would follow my jig and then be gone. Finally right at six bam; one hit a chartruce paddlebug. Everything went right my drag was set for a good long fight. Landed him about five minutes later with my son grabing him at the hole; 24'' and a 13'' girth. Maybe my largest brown ever iced. Finally a picture I can enter into the contest[]

OvidCreek
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That is a nice fish!

Makes up for sitting in the cold for a while.
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congrats, what do you think it weighed?
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very nice fish [cool]
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WOW! Very nice. And Big.
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Wow!!! Congrats. If anybody deserves to catch a fish like that it is you. You put in your time.

Windriver
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That's a toad O.C. A beauty for sure! [fishin]
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well done ! that should be tough to beat
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[quote flygoddess]WOW! Very nice. And Big, but you might wanna edit that to INCHES instead of 24' (feet) and 13' (feet) [][/quote]

ha ha- that's great! What's a fish-story without a little exaggeration! Jaws the brown! (measure twice)

Thanks for the post. Right time right place sounds like!

Post edited; I do that all the time[blush] Maghunter keep in mind this is from a small hand held weigher, but I had it right at 6lb. MMDON I will probably go back one more time I am looking for a big perch and I am using your curtain method you mentioned a few weeks ago. On another note someone left a very nice whitefish on the ice; I hope by mstake. I hope I dont get sick when I eat it[shocked] I think it is a good place to target big fish; I just don't thnk you will be sprinting to pole after pole.

OvidCreek
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If you are looking for a big perch you need to set aside some time to go to Cascade. The perch there are un-believable.
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Hanging a curtain is the way to isolate the fish highways O.C.

Here is a couple I pulled while ice fishing from a pond not far from where you are fishing.




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nice fish! Thanks for sharing.
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Very nice fish. I don't doubt the 6lb claim on it either. The rainbow I posted last year from that pond was 24" and had a 15" girth and it weighed at 6 lb 15 oz on a digital scale. That pond definitely has some bigguns in there. I have yet to see a perch pulled from it but I've heard a few rumors that some are in there.
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I've had 30 to 40 perch days out of that pond. Remember, perch are cyclical. Still, I know there are perch in there. I had a buddy that pulled 10 from there a week ago. The bite is in the first hour of daylight. You have to be in the perch highways and your rods have to have motion. Some of the people I fish with use electronic jigging devices to keep the attractor motion going at all times.
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Beauty of a fish!! I don't doubt there are perch in there either. But with fish that size -- perch are called "snacks"!
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