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Mantua Monsters w/pics - fatkidfishin - 07-26-2009
Took the new boat and family to Mantua for the 24th. Weather was great with just a light breeze in the afternoon. After testing out the new ride for a few hours and draging the kids around on the tube, we decided to wet a few lines. The Barbie, SpongeBob, and Pink Lady pole were out in full force. The kids and wife caught Blue Gill as fast as I could re-tip their hook. I managed a 3 species day with Blue Gill, Perch and a Monster Large Mouth Bass[:p]. We used little pan fish jigs tipped with a small piece of crawler. Enjoy the pics.
P.S. Whoever said you can't have a speed boat and a fishing boat all in one hasn't tried hard enough[laugh]
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Re: [fatkidfishin] Mantua Monsters w/pics - bubba_burt - 07-26-2009
That bass just might be the new record for Mantua[
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Re: [bubba_burt] Mantua Monsters w/pics - happybob91 - 07-26-2009
Yeah, those are some nice bluegills. It seems like Mantua is the place to go for bluegills.
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Re: [fatkidfishin] Mantua Monsters w/pics - deepcycle - 07-27-2009
Cool man congrads on the new boat looks like big fun with the kids.
Nice gills [
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Re: [fatkidfishin] Mantua Monsters w/pics - TubeDude - 07-27-2009
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[#0000ff]But, get ready for the PICTURE POLICE. You are likely to get accused of holding the fish out behind you, just to make it look smaller. Or, maybe you photoshopped a pic of a bluegill and plugged in a distant picture of a big bass, just to make it look so small. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Did you take it home and stuff it with a breadcrumb for dinner?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fun, fun, fun.[/#0000ff]
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Re: [TubeDude] Mantua Monsters w/pics - fatkidfishin - 07-27-2009
Ha ha[
] I was a little worried about the picture police after seeing how they roughed up Utcatman for his awesome fish. Then I remembered that some people just can't enjoy life without causing someone else discomfort[] We let all of them return to grow bigger except 3 of the larger Blue Gill, kids wanted to try them for dinner and I didn't want to fillet too many. I used your (TubeDude) Perch fillet tactics on them and must say Thank You for posting all the great "How To's" [fishin][signature]
Re: [deepcycle] Mantua Monsters w/pics - fatkidfishin - 07-27-2009
Thanks Deepcycle, I still need to meet up with you and try for some real "Big Fish" on Yuba or Pineview.
The boat is new to me but not "Brand New" It's not set up for trolling or anything but it gets across the lake pretty quick. I got tired of the "Power Squad" pushing my little Jon boat around so I upgraded to a 22' Jet Boat with a Big Block 460 that has a few "upgrades"[cool] Now I can push back when the "Power Squad" comes knockin[
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Re: [fatkidfishin] Mantua Monsters w/pics - mrm - 07-27-2009
I know you practice catch and release because we caught the same fish on the 25th.
We had friends from California and their little girl visiting over the week end, so to let the mother and my wife have some visiting time I told Chris and Maggie I was taking them "catching".
When the Maggie - the 10 year old - corrected me that I should have said fishing, I corrected her back and told her I was taking her to Mantua so she would be "catching" fish, and that "fishing" was when you were going for something specific.
She caught her first of about 25-30 while I was showing her how to lower the spoon, worm tipped, to the bottom and reel up a turn. I had her on a whippy ultra-lite spinning rod with an ice fishing reel with 2 lb line, so she thought every one she caught was a giant until it was boated.
I had her dad on my real limber long perch jerking pole with 4 lb test. I should have had him on heavier line because after he lost the first couple of jigs due to his poor tying, I tied him on a small rainbow spoon that he tipped with worm and started casting and slow reeling back above the weeds.
Almost every cast brought in a small to tiny bass or perch. His largest boated was 2 lbs +/- and he had a really nice one on that he couldn't handle on the light line and it broke off.
I started casting and slow reeling a 1/32 paddle tail tipped with worm with the same results, except my largest was only about 1 1/2 lbs.
It made Maggie's visit. She says she can't wait to come back and have me take her "fishing" instead of just "catching".
Saw a couple of tubes working the area by the dock, I imagine for bass, and another couple dead-center of the favorite waypoint on my GPS unit, so I didn't fish it but went to secondaries. If you're on this site, how did you do?
Water was in the mid-70's.
Mike
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Re: [fatkidfishin] Mantua Monsters w/pics - lov2fish - 07-28-2009
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] pics are killer man. Was just out there a few days ago my self and did really good on the gills. I love using my ice fishing gear for gills there from my toon. Was hopping to hit on Sat but having a small surgery tomorrow that should keep me off my toon for a couple of weeks but my wave runner keeps calling me out. I've fished the Pine with it and did really well with perch and tigers.
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Re: [lov2fish] Mantua Monsters w/pics - fatkidfishin - 07-28-2009
Lov2fish, Thanks and glad to hear you did well also. Good luck with the surgery and hope it doesn't keep you off the water to long.[fishin]
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Re: [fatkidfishin] Mantua Monsters w/pics - deepcycle - 07-29-2009
WOW! pretty boat I like red[cool]! You will see when you see my boat. As for getting out this weekend might work. I have been to pineview once and have been to yuba but only coming back from turkey hunting no boat. Shoot me a PM lets talk about it.
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