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<blockquote data-quote="BuckyBoy" data-source="post: 4545616" data-attributes="member: 581370">I&#039;ve caught a couple 5+ before. Never got them mounted though, although I wanted to the first time.I know every fisherman has the story about &quot;this one time&quot;, well here is mine.I wish fishing in a pretty big pond. I was fishing on the bank, and cast a Kudzu worm further down the bank and worked it back towards me. It was over a low tree branch that was hanging out over the water. All a sudden the branch breaks and my pole bends over. Drag goes crazy of course. I get the fish up to the bank after a minute or two. I&#039;m with my friend and we have no net. I reel it all the way up to the bank and tell him to grab it. It had to be 10-12lbs maybe more (not huge, but definitely biggest I had caught). He reaches down to grab it, and the line breaks from me holding it up. I nearly ran into the water trying to grab it, but it was too late. To this day, every other fish I have hooked even if it is half a pound, I never reel it all the way in. I leave a few feet and then pull the line up by hand. When I lost this one, there was probably 2ft of line after the pole tip. I think that&#039;s why I lost it. I was pissed for a couple days. Still haven&#039;t caught one as big to this day. Here is a shitty cell phone picture of a decent one I caught a couple years back...<img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee141/smithgt/l_6f812eb588fb64e276fbe9a63bab72d8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />By the way, nice fish. It&#039;s hard to catch good size ones in small ponds. Here lately I have been bringing my catch back and putting them in a little pond below our house.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BuckyBoy, post: 4545616, member: 581370"] I've caught a couple 5+ before. Never got them mounted though, although I wanted to the first time. I know every fisherman has the story about "this one time", well here is mine. I wish fishing in a pretty big pond. I was fishing on the bank, and cast a Kudzu worm further down the bank and worked it back towards me. It was over a low tree branch that was hanging out over the water. All a sudden the branch breaks and my pole bends over. Drag goes crazy of course. I get the fish up to the bank after a minute or two. I'm with my friend and we have no net. I reel it all the way up to the bank and tell him to grab it. It had to be 10-12lbs maybe more (not huge, but definitely biggest I had caught). He reaches down to grab it, and the line breaks from me holding it up. I nearly ran into the water trying to grab it, but it was too late. To this day, every other fish I have hooked even if it is half a pound, I never reel it all the way in. I leave a few feet and then pull the line up by hand. When I lost this one, there was probably 2ft of line after the pole tip. I think that's why I lost it. I was pissed for a couple days. Still haven't caught one as big to this day. Here is a shitty cell phone picture of a decent one I caught a couple years back... [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee141/smithgt/l_6f812eb588fb64e276fbe9a63bab72d8.jpg[/IMG] By the way, nice fish. It's hard to catch good size ones in small ponds. Here lately I have been bringing my catch back and putting them in a little pond below our house. [/QUOTE]

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