Bass & Catfish Pics included.

[Biz-R-OWorld]

Fished this morning from 730am - 10am at the "stunted pond".....Non-stop action....caught 16 Catfish and 3 Largemouth Bass (14", 16", and 18"), along with about 5-7 sunnies/bluegills.  All fish were caught with nightcrawlers or live shiners, except 2 bigger bass.  16" and 18" LM Bass were caught on on 1/2 sunnies I cut.  I used 1/2 sunnies thinking I would maybe catch a real big Catfish, but was happy to catch 2 nice Bass on them, a littls surprised though.
   The 18" LM Bass had good weight for a Bass only 18", he was 3lbs. 9oz.  All fish were released (except 2 sunnies for cutbait.), although I was tempted to put the biggest bass on my wall...One of the heaviest LM Bass I have caught in my time.  I probably should take some of these fish out of this pond so some grow bigger?

[Biz-R-OWorld]

Bass

[VinnyH]

Bass

Someone told me this once... if you hold the bass like that, support it's tail section so you don't hurt it's jaw.

Nice fish,
Vinny

[A/C Man]

Wow Nice Fish Biz It's a Fat 1 lol

[Biz-R-OWorld]

Thanks...yea pretty heavy for only 18"

[johnjav]

nice fish, when holding a bass like that, the fish is temporally paralyzed. you're making a huge batch of catfish and bass soup it looks like. 

[Biz-R-OWorld]

all were released and swam away just fine.....although im thinking I should start to take some of these fish out of this small pond, so that some can get really big?

[Coldstorage5]

Cool pics, thanx for sharing,...where is the Stunted Pond??

[Biz-R-OWorld]

hahaha, its in Mahopac....there's this 1 spot from shore that produces bites every single cast on worms, shiners, cut sunfish, corn, anything.....but 20 feet down the shoreline either way and you wont even get a bite...I never seen anything like it....I see guys sometimes fish for 3 hours 30 yards from me and catch 1-2 fish, while I catch 20-30.....its crazy... must be a dropoff or something and all the fish just sit in this 1 spot.....i mean 16 catfish in 2 hours is crazy, and i held them all to see if I was catching the same ones, which i obviously wasn't....many of the bullheads were over 12" and over 1lb......

[Uncle Crappie]

Sounds great a cheap flyrod and some poppers would be great at your Honey Hole!Those pics show some nice room for casting.

[Biz-R-OWorld]

as long as nightcrawlers, shiners, and cut up sunnies work...im not changing a thing. There's gotta be a 4-5lber in there.

[jamesstock]

How do you cut up and bait 1/2 a sunfish??

[Biz-R-OWorld]

Depending on the size of the sunfish, I cut the sunfish into 2 pieces or 4 pieces.  Then put it on a hook, with bobber and cast it out and wait. Usually have to really wait a while before setting the hook, cuz the bobber takes off sometimes but the fish only has a piece of my bait in its mouth, not the whole piece of bait.

[Dae_Ma]

Bass

Someone told me this once... if you hold the bass like that, support it's tail section so you don't hurt it's jaw.

Nice fish,
Vinny

Thats what she said! 

[new2titicus]

Bizarro,

I think you got a couple of Bass mixed in with those catfish.  Prob. didn't want to catch the same ones.