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#1 Jun-01-09 12:42PM

mudkart
Northern Snakehead
Registered: Mar-13-09
Posts: 201

6/1/09 lunch hour

I took my lunch to a local lake today to wet a line.  The water was still heavily stained, and the fish laughed at my junebug worm offering.  Switched to a Mann's crank of early (to me) vintage and unknown color, it's probably a -1 and has a lot of chartreuse in it.  I've had it forever and its worked in muddy water previously.  The punks (thanks to Curly for the term) liked it and I caught four in a matter of minutes. These are representative.

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu181/mudkart/fish/2009/DSCN0255.jpg

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu181/mudkart/fish/2009/DSCN0254.jpg

Then the crank got slammed: heavy fish on.  Not a bass, however, but a big, ugly cat.  It went 4-3.  That's my biggest fish since the end of March.

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu181/mudkart/fish/2009/DSCN0252.jpg

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu181/mudkart/fish/2009/DSCN0253.jpg

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#2 Jun-01-09 1:26PM

AndrewDo124
Patagonian Toothfish
From: Alexandria
Registered: May-27-08
Posts: 977

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

Nice Mike! Looks like a fire tiger pattern or some variation of that. That catfish must have been on a decent fight. I'm going to try and fish every day after work next week. Let me know if you're free.

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#3 Jun-01-09 1:29PM

Dominion Dan
Patagonian Toothfish
From: Falls Church, VA
Registered: May-24-08
Posts: 1059

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

That is almost if not the exact same crank I used yesterday in my "5/31 pond hopping" post.

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#4 Jun-01-09 1:39PM

Ernie
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From: Ashburn VA
Registered: Feb-03-06
Posts: 15561

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

Nothing wrong with taking on a cat on a crank bait....beats punks any day of the week!


Time to go fishin' again!

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#5 Jun-01-09 2:17PM

mudkart
Northern Snakehead
Registered: Mar-13-09
Posts: 201

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

AndrewDo124 wrote:

Nice Mike! Looks like a fire tiger pattern or some variation of that. That catfish must have been on a decent fight. I'm going to try and fish every day after work next week. Let me know if you're free.

You're right, I'd call it a firetiger variation.  It has a dark green metallic back that I don't associate w/ firetiger, but that is splitting hairs.  It's hard to believe the fish care (or can even see) the back of this lure given the shallow depths at which it runs.
     Sounds great, I'll go, email or call me w/ times that are good.

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#6 Jun-01-09 2:18PM

mudkart
Northern Snakehead
Registered: Mar-13-09
Posts: 201

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

Dominion Dan wrote:

That is almost if not the exact same crank I used yesterday in my "5/31 pond hopping" post.

Hah, a cross-county pattern.  I thought you guys were using poppers though.  **Edit**  OK, re-read it, saw the switch to cranks got you the fish.

Last edited by mudkart (Jun-01-09 2:22PM)

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#7 Jun-01-09 6:10PM

flippin4it
Northern Snakehead
Registered: May-19-08
Posts: 101

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

Nice fish!! Be careful down there at night. I met a guy on Saturday that had got arrested for fishing after dark last week. Held for 2 hours and has to go to court. Cuffed and stuffed over a little old buzzbait.

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#8 Jun-02-09 5:31AM

mudkart
Northern Snakehead
Registered: Mar-13-09
Posts: 201

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

flippin4it wrote:

Nice fish!! Be careful down there at night. I met a guy on Saturday that had got arrested for fishing after dark last week. Held for 2 hours and has to go to court. Cuffed and stuffed over a little old buzzbait.

Oh no, someone's throughing a buzzbait, quick, call 911! 

   Seriously, they took him to the hoosegow? 

   That would put a big dent in my fishing: I'd say 50% of it is at night at the local lakes.  The police I've come across at night have only given a (half-hearted) warning, or even chatted w/ me because they weren't exactly looking for anglers.

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#9 Jun-02-09 6:35PM

flippin4it
Northern Snakehead
Registered: May-19-08
Posts: 101

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

He got picked up at the old boat launch at about 2 in the morning. He said they asked no questions. Looked at his ID and away he went.

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#10 Jun-02-09 6:41PM

gatorchomp93
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Registered: Aug-05-08
Posts: 52

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

How deep does that Crankbait run, because I have a very similar sized one. I haven't tried it on ceder yet, but i think it might dive to deep and get hung up on a log, etc.

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#11 Jun-02-09 7:32PM

mudkart
Northern Snakehead
Registered: Mar-13-09
Posts: 201

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

gatorchomp93 wrote:

How deep does that Crankbait run, because I have a very similar sized one. I haven't tried it on ceder yet, but i think it might dive to deep and get hung up on a log, etc.

They are a shallow crank. A Mann's -1 will run from ~1-12" deep depending on the retrieve.  You might get it deeper by really burning it.

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#12 Jun-02-09 7:51PM

Dominion Dan
Patagonian Toothfish
From: Falls Church, VA
Registered: May-24-08
Posts: 1059

Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

yeah, i think a Mann's -1 would be one of only a few crankbaits I would throw in the Ashburn ponds because of the snotgrass. they run very shallow and if you hold your rod tip high you can almost wake them with a slow retrieve.

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#13 Jun-02-09 11:10PM

Charlie NHBA
Northern Snakehead
From: Herndon, Va.
Registered: Apr-06-08
Posts: 193
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Re: 6/1/09 lunch hour

This is a Mann's Baby One Minus which dives 1-12" in the Fire Shad color.  Mann's also makes a bait called the Waker which dives 1-3", creating a large wake, drawing fish up out of the cover. This bait can be thrown in weedy ponds, lakes and rivers without fear of hanging up in the vegetation.


Charlie NHBA


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