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Title: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: bmb on June 06, 2010, 01:41:00 PM
well we saw alot of fish last night but i had my eyes set on a few big grassies. my new hoyt excel fishing setup worked great on these big guys. the one fish im holding up in both pics almost got away......i hit him and he went straight into a beaver den!! we had to pull him out and get 2 more arrows in him. he wieghed in at 52#. the shorter one weighed 44#. man what a blast!

 http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg258/bailebr3/june2010002.jpg

 http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg258/bailebr3/june2010006.jpg

 http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg258/bailebr3/june2010008.jpg
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: Mudd on June 06, 2010, 01:58:00 PM
Cool! Looks like you had a good time.
 
You're either going to have a great fish fry or grow some real nice tomatoes..lol

God bless, Mudd
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: bmb on June 06, 2010, 02:01:00 PM
we're growing some awesome food plots:)
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: NorthernCaliforniaHunter on June 06, 2010, 02:25:00 PM
Man, that looks like a ton of wattage in them string o' lights! I'd be afraid of frying myself!

Nice catch, by the way. That looks like a BLAST!
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: 59Alaskan on June 06, 2010, 02:37:00 PM
Great shooting!  Thanks for the pictures.
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: bmb on June 06, 2010, 02:39:00 PM
we are running about 4000 watts. im an instrument/ electrical engineer technician, so i have a few tricks built into the system to keep everything safe. we about to add two 500 watt lights on the back for those going away shots
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: Bjorn on June 06, 2010, 03:30:00 PM
Nice outing!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: Chris Surtees on June 06, 2010, 04:10:00 PM
:thumbsup:     :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: bmb on June 06, 2010, 06:37:00 PM
just took some daylight pics. and man are they smelling ripe:)

 http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg258/bailebr3/june2010012.jpg

 http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg258/bailebr3/june2010020.jpg
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: ckanous on June 06, 2010, 08:09:00 PM
Rock On!!!!  Nice job!!
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: Guru on June 06, 2010, 08:20:00 PM
Wow, Those are two monsters!!

You should have taken the skins off of them, they make gorgeous backing for bows.

Congrats    :clapper:
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: chopx2 on June 06, 2010, 08:35:00 PM
thats a carp load of fish  ;)
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: owlbait on June 06, 2010, 08:36:00 PM
I agree Guru, that would make an awesome bow backing. 44# and 52#! What a rush. How much power does it take to run those lights?
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: bmb on June 06, 2010, 09:51:00 PM
i started to skin them but they were pretty ripe by this morning:) we also saw some huge needlenose gar( like 5 footers). they were quick though. we'll get them next weekend.

owlbait- we use a john deere 6000 continuous wattage genny. it is more than enough and we are usually charging a troller battery off the genny while running the lights.
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: Larry Surtees on June 06, 2010, 10:20:00 PM
:clapper:    :clapper:
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: azhunter on June 07, 2010, 12:54:00 AM
Wow some really big ones.
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Post by: bowhunterfrompast on June 07, 2010, 02:36:00 AM
Congrats   :thumbsup:
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Post by: joekeith on June 07, 2010, 10:03:00 AM
Wow...  :scared:  those are a couple of monsters.  Good job.
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: Dave Bowers on June 07, 2010, 07:02:00 PM
Great lookin Fish...congrats!
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: owlbait on June 07, 2010, 08:44:00 PM
Thanks for the info bmb. Get some more! Mt biggest was only 27#  :(
Title: Re: Landed 2 trophies last night!
Post by: Chris Shelton on June 07, 2010, 08:59:00 PM
WOW, I am with owlbait, my biggest was around 25-26#!!!!, but I have seen some fat stubby ones . . . been close to them too, but still I think those probably only weight 35# . . .