Record bass CPR

[tennispro]

I saw this picture on another site and thought you guys would enjoy seeing it.  This fish was 26 1/2 inch long 12 1/2ibs.  From what I found that would have beat the State record by almost 2 pounds  .  I think the current record is 10-12.  It was caught on a farm pond in Iowa.  The guy that posted the picture was from Rock Island but he did not say were the pond was.

I hope to get one half that big on Tuesday when I fish a farm pond that gives up a couple of 6-8lb fish every year.  The best part is it only gets fished about 3 times a year 

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[Buzbait88]

Wow thats a big fish.  Good luck on your lunker hunt tues, I'm going to the river tomorrow for some lunker hunting. 

[tennispro]

Wow thats a big fish.  Good luck on your lunker hunt tues, I'm going to the river tomorrow for some lunker hunting. 

Did you get out over the weekend??  I made it over to Carlton on Sunday from 6-10.  I caught a few small fish on a floatting rattle trap.  I spent about 2 hours using a big 6" swimbait thinking a big bass or muskie might take it but no luck.  I did see one boat get two muskies.  The first fish followed a kids bait back to the boat but did not take it, then it grabbed a 3" white grub that was hanging into the water   It took the kid a while to get it in on his ultralite rod and 8 pound test line.

I have not been to the river in a couple weeks, but I will for sure make it out next week to start finding fish again

[Buzbait88]

No I didn't get out.  We went out Fri night to Carlton and my buddies dad caught a 35" muckie on a figure 8 which was pretty bad ass and I had a follow on a megaspin right at dark, but it was so dark I could barely make it out the fish behind it and when I went into the figure 8 I completely lost sight of it and ended up hitting the fish with my rod tip. 

The rest of my free time this weekend was tearing apart the new boat and I did some cleaning and mounted a new depth finder in the champion. 

[tennispro]

The rest of my free time this weekend was tearing apart the new boat and I did some cleaning and mounted a new depth finder in the champion. 

What did you get for a depth finder?? I actually used my front one for the first time since I hooked it up two years ago.  That tells you how deep the water I fish is most of the time.

[Buzbait88]

I got a lowrance X-91.  Is an older model and I really didn't need it, but I got it pretty cheap.  I had some problems with it today.  I'm wondering if I mounted it correctly in the hull.  It did ok at idle, but as soon as I got on plane I got nothing.  I use my front 1 quiet a bit and it has come in really handy a couple days .  Its not much, but its enough to see stuff on the bottom.  Actually came in handy today.  I was fishing a 5' boat lane and I noticed something odd right on the end of a dropoff and it ended up being a small tree right at the back side of about a 2ft drop and there was some fishing hitting on it.