congrats on ir first catch, the leepers looked nice as well. i know how you feel about not being able to fish all winter. i finally got to go the other weekend but spent 6hrs on the boat with not even a bite, bit finally went again 2 days ago and ran back to a secret hole with a friend and nailed my first catch of the year, a 3lbs speckled trout on top water!
First fish of the year tomorrow? Let's hope so
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very nice, my first beach trip of the year will probably be in a couple weeks over spring break at the beginning of march, hoping to get the flounder year started out right 
yeah cuz it was bleeding out on ice for about 4 hours and i rinsed it off before the picture, i guess next time i can just leave it a bloody mess in my sink? lol
don't let the tree hugger's get you down,Nice Catch!Unfortunately there is still a ton of snow up here in Boston.
Chubbers;4897845; said:
the first picture and the 2nd picture were 2 different fish, the one that got gill hooked was the 2nd picture and it was gill hooked and bleeding on the side i had turned towards myself for the picture, hope that clears that up for ya
- to msmass, thanks hope the snow melts soon so you can go catch some stripers haha - the funny thing is i haven't kept any freshwater fish in something like 2-3 years i usually 100% C&R (unless saltwater) but my girlfriend has been wanting me to keep some fish to fry up and the crappie in that pond are overpopulated because there used to be a lot of big blue cats but people started keeping all of them so now there aren't enough big cats to eat the" crappie once they get over 5-6" pretty good stock of big -bullheads too, can't really tell from that picture but that guy was a solid 17-18"
wonword;4896753; said:
You'll see that when the water is cold and the color of the water can change their color alittle also. It's just like are cichlids the color/ pattern can change depending on their mood !
