-Paul Nicolucci
20 inch 3.9 pound Small Mouth Bass I spent the better part of a week in the Finger Lakes region of New York last week for my annual fishing trip and family visit! We started our fishing on Monday August 6th, and it was a great start. My girlfriend Jackie and I were on the lake by 7:30 a.m. We decided to fish with our tried and trusty bait - Mooneyes! We were fishing Owasco Lake and were anchored in about 75 feet of water. We had baits suspended at 20, 30, 45 feet and one on the bottom; we had our best luck throughout the week fishing at 40 feet and shallower Jackie started the morning with a catch and release small mouth bass which was 13 inches. She quickly followed it up with a 17 incher that weighed in at 2.9 pounds! Not to be outdone, I finally got one on the line which was 20 inches weighing in at 3.9 pounds! We had a few other small bites with nothing coming into the boat to close out the morning. We were a bit hungry so decided to head to shore for a good lunch with the grandparents and my cousins. Afterwards we took my older cousin Hannah (12 years old) out for an afternoon of fishing and she made the most of it, taking the only fish of the afternoon which was 18 inches long and 2.8 pounds! I've attached all of the photos to this post and have two more days of fishing to tell you about still as this was just the start of what was an awesome few days of fishing. Look for the other recaps over the next couple of days.
-Paul Nicolucci
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Every summer it seems the masses head out. Where, while to their local river, lake, stream, creek and/or mud puddle to chase a fish so stout. It is you they chase oh delicious one, your white flesh flaking right off of the bones. Only after being rolled in flour, seasoned with salt and pepper and fried golden brown do you produce yummy moans. You are what steamy summer nights are made for as well as cold winter days. That is when the hardcore find the largest of your brothers and sisters to tame. From bullheads to flat heads and channels or blues, shoot sometimes people catch a behemoth Mekong or two. We load up with chicken livers and hot dogs while the crazy among us use soap. It is never in vane as it doesn't take long for those nibbles to give us hope. Myself, I used a dead shiner on Mountain Island and you took the bait. Matt, well he used a piece of sausage on his newly made jugs that you obviously did not hate. That Channel tipped the scales at 6 lbs and the other 3 weighed less. All in all a great Friday night, especially with no fish cleaning to make a mess. -C.B. Since my plan was to finally get my boat out on the lake tomorrow, I've been in a fishing frame of mind all week. Unfortunately those plans are now dashed since the vehicle we were planning to tow the boat with just isn't going to work thanks to some not up to par NC country boy engineering (thanks a lot previous Jeep owner!). BUT that isn't going to keep me from sharing a picture that makes me want to march my booty 100 yards down the hill to the river in the morning, so, ladies and gents, here is the Inside Out Photo of the Week, courtesy of HDRcreme.com.
-C.B. Like I said on Wednesday, Friday's we would be bringing to you a photo that we've either dug up from our collection or one we found while browsing the net that we just had to share. For the inaugural Photo of the Week I was going to go with a picture that came across my Facebook News Feed today which was a photo of a riverside Wisconsin sunset. Unfortunately I can't seem to find it again, so this go around I'll go with one of, in my opinion, the best pictures I have ever taken. With that said, enjoy the view of a distant Grandfather Mountain basking in the morning sun on an October morning.
-C.B. Decided to put together a short slideshow recapping the 2011 hunting season here in NC. It's not much (I really need to carry the camera more often!) but hopefully this gives you a little look into my passion. Oh, and I have to apologize for the lack of harvest photos with me in them, turns out this year I was a vegetarian, aka the Indian work for "bad hunter". -C.B. Since Chris thought it was more important to be on the lake wakeboarding than sweating in the humid, North Carolina Summer woods, Paul and I set out for our new hot spot on Butner-Falls of Neuse to prep stand sites for the upcoming bow opener. Turns out filming different things takes up more time than you realize when you factor in shot setup and break-down, so we only were able to trim one camera setup (wasn't even one of the spots we set out to do, completely new place we found while walking around). During all this I took some pics, so here they are. Be sure to tell me what you think, both the good and the bad. I can handle it, I promise. -C.B. |
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