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favorite fishing hole

Post by Team Roper » Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:21 am

After 60 some years of fishing and going everyplace and largely spending a lot of gas money for the boats and truck, my back yard pond, full of largemouth bass and bluegills is my favorite fishing hole. It's not far from the supper table. What's you favorite fishing hole?
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Post by Shakey Jake » Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:16 pm

I stopped fishing since the kids have grown up and away. I'm not close to any fishing spots. Over an hour away from any lake or stream that can be fished. Gave the boat and motor away to a cousin several years ago 'cause it wasn't being used. I'd be at it for sure if I had your pond though! Looks great.
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Re: favorite fishing hole

Post by Team Roper » Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:25 pm

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I stopped fishing since the kids have grown up and away. I'm not close to any fishing spots. Over an hour away from any lake or stream that can be fished. Gave the boat and motor away to a cousin several years ago 'cause it wasn't being used. I'd be at it for sure if I had your pond though! Looks great.
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It's nice to be able to get up in the morning and watch the sun come up and watching the horses out in the pasture while I sit there and catch the days supper. The pond has grown wonderful with big hand size bluegills and 18 inch bass and they just keep getting bigger. I can fly fish, spin cast or just sit back with a bobber and worm and get all the action I want. No more $100 days to drive and catch nothing.
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Re: favorite fishing hole

Post by Rifletom » Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:59 am

Hot dog TR! That looks right perfect. Mine is Henry's Lake in eastern Idaho, but, I have to GET there first. I like yours.
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Re: favorite fishing hole

Post by Team Roper » Fri Aug 28, 2020 6:57 pm

Rifletom wrote:
Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:59 am
Hot dog TR! That looks right perfect. Mine is Henry's Lake in eastern Idaho, but, I have to GET there first. I like yours.
Thank you. It's nice when you get that urge to eat fresh fish and it's right outside for you. Actually this pond is a gift from my wife. She and I used to fish every chance we had. She is actually the one person who got me into Musky fishing for those giants. We spent a lot of time driving, put on a lot of miles and fished for entire weekends just to catch and release. Then her mom got to the point she could not be alone so we took her in and made a room just for her and even put a large trailer hooked up to our house so she could be with us and to take care of her. Of course this meant that we could no longer leave her and we could no longer rely on anybody to feed our horses for us and so we could not go anywhere at all. She was with us for 7 years until she passed last February. My wife knew how much I loved to fish so she satisfied my itch.
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Re: favorite fishing hole

Post by Jdl447 » Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:04 pm

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Re: favorite fishing hole

Post by Team Roper » Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:00 pm

Jdl447 wrote:
Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:04 pm
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Love Lake Erie fishing. It's been awhile since my wife and I fished for Walleyes up there but we sold our boat which wasn't quite big enough at 17 foot.
At times, I wished I would have had a 30 footer. Yikes, that water can get rough in a hurry. Last time I was up at Lake Erie, we went out to go dive on a couple ship wrecks but by the time we got out to where the wreck was, we couldn't even get into the water it was so rough so we had to abort the dives.
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Re: favorite fishing hole

Post by Cofisher » Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:50 pm

I can’t identify a specific hole, but I count the entire upper Arkansas River valley as my ‘spot’. I was up there for several days last week and caught numerous fish. The largest was only about 15 inches, rainbow trout. All catch and release, I don’t need any more fish in the freezer.

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Re: favorite fishing hole

Post by Jdl447 » Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:45 am

Team Roper wrote:
Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:00 pm
Jdl447 wrote:
Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:04 pm
561D8719-1060-4E6F-A217-B75B88A08ED4.jpegErie
Love Lake Erie fishing. It's been awhile since my wife and I fished for Walleyes up there but we sold our boat which wasn't quite big enough at 17 foot.
At times, I wished I would have had a 30 footer. Yikes, that water can get rough in a hurry. Last time I was up at Lake Erie, we went out to go dive on a couple ship wrecks but by the time we got out to where the wreck was, we couldn't even get into the water it was so rough so we had to abort the dives.
We call Erie the washing machine. That’s my brother holding the fish. He was yorkin a few minutes before. 🤣
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