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    It shouldnt be this easy

    Got home from work, ate, we all helped clean up, wife and youngest boy wanted to get in the pool.... So I grabbed a rod and walked out back.

    5 minutes later. This big ole girl.

    At my wife's better judgment I had my oldest grab the electronic kitchen scale from the kitchen.

    4lbs, 10.5 ounces. BUT HER TAIL was laying on the ground.
    Considered getting a tray of some sort to lay her on and weighing again, but she'd been out of the water for about 2 minutes at that point. Plus the scale only weighs up to 5 pounds.

    So I kissed her, walked her back down to the water, and off she went.
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    That'll put a bend in your pole! Goodun!

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    So, without her actually being weighed, you can do the noble thing, and just lie like all fishermen....looks like a day'um 6 1/2 pounder to me, too !!!
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    That's bigger than ahything in my cement pond I'll tell ya.

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    THESE are fun to catch too.
    This one if from Saturday.

    Hint: that's my hand and I have large fat man hands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arty View Post
    Got home from work, ate, we all helped clean up, wife and youngest boy wanted to get in the pool.... So I grabbed a rod and walked out back.

    5 minutes later. This big ole girl.

    At my wife's better judgment I had my oldest grab the electronic kitchen scale from the kitchen.

    4lbs, 10.5 ounces. BUT HER TAIL was laying on the ground.
    Considered getting a tray of some sort to lay her on and weighing again, but she'd been out of the water for about 2 minutes at that point. Plus the scale only weighs up to 5 pounds.

    So I kissed her, walked her back down to the water, and off she went.
    I dunno, man. Holding a big fish right in front of a swimming pool, is just.........um..............just a bit suspect, I'm thinkin'.......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckrub View Post
    I dunno, man. Holding a big fish right in front of a swimming pool, is just.........um..............just a bit suspect, I'm thinkin'.......
    What I ought to do is catch them and fill the pool up with them!

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    Looked to me as if that had already occurred, dude.

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    You could do that with mine! Once my boy and all the neighborhood kids grew up, I finally shut mine down and it would make a good catfish pond right now. I got tired of pumping an extra $100/month in electricity and chemicals into it all summer as well as spending half my weekend cleaning the dang thing. A 2-story house and a pool ... two things I will NEVER purchase again!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thumper View Post
    You could do that with mine! Once my boy and all the neighborhood kids grew up, I finally shut mine down and it would make a good catfish pond right now. I got tired of pumping an extra $100/month in electricity and chemicals into it all summer as well as spending half my weekend cleaning the dang thing. A 2-story house and a pool ... two things I will NEVER purchase again!
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    Another year or so and that'd be a fine bass!
    If we all threw our problems in a pile, and you saw everyone else's problems-- you'd take yours back.

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