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Originally Posted by njstew2
...some sort of river chub, not sure what it was. gold in color and about 16 inches long. Got a first hand look at the benifits of whacky rigged senkos...wow the SM crushed them. The problem is they hit it so aggressivly that we had a few gut hooks that requird surgury to remove...all sucessfull.
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Looks like you did great this weekend, especially considering how low and clear the river was this weekend. Not to mention the tremendous number of people using the river.
The mystery fish you caught may have been a Redhorse Sucker. They are big, gold, minnows. Did it look like the pictures posted below:
I think all bass anglers know the grief of deep-hooking a bass. In fact, just this weekend, I caught a small largemouth bass that managed to get the hook all the way to that sphincter-looking thing at the back of their mouth. As soon as I removed the hook, the bass started bleeding profusely. There must be some kind of major blood vessel there behind their tongue.
The bass swam away okay, but I felt sick with remorse knowing that he probably wasn't going to live.
