Old Guys & the Banana strike again

bswiv · September 22, 2009, 08:18 PM

This one is missing a good piece of his tail, as you can see by the hand next to it. Even with about a foot of tail missing he's well over 12 feet and a easy 600#. Not quite as big as the last one but still very good. Would have been 13+ with the tail.

Snagged him early but had a lot of trouble getting him to a point where we could set a harpoon. As he was big, and being very uninterested in having one pull off, we were going to set 3 of them before we hit him with the bangstick.

It was at this point that we realized we had left the rest of our harpoons in the gator the wife and I caught last week. Did not have any more. That's when we called a friend. He was already at the ramp but he ran the 15+ miles down to help us. The pictures he took were a bonus. And they helped with hauling the beast in which was another bonus.

hogdogs · September 22, 2009, 08:21 PM

Dang!!! You need to change your handle to "dragon slayer"...
WTG!!!
Brent

Swampghost · September 22, 2009, 08:30 PM

Nice lizard!

simonkenton · September 22, 2009, 08:35 PM

Y'all are a bunch of wild men!!

So, the old banana trick worked again!
Do you think that the single banana is more effective than the double?

These stories and pics are great, keep 'em coming!

FrontSight · September 23, 2009, 05:55 PM

AWESOME!!! And by the way, I have to come clean: I was the one who bit that piece of his tail off...but only b/c he provoked me!

shortwave · September 24, 2009, 06:49 PM

I think your single handedly improving the bass population and Roland Martin should sponsor some of your trips. Thanks for saving those bass as I plan on coming down there to fish sometime soon

. By the way, your last gator huntin partner was alot easier on the eyes than these 'ole hardankles'. LOL!

bswiv · September 24, 2009, 09:04 PM

You had better hurry on down or we'll have all the bass caught up too!

Five fish, 37.5 pounds. Needless to say we won that tournament.

fisherman66 · September 24, 2009, 09:09 PM

WOW! those fish are amazing. Those two on the left must be in the double digits.

hogdogs · September 24, 2009, 09:57 PM

F66, them are just a couple 4 pounders... we don't need you comin to catch our little minners...

Brent

shortwave · September 25, 2009, 04:55 PM

Your starting to get on my nerves

. Makes since that a fella that gets the big gators, gets the big bass also. Seems as though every time I got into big bass hanging out in a certain area there was always alot of gators around the area also. The food chain thing ya know. Did you catch thoughs on shiners in the St. Johns?

bswiv · September 25, 2009, 07:19 PM

Tournaments have to be fished with artificials.

This was in the spring and the fish were at a peak of the bedding cycle. We catch a few every year in the 10 pound range by sightfishing them. When things get right it can get downright ugly.

September 22, 2009, 08:18 PM	#1
bswiv Senior Member Join Date: June 4, 2006 Location: NE FL....... Posts: 1,081	Old Guys & the Banana strike again This one is missing a good piece of his tail, as you can see by the hand next to it. Even with about a foot of tail missing he's well over 12 feet and a easy 600#. Not quite as big as the last one but still very good. Would have been 13+ with the tail. Snagged him early but had a lot of trouble getting him to a point where we could set a harpoon. As he was big, and being very uninterested in having one pull off, we were going to set 3 of them before we hit him with the bangstick. It was at this point that we realized we had left the rest of our harpoons in the gator the wife and I caught last week. Did not have any more. That's when we called a friend. He was already at the ramp but he ran the 15+ miles down to help us. The pictures he took were a bonus. And they helped with hauling the beast in which was another bonus.

September 22, 2009, 08:30 PM	#3
Swampghost Senior Member Join Date: April 18, 2008 Location: Florida, east coast Posts: 2,106	Nice lizard! __________________ NRA Patron Member

September 23, 2009, 05:55 PM	#5
FrontSight Senior Member Join Date: September 9, 2005 Posts: 1,712	AWESOME!!! And by the way, I have to come clean: I was the one who bit that piece of his tail off...but only b/c he provoked me! __________________ To kill something as great as a duck just to smell the gunpowder is a crime against nature. - Alan Liere Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw

September 24, 2009, 06:49 PM	#6
shortwave Senior Member Join Date: December 17, 2007 Location: SOUTHEAST, OHIO Posts: 5,970	I think your single handedly improving the bass population and Roland Martin should sponsor some of your trips. Thanks for saving those bass as I plan on coming down there to fish sometime soon. By the way, your last gator huntin partner was alot easier on the eyes than these 'ole hardankles'. LOL! Last edited by shortwave; September 24, 2009 at 06:57 PM.

September 24, 2009, 09:09 PM	#8
fisherman66 Senior Member Join Date: August 22, 2005 Location: The Woodlands TX Posts: 4,679	WOW! those fish are amazing. Those two on the left must be in the double digits. __________________ la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!

September 22, 2009, 08:21 PM	#2
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	Dang!!! You need to change your handle to "dragon slayer"... WTG!!! Brent

September 22, 2009, 08:35 PM	#4
simonkenton Senior Member Join Date: April 25, 2008 Posts: 891	Y'all are a bunch of wild men!! So, the old banana trick worked again! Do you think that the single banana is more effective than the double? These stories and pics are great, keep 'em coming!

September 24, 2009, 09:04 PM	#7
bswiv Senior Member Join Date: June 4, 2006 Location: NE FL....... Posts: 1,081	You had better hurry on down or we'll have all the bass caught up too! Five fish, 37.5 pounds. Needless to say we won that tournament.

September 24, 2009, 09:57 PM	#9
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	F66, them are just a couple 4 pounders... we don't need you comin to catch our little minners... Brent

September 25, 2009, 04:55 PM	#10
shortwave Senior Member Join Date: December 17, 2007 Location: SOUTHEAST, OHIO Posts: 5,970	Your starting to get on my nerves. Makes since that a fella that gets the big gators, gets the big bass also. Seems as though every time I got into big bass hanging out in a certain area there was always alot of gators around the area also. The food chain thing ya know. Did you catch thoughs on shiners in the St. Johns?

September 25, 2009, 07:19 PM	#11
bswiv Senior Member Join Date: June 4, 2006 Location: NE FL....... Posts: 1,081	Tournaments have to be fished with artificials. This was in the spring and the fish were at a peak of the bedding cycle. We catch a few every year in the 10 pound range by sightfishing them. When things get right it can get downright ugly.

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