Mr. Blank

Last Login: February 4th, 2012

Gender:	Male
Age:	32
Your Location:	Raleigh, North Carolina
About You:	I'm a State of NC employee and I LOVE fishing. A day with naught but a nibble is still better than a good day at work. For now, I'm limited to shore fishing as I don't own a boat or truck. When I do finally get one of those though, I imagine I'll have to learn a lot of new stuff. I also practice catch and release for the most part; only keep the big ones to keep and clean. Oh, and to clarify, I've been fishing at every opportunity for about thirty years now.
Favorite Activities:	Fishing, of course. Also, I love reading and even writing some of my own stuff. I listen to music; most of it won't air on the radio, but I do listen to a lot of classic Rock. I also occasionally smoke a pipe or cigar. Don't worry, it's straight tobacco. I don't go for the other stuff at all.
Favorite Species of Fish:	Whatever I can catch. I enjoy the fighters like bass and catfish, but really, anything will do.
Favorite Tackle:	Whatever the fish are biting on.
Number of Anglers Invited:	5

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Who got me involved in fishing:
My Dad.

Favorite Fishing Story:
Early spring 2010; I was fishing this pond near my house. I was using a medium sized Rebel brokeback minnow with a 30# steel leader because there are some large snappers in the area, and a Shakespeare baitcaster reel mounted on a Rhinorod with 14# test line. The pond had a lot of natural structure and I'd already fed it about $40 worth of tackle by that day just since the beginning of the year. So as I'm reeling in, it felt like my minnow had hooked into a submerged stump. It just STOPPED dead in the water. I admit, I got mad and I yanked on the pole to try to get my lure back. And then the line started going crazy in the water, and heading off for the submerged trees farther out. I mentioned that there were a lot of submerged structures here - right? Well, this thing took line like nobody's business, despite me trying my best to reel it in to keep it out of the trees. I ended up bracing the butt of the pole against my belt and drawing line in by hand and operating the reel to keep it from getting tangled. About halfway in, the fish decided to run down the shore towards some more submerged trees and roots. So, I had to backpedal while still reeling the hard way.

Seems like it lasted forever, but must've only been a minute, maybe less, before I had it on the shore. It was a largemouth bass, and weighed in at 4.5#, and about 28 inches long. That's biggest fish I've caught to date.

The other favorite I have I can't tell here. What I can say is I embarrassed my brother who trashtalked all day about catching all the fish... only to have me catch the single biggest by far... while all of his were panfish too small to keep. For his trouble, I made sure to get his wife to ask him about his catch. To which he responded: "Mike caught the big one. All I caught is one I'm embarrassed of."

Best Fishing Joke:
Don't really know any...

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