BASStard Of The Month Archive
February 2010
February 2010 has brought New England painfully plunging temperatures which have condemned most BASStards to hanging up their gear for the season and waiting until spring. One of our most dedicated BASStard Forum members, "International" has soldiered on however. Outfitted with his new ice fishing gear International has braved the the elements and come out a winner. At the end of a largely unsuccessful day on on the ice, he decided to put down the jigging rod and just sit back and watch his tip ups. This seemed to have done the trick as the fishing gods smiled upon "International" and hooked him up with this beautiful 4.5 pound smallmouth bass. For the full story narrated by International himself Click Here.
"Ice Is Still For Scotch" -International
Congratulations to our first BASStard Of The Month for 2010, Meghan from Western Massachusetts. Meghan recently took a fishing charter in the Bahamas in search of Barracuda, Mahi Mahi, Wahoo, and Grouper and landed herself a solid Barracuda (shown below). Meghan hooked this beauty trolling live bait from the 30 foot charter boat and was surprised that the Barracuda didn't have the fight that you would expect from such an intimidating fish. Great catch Meghan, and welcome to the Hall Of Fame! Congratulations and we at BASStard Fishing wish you and all BASStards alike a happy new year.
2009 BASStard Of The Year
BASStard
Fishing.com has now been around for about a year, and that means we
have had one full year of members added to our "BASStard Of The Month"
hall of fame and it is now time to announce the first ever "BASStard Of
The Year!"
And the winner is..... Derek J. of Central
Massachusetts. Derek won "BASStard Of The Month" back in August with
this 23.25 inch 7.44 pound lunker. Derek landed this beauty on a 6 inch
crank fished on light tackle, a feat that takes a great measure of
angling savvy. Congratulations, Derek, on being the first ever
"BASStard Of The Year" and we wish you the best of luck in the 2010
season.
December 2009 brings us another one of our forum members, "regularschmoe," with his monster trout, which he landed way back in 1992 in the Shadowcliffs Lakes located in California. This trophy weighed in at 10 pounds 1/4 ounces, the image quality isn't great, but you can still see the sheer size of the beast. Congrats regularschmoe, we look forward to hearing more from you on the forum, and enjoy your month on top!
November 2009 brings us "Kaptain Kidd," from Central Massachusetts, one of our very first forum members. KK, as we call him on the forum landed this 22" long 15" girth brick on a Swamp Donkey fishing it across some heavy lily pad cover, it was his only catch of the day, but who could really complain. Nice catch KK and welcome to the BASStard of the Month hall of fame!
October 2009
Well, its early October 2009 and the weather is cooling down, but the BASStards just keep coming! This months BASStard Of The Month, Zack C. landed a monster Mako shark 60 miles off the shore of Massachusetts last month. The shark weighed in just shy of 200 pounds and was caught trolling artificial squid bars with herring bait in the stinger squid. Nice catch Zack! and welcome to the hall of fame.
September 2009
September 2009 brings us far up north to Lynn Chmelnitsky in Ontario Canada, where she landed this beautiful 18" largemouth off a dock on the shoreline of Silver Lake. Lynn landed this monster on a buckshot and worm rig in a spot where she and her family have had some close calls with some lunker bass, one of which snapped her sons pole in half! Nice catch Lynn! and welcome to the BASStard Of The Month hall of fame!
As a sidenote, Lynn also mentioned the fact that she outfishes her husband ;).
August 2009
I am proud to announce
Derek J.
of central Massachusetts as August 2009's BASStard Of The Month. Derek
was out fishing for a few hours a couple of weeks ago with his
girlfriend, throwing a 6 inch crank on light tackle when he hooked onto
this 23.25 inch 7.44 pound monster. An epic battle ensued as this slab
dove for heavy weed cover, but in the end Derek was triumphant and
boated the sucker despite his use of light tackle. Nice catch! and
welcome, Derek, to the BASStard Hall of Fame!
July 2009
Matt Gilbert from Western
Massachusetts is our proud BASStard of the month for July 2009. Below
is a picture of Matt on Barton's Cove (a section of the Connecticut
River) on his kayak holding a 36 inch Northern Pike that he landed on a
size 11 Firetiger Rapala. Nice catch Matt, you truly are a BASStard!
June 2009
June of 2009 brings us a
new
BASStard of
the
Month. Robert Reid of
Western
Massachusetts caught this
impressive 17 inch rainbow trout as a
child back in 1940. Reid caught this beauty at Keeler Pond, a privately
owned body of water located in the Northern Kingdom of Vermont.
Reid’s
catch was, and still is, the largest fish captured from the
pond—a
record for the ages. Congratulations and welcome again to our BASStard
Fishing Hall of Fame!
May 2009's BASStard of the month is Peter Dionne of Massachusetts with his two lunker bass. The larger of the two (right) measuring 20 inches and the smaller 19 inches. Pete caught these two largemouth bass back to back on a silver Original Floating Rapala Minnow. Nice catches you BASStard!
April 2009
This month's BASStard, Samuel Reid comes to us from Massachusetts with a beautiful rainbow caught in the Alagnak River, Alaska in July, 2008. Sam landed this beauty on an 8 wt. fly rod using a black leech pattern on a 10lb leader. Weighing in at approximately 5 pounds, this behemoth rainbow measured 24 inches long with a 13.5 inch girth. Nice catch Sam, and welcome the the BASStard Of The Month Club!
March 2009
February 2009
This month's "BASStard Of The Month," Ben Hunt comes to us from Berkley, California. Pictured below is Ben and his 9'1" 110lb sailfish he landed in 40 miles off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Ben landed this monstrosity on live bait with 30lb test line, which lead to an epic 45 minute battle in which Ben was victorious. Nice catch Ben, and thank you for submitting your photo, you truly are a BASStard.
January 2009
I am proud to announce Kevin 0'Neil, of Greenfield, Massachusets as January '09's "Basstard Of The Month." Luckily for Kevin a professional photographer was walking down the beach just as he landing this behemoth striper measuring 32 1/2 inches and weighing 11 pounds. Nice catch Kevin, and thank you for entering in the Basstard of the Month.
