Virginia 2014

[Ken]

The stories (you really gotta read it!):

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca ... day-1.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca ... day-2.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca ... day-3.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca ... day-4.html

The pics:



#387 for Elijah...tying my #387 for a short while...then completely surpassing my lifer count after. Super happy for Elijah and his accomplishments on this trip!



Swamp monster...



Finally a lifer for me...my only lifer of the trip...and my first lifer of 2014...yes, it was a difficult trip...



We caught more species...but Northern Snakeheads are just too cool not to highlight. Lia's lifer Northern Snakehead was impressive! It was about 8-9lbs, but the photographer did a pretty good job to make it look massive



The snakehead whisperer



Yes, we did have a blast!!!

[Stan Wright]

Nice size… I bet they were good eating too.

I would love to have thrown a buzz bait in that "swamp"… as long as I was using 30# braid.

[Ken]

We deep hooked one and it didn't survive so we took it home with us. It was fantastic pan fried and served as fish tacos.

That swamp doesn't have snakeheads...and fish are quite a bit smaller so a buzzbait will likely be ignored. Small #1 gold spinner does get noticed though.