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northern, Looks great! Thanks! :thumb Do you or did hold the state record for smallmouth?

The small mouth that is in the picture was 7.41lbs. The Montana State record is 6.66lbs. The Marina at tongue river resevour dosen't have a certified scale. (They say that it takes to much effort to make sure it is certified each month.) I took the fish to the marina and weighed it in front of the fish and game there but the weighing didn't count. And I wasn't going to kill the fish just to get in to the record books. I wasn't the only one to break the record there last year. A lady broke it too but she had the same problem....no scale.....the nearest scale is 45 miles away in wyoming. Fish and game told me that if I were to weight the bass there it won't count for a montana record, and I didn't have a fishing licence for wyoming. I like to play by the rules and regulations but some times They just SUCK.

The slide show is excellent. Please change the music.
Mark

Great slide show.. i have never seen a paddle fish where do you catch them and what do they eat? in utah we don't get anything that ugly exept at BYU :-$

"one hunting fool" wrote:Great slide show.. i have never seen a paddle fish where do you catch them and what do they eat? in utah we don't get anything that ugly exept at BYU :-$

the paddlefish eat planton, the only way to catch them is to snag them using deep sea poles and reels. We use a 5oz lead sinker to the end of the 65lbs line and a 8/0 treable hook up the line about 24 inches. Just cast the rig out in to the river and reel, yank, reel, yank, reel, yank, reel..........etc. The paddle fish can get up to 140 lbs. But the average caught at Glendive montana is between 25lbs to 100lbs, mostly 45 lbs. the biggest that I have caught is 65lbs. I spent all day the 27th trying to snag one and all I got was soar muscles and I lost 90 treble hooks, 105 5oz sinkers, and 400 yards of line. But I guess I still had fun. Just heard today that they are closing the paddlefish season tomarrow at 9pm. The quota of 800 fish should be met then. Well another tag not filled ](*,)

do you eat them? if so what they like?

"one hunting fool" wrote:do you eat them? if so what they like?

Yea we eat them. I would compaire them to a lobster. The meat has to be done right, all the dark(brown) meat has to be removed. Then I just boil it till it starts to flake and prepair the lemon butter the same as you would for lobster.

yumm i love lobster 10sign:

Fish and game told me that if I were to weight the bass there it won't count for a montana record

That sounds like an incorrect comment to me. That would be ridiculous, since a certified scale is a certified scale.

"StickFlicker" wrote:

Fish and game told me that if I were to weight the bass there it won't count for a montana record

That sounds like an incorrect comment to me. That would be ridiculous, since a certified scale is a certified scale.

The reason that it won't count is because the lake lies on the states line. montana and wyoming both share it.