GIANT SPIDERS!!

[Baitbucket]

Hit the Q last night with Allan hoping for some top water bass action. The water has come up a bit and the area we wanted to fish wasnt accessible. So we fished another section we had fished before but wasnt particularly productive.

All the conditions were right. No moon, little wind, and just had a storm come thru.

All we were able to manage was some big rock bass and a pig Sun fish that hit Allans Panic Prey. One of the rock bass had a mouth ful of these small bait fish. Allan and i didnt know what they were, so please feel free to identify them if you know.

We also happened across a giant black and white spider weaving its web on the way out. When i say giant, i mean half dollar sized. Good thing Allan spotted it. Had i walked into its massive web, it would have easily carried me off to its young. I wonder if rattle snakes eat those things?

[bogtrotter]

Nice photos!

[stripernut]

Even without it being very productive it was a great to be out. That juvenile fish was a Banded Killifish...

[LENZ]

strange fish, never seen one before. i'll post on NEF and see what they say

I run into huge spiders in my raspberry patch, bending down to pick a berry and there is a 3" garden spider..ugh
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[Baitbucket]

I run into huge spiders in my raspberry patch, bending down to pick a berry and there is a 3" garden spider..ugh
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I hear yah man. I dont mind spiders as long as i know they are there. But get on me unexpectedly and its every man for himself. And im still here lol.. Sorry spiders.

[Fishermantim]

Reminds me of a "Far Side" cartoon where two spiders are talking (it's a cartoon, ok?) at the bottom of a kiddy slide, and one has finished spinning a web at the bottom. The caption says "If we can pull this off, we'll be eating like kings!"

As for me, when I fish, I have only one insect rule...STAY OFF THE FACE!!!
I have a knack of finding baby spiders that are "ballooning" from their hatching site, and finding them crawling on my kayak.

They can wander all over the kayak, but stay off of my face, or else they WILL get swatted.
Actually any bug that ventures onto my head will get a quick departure.
Not that I get freaked out by bugs, but rather I don't want to be dealing with critters when a big fish takes my lure.

Oh, and it HAS happened in the past, which is why I have the rule.

[taxid]

Even without it being very productive it was a great to be out. That juvenile fish was a Banded Killifish...

Yup actually not that unusual in Mass. I've seen them in several Mass Fish & Wildlife pond surveys.

As far as spiders it could be an exotic for all you know (Don't know squat about spiders). There are so many exotic species that have come in the U.S. and they keep coming. I remember seeing spiders from other countries in banana boxes when I worked in a grocery store.

[taxid]

Reminds me of a "Far Side" cartoon where two spiders are talking (it's a cartoon, ok?) at the bottom of a kiddy slide, and one has finished spinning a web at the bottom. The caption says "If we can pull this off, we'll be eating like kings!"

As for me, when I fish, I have only one insect rule...STAY OFF THE FACE!!!
I have a knack of finding baby spiders that are "ballooning" from their hatching site, and finding them crawling on my kayak.

They can wander all over the kayak, but stay off of my face, or else they WILL get swatted.
Actually any bug that ventures onto my head will get a quick departure.
Not that I get freaked out by bugs, but rather I don't want to be dealing with critters when a big fish takes my lure.

Oh, and it HAS happened in the past, which is why I have the rule.

Out here in the midwest we have deer flies that won't' give up biting you above the neck. Only way I can kill them is to wait until they land and smack them with my hand. They seem to feed on insect repellent. Once was bringing my boat up to the bank in a remote stream and the front end was literally covered with them. I ran like hell.

[Baitbucket]

I need to find a small lure i can troll that looks like those little bait fish

[lowaccord66]

I need to find a small lure i can troll that looks like those little bait fish

Luckycraft makes or made a perch pointer in a dull finish that looks similar.

[stripernut]

I need to find a small lure i can troll that looks like those little bait fish

If you want to catch rockfish! LOL..

[UglyStik]

Orb weaver, good thing you stayed away.

[dumbba]

Am I the only one that can't see any of Will's pictures anymore???

[Baitbucket]

Am I the only one that can't see any of Will's pictures anymore???

Should show up, is it showing an error or something?

[Baitbucket]

Luckycraft makes or made a perch pointer in a dull finish that looks similar.

They got one that looks pretty d**n close. Interestingly enough, its a their "Baby blue gill" pattern. Maybe thats what these were?