Piney Run Giant

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Comment by carl hendrix on April 22, 2014 at 11:08am

that's a big bass jim!!  congrats!!

Comment by dick tabbert on April 22, 2014 at 9:14am

Great Bass Jim.

Comment by Adam Rink on April 22, 2014 at 7:24am

Amazing bass, Jim, congrats.

Comment by Jim Gronaw on April 18, 2014 at 8:51am

Check out my album on Piney Run on my page here for some of our previous PR catches.

Comment by Jim Gronaw on April 18, 2014 at 8:49am

John...Piney Run is a county-owned park and lake that has special restrictions on it for boating and day-use. I worked there for the last 11 years of my career and got a pretty good overview of the fishery and was in on many stocking and electroshock surveys on the fish population. I organized and ran many tournaments on the lake and put structures throughout it's 300 acres.

Drawbacks are lofty park entry fees and a quagmire of regulations. However, it remains one of the premier, under-the-radar, small lake fisheries in the East. It's worth a couple trips a year for a shot at 20 pound plus stripers, 6 pound bass, 15 inch crappies, jumbo yellow perch and big channel cats. Trolling motors only and closed to boating from Nov to April 1st.

Comment by Jim Gronaw on April 18, 2014 at 8:40am

Indeed...it was 28 here in the AM and we had 15-20 mph winds all afternoon. One other bite on a 10 inch shiner, and we believe that was a bass too as the striper bite has temporarily shut down. Brandon got a 27 pound striper here this past Sunday and lost another big fish.

It is not unusual to catch a trophy bass while trolling for stripers at Piney Run or Liberty Reservoir during the spring.

Comment by John Sheehan on April 18, 2014 at 8:40am

I like those lakes with no houses on 'em!

Comment by John Sheehan on April 18, 2014 at 8:40am

You're killing me! Great job and fish!!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on April 18, 2014 at 8:22am

Great fish Jim........same way you had to dress down here last October.......lol

Comment by mike martinez on April 17, 2014 at 8:26pm

COOL........