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Piney Run Giant
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Comment by carl hendrix on April 22, 2014 at 11:08am
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that's a big bass jim!! congrats!!
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Comment by dick tabbert on April 22, 2014 at 9:14am
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Great Bass Jim.
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Comment by Adam Rink on April 22, 2014 at 7:24am
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Amazing bass, Jim, congrats.
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Comment by Jim Gronaw on April 18, 2014 at 8:51am
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Check out my album on Piney Run on my page here for some of our previous PR catches.
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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.
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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.
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Comment by John Sheehan on April 18, 2014 at 8:40am
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I like those lakes with no houses on 'em!
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You're killing me! Great job and fish!!
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on April 18, 2014 at 8:22am
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Great fish Jim........same way you had to dress down here last October.......lol
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Comment by mike martinez on April 17, 2014 at 8:26pm
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COOL........
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