Finally got to go and catch one

[Dbllunger]

For the last two months I have been rehabbing a rotator cuff surgery and fishing was impossible. If you've had the surgery you know. Some of you know that rockfish fishing is my thing I love and I normally do it a lot. So yesterday a buddy took me in his boat as I'm still a ways away from being able to launch and operate a boat. Only managed one fish and it was a smaller one compared to what we normally catch but being able to be there, hookup and to be able to handle getting it to the boat was priceless. I'm back!!!

 

[TNReb]

Congrats. Glad you're getting back to what you like...

Good fish! I'd love to try that some day - I just don't have a clue where to start trying to figure it out.

 

[scn]

Awesome!!!

 

[TnBob]

Got rotator cuff surgery coming up July 26. No walleye trolling for a while.

 

[SES]

Congratulations on getting back to it. I had surgery on my foot in January and I'm still worried about deer season being a thing for me.

 

[Dbllunger]

Got rotator cuff surgery coming up July 26. No walleye trolling for a while.

You have my sympathy. Tough at first but absolutely do your pt and home exercises faithfully.

 

[Dbllunger]

Congratulations on getting back to it. I had surgery on my foot in January and I'm still worried about deer season being a thing for me.

Man I hope you can make it for deer season. Definitely no bow hunting for me this year.

 

[Pilchard]

Nice Fish!

 

[RUGER]

That's awesome man, congrats !

 

[Smo]

Great pics and good fish!
Congrats on getting back after em'!

Great advice on the PT… I was back shooting my 50# pull long bow with in 6 months after my full bicep tear surgery .

 

[TnBob]

You have my sympathy. Tough at first but absolutely do your pt and home exercises faithfully.

Fell in a truck at work May 16. They put me through 4 weeks of therapy. It's no better so now its surgery. Will definitely do what it takes to get back.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Very cool man! They are catching them pretty good here right now, but I still haven't went. Don't overdo the shoulder!

 

[cowhunter71]

Good eater right there. Just put one about the same size in the freezer from last night's soak. Congrats

 

[ADR]

Awesome pictures and a great show tenacity. I'm just curious if it affects the way you work. I would assume extractions and the like could be more physically taxing.

 

[gasman]

Nice. Glad you getting better

 

[Dbllunger]

Awesome pictures and a great show tenacity. I'm just curious if it affects the way you work. I would assume extractions and the like could be more physically taxing.

Fortunately I'm right handed and it was left shoulder. For about 3 weeks it was nothing but patient exams and gradually started working easy things and now I can perform any work I have.

 

[TNTreeman]

Glad you're healing and got to fish .

 

[DoubleRidge]

Nice fish! Great pics!

 

[TITANSFAN2104]

For the last two months I have been rehabbing a rotator cuff surgery and fishing was impossible. If you've had the surgery you know. Some of you know that rockfish fishing is my thing I love and I normally do it a lot. So yesterday a buddy took me in his boat as I'm still a ways away from being able to launch and operate a boat. Only managed one fish and it was a smaller one compared to what we normally catch but being able to be there, hookup and to be able to handle getting it to the boat was priceless. I'm back!!!

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Will, I didn't know that Dbllunger was you!! LOL I've known you a lot longer than I thought. This is Chad over on Poplar hill close to the lease!!

 

[CliffordN]

Good job! Good luck with that new shoulder.

 

[Dbllunger]

Will, I didn't know that Dbllunger was you!! LOL I've known you a lot longer than I thought. This is Chad over on Poplar hill close to the lease!!

Lol.......likewise. Yes I reckon we have both been on this board together for awhile now! My assumption is that you are spending most of your time over in the turkey forum!

 

[Gravey]

Being on the water is always good. We were up your way yesterday on CHL but playing not fishing. Good to see the shoulder healing up.

 

[TITANSFAN2104]

Lol.......likewise. Yes I reckon we have both been on this board together for awhile now! My assumption is that you are spending most of your time over in the turkey forum!

Nah I don't stay on here much anymore but FB really sucks and the turkey hunters on there have turned into the whiniest bunch I've ever seen. I'm so sick of everyone telling everyone else what to kill and how to kill it!!

 

[TITANSFAN2104]

Lol.......likewise. Yes I reckon we have both been on this board together for awhile now! My assumption is that you are spending most of your time over in the turkey forum!

And I got another boat back in JUNE .

 

[Dbllunger]

Nah I don't stay on here much anymore but FB really sucks and the turkey hunters on there have turned into the whiniest bunch I've ever seen. I'm so sick of everyone telling everyone else what to kill and how to kill it!!

Lol.....the facebook turkey hunters are a horrible bunch for sure. Always crying and complaining about everything.

 

[megalomaniac]

Glad you got to get back out there!

I used to love fishing for them below Percy Priest when I was in college in Nashville. Destroyed them in the spring after some good rains below Ross Barnett in Jackson, MS for several years.

Haven't gotten to fish for them in a couple decades, and I miss it for sure!

 

[CliffordN]

Glad you got to get back out there!

I used to love fishing for them below Percy Priest when I was in college in Nashville. Destroyed them in the spring after some good rains below Ross Barnett in Jackson, MS for several years.

Haven't gotten to fish for them in a couple decades, and I miss it for sure!

Ross Barnett was my home lake before I moved to Antioch last November. Stripers there are hard to come by now

 

[PossumSlayer]

Awesome!

 

[megalomaniac]

Ross Barnett was my home lake before I moved to Antioch last November. Stripers there are hard to come by now

Had one week back in '01 where we got 14 inches of rain in a couple days, they opened all the gates, and even the parking lot was under water. I was the fellow out there in chest waders standing on top of the submerged picnic table. Caught over 500 stripers and hybrids between 5lbs and 15lbs that week.

personal best striper below the spillway was 26lbs. Back then the lake record was 29lbs and I was SO trying to break it!

PB below Priest was 35lbs, but I hooked several well over that who spooled me.

 

[Dbllunger]

Ross Barnett was my home lake before I moved to Antioch last November. Stripers there are hard to come by now

Are you a Mississippi native Clifford? I'm from Pascagoula or as some now call it. Possumville.