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FelicianaTigerfan 
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| I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/21/12 at 9:27 pm)
At one point in my life I enjoyed catching these fish. They fight hard and are kinda acrobatic. Caught 8 of the biggest ones I've ever seen today. First one had my last chartreause spinnerbait in his mouth so I just let him wear himself out. Got him to the boat and had braided line wrapped around my hand when he caught his second wind and dug the line in 2 fingers.
Tempted to get a .22 pistol just for these bastards.
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Tino 
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I hate those bastards too
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Slickback
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I always seem to hook them in a spot where I think a huge bass should be. I think I have a 6lber and then I pull up one of those slimy bastards. 
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KingRanch
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/21/12 at 9:31 pm to Slickback)
They're fun to catch, and fight hard, I caught one the other day on a small beetle spin, I didn't know WTF it was
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AboveGroundPool
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when i was a kid, my dad shot every single choupique we caught in the head with a .22...i stick a golden rule in their head when i catch one these days...crab food
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crankbait
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I have never seen a fish bleed as much as those things
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Mung
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I love catching them. Set the hook and they go berserk.
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AboveGroundPool
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/21/12 at 9:44 pm to Mung)
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I love catching them. Set the hook and they go berserk.
always know when u got one, nothing i've ever caught in freshwater runs to the side as hard as those things
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FelicianaTigerfan
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The bite today was like a bass just picked it up lightly. I set the hook on a big one and I swear that thing shot out the water like a salwater fish. All I could do was hang on.
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Cadello
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We caught about 10 at Big Alabama Saturday.
One was about 10 pounds.
Swallowed a crankbait, glad it wasn't mine.
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AboveGroundPool
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/21/12 at 10:06 pm to Cadello)
lost 2 crankbaits to those bastards saturday...caught one big one and i went to do the usual whackage to the head with the golden rule only i didnt hit this one hard enough and he went nuts and popped the crankbait off 
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aVatiger
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braided line wrapped around my hand when he caught his second wind and dug the line in 2 fingers.
I'm about to say the hell with braided and switch strictly to mono for this reason
This post was edited on 5/21 at 10:11 pm
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FelicianaTigerfan
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/21/12 at 10:16 pm to aVatiger)
I love my braid for spinnerbaits but that shite will cut you.
All my mono is 17lbs so I don't really have to worry about losing a bait
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longtimealter
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I believe the state record is somewhere in the 16 lb range. Ive weighed a few, but the largest was only 13 lbs. You would think some of those bastards are at least 20.
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TexTiga
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/21/12 at 10:47 pm to longtimealter)
Lost a brand new $7 rattle trap on it's first cast one day to one of those bastards!
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Bleeding purple 
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/22/12 at 1:01 am to TexTiga)
$7 rattle trap? Wtf?
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GonePecan 
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I've never seen a choupique that wasn't 4 pounds. I thought they were born that way.
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F Head
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Once when I was fishing out of a flat-boat, I caught a bazillion of the things in my old honey-hole, so I started throwing them into the back of the boat. Later I noticed splashing and the damn things had knocked the plug out of the boat and it almost swamped.
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choupiquesushi
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/22/12 at 8:09 am to F Head)
hold on now.. come on man......
choupique sashimi is the finest eatin there is.....
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Nodust
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| re: I. Hate.Choupique (Posted on 5/22/12 at 8:29 am to choupiquesushi)
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I. Hate.Choupique
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choupiquesushi
Why they hatin?
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