Local man in night-time attack by wild boars at San Luis Pass:

A.C. Adams was flounder gigging on the back side of San Luis Pass last week with his cousin. His cousin had gone to the truck to drink more beer as it was a slow night of gigging. A.C. was approximately 100 yards from shore when he heard some loud splashing coming towards him. He said it was very unnerving because it was so dark outside of the lanterns’ perimeter. All at once two large vicious hogs in approximately 16 inches of water started attacking him. He immediately lashed out with his flounder gig and started stabbing a hog. As it made a piercing scream in anger and agony, the second hog cut him in the leg with his tusk while biting him. A.C. screamed for help toward the bank at his cousin who never responded. A.C. then turned with the gig stabbing the second hog and the fight was on. One hog knocked him down to his knees and bit him on the forearm. A.C. told me, “At first I could not believe this was happening and then I thought these hogs were going to kill me.” He got back up stabbing at the hogs over and over as they were snapping at him. Finally, one hog went down and lay in the water squealing. That left him one on one with the larger hog.  The big boar would not give up and the fight lasted for two to three more minutes with Mr. Adam’s stabbing the hog twenty-five to thirty more times before it went down. He limped back to the truck and got his pistol. He woke up his drunken cousin who had passed out in the truck and they waded back out with the intention of finishing off both hogs. When they got back out there the hogs were dead. They tied ropes to the hogs and dragged them up to the bank. They got the hogs loaded into the back of the truck and stopped by the hospital where A.C. Adams received twenty-one stitches in his left leg, eight stitches in his right leg, six stitches on his forearm and a tetanus shot. Here is a picture of A.C. Adams with his two hogs that he gigged while floundering in West Bay.

As you watch this, you will realize that there is a patch of ice in the middle of the road.

Here’s the story… the guy that found them had left his stand Sunday morning and was walking back to the shack when he noticed a tine sticking out of the swamp grass just off  the side of a four wheeler trail.  He walked over to check it out and found the two bucks frozen in the swamp ice with only about one foot of each deer’s side and about 10 inches of the tines above the ice.  After getting help from some hunting partners, they managed to chop the deer out of the ice and get them loaded onto a flatbed trailer.  The deer were then brought back to the shack and the word started to spread.  The “smaller” of the two was a massive 8 pointer that green scored an estimated 150+ inches and the “larger” monster was a true swamp buck with what was thought to be 18 scorable points and a green score of 190+ inches.  From what has been heard since these photos were taken, the two bucks are gaining statewide attention and the larger buck actually has 23 scorable points.  It is thought that the bucks had been dead for 2 weeks before being discovered.  Because of this, the capes had begun to deteriorate and were not capable of producing a  mountable cape.  However, new capes have been supplied and the bucks  are in the process of being mounted locked together in battle.  The twine on  the antlers was to prevent the bucks from coming unlocked when the heads  were removed.  Also, check out the cup on the tip of the main beam on the big guy!  Hope you enjoy the pictures.  A truly once in a lifetime opportunity.

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The buck was found dead by a lady while walking her dog. She called a friend to come and get it out of there before it would start stinking. She did not even notice whether it was a buck or doe. Just wanted it away from her yard.

A friend shows up and is blown away (obviously). The friend does the right thing and calls other people and a police officer to obtain the proper tag to possess a picked up deer.

Cause of death is unknown, carcass was tore up pretty bad by animals.

Apparently it had been there a while. However, it was only a short distance from the closest road.

This guy obviously knew what he had and took it to the Sheets Brothers of Saline one of them is a B&C scorer. Gross green scores are 253″-258″, that will make this the new state record for Michigan.

Boone and Crockett does recognize picked up deer as records (see Missouri record/all time record).

The most amazing measurement I’ve heard so far is 29 1/2″ inside spread!

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Seventy-seven years and counting. That’s how long George Perry has sat atop the record books in the large-mouth bass category, but he may be sharing his perch if a recently caught Japanese bass is as big as has been reported.

The story comes out of Lake Biwa in the Shiga Prefecture of Japan. The bass reportedly weighs 10.12 kilograms or a little less than 22 pounds, 5 ounces and measured 73.5 centimeters (nearly 29 inches). No girth measurements are available at this time.

Manabu Kurita, 32, is reportedly the fortunate angler. Early reports are that the fish was caught just before noon on July 2 on live bait (either a bluegill or a native fish similar to a bluegill). His rod was a Deps model (he is sponsored by the Japanese fishing tackle manufacturer), his reel was a Shimano Antares DC7 and his line was 25-pound-test Toray fluorocarbon.

A Japanese television clip featuring Kurita and his catch recently surfaced on YouTube.com. To see it, click here. At the time of the video, the fish was alive, but it is now reportedly dead and frozen. In the video, Kurita says, “I knew it was big fish, but I didn’t think it was this big. I did not know if it was a new world record or not.”

Kurita has experience with big bass. Last year he reportedly caught an 18 1/2-pound largemouth from Biwa on a large swimbait.

The video also notes that Kurita has been fishing for 18 years and will submit an application for world record recognition to the International Game Fish Association. If Kurita’s catch holds up, it would be the biggest legally caught certified largemouth in history (Perry’s fish weighed 22-4) … and a tie with Perry’s catch as the IGFA’s all-tackle world record.

A tie? That’s right. According to IGFA regulations for record fish weighing less than 25 pounds (such as all of the black bass subspecies), the replacement (record applicant) must weigh at least two ounces more than the existing record. The Japanese fish that is subject of such interest and inquiry today outweighs Perry’s fish by less than an ounce.

“A catch which matches the weight of an existing record or exceeds the weight by less than the amount required to defeat the record will be considered a tie,” according to the IGFA.

Lake Biwa is the largest lake in Japan, covering some 259 square miles, and is said to be one of the oldest lakes in the world. It is surrounded by mountains and renowned for its beauty and deep (more than 300 feet), crystal clear waters.

Biwa and its bass population have been in the news in recent years as Japanese officials work to ban and eliminate invasive (nonnative) species from the lake. In fact, the Lake Biwa Museum restaurant offers black bass as a menu item.

The previous Japanese bass record weighed 19.15 pounds and was caught by Kazuya Shimada from Lake Ikehara on April 22, 2003, on a swimbait.

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I tried to find this on their site but was not successful.

People in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania have a warped sense of humor.  It must be something in the coal-infused water.  This is the pull-off at SR 61 and Adamsdale Rd.

A deer was hit there.  The couch was dumped there previously.

• Day two the deer was on the couch.
• Day three the end table and lamp showed up.
• Day four the TV and TV stand showed up.

The Trooper had to call PENN DOT because of all the people stopping to take pictures.

The cardboard caption in front of the deer on the couch reads,

“Sorry Hunters.

Obama ruined healthcare.

We can’t afford to have injured hunters on our conscience, so I’m staying home!

Sorry, the Deer.”