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MCS I caught it on a wacky rigged Shim E Stick in Smokey Shad. Totally random. This was a new spot so I was really just trying to get a feel for the area and had this on from a prior outing lol. My go-to is a watermelon red and green senko. I caught six bass in an hour tonight mostly small though. BassinLou thank you! Let me know! I am hard to pin down at times but please give me the deets!

...I got a new pb tonight! Don't mind the ridiculous look on my face. I was totally geeked out lol. I caught it out across the waterway so it gave me quite a fight for a bit!

Thanks everyone! It feels great! I am moving about an hour north so I am excited to scope out new spots too. I was using senkos watermelon red/green and motoroil red wacky rigged. It was the middle of the day and it is already so hot down here I wasn't that hopeful. I guess those are the best days

I have been MIA both on the board and fishing. Life got in the way for the last ten months and I am finally getting a little wiggle room. I hadn't been bass fishing that long to begin with so I was happy with my return this Sunday. I had low expectations as it was midday but I caught two decent bass and and a handful of little guys. Excited to be back at it!

Sweet! I was supposed to go Muskie fishing in July but it got cancelled A friend of mine laughed at me and said it was the fish of 10,000 casts anyway...he has since caught three :/

Wow I was so excited to see this thread but after reading the posts I had second thoughts about posting...but nope...this brat/thug/a-hole couldn't stay away GO GATORS!!!

I personally have no tolerance for this. Sorry...They feed the alligators and I get aggressively stalked while bank fishing. Gators who aren't fed by humans generally leave when people are around. We couldn't even get close enough for a decent picture way back in the Suwannee swamps because those gators don't get fed! It's a known fact. I feel sorry for the gator.

Anyone fish there? I think we are going to be off Carlton Road. I guess I will be bank fishing. I doubt we will be hauling the canoe. Thanks!

Yea I hear ya. That was the first thing I yelled was someone get my phone lol. You should see I have a pic of it thrashing on the boat because da** it I was getting a picture lol. We were on the same type of boat and I did notice the side that was ice down in the cooler lost more color than the side that was with other fish that were caught. I "thought" their color was a product of neurotransmission so it faded when they got stressed or died although I never researched that...it was what I was told. That is why I was so surprised this one still had color at the dock. I will always take pictures...gives me something to look at when I am working and would rather be fishing lol

I just got a deal on a boat at holiday park...$37 for five hours...thought that was pretty good. It is good until October.

Hhahaha grounded...maybe...potentially oblivious...that's possible too LOL thank you.

I made sure to get a pic asap before she lost her color. Surprisingly the color held pretty well on mine because she was still colored up when we got her to the dock.

Psh your mahi is bigger! I will take that any day lol.

Here are my salties...My Mahi, Bonnet head and Trout. I didn't get a pic with the bonnet head because we had a child on the boat who unfortunately got scared by a wild trout that hit him in the chest when someone was holding it so I was afraid of doing the same with the shark lol.

Exactly!

I DO have photos of those too. I failed to mention my junk fish lol. Let me start by saying Friday I was affectionately termed the "cat lady". I was fishing exactly the same set up as everyone else. They were catching trout and I was catching...catfish...a lot of them :/ People switched positions with me, switched poles with me, I fished the same way they did...cats. It was ridiculous. My redeeming moment was that I caught the most variety of fish on the boat that day. Cats, Jacks, Trout (no keepers that day of course) and Ladyfish. Saturday I made an announcement to the group that all day I wanted to catch cats...trout were common and crappy. I caught the first trout of the day, a sand trout and caught my keeper trout for the day and NO cats lol. The coolest thing I caught was a 30 inch bonnet head shark. That was a blast.

Looking back I think I laughed out loud when I read slobapotamus and then there was slobasaurus...so I ended up with slobapotamus rex rofl...

Hahahha I was referring to this thread http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/100127-names-for-big-bass/page__st__45__p__1109572__hl__+names#entry1109572 . I really enjoyed reading it and combined my favorite names lol.

...or whatever you want to call the big ones lol. Thanks to the help of this board we have made a lot of progress in our fishing especially with our limitations of shore or canoe fishing. The last two weekends I have been out in the saltwater with some friends. Caught up some trout, mahi and kingfish along with the usual junk fish lol. This weekend we stuck to residential ponds since water everywhere else is moving. I did catch up a few although I think the biggest was only 2#. I will find the big one one day!