Florida Bass Club September Tournament

[BassinLou]

Wow! off 27 huh? Last time I was there, the high water and a thunderstorm ran us out. Still, nice catch.

[BassinLou]

Ok guys, here is your Sunday wrap up. Our first official week of Sept, is quickly coming to a close and here are the top 3 anglers in the lead so far. All from the Jax posse. In third place, the new comer Dsidle61 with 2 fish measuring 34". Holding on in second place, MCS with 3 fish measuring 47". Lastly, in first place, our 3 time consecutive month reigning champion AK, with 3 fish measuring in at 58". Others have put fish up on the board, however Sunday wrap up is to recognize the top 3 anglers. May all of you have great week 2.

[AK-Jax86]

I didn't do any fishing today I was hoping to see some people shaking up the boards.

I am going out in the morning for 2 hours hope I can post some pics, won't be doin any afternoon fishing my eagles play @ 7p!!!

BTW today was a great opening day of NFL football!!

[zack d]

Havent fished in 3 days just went out for an hour,decided to throw a kvd frog.

And now i remember why i quit using it! 3 huge blowups 3 misses. I even remembered the 1,2, set your hook drill,lol.

Nice catches everyone! Keeps me motivated to get out there.

[AK-Jax86]

Went out this morning managed to go 3/5 on the frog. 16", 17", 19". I only took picture of the 19" because I don't plan on keeping the 16" and 17" (that'd be funny if I catch nothing for the rest of the month due to my own arrogance lol).

I caught another 5 on a KVD 1.5 crank bait in crawfish color, I haven't used cranks in god knows how long it seems like.

I fished for a little over 2 hours and spent about a hour with frog at one pond on the course with a lot of grass and a few pads and the rest of the time cranking in the main pond that's ideal for cranks, swim baits, spinners things that cover open water

[MCS]

Went out this morning, 5:15, got a couple misses, biting the anteana of the brush hogs. Left early and hit another spot up same result, felt soild but lost anteanas and no fish. Switched to a stick bait, got one little guy. Noticed alot of activity, was cooler this morning. Hope this weather sticks around. Should be a good time if it does.

[AK-Jax86]

I don't think I will be able to get out fishing until Wednesday or Thursday so hopefully people post some pics of some catches!

[AK-Jax86]

Went out this morning, 5:15, got a couple misses, biting the anteana of the brush hogs. Left early and hit another spot up same result, felt soild but lost anteanas and no fish. Switched to a stick bait, got one little guy. Noticed alot of activity, was cooler this morning. Hope this weather sticks around. Should be a good time if it does.

I think I may have to start my mornings a hour earlier! You always go early and notice a lot of activity. When I go out I notice the activity early then it dies off.

Next morning I go out I am starting around 5 like you and hopefully I see some good results. I picked up a pack of brush hogs over the weekend but never fished them, ony got them because I hear people talk about them. I got blue flake I think it was called

[AK-Jax86]

MCS how do you rig em? T rigged? size hook? weight/weightless?

[MCS]

MCS how do you rig em? T rigged? size hook? weight/weightless?

 

T-rigged with a 3/0 or 4/0 for baby, 4/0 or 5/0 for std. I use different bullet weights depending on the rate of fall, also sometimes I peg them. Also throw it on a Jika rig.

[MCS]

I think I may have to start my mornings a hour earlier! You always go early and notice a lot of activity. When I go out I notice the activity early then it dies off.

Next morning I go out I am starting around 5 like you and hopefully I see some good results. I picked up a pack of brush hogs over the weekend but never fished them, ony got them because I hear people talk about them. I got blue flake I think it was called

 

Yeah it is usally 15 minutes before and after sun up the fish are most active, but there are always exceptions. With what I saw today, it calls for a fluke or paddletail/vibe worm near the top but not on top.

[CapitolP]

ok here's the damage i did this weekend, not much but hey it's a base to start with

 

ended up getting skunked friday night

 

saturday after jiu jitsu we went and caught these 4 little dude's behind my buddies house in mandarin

 

all 4 were caught on junebug 6'' trick worms using a 3/0 hook T-rigged and bumped slowly across the bottom between 3:30-5pm saturday

 

the ruler is slightly off so i'm going with 15'', 14'', 14'' and a little 11.5 to round out the day bringing the grand total to 54.5 with 4 fish, it's not much but i gotta start somewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

[piscicidal]

Lou I swear I had a 25 incher on the line yesterday but he snapped my line while going under a metal pipe! HUGE I tell you, HUGE!!! Also had few really aggressive bites while checking out few canals on foot around my house, so I think I'll do fine posting 20+" fish

 

Martin,  Did you see him?  Was it a bass?  Big snakehead (10+ lbs) like hanging out at those pipes.

[DynoMyte]

Went out saturday evening with my daughter, trying to teach her bass fishing instead of bread balls, we got skunked! Went out on sunday from about 6am-10am and got skunked again, a couple misses. Tried everything from frogs, t-rig senkos, jerk baits, and super spook jr.  What a bummer to get up earlier than I usually do for work on my only day off this week to get skunked.  Oh well  Dolphins won so there is a silver lining! LOL

[LgMouthGambler]

You know, there is one thing that I am not sure on. Lets just say that the pics are taken of the fish after measuring them, does this count? The reason I ask is Im not about laying the fish on the ground in the grass, or, especially on the hot deck of my boat to take a picture of me measuring the fish. My reasoning for this is that it is not good for the fish as it compromises their protective slime coat and could cause potential damage to the fish. So what I have been doing is while lipping the fish, and after taking the hook out, I hold the tape measurer up to the fish and get the length, then hold the fish out (while lipped) and take a picture. If the rules are against this, than Im out. But so far I haven't caught any big ones, and I am at 59". I am keeping my lengths on a paper in my wallet to write them down in cas of any changes. The funny thing is I had the tape measurer pre set at 15" on the boat, and kept thinking "what if I catch something longer? I could easily extend the measurer when its already out while holding the fish". Serves me right, I didn't even catch something 15", lol.

[AK-Jax86]

I don't think putting the fish on the ground for a 15 second period to snap a picture is a big deal. If you are worried about your boat deck could put a pillow down and that would also comfort the fish lol jk. But I mean the whole ground thing make sense not wanting to affect their coat, i dont think its that big of a risk. but If you talking about damaging a 7+ lb fish then I can understand that.

[MCS]

Man they just had a little thread on this up in the General section. I am with J Franco....his main point being if you do it in wet grass for a fewthe slime coat isn't really affected plus it is a slime coat that is produced by the fish so the fish will make more so it is not gonna be circling the drain because you laid it in the grass.....beside if it kicks it call it mother nature, it wasn't strong enough. The dinks need to be weeded out, everybody is C&R these days gotta thin the herd somehow .......... turtle food 

[BassinLou]

Taking care of the fish, is always in fore front of my mind. I make sure that any fish I catch calms down while I am lipping it before I set on the grass. I take a quick snap and back into the water it goes. If I happen to catch a fish on my bass boat, I lay them on the carpet, making sure they do not flop around. We take the pics  with the measurements, basically for proof of the catch. LG Mouth, I respect everyone's way of fishing, and at the end of the month when a "king of the hill" is mentioned we all would like to see the proof. If you have measurements and a system devised that minimizes the stress on the fish and documented properly for all of us to see, then please share. I am documenting everyone's catch.

[AK-Jax86]

I like the organization this month I feel like I'm on Bassmasters or Major League Fishing

[AK-Jax86]

Lou I would like to nominate you to be the official thread maker and runner of this tournament. You are on your game and brought even more life to the thread

[CountBassula]

Martin,  Did you see him?  Was it a bass?  Big snakehead (10+ lbs) like hanging out at those pipes.

 

yea i saw him right before he went under he came up to the surface

[BassinLou]

Thanks for the kind words AK. I really enjoy this tournament format also.

[LgMouthGambler]

Taking care of the fish, is always in fore front of my mind. I make sure that any fish I catch calms down while I am lipping it before I set on the grass. I take a quick snap and back into the water it goes. If I happen to catch a fish on my bass boat, I lay them on the carpet, making sure they do not flop around. We take the pics  with the measurements, basically for proof of the catch. LG Mouth, I respect everyone's way of fishing, and at the end of the month when a "king of the hill" is mentioned we all would like to see the proof. If you have measurements and a system devised that minimizes the stress on the fish and documented properly for all of us to see, then please share. I am documenting everyone's catch.

 

I will take good pics of fish that would actually get me in the number game for sure. I don't have carpet in my boat, so I cant do that, plus the carpet sucks the slime coat off the fish anyway. For tourneys I have a special board and measurer that eliminates the fish from harm, but its only good for 12", so that wont do me any good here. I have a few pics of the fish I caught yesterday, actually 2 pics for that matter. There was just nothing to get excited about.

[BassinLou]

I will take good pics of fish that would actually get me in the number game for sure. I don't have carpet in my boat, so I cant do that, plus the carpet sucks the slime coat off the fish anyway. For tourneys I have a special board and measurer that eliminates the fish from harm, but its only good for 12", so that wont do me any good here. I have a few pics of the fish I caught yesterday, actually 2 pics for that matter. There was just nothing to get excited about.

 

LGMouth, is there a way to extend that measuring  device to double it size. The device that you are mentioning, if I am not mistaken is to measure the minimum set guidelines for tournaments which is 12 inches right? or am I mistaken? I am sure there is a solution, to measure and photograph, your catches.

[AK-Jax86]

LGMouth, is there a way to extend that measuring device to double it size. The device that you are mentioning, if I am not mistaken is to measure the minimum set guidelines for tournaments which is 12 inches right? or am I mistaken? I am sure there is a solution, to measure and photograph, your catches.

You can put the fish on his slime protection board and then take a tape measure lay it next to it and atleast there will be 12" of slime that's not affected