Latest Catch Pics Thread

[MichaelCopeland]

Due to matters that were out of my hands, I had to move back up to Shreveport. That being said, before I made the move yesterday, I spent Thursday and Friday fishing the smaller pond. Only caught one each day, but I had a good time anyways. My son came with me for about an hour and a half on Friday and then yesterday before I left to come up to Shreveport my son and I went back to the pond for an hour. Didn't catch anything still had fun. Never caught the big un that is in there. Almost did Wednesday night. I'll have to make a post about that. The pics below are from Thursday and Friday. Hoping to have some latest catch pics from up here soon to post. I'll actually have an opportunity to get out on a boat occasionally now.

[hawgenvy]

It's almost always an adventure fishing in south Florida, even when the bite sucks, like this morning. My friend and I fished the canal on the Boca Raton/Delray Beach line. The first interesting sight was a great blue heron on a dock trying to swallow an large oscar and practically choking on it. He finally managed to spit it out onto the deck and just stood there looking at it not knowing what to do next. Fishing was a struggle, just three small bass and a miniature peacock. A boat near us, though, landed a clown knifefish, quite an interesting creature. And then I caught on a jig, for the first time, a jaguar guapote, seen in the photo. I thought it was a crappie for a few seconds, then I noticed the cichlid fin pattern and recognized it as a guapote from photos I had seen.

 

 

 

[WDE]

Threw on the wading boots again this morning and landed 6 in a couple hours. Largest were these two 3.8(top) 2.9(bottom). They’re eating up. Nearly every one I caught had a bit of a pudge belly. T-rigged Smartbaits color changing Smart Bomb plastic worm.  

 

 

Quick shots of these 2: 

 

 

 

[everythingthatswims]

Had a totally insane day today! My friends and I did a little exploring, and we found a spring creek with a network of beaver ponds, all of which is loaded with bass, who seemed to have never been fished for before! We caught well over 100 fish, triple hookups were common, the water was clear and the bass were gorgeous. The creek never gets wider than 20' across, and no deeper than 5'. All the damage was done with a ned rig but I'm sure they would have eaten anything. Biggest bass was the 4-13 that I am holding, and our best 5 were somewhere in the neighborhood of 17-18lbs.

[Jay Dubs]

On 4/26/2017 at 12:25 AM, cport0519 said:

Went to my favorite little pond in gainesville after work to try out my new wacky tackle. Conditions were tough! Really windy, and there is a lot of slime weed in the pond, so I gave up the wacky.
There are only three good access spots on this pond, and the first two that I usually fish had no protection from the wind, so I went to the last spot I go to. It usually had a lot of pond scum blown in there from the prevailing winds, but this time it was clear enough to fish. Tied on a 5 inch baby bass fluke, started tossing it out there. On my 12th or so cast, I was bringing it in twitch twitch pause. After a pause, I twitched it so that it almost came to the surface, when about 25ft out, this fish came out of the water and crushed it! My pulse quickened, but I stayed calm and waited a beat til I felt him, and set the hook. Man it felt heavy! Drag started coming off my shimano solstace 2500FI, and it was on.  He jumped 3 times, and each time pucker factor went up exponentially. Played it for about 5 minutes on 8# pline mono, finally lipped him. 19.5 inches and 3.97 on my scale, I don't care, I'm calling him 4 lbs. This is why we do it!

Beautiful pond fish!  

[Angealy]

Hmm, It would seem things are currently pretty tough right now.

I would said it's because it's much colder out, rained a bunch, water level has went up and current is much faster.

However, I could be wrong about all of these and almost all my spots seem dead or show no sign of fish at all.

We couldn't get a single bite no matter what we used, I did however finally get a few but not fish i wanted.

We even went to catch bass and we did get a bunch of taps we just couldn't manage to hook into one, The closest i got was a bass swimming towards me with my senko in his mouth, I was very excited and then as he got closer to me on shore he dropped the hook and senko yeah she wasn't even hooked.

This was when i remembered our rods we had with us were spooled up with four pound test for rainbow trout.

Pretty much just not that great of a day but we did manage to catch a few small fish and even found three new lures for our tackle box so there is that.

 

 

 

[JustJames]

17 hours ago, hawgenvy said:

 Fishing was a struggle, just three small bass and a miniature peacock. A boat near us, though, landed a clown knifefish, quite an interesting creature.

 

 

If I were in Florida bass might be my second, third or even forth primary target. I would love to fish for clown knife again. I'm not sure if you can catch them with lure but I used to use live shrimp and minnow(4-5"). Look for log or stump in the water and wait to see if they come up to breath. They are a good fighter and jumper too. 

[RichF]

Pics from my 2 early bird tournaments the last week of October. Took first at both with my father taking a close 2nd in both.  All largies that Saturday (20+lbs) and 26.5lbs of Lake Onatrio smallmouth that Sunday.  I  NY!

[Angealy]

Took my bait caster out and headed out into the rain and over cast.

Finally i have landed and caught a almost three pound bass on my white chatter bait and strike king rage swimmer swimbait as a trailer.

I was also told by Extreme Philly Fishing people open chatter baits in the store and steal the trailer that come with it and most people don't even know they do come with it "I didn't know and i didn't have one in mine so i guess someone stole mine in walmart"

Regardless it felt good to catch at least one on it.

 

[Team9nine]

No giants to see here, but some solid chunks that I'm pretty proud of. Been bank fishing a few new ponds, and this one particular one has been very stingy. It's clear water, very shallow and dishpan like, coverless, with grass growing over the bank edges. Turns out, that's where the bass like to just hang out, nose to the bank (literally) in just 4"-6" of water. If you walk fast or heavy, or get close, you get a splash of water at your feet as they spook and shoot straight to the center of the pond. Throw a heavy bait along the shoreline and splash the entry, they're out of there. Land more than 2 feet off the bank, they won't come out and get it. Too close to the bank, your line ends up over the grassy edge, bait spending half the time out of the water. Needless to say, this was a tough nut to crack, and catches have been meager, but I finally put the pieces together last night and managed over a dozen bass. Something special and satisfying when you finally make a good catch from a place that seems to have your number most days 

 

 

 

[J Francho]

The last two look healthy and chubby, so the ponds must be doing well.

[Team9nine]

Interesting you bring that up. In this particular pond, about half the fish I catch appear to be severely deficient in this regard, while the other half look fine. You can kind of see that on the first picture. Several I caught I didn't bother with a pic because of their poor condition (big head, skinny body). One particular fish of above average size, I'll be surprised if he lives another week he was in such poor condition. The fact that they can successfully strike a lure suggests to me that the bass, per se, aren't the issue, but that there simply isn't enough food to go around for everyone, and only the strongest/healthiest are making a good living for themselves.

 

Two other ponds I spent time on were total opposites in this regard despite being connected together by a small inlet. One, the bass were fat as ticks, and strong as all get out. The other, 2/3rds were skinnier than they should be and obviously weren't getting enough food. Aspects like this are one of the reasons I like fishing new bodies of water. Each one is unique in some way, and ascertaining their differences is part of the fun of fishing, for me 

[J Francho]

That pond might benefit from some harvest, or a food source that thrives better?

[Logan S]

My last scheduled tournament of the season was last weekend, the FOBA Classic on Lake Gaston.  This lake has really changed over the past several years with the spotted bass population finally reaching 'tournament quality' size.  The LM fishing was pretty tough, so the majority of fish weighed in overall were spots, I'd guess at least 75%.  I was one of the few that got on a LM pattern and weighed 4 LM and 1 spot on the first day and then 2 LM and 3 spots on the second day.  Weighed 9-0 on day 1 and 11-12 on day 2, which was good enough for second place...But only 3oz behind the winner .

 

Only two patterns for me...Covering A LOT of shallow water with a spinnerbait for LM's and fishing a Vision 110 on points for spotted bass.  On day 2 I had to give up on the LM pattern after getting only 2 fish by noon, spent the rest of the day targeting spots, worked out OK but I wish I would have pulled the plug sooner - might have had time for 1 more cull .  Oh well, still fun and getting paid is never bad!  

 

 

[BassB8Caster]

Man those spots are some beautiful fish. Crazy colors/patterns! 

[lo n slo]

well done, love those spots brother

[J._Bricker]

Well done Logan, and like you said a check is always a good thing! And that would happen to be a Mann’s Hank Parker “Classic” on the deck would it ?...

[WDE]

Caught this morning around 10:45. Hardly any bites rest of the day. 3.6lbs, short and stocky. T-rigged black/blue Yumdinger. Interesting dorsal, or lack thereof. 

 

 

[J._Bricker]

I’d call him “Spike”.

[WDE]

Just now, J._Bricker said:

I’d call him “Spike”.

Side view looks like he’s got a nice scar across his back. Assuming that’s why the dorsal is abbreviated. 

 

[Logan S]

3 hours ago, J._Bricker said:

Well done Logan, and like you said a check is always a good thing! And that would happen to be a Mann’s Hank Parker “Classic” on the deck would it ?...

It's actually a Hawg Caller, but it does look similar to the Mann's.  Thanks

[hawgenvy]

Had a half hour to fish today between work and sunset, so I raced over to a local pond. The bass were going nuts all over the place chasing little fish.  I threw out a Menace grub and caught about ten 1-2 pounders in 15 minutes. I then tossed the grub to a wooden retaining wall and something big grabbed it, but I lost the fish on the hookset. I tossed to the same spot, and same result!  Third time I had him, and after a spirited fight -- he was pulling out drag on 17 pound fluoro  -- I landed, to my great surprise, this huge blue tilapia.  Must have been at least 5 pounds. I should have weighed it but it didn't occur to me at the time. The gash in its flank may have been from one of my prior hooksets. It is unusual for tilapia to bite a lure, so my guess is that the fish was defending a bed and not trying to eat it.

 

 

 

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

Haven't ever caught one that big, but like you said, the ones I've caught were serious fighters. 

[ohboyitsrobby]

Caught this one and a couple others and some stripers bank fishing after work. 1st stripers I'd caught. Burning a 1/4 oz yamamoto lipless in some kind of shallow water

[MTPanda]

22 hours ago, JustJames said:

Went out yesterday the same route I tried on Monday with @MTPandafor 5 hours and caught only 4 small bass? 2 on buzzbait and 2 dinks on wacky rig Senko.

Bass is active alright they are schooling but who know where. By the time I'm done I saw a big group of bass boiling up feeding on shad for a few minutes on the shallow side of skipper island(I was gonna fish that area but spent too much time on those dinks). Now my lake is 3 miles long, I don't think I'm gonna be able to find those school of bass unlike small pond that I use to fish where I can see bass chasing shad by the bank. Now i can say "Fall is suck for me" Anyway here is my small bass.

 

Haha that's awesome!  Glad you went back and got em.  Thanks for the invite and ride on your boat!  Was a fun time.  Till next time!