Latest Catch Pics Thread

[A-Jay]

Another Great Bass for @keagbassr ~

Funny - you don't look confused . . 

At least not when it comes to finding & catching Big Bass.

Well Done Sir.

A-Jay

[lo n slo]

for real

[keagbassr]

Believe me there's  no shortage of confusion on the water  for me this year. This one came on my 4th different bait I tried on my punch rig. Over all I threw at least a dozen different baits today. 

[LadiMopar]

You're not confused, the bass are just being picky eaters...sort of like my grandkids! No, I don't want to eat Green Pumpkin today, do you have that in Red Devil Shad or Chartreuse? Oh, and I'd like that on 20# braid not Fluoro 

[deep]

One last trip to Lake Faraway before school starts, and one last good fish. Actually that's the only fish I caught yesterday, before a big thunder/rain storm chased me off the water.

 

No regrets though. Faraway has been good to me. I caught fifteen or so good fish, and a really good one, in ~10 trips. Might not seem very impressive, but to put things in perspective, it would probably take me one whole year to catch that many decent fish from my local lakes!

 

I'm going to start working on a post about fishing frogs sitting down in a kayak. The learning curve was steep, and it took me a good bit of time to figure out the techniques, baits and gear that actually put fish in the boat (I missed a lot of fish before I finally figured out what worked).

 

 

 

[Dirtyeggroll]

Johnny and I took a much needed study break!

He must have been getting grouchy from not going fishing because he reached out and snagged one right in the back on the first cast!

[Jonny15678]

Caught on a zoom 10.5 inch sapphire blue ribbontail worm. 

[Team9nine]

About 60 bass in the past two days from a couple different ponds in the area. Post frontal cool weather seems to have helped the bite, along with the cooler water temps from the accompanying rain. Everything on Ned rig using the newest outfit. The YGK SS112 continues to impress and has been flawless when combined with a Stren leader.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fairtax4me]

Seeing Deep having a blast on Lake Faraway I thought about going there today, but decided against that since we just got smacked hard with a cold front and a lot of cold rain. Figured the bass there would be Po’d for a few days. 

 

Back on the james river today not with huge hopes, but I was in a very promising area that I’ve never fished from the kayak but have seen monsters there fishing it from the bank. 

First fish of the morning on a whopper plopper 130, easily 4lb smallie, mitt have been close to new PB territory. After having it pull me Upstream against heavy current I get it over to the kayak and INCHES from the net it backflips and shakes the hook. Gaaaahhhhh!!! 

 

Fish two I hook on a 4” swim bait and gamakatsu I think jig head hook. Solid 2.5lbs, It jumps three times, I get it to the kayak and somehow it shakes the hook under water. 

 

Fish three within a 50 yard stretch. Different swim bait, VMC jig head. Nails the thing, hook set, fish immediately goes airborn like a rocket and as soon as it’s out of the water the bait flies over my shoulder.

 

That was all the excitement of the morning before 7am. I didn’t get bit again until after 11. Finally caught my first of the day on a small jerkbait. Spend another hour chucking that with 0 takers. Time for lucky ned! 

 

Noonish I Found a submerged log that produced three small brownies, and a flathead! Not that big, but was a really fun fight on the ultralight! Another hour later I got one more good brown fish on the ned rig, and it made the drag scream on the ultralight! Thought I would never get it to the net!  Something like 2.5lbs. About 4:00 I got one more maybe 1lb, and an itty bitty smallie on the ned rig on the way back to the ramp to head home. 

[Sphynx]

Well, certainly not the size I was hoping for, but dad gummit that's a smallie, and I got pictures of me catching it, one species technically off the list, though I obviously hope to do much better soon lol

[lo n slo]

low clouds and a pesky NE breeze kept temps in the 60’s all morning. what a relief too! in fact, swt’s had fallen a good five degrees, down to 79 degrees. it took me a good hour to locate some fish/bait pods, and i did manage to put things together, enough to boat a dozen bass. this lone largemouth was caught on a 5” Zoom lizard in 15 fow. life is good.

 

 

[Way north bass guy]

Three generations of smallmouth hunters, the youngest got this one on a drop shot while drifting along and reading a book at the same time. 

[FryDog62]

I’ve skipped a lot of docks with plastics the last several years and seems that the bite is usually quite consistent.  Not this year with the super late Spring in Minnesota... been hit and miss..

 

Until this past weekend... it really picked up.  I visit a certain lake a couple times a year that has 7 boat lift/canopies in a row (a small private marina).  I skipped under each dock and caught 7 fish including these two.    

 

Never caught more than 2 fish off those docks before - Shoulda bought a lottery ticket on the way home so I could retire and do this every day

 

[Bluebasser86]

Got out for my only short little trip this weekend (which got cut even shorter by a bad storm that came ripping through). Started out with a bang, right off the dock before I even parked the truck on the FishLab Bio Wake Gill.

Got a couple on the FishLab Rattle Toad, the bigger one about took the rod away from when it bit not far from the boat right before I reeled in to make another cast.

 

and my biggest one of the day ate one of my homemade bladed jigs right before the storm really let loose and I had to break the no wake rule for the lake ?

 

[roadwarrior]

[Way north bass guy]

Hammered them pretty well today finally, after a couple days of them being “off”. Caught over 50, landed multiple 3-4lbers and lost several up to 5lbs. Found a calm spot where we crushed them on topwaters then in the wind hammered them on spinnerbaits and a strike king rage swimmer. 

[teethmarks]

tough fishing on the watersheds. still getting used to sonar. twice now at sundown see what look like fish at depth on ride back to the ramp. the smallies seem to be deep, not sure where the largies are.  last two are same fish. second fish had black specks around lips and strong, foul odor. possibly parasites?

 

 

 

 

 

[keagbassr]

Made  a lot of casts for not a lot of fish today. But they were all decent. Got a 3-7and a 5-7 on buzzbaits and a 3-6 punching. Also dropped 1 about 3.5 punching when it cleared the weeds. Here are the buzzbait fish.

[TnRiver46]

Testing.... Testing 1-2..... Green sunfish from northern Ohio farm pond 

 

Also helped this youngster catch her first ever bass

 

Special thanks to @N Florida Mike for the help with posting pics when youve reached your Max on attachments

[moguy1973]

Caught this one up in Canada today.  36" and 20+lbs.

 

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48662470208_257549c620_c.jpg

[A-Jay]

Great Pike - Congrats

btw - how much did that thumb weigh ?

A-Jay

[moguy1973]

I know! Right?  Was my brother in law's father taking the picture.  Guess I'll have to get a bigger one tomorrow.

[N Florida Mike]

They were biting good as the hurricane looms... It was warm and windy . Ended up with 21 , caught all of them on various color zoom flukes. If the sun popped out, I used those with gold sparkle. They really liked the gold sided ones with sparkle and red top. If the sun was in I switched to watermelon seed, or watermelon red. I fished the middle of the day , which I rarely do in summer.

These were the two best.

[Team9nine]

Managed 75 bass total over the long weekend walking various ponds for a couple hours each day. Ned rig did the most damage over all 3 ponds, but had a good day with Sliders on the one pond I threw it. One of the ponds is unique for this area as it has a sand grass perimeter underwater. It makes for the most unique bite when you intentionally hang the bait on the sand grass then either tease it or rip it out. Lots of times they simply grab the bait on ‘the tease,’ otherwise ‘the snap’ off the grass gets ‘em .

 

 

 

[eightydee]

These were just a few of a few days. All on the same wacky worm. Than a northern ate my wacky worm that I was going to put on my wall. It's so fun kayak fishing. If you are top water fishing, the bass love to hit RIGHT at that last second and scares ya. Get pulled when they fight. Uffda, nothing like it.

 

Also, props to BassResource and the users who gave me help and words that my grandpa would tell me.