Latest Catch Pics Thread

[HaydenS]

Went to a great lake about an 1 hour from the house, with my buddies.  It rained on us a little bit, and I only caught a few fish here and there, for a little awhile, until my buddies keyed me in on a secret pattern 

Caught my biggest(pictured) on a lure that @BoatSquirrel sent me!  A savage gear line through swimbait.  It is an awesome lure!

My best 5 went about 11 pounds.

My buddies( 2021 Kansas High School State Champions!) with their best 5, for 15 pounds and some change.

[roadwarrior]

[HaydenS]

10 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

Guy on the right in the picture is headed to FLW Nationals tomorrow(Lake Hartwell), and both of them are headed to Bassmaster Nationals at the end of July(Chickamauga).  Pretty dang proud of them.

[deep]

Caught a bunch of small-medium fish on a rat earlier this afternoon, mostly fishing shade pockets, laydowns and steep banks. Never got the big bite.

 

Rat-eaters, for whatever reasons, are usually pretty vicious. Today, one of them managed to put an Owner ST-36 into my little finger, almost past the barb. Close call there.

 

Took pics of the first two medium ones.

 

[Smells like fish]

Caught my biggest bass this evening. Spro rat 40 in morning dawn. Caught 4 in all and this bass got in heavy vegetation and hung up so I had to get in belly deep to save record and lure ?

[Eric 26]

Hit the local pond after work yesterday. This rod & reel combo is quickly becoming a favorite.

16 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

 

[BrianMDTX]

Better day today than lately, but still nothing over 1-1/2 to 2 lbs. Caught six total. One was a true dink. Three on a #956 Senko WR, one on a X-Zone True Center Stick WR and one on a spinnerbait with a Rage Tail Craw trailer. But that one felt like cheating as it got hit as soon as it hit the water. Missed quite a few working a blue and black jig with a Rage Tail Craw trailer as well. 
 

[BrianMDTX]

On 6/25/2021 at 7:39 AM, hokiehunter373 said:

First cast on the new PopMax.  pop pop POP slurrrrrp.  Little dink but still fun

Topwater is always fun! 

[gunsinger]

My son-in-law and I had a banner day on the water today. Between us, we boated 40-45 fish. Missed another 5+.  I caught 25 +/- fish, 4 on a bone Whopper Plopper, a couple of which were at the 2 lb range. My best 2 fish, both @ 3.25, came on a TR fire-n-ice culprit worm.  

My SIL took top honors for biggest fish nailing this 4.26 lb on a popper. 

 

 

My pitiful 3’s ?
 

 

[HaydenS]

55 minutes ago, gunsinger said:

My son-in-law and I had a banner day on the water today. Between us, we boated 40-45 fish. Missed another 5+.  I caught 25 +/- fish, 4 on a bone Whopper Plopper, a couple of which were at the 2 lb range. My best 2 fish, both @ 3.25, came on a TR fire-n-ice culprit worm.  

My SIL took top honors for biggest fish nailing this 4.26 lb on a popper. 

 

 

My pitiful 3’s ?
 

 

Wow, out fished by the SIL... Pitiful indeed, failing to show him who's boss! ?

Nice fish and great work!  Sounds like an awesome day!

[gunsinger]

55 minutes ago, HaydenS said:

Wow, out fished by the SIL... Pitiful indeed, failing to show him who's boss! ?

Nice fish and great work!  Sounds like an awesome day!

I’m a good host. ?

[TnRiver46]

[Nelson Wormefeller]

Caught a 3.98 lbber today

 

[roadwarrior]

[BrianMDTX]

2 hours ago, Nelson Wormefeller said:

Caught a 3.98 lbber today

 

“The Headless Horseman caught a bass!” 
 

Where's the flaming jack o’lantern? ?

[DitchPanda]

12 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

“The Headless Horseman caught a bass!” 
 

Where's the flaming jack o’lantern? ?

I was gonna say ain't that the dude that tried to kill Elizabeth Moss in that movie last year?

[LrgmouthShad]

Fishing report. Hm let’s see. I spent this weekend doing other things. This does not happen often. Only have weekends available right now. My report is I haven’t caught anything and I regret it.

 

go fish!

[scaleface]

Caught my first chatterbait fish today , four feisty smallmouths . The river was muddy from all the rain , I thought perfect for the bladed jig .

[roadwarrior]

[NorcalBassin]

Full moon typically doesn't treat us real well and that reputation held up. Still caught 10+ before the heat, lack of action, and the emerging presence of lake lice warranted calling it a day well before lunch. Bite was good before the sun hit the water... pretty sure a night trip will be in the near future.

 

 

[12poundbass]

11 hours ago, Nelson Wormefeller said:

Caught a 3.98 lbber today

 

You’re taking “be one with the lake” a little too seriously man. ?

 

Congrats on the nice bass! 

[softwateronly]

Hasn't been great for size, but the numbers are fine.  T rig worm, frog, stroking a 3/4oz jig, swim jig, and 1oz scrounger head w/ stc pintail shad have been doing the damage....

 

scott

 

 

[HaydenS]

12 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Is this a largemouth/smallmouth hybrid?  The mouth is giant!

[TheBasslayer]

Got these fish and a few more today! Only had limited space to cast, so it was a good day!

[BrianMDTX]

We have had thundershowers on and off all day, tomorrow looks like a washout and chances of t-showers or storms through 7/5 range from 40%-60%. What a great week for vacation lol. But there was a brief respite this evening after 6:00 pm so I decided to fish from the bank for a few hours. I only brought three rigs: a H/F for jigs, a MH/MF for a squarebill and a MF spinning rig for a WR. 
 

I started with jigs on the HF. Tried a Strike King SG Toad as a trailer, then a Rage Tail Rage Craw, and finally a Strike King Rage Swimmer. In between using those trailers I casted a Senko WR on the finesse spinning rig and a 6th Sense squarebill on the MH/MF. Not. A. Bite. Started to get dark and saw lightning in the distance, so I took the squarebill off and tied on a 3/0 EWG and a 3/16 oz tungsten bullet weight with a Mann’s Jelly Worm in blackberry. I know the Dobyns Fury FR705CB is not designed as a Texas rig rod, but I tried it once before with a Fat IKA and it did fine, so I figured I’d try it again.

 

First two casts was more of the same. The third cast made it almost to the bank when it stopped. Didn’t feel like it got hung up on weeds or sunken limbs, so I twitched it slightly. I got rewarded with that tap-tap-tap we all love. A quick pop of the rod tip and the hook was set. 
 

Not a big bass, but always nice to beat the skunk. I have to say, that FR705CB does a good job at something it’s not designed to do. Granted, I really have no clue how much of a difference there truly is between a fast and moderate fast action in the real world. I know on paper what the difference is, but empirical evidence so far shows me it does a pretty good job of driving home EWG hooks. Maybe not so much on a big bass, but that remains to be seen. It’s pretty sensitive, too. That bass did not hit that worm hard, but the bite was unmistakable.