Latest Catch Pics Thread

[BassSteve]

36 minutes ago, Robert C. Gates said:

Nice! What did you catch them on?

I caught both of them on a shallow diving crankbait! I replaced the treble hooks with single hooks ?

[thediscochef]

That's better. Just shy of 3lbs, crushed a jerkbait, pretty sure it bit again after I released it. two casts later I hooked into a similarly sized fish right where it'd swam off after I let it go. The second one got away.

Also got a nice 3.5 blue cat, a couple nice little spots, and a couple little LMB. 

Lost two baits, stepped on my rod, it was an expensive day but at least I got some catchin done

[scaleface]

Stopped at a pond for a bit today . Silted in moss infected hole  with muddy water . Caught 4 bass .  a 3 , 4,  5 and 5.3.Only took  one spinnerbait with me . Chartreuse with gold turtle back blades . My favorite early spring spinnerbait .

[Eric 26]

2 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Stopped at a pond for a bit today . Silted in moss infected hole  with muddy water . Caught 4 bass .  a 3 , 4,  5 and 5.3.Only took  one spinnerbait with me . Chartreuse with gold turtle back blades . My favorite early spring spinnerbait .

As a fellow pond hopper all I can say is…d**n I need to find and fish those ponds?

[thediscochef]

44 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

As a fellow pond hopper all I can say is…d**n I need to find and fish those ponds?

For real...I want a pond like that pond...

[GreenPig]

13 hours ago, scaleface said:

Stopped at a pond for a bit today . Silted in moss infected hole  with muddy water . Caught 4 bass .  a 3 , 4,  5 and 5.3.Only took  one spinnerbait with me . Chartreuse with gold turtle back blades . My favorite early spring spinnerbait .

Very nice. Good looking girls.

[hawgenvy]

I don't fish much in the small pond behind our condo, but I know there is at least one fat fish there, almost a pet by now, and I catch her anew once every few months. Each time she is bigger. Went out tonight after dinner and got her again. Now she's 6 pounds! First photo is me gesturing to my wife to go to the garage to get my scale. My neighbor Craig took the (slightly out of focus) photo holding up my little girl.

 

That Runcl scale BTW is great, and waterproof.

 

[TnRiver46]

My buddy got a nice one out of the back of the boat on a Texas rig 

[Chris Catignani]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy got a nice one out of the back of the boat on a Texas rig 

Sometimes the back of the boat is the catbirds seat.

[BassSteve]

Hey

 

Just wanted to post my small catch today. Mayan and nice bass. Alligator showed up again to spectate

[BigAngus752]

Left work early even though the wind was 25-30mph.  Chose a small, electric-only lake with a lot of timber around it.  The Ultrex is the ONLY reason I tried it.  Glad I did.  Struggled for two hours because the fish weren't where they were last Sunday.  Couldn't find them in the spawn areas either.  Tried fishing the wind and caught a 1-10 (no pic).  Another break with no fish.  Finally found some fat-bottomed girls hunkered down about halfway between last Sunday's points and the spawn area.  A @Siebert Outdoors Grid Iron in Bluegill with a Berkley MaxScent Chunk stuck these three.  A 3-8, 4-4, and a 4-9.  The wind beat me up (and my boat has some brand new scratches) but it was a good afternoon.  

 

 

 

 

[A-Jay]

The one & Only Brown bass from my first trip out onto Lake Menderchuck.

Water temps in the high 30's and it took all day to get it.

But I was glad to have it.

A-Jay

[LrgmouthShad]

Just awesome. 

[Fishlegs]

Beautiful fish!

[thediscochef]

Nothing to write home about today, but I'm going to anyway.

 

This was the only landed fish of decent size, about 1.75-2.25 estimated. Didn't feel like messing with the scale, didn't seem worth it. I took a day trip down to Lake Whitney, as one does, in hopes of a killer Wiper/Striper day but conditions did not cooperate and neither did the fish. I did catch a small striper and a small LMB though. I also had four really cool experiences:

- the fish pictured chased probably four different jerkbaits before following through on the strike finally. The water was clear enough that I watched the fish come up and look at the bait very closely several times. Like at least five times. Eventually in that same spot it finally bit. It was cool to watch the strike happen. You don't get to see that very often from such close range (less than 12ft rodtip-to-lure).

- a pretty sizable Spotted Gar chased my lure a few times but never bit which is fine by me. Those are such pretty fish, it's a treat to see one without having to deal with teeth. Whitney is full of them lakewide.

- a 3ish foot longnose gar made it into my net before spitting my Vision 110 and hopping out of the net, which was woefully inadequate for a gar. I was trying to get its back half with the net and the front half with my lure which is always dangerous with a flopping gar.  I was just happy to get my 110 back and not have to deal with teeth. It was also confidence inspiring as I managed that on 12# copolymer line.

- a man oddly reminiscent of a shorter Roland Martin caught a 10-15lbs carp on shrimp and bacon at one spot I tried. I got to take his picture for him which was a cool moment. I was only at that spot for maybe 20 minutes.

 

It was a good, relaxing day. Whitney never lets me down with cool experiences. Looking forward to going back already but it's Possum Kingdom up next...these Brazos lakes have been very kind

[GreenPig]

Yesterday's success was Spotty. Did win $6 with a 3 lb Spot. 

[lunkerboss923]

The chatterbait is still king! Nothing comes close to this lure! The weedless Z Man with a Kamikaze Big Bite Bait trailer! 

[Dwight Hottle]

Florida cold front in April last Tuesday.  

 

 

[BigAngus752]

12 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Florida cold front in April last Tuesday.  

 

 

A sweatshirt!!!!  Oh, the humanity!!!!

[BrianMDTX]

Only fished an hour. Caught two dinks and one I though was 2.5 lbs., but the scale switched to ounces, so it was 25.4 oz., or 1.5 lbs. lol. 

 

It was battle-scarred for sure. 
 

Not sure from what. No boats with props. No gators. Maybe a bird of prey? 

[TheMongo]

Spending a weekend at Hocking Hills, the cabin we got has a pond behind it. This one was with a texas rigged watermelon candy craw. I caught a few smaller ones with a ribbon tail, tequila sunrise and water Mellon seed. All t-rig, the weeds are so thick the worm just pops across the top. 

[TheBasslayer]

I caught this pretty big bass on the kayak today! I also caught the other fish while I was wading in a similar spot earlier today. It was windy, but very warm out.

[casts_by_fly]

21 hours ago, A-Jay said:

The one & Only Brown bass from my first trip out onto Lake Menderchuck.

Water temps in the high 30's and it took all day to get it.

But I was glad to have it.

A-Jay

every bass caught in sub 40 water is a bonus fish.

 

Got out for my first full day of the year (as opposed to quick afternoons or half mornings) so went to a new lake and a big one (2k acres). I scouted a few areas on navionics ahead of time based on where I thought they would be (stable 52 degree water for the past week should have them on steeper banks that filter up to spawning flats).  Got on the water for a great sunrise before the sun rose a little too high and went behind the clouds.  Three of the 4 areas I marked out produced fish with a 3.7, 3.3, another right at 3 and a 2 lb smallie (didn’t weight those two, just took a length).  I lost a northern that would have gone every bit of 15 lb that ate an OG6 right at the boat and straightened out the snap.  I learned a lot of the lake and it won’t be the last time I go there.  This is one instance where I wish I had a bigger boat as the lake is a couple miles from the ramp to the top.

 

Thanks

rick

 

 

 

[A-Jay]

We're heading in the right direction . . . . .

A-Jay

[PhishLI]

Beautiful day out on the boat, but the fishing was super tough save for one buzzer beating skinny fella. After a good nap and a nice bowl of mama's Pasta Fazool I had new found energy for a night wade. Got some payback in the form of a few more squirts, an OK one, and turned my frown upside down.