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[BrianMDTX]

Nice bass @hokiehunter373! Love that Senko! 
 

 

[casts_by_fly]

1 hour ago, hokiehunter373 said:

Got out for 45 mins last night and had my first good day of the year.  5 fish total with a decent one to boot on @BrianMDTX favorite senko.  Opinions from everyone on pre or post spawn?  From my observations the fish just moved up this weekend.  Beds have been created and little males were everywhere.  I thought this fish would be chunky and have a gut but she didn't at all and her weight was below what her frame looked like it should have been.  Pinkish coloring around her anal fin on her belly but fin/tail didn't look bloody or rubbed.  Caught right off the bank in like 2 foot of water on a farm pond.  She lessened the pain of later breaking off on what I believe would have been my PB.  I'll be back.

 

 

 

 

for the size of the head it does look a bit thin. Up here the water is the bottom half of the 50’s and there isn’t anything doing in less than 5’ as far as bed activity. Not even small cruising fish yet. The fish have good bellies.  Could that just be a hungry fish in a pond with not enough forage?

 

 

[HaydenS]

Fished our finally regular season tourney for the 2021-2022 BASS high school season.  Was a really tough day for us, but had a lot of fun.  Caught two keepers for 3.99, and took 9th place.  

Ended the season with 4 top tens, including one first place finish.  Fishing our state championship in June!  Finished 3 in overall standing, out of 69!

 

[roadwarrior]

                                             

[hokiehunter373]

1 hour ago, casts_by_fly said:

for the size of the head it does look a bit thin. Up here the water is the bottom half of the 50’s and there isn’t anything doing in less than 5’ as far as bed activity. Not even small cruising fish yet. The fish have good bellies.  Could that just be a hungry fish in a pond with not enough forage?

 

 

Water temps here should have been low 60s over the weekend after Sunday's 85 degree day but are back in the mid to upper 50s right now.  Doubtful on the lack of food.  The bluegills in this pond are plentiful and range from the size you'd like to live bait fish with for bass to ones that will fill a pan if you cook whole.  My pb last year in late June certainly thought there was enough to eat lol.  

 

 

[casts_by_fly]

15 minutes ago, hokiehunter373 said:

Water temps here should have been low 60s over the weekend after Sunday's 85 degree day but are back in the mid to upper 50s right now.  Doubtful on the lack of food.  The bluegills in this pond are plentiful and range from the size you'd like to live bait fish with for bass to ones that will fill a pan if you cook whole.  My pb last year in late June certainly thought there was enough to eat lol.  

 

 

interesting. Maybe just a big male, otherwise maybe an early spawner that dropped eggs last week.

[Fishlegs]

2 hours ago, HaydenS said:

Fished our finally regular season tourney for the 2021-2022 BASS high school season.  Was a really tough day for us, but had a lot of fun.  Caught two keepers for 3.99, and took 9th place.  

Ended the season with 4 top tens, including one first place finish.  Fishing our state championship in June!  Finished 3 in overall standing, out of 69!

 

Congrats on a good season, and good luck in the state championship tourney @HaydenS. 

[Aaron_H]

12 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Late to get around posting, been really busy the last few days. Got out both days this past weekend. Saturday was the first warm day I've been able to fish in this year, so of course there was 30-35mph straight winds with gusts to 40-50mph. I fished 3 different lakes, hoping that somehow I'd be able to get out of it a little bit, but that wasn't ever really possible. I did manage to catch at least 1 good fish at each lake, including my first frog fish of the year, so that was nice. 

Big fish of the day and first one of the day on the Spro Wameku Shad in Electric Red Craw, it was one of my best producers of the day. The fish went 4 3/4.

Every bass I caught at that lake was on the lipless and each one crushed it,

but the weeds were so bad it was very difficult to fish it, so I moved to a little 30 acre lake nearby. Nothing around it to protect it, but I thought maybe the waves would be better. Never saw white caps on a lake that small before Saturday. Made the best of it though and caught several, mostly on a Strike King Hybrid Hunter Jr.

There's another little 100 acre lake across the road that runs east/west. Since the wind was out of the south, I thought it would be protected. It was, kind of, but it was still just rolling up the lake.

I went straight to the west end to try to get out of it. Very shallow and caught a couple dinks on a bladed jig before I got to some slop and caught my first frog fish of the year.

Followed shortly with a much nicer frog fish.

The Wameku shad caught several small ones here, and a bonus crappie.

Sunday was much calmer so I took my kayak out to a creek I'd never fished before. I've heard that the bass move into it in the spring, and the lake has a great crappie population, so I was prepared for both. Crappie won out, but I did catch one healthy largemouth out of log jam on a crappie jig. I also caught a channel cat in serious need of a good chiropractor. 

 

 

 

 

>begins nervously browsing SPRO's product page

 

Looks like a great weekend despite the wind. Wouldn't turn my nose up to a mess of crappie like that.

[Bluebasser86]

24 minutes ago, Aaron_H said:

 

>begins nervously browses SPRO's product page

It's a neat bait, 2 line ties so you adjust it to run either shallow or deeper. I actually switched mine depending on the depth and it worked as advertised. 

[BrianMDTX]

2 hours ago, hokiehunter373 said:

Water temps here should have been low 60s over the weekend after Sunday's 85 degree day but are back in the mid to upper 50s right now.  Doubtful on the lack of food.  The bluegills in this pond are plentiful and range from the size you'd like to live bait fish with for bass to ones that will fill a pan if you cook whole.  My pb last year in late June certainly thought there was enough to eat lol.  

 

 

LMAO. You look SO short in that pic! I’ve seen way too many deer hunting pics to know that’s just perspective, but dayum, it’s funny! 
 

I watch your weather daily as my daughters live there. A few days ago we were within 2° of each other. Now it’s 75° here and 54° there. I miss the crabs but I’ll take the 75°! 

[TravisVirginiaAngler]

Frog bite today on public waters. 21” x 6.0 lbs. Virginia ?

[keagbassr]

Slightly late post but got out monday about 9-2. Got 15 bass, 8 on a spinnerbait with the best at 5-12 and also 7 on a buzzbait including 3 that went 3-2, 3-12, and 3-15. Heres pics of the 3 largest of the day. 

[TnRiver46]

Man we had some tough fishing after work this evening, tried for a while and got nothing but a skipjack. Used it as cut bait, got a few nibbles. After getting my cut bait and plastic worms stuck over and over and over and over, all I had left tied on was a spro rock crawler. The fish liked that! Got an 18” smallie


and then a 17” 

 

 
and also a white bass 

[A-Jay]

It was a cold one but I still managed to find a few.

Report & video later.

Might be several days if the fishing's good.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

[NorcalBassin]

Took the day off work to head out to chase some fish on a nice, quiet weekday and it did not disappoint. We caught a bunch of fish and Pops even picked up his PB spotted bass. 

 

This fella hit the magdraft like a freight train

 

I've been a senko loyalist for many years, but since there's been so much hype around maxscent I decided to pick up a jumbo pack during a sale. The baby bass color I picked up was "dull" looking compared to the senko version, but holy smokes did the fish love it. This one fought hard for a good 15-20 seconds (6# line), spit the hook right by the boat, and then made an immediate 180 to hammer it again. Spots are known for hitting a bait twice, but I've never seen this. Needless to say, that won't be my last pack of maxscent generals.

 

Pops has been in a bit of a drought for 15"+ bass, so it was extra awesome to see him get his PB spot that weighed in at just under 4 pounds. 

 

[hokiehunter373]

On 4/27/2022 at 2:16 PM, BrianMDTX said:

LMAO. You look SO short in that pic! I’ve seen way too many deer hunting pics to know that’s just perspective, but dayum, it’s funny! 
 

I watch your weather daily as my daughters live there. A few days ago we were within 2° of each other. Now it’s 75° here and 54° there. I miss the crabs but I’ll take the 75°! 

I must be doing something right in the hunting pics cause this one is truly representative lol

[DinkDreams]

Caught two 3 pounders back to back casts in a grass filled pond. Only ever caught them on topwater here but I guess today was the day.

[A-Jay]

Jackhammer strikes again !

A-Jay

[DinkDreams]

9 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Jackhammer strikes again !

A-Jay

What a fish. Incredibly jealous.

[Aaron_H]

 

"This is not the biggest bass in the world, no. This is just a tribute."

 

Almost kicked this cold, made a 4 mile hike this evening at a spot close to the house I don't hit often. Did decent, ended up with 14 with chatterbait doing the heavy lifting and whopper plopper scoring a handful. That little pipsqueak nipped at the Whopper Plopper 110 right at the bank and caught the front treble. Not the caliber of fish I was after here, there are a few real big mommas swimming in here but I wasn't able to find them this time.

 

Aside from a couple of dinks, catches were all pretty cookie-cutter 2-ish pounders. Fun little fights and some good topwater blowups and hard eats on the chatterbait.

 

 

Sadly that was the last photo I took with that chatterbait before I lost it. Line wrapped the tip on the backswing of a roll cast without me noticing, and POP! Saw it land only ~18" from the bank but it gets deep quick and it's chock full of muck and vegetation. I dug down shoulder deep for about twenty minutes before I called it and tied on a backup.

 

Only a few bucks, no great financial loss, but I had that one perfectly tuned. Instant start up and it thumped hard. Been throwing that one since 2018, so I can't say I didn't get my money's worth out of it. I have the startup speed tuned about 99% on the new one already, but it doesn't feel like it thumps quite as hard, hopefully it will break in a little. Still caught a couple more on it after the switch.

 

Might have to hit the spot with a magnet in the next few days and see if I can get it back before it rusts.

 

Side-note: I decided to try throwing the Whopper Plopper 110 on the 7'2" medium SLX rod to see if it could handle the 1oz bait. I was talking with another member a few weeks ago about the medium SLXs being stouter than their rating as I'd seen some guys throwing 1/2 oz chatterbaits on them with ease and was curious. Rod took it like a champ, even harder overhead casts it never felt the least bit overloaded. Bent deep on those fish and kept them pinned well, I think this is my new favorite WP rod.

[Bluebasser86]

Got out for 2 brief bank trips, after work yesterday and before work this morning. About 4 dinks yesterday, one with a lot of heart. 

 

Then a last cast before I had to leave for work this morning. 

[hokiehunter373]

Got back out again last night for a little 1 hour long session.  I was curious how the last 2 days of cold temps and freeze warnings were going to effect the fish that had moved up shallow.  Appeared most of the bigger ones had sunk back a bit while the smaller males were still holding shallow.  Caught 5 again but a much smaller bag.  Caught this pretty looking fish on the wacky rig. 

 

 

Everything else was caught via the ned and boy were they munching it!  I kept getting short striked on the wacky rig.  Figured they were just trying to move the bait instead of eating it.  Well the ned rig had me sticking my whole hand in their mouth to unhook.  I plan to get after them for a little longer on Saturday but the kids will be in tow so we'll see how productive that is lol.  Did see a couple 3-4 pounders up shallow still and now I'm wondering if @casts_by_fly was correct about my fish the other day being a male.  

 

[Bankbeater]

The ole chartreuse and white spinnerbait strikes again. 

[DinkDreams]

Only caught 5-6 in the 5 hours I was out. Did catch a decent one on the S Waver though. 
 

I’ll admit, I was skeptical about using Glidebaits in these small ponds but the S Waver produces. 

[thediscochef]

Didn't have a lot of time and the weather was meh but I still got a nice little spotted bass. I'm jonesing for a big fish again, even after the big longnose gar I posted in the other species thread...