Latest Catch Pics Thread

[ScottW]

Went down to the pond this afternoon after looking at a camper we’re interested in getting. Figured we could camp at different lakes and make a long weekend of it. Anywho, dragged the fishing cart down to the pond and tossed a 3/16 EWG Ned with a green craw around. Lots of leaves floating everywhere due to the wind blowing them off the trees. 3rd cast and I was surprised by a nice little bass around a pound or two in the shallows. He fought pretty well and kept trying to throw the hook, swam to me then back out. Think he was trying to find something to break me off with but I managed to bring him to the bank.

 

[Swamp Girl]

^Gorgeous photo!^

[AlabamaSpothunter]

9 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Got out for a short 1.5 hour trip Saturday morning before my youngest son's soccer game. Started slow, missing the first 5 or 6 bites before I caught a fat 3 pounder on a 6th Sense lipless that had a big shad in it's throat.

Once I saw that, I put the lipless down and started throwing a Clutch Glide. Had a 5ish pound fish eat it at the boat first cast and pull off. A short time later, I stuck one a little over 4lbs, it was so windy I didn't look if my pictures were good, sorry about the poor quality.

100 yards down the bank, I had another fish eat it and pull so hard I thought it was going to be a wiper. Turned out to be another fat 4.30lb fish.

Of course they were eating good on the morning I didn't bring my GoPro because I wasn't going to be out very long ?‍♂️

 

Sunday was super windy, 20-30mph sustained winds with gusts to 50-60 mph from the south. Most of our lakes face north/south with little wind break, so it's brutal. Tried to go to one lake that actually has a few coves, it was closed for the week because they just stocked trout... Went to another lake and fought the wind and a few dinks for 4 hours. Finally caught 1 decent fish on a 6th Sense trap.

Decided to cut my losses and head to the lake I'd fished the day before again, should have just gone there in the first place.

My dogs went with me and really enjoyed themselves.

The lure trees are starting to bloom with the leaves falling and all the wind too.

Heck yeah dude, big swimbait produces big time for you.    I'd say that bait paid for itself easy by now.   Guess I need to get that one, love the look of it.  50-60mph winds is bordering a Tornado in Alabama LOL.

 

I had a big Spot hammer an Alabama Rig a foot from the boat today that scared the little girl out of me.    Fishing these big baits is far more like saltwater fishing than Bass fishing to me thus far.  

1 hour ago, sdw215 said:

Went down to the pond this afternoon after looking at a camper we’re interested in getting. Figured we could camp at different lakes and make a long weekend of it. Anywho, dragged the fishing cart down to the pond and tossed a 3/16 EWG Ned with a green craw around. Lots of leaves floating everywhere due to the wind blowing them off the trees. 3rd cast and I was surprised by a nice little bass around a pound or two in the shallows. He fought pretty well and kept trying to throw the hook, swam to me then back out. Think he was trying to find something to break me off with but I managed to bring him to the bank.

 

Agree with Katie, beautiful fish, and beautiful scenery! 

10 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Not the biggest fish ever but just look at that belly! She is not having a bit of trouble finding supper!

Little fattie eating those Little Debbies down there ?

[galyonj]

Short lunchtime sesh. I called my shot with this fish. First time that's ever happened.

 

 

Then later I caught a ride with this guy.

 

 

One last fish to wrap up the night.

 

 

Now I'm sitting here writing a little code and watching the X-Files.

[PhishLI]

It's been raining for the past two days, but there was a lull tonight, so I scooted up to take my chances. Walking up to the lake I was struck by the smell of sulfur, and when I shone my flashlight into the water it was a cloudy thick green where it was clear just this past Thursday. Turnover happened quickly, and that means it's going to be tough for a spell, and it was.

 

For 45 minutes I couldn't find anything but a pickerel that hit a swimbait-hook rigged bandito bug on the fall. It shook off quickly, shredded my Tatsu, but I got my bait back. Rain blew in again out of nowhere, so I tied on a G2 Shellcracker for a Hail Mary pass, dialed down my brakes, and bombed that sucker way out over a weedline near a drop off. Cranked it down, crashed it into the weedline, and it got smashed. The fish dove down into the weeds and it felt like I was cranking in a wet, swimming, beach towel. With adrenaline pumping my heart with new PB fantasies I was also resigned to the idea that my rod would snap from the weight at some point, but she held up.

 

Got her in, and the fish was completely engulfed in a huge mop of weeds and going nuts. With no way to lip it with my grippers, I had no choice but to lay the mop with a tail on the ground for an assist. I was not interested in getting impaled by a swim bait treble with an angry bass connected to it. Swirling wind driven rain made the whole process interesting, and I had to laugh at the absurdity of what drives me to do this in the dark. Absurd, but totally awesome. Everything was soaked by that point, so I split. Good times.

 

[GreenPig]

13 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

It's been raining for the past two days, but there was a lull tonight, so I scooted up to take my chances. Walking up to the lake I was struck by the smell of sulfur, and when I shone my flashlight into the water it was a cloudy thick green where it was clear just this past Thursday. Turnover happened quickly, and that means it's going to be tough for a spell, and it was.

 

For 45 minutes I couldn't find anything but a pickerel that hit a swimbait-hook rigged bandito bug on the fall. It shook off quickly, shredded my Tatsu, but I got my bait back. Rain blew in again out of nowhere, so I tied on a G2 Shellcracker for a Hail Mary pass, dialed down my brakes, and bombed that sucker way out over a weedline near a drop off. Cranked it down, crashed it into the weedline, and it got smashed. The fish dove down into the weeds and it felt like I was cranking in a wet, swimming, beach towel. With adrenaline pumping my heart with new PB fantasies I was also resigned to the idea that my rod would snap from the weight at some point, but she held up.

 

Got her in, and the fish was completely engulfed in a huge mop of weeds and going nuts. With no way to lip it with my grippers, I had no choice but to lay the mop with a tail on the ground for an assist. I was not interested in getting impaled by a swim bait treble with an angry bass connected to it. Swirling wind driven rain made the whole process interesting, and I had to laugh at the absurdity of what drives me to do this in the dark. Absurd, but totally awesome. Everything was soaked by that point, so I split. Good times.

 

Nice. The content in the 2nd picture is what drives me.

[T-Billy]

On 10/23/2022 at 7:54 PM, ol'crickety said:

Fishing in the dark fog was also cool. Literally cool, as it was 41 degrees and I was wearing shorts, but also figuratively cool and thrilling

41 in Maine and Katie is fishing in shorts and sandals. Meanwhile, it's 43 in OH and I'm bundled up looking like Hugh from Ice Hole Truckers!!! ?

I'm such a Wuss!!! ?

[Swamp Girl]

You're sensible, Tim. In my way, I am too. I often get wet launching my canoe with no docks or ramps. Sandals and bare legs dry quickly and my wool socks are still warm when wet. Plus, my canoe is Kevlar,, which means it's delicate. I need enough water to float it or I'll shred the hull.

 

Anyway, any man who wears that hat need never apologize for his clothing choices. You are stylin'! 

 

That is a gorgeous fish, Phish!

[T-Billy]

10 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

You're sensible, Tim. In my way, I am too. I often get wet launching my canoe with no docks or ramps. Sandals and bare legs dry quickly and my wool socks are still warm when wet. Plus, my canoe is Kevlar,, which means it's delicate. I need enough water to float it or I'll shred the hull.

 

Anyway, any man who wears that hat need never apologize for his clothing choices. You are stylin'! 

 

That is a gorgeous fish, Phish!

I was dressed for the run down the lake, rather than what I actually needed to be comfortable fishing. The clothing contrast in our posts just struck me as funny. Good luck today. I'm gonna get out for a few hours this morning too, but I gotta cut it short for a dental appt.

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

I was dressed for the run down the lake, rather than what I actually needed to be comfortable fishing. The clothing contrast in our posts just struck me as funny. Good luck today. I'm gonna get out for a few hours this morning too, but I gotta cut it short for a dental appt.

Go get 'em, Tim! 

[A-Jay]

Took The Old Town out yesterday, first time in a while.

Wasn't exactly fisherman friendly weather, especially for the canoe.

Warm but big southerly winds were a bit much.

Still managed a few on a rattlebait fished like a blade bait.

This one had some 'fall' colors herself . . . .

A-Jay

 

[gim]

37 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Wasn't exactly fisherman friendly weather, especially for the canoe.

Lol it looks kinda choppy on the water for a canoe!

[A-Jay]

8 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Lol it looks kinda choppy on the water for a canoe!

It was but I was kind of determined.

You know the feeling.

A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

11 hours ago, galyonj said:

Short lunchtime sesh. I called my shot with this fish. First time that's ever happened.

 

 

Then later I caught a ride with this guy.

 

 

One last fish to wrap up the night.

 

 

Now I'm sitting here writing a little code and watching the X-Files.

Here’s another view of that fish @galyonjposted, the spro pin tail did it again 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

6 hours ago, T-Billy said:

41 in Maine and Katie is fishing in shorts and sandles. Meanwhile, it's 43 in OH and I'm bundled up looking like Hugh from Ice Hole Truckers!!! ?

I'm such a Wuss!!! ?

Lol......you haven't even begun to know what a wuss is in regards to cold weather.    Every year that passes I think Alabama is too cold ?

7 hours ago, PhishLI said:

It's been raining for the past two days, but there was a lull tonight, so I scooted up to take my chances. Walking up to the lake I was struck by the smell of sulfur, and when I shone my flashlight into the water it was a cloudy thick green where it was clear just this past Thursday. Turnover happened quickly, and that means it's going to be tough for a spell, and it was.

 

For 45 minutes I couldn't find anything but a pickerel that hit a swimbait-hook rigged bandito bug on the fall. It shook off quickly, shredded my Tatsu, but I got my bait back. Rain blew in again out of nowhere, so I tied on a G2 Shellcracker for a Hail Mary pass, dialed down my brakes, and bombed that sucker way out over a weedline near a drop off. Cranked it down, crashed it into the weedline, and it got smashed. The fish dove down into the weeds and it felt like I was cranking in a wet, swimming, beach towel. With adrenaline pumping my heart with new PB fantasies I was also resigned to the idea that my rod would snap from the weight at some point, but she held up.

 

Got her in, and the fish was completely engulfed in a huge mop of weeds and going nuts. With no way to lip it with my grippers, I had no choice but to lay the mop with a tail on the ground for an assist. I was not interested in getting impaled by a swim bait treble with an angry bass connected to it. Swirling wind driven rain made the whole process interesting, and I had to laugh at the absurdity of what drives me to do this in the dark. Absurd, but totally awesome. Everything was soaked by that point, so I split. Good times.

 

Big swimbait investment paying off I see ?

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Took The Old Town out yesterday, first time in a while.

Wasn't exactly fisherman friendly weather, especially for the canoe.

Warm but big southerly winds were a bit much.

Still managed a few on a rattlebait fished like a blade bait.

This one had some 'fall' colors herself . . . .

A-Jay

 

A fellow canoeist! You are my brother!

 

Sisterly yours,

 

Katie

 

P. S. - Of course, I love, love, LOVE the color of that bass. 

[PhishLI]

3 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Big swimbait investment paying off I see ?

I should live so long...

 

[MIbassyaker]

The last bass I caught was 2 months ago...

 

...until this morning, when tolerable weather and my schedule aligned again, and I escaped for what will likely be the last kayak excursion of the year.

 

If found these two hanging around the last remnants of green pads, willing to eat a Jackhammer. A couple more got off before I could get them in.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

2 hours ago, PhishLI said:

I should live so long...

 

SEEK HELP IMMEDIATELY ?

Been trying to grow my toolbox the last week after getting a new big bait rod.    

 

2 for 2 on the big Swimbait.....both quality fish

 

2 for 3 on the A-Rig......both smaller fish, but did have a big Spot hammer it right at the boat 

Jackall Crank and Jackhammer still putting in work when my arm gets tired lol

[PhishLI]

19 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

SEEK HELP IMMEDIATELY ?

My therapist loves swim baits too. I'm doomed.

[Swamp Girl]

On Sunday, I wrote that the "Early bird gets the bass."

 

That was not true at all today. I drove to a pond I love, which is really a river with a dam that turned it into a bog. Unfortunately, there were two cars there with homeless people in them. Considering it was dark and they were parked in a gully and I was alone, I left. If T-Billy or Alex or Eric or any of you had my six, I would have stayed and launched, but none of you were there. Sigh.

 

So, I went to another pond and launched in the dark. I caught a fish on my fifth cast with a Whopper Plopper, but over the next 2.5 hours, I could only catch nine more with no pattern whatsoever. There was a gob of lures in the bottom of my canoe that I tried without much success, which was weird, for the conditions were perfect: 56 degrees at 6:00 a.m., no wind, foggy, and occasional drizzle.

 

Then it all changed. It's like someone dropped a goofy roofie into the water, for the bass were suddenly giddy. Slap happy. Not trying to eat my Whopper Plopper, but beat my Whopper Plopper. I caught 17 of them in the next 1.5 hours, but lost at least that many. They put on some air shows too and pulled like terriers. It was like a Bruce Ward Batman episode: Wam! Blam! KaPow!

 

The photos start with a couple of the pond. Then the first fish in the dark. Then some of the 27 I caught. Again, there were no dinks, like Sunday. Weird, huh? Don't the little ones have to fatten up too for the winter? 

 

If Maine bass were a candy bar, they wouldn't be the Snickers. They'd be the Chunky, short and thick. 

 

Phish, I don't own a single jointed swimbait, but seeing the fish you catch with them, I'm going to have one next spring, for sure.

 

Beautiful bass, Alex. I've never fished with an Alabama rig, but I wanna. I think I would catch two or three bass at once with one up here. 

[PhishLI]

18 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Phish, I don't own a single jointed swimbait, but seeing the fish you catch with them, I'm going to have one next spring, for sure.

That'll be primetime. Work a Bucca BullWake or a G2 in one of your honey holes and you might just draw out the lady of the lake.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

19 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

On Sunday, I wrote that the "Early bird gets the bass."

 

That was not true at all today. I drove to a pond I love, which is really a river with a dam that turned it into a bog. Unfortunately, there were two cars there with homeless people in them. Considering it was dark and they were parked in a gully and I was alone, I left. If T-Billy or Alex or Eric or any of you had my six, I would have stayed and launched, but none of you were there. Sigh.

 

So, I went to another pond and launched in the dark. I caught a fish on my fifth cast with a Whopper Plopper, but over the next 2.5 hours, I could only catch nine more with no pattern whatsoever. There was a gob of lures in the bottom of my canoe that I tried without much success, which was weird, for the conditions were perfect: 56 degrees at 6:00 a.m., no wind, foggy, and occasional drizzle.

 

Then it all changed. It's like someone dropped a goofy roofie into the water, for the bass were suddenly giddy. Slap happy. Not trying to eat my Whopper Plopper, but beat my Whopper Plopper. I caught 17 of them in the next 1.5 hours, but lost at least that many. They put on some air shows too and pulled like terriers. It was like a Bruce Ward Batman episode: Wam! Blam! KaPow!

 

The photos start with a couple of the pond. Then the first fish in the dark. Then some of the 27 I caught. Again, there were no dinks, like Sunday. Weird, huh? Don't the little ones have to fatten up too for the winter? 

 

If Maine bass were a candy bar, they wouldn't be the Snickers. They'd be the Chunky, short and thick. 

 

Phish, I don't own a single jointed swimbait, but seeing the fish you catch with them, I'm going to have one next spring, for sure.

 

Beautiful bass, Alex. I've never fished with an Alabama rig, but I wanna. I think I would catch two or three bass at once with one up here. 

You're just like a trophy Bass Katie, they don't get that way by being stupid ?

 

The world is crazy today, and when you get around folks with nothing to lose, it makes it all the more dangerous.    Every person in my life I care about I try to convince to conceal carry a firearm.  

 

Beautiful fish as always, crazy how 99%+ of your fish are blemish free, and a model of health.   You gotta love seeing healthy fish.    It tickles me pink when I catch one with a fat belly, and blemish free.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

18 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

That'll be primetime. Work a Bucca BullWake or a G2 in one of your honey holes and you might just draw out the lady of the lake.

Almost bought one of the Bucca Bull Shads today instead of the 6th Sense, my shop has all his baits....even little ones the size of crankbaits.....gonna for sure get one or two of those.   

 

He's a guide over in GA, and I've been thinking about booking him in the future.   He's a true big "Spot hunter" ?

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

Thanks for the suggestion, Phish. 

 

Alex, I always want to think the best of people. However, if something befell me and I became homeless, dozens of people would open their homes to me. That no one will welcome those people in the cars into their homes tells me about their lives of bad decisions. You're right about the homeless having little to lose. I just hope they mosey, but I fear they'll set up one of those tent encampments and take the lake. 

 

However, I can't imagine a gun in a canoe. A canoe is so wet. Every time you switch sides, you're dropping water in the boat. Then there's the weight: I'm already ground to a nub by what I'm carrying to simply catch fish. Then, when the canoe is over my head, I'd be pretty helpless. However, I'll think about it. 

 

I do love catching healthy fish. Say, Alex, I'm thinking of fishing a smallie only lake on Friday morning, a lake I've not yet fished, but I have scouted it.