Latest Catch Pics Thread

[N Florida Mike]

54 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Mike, I miss fish nearly every time I fish. An average day for me is missing as many fish as I catch. By miss, I mean a fish will hit a surface lure and I won't hook it or I will hook it for a second or two or I have it hooked for a nearly full fight and have it beside the boat and it comes unpinned. I had one morning this year where I caught nearly every fish, but they were inhaling my wake bait that morning. They weren't flirting. 

Sometimes I get a little prideful about it. At this point with all the fish Ive caught in my life, it just seems strange that I would miss as many as I do sometimes.

I mean, yesterday I caught the first 3 , then missed 7 in a row!!. Then caught 4 in a row, and a few more misses and catches made the day.

There were some reasons. ( or explanations)

1. They were smaller fish

2. They got me into brushpiles

3. They were not engulfing the whole bait like they often do.

4. Eel grass sometimes is a good place for you to lose touch with exactly where the fish are when you set.

5. Poor or wrongly timed hooksets.

( Not that I’d ever do that)?

[Bluebasser86]

58 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Nice job @Bluebasser86. My favorite part was when you gave the catfish the Mushu dishonor line. HaHa!

 

I'm glad someone caught it ?. I use that line a lot, especially at work because nobody ever realizes I'm poking fun at them.

[Swamp Girl]

This should be my tagline: "At this point with all the fish I've caught in my life, it just seems strange that I would miss as many as I do sometimes."

 

As I shared in another post, one reason I miss fish is because I get a lot of my hits at the very end of a long cast with stretchy mono. Another is that I'm in a light canoe and the wind is always moving my canoe, meaning there are times when I'm trying to set the hook over my shoulder. Yet another reason is that I'm sitting in a canoe, with nowhere near the leverage to set the hook that you get when you can plant your feet. I'm also old with a little arthritis in my hands. 

 

Still, there are moments when the stars align, like yesterday with a 19" bass that had a single hook of my six hooks just barely in her lip. I could see that this was the case as she started thrashing by the boat, but I managed to get her in the net. As someone posted here, sometimes we're the windshield and sometimes we're the bug. 

[Aaron_H]

18 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Lake Minichuck was much better to me today.

Decent conditions with more & better quality smallies.

Small swimbait was lethal today. 

Getting pretty close to calling it a for the season.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

Gorgeous smallie! Some day I will make a trip up north to try and target those brown bass, they are so incredibly pretty. A bucket list fish for sure.

 

Also laughed at the "Minichuck" designation. I honestly get such a huge kick out of naming my spots.

[Swamp Girl]

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Gorgeous smallie! Some day I will make a trip up north to try and target those brown bass, they are so incredibly pretty. A bucket list fish for sure.

I feel the same way about spotted bass. One day, I will make a trip down south....

[Aaron_H]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

I feel the same way about spotted bass. One day, I will make a trip down south....

 

I'm too far south for those, too. But we grow good LMB here, so I can't complain too much.

[Swamp Girl]

13 minutes ago, Aaron_H said:

 

I'm too far south for those, too. But we grow good LMB here, so I can't complain too much.

Your PB is DD. You grow ginor-giganti-gargantu-uge bass! If your Florida-strain bass were magically moved to Maine, the Maine bass would yell "YIKES!" and your bass would say, "Yummy." 

[BassSteve]

Hey,

 

Had a great Friday, managed to land a few decent fish from the rock pile after work. Just had enough light left to cast out for a little bit ? 

[Swamp Girl]

Beautiful fish, Steve.

[BassSteve]

11 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Beautiful fish, Steve.

Lol I appreciate that, they are nothing spectacular. The other peacock bass was decent though, put up a nice fight, almost 2 pounds. Take care 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Go figure I catch a couple Crappie after trying to catch them for 3 days with Tuffy minnows lol.  Caught 4 other Bass, all small fish.   3 Spots and a LGM.   Bass on the MiniMax, Crappie on the Flashback mini. 

 

The amount of Bass, and seemingly large Bass I'm seeing stacked and suspended on the edges or around the edges of the main lake channels is frustrating.    I'm just picking off some random fish.   The big fish have been offshore seemingly for a few weeks now.   I'm sure a pro could catch these fish, and with enough time I could learn what they'll eat.   

 

  

 

[Eric 26]

@AlabamaSpothunter the bass in that picture is beautifully marked, and that crappie ain’t so shabby either??

[AlabamaSpothunter]

5 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

@AlabamaSpothunter the bass in that picture is beautifully marked, and that crappie ain’t so shabby either??

Thanks Eric!   Occasionally I catch an aquarium sized one and the smaller they get, the more striking they seem to be.   

 

4" fish trying to eat another 4" bait.....why yes that's a Spotted Bass ?

[Jmurphy87]

Well just another small fish Friday from me lol, the weather has been weird around me lately. I dropped my son off in allegan like normal at Jaycee park after work around 7pm. I knew what I was going to throw, a 5” hula grub green pumpkin root beer on a 3/32oz outkast tackle money jig.

 

well I made my first cast and look down at my line and there’s a knot slightly in my line. Tried to get it out but failed miserably, wasn’t really trying to hard I don’t have enough on my reel anyhow. I only have maybe 30 yards on my bfs reel. I am going to put more on it next year. I don’t remember if I caught it on my first or third cast, somewhere around there. I caught this small guy on the fall.

 

 I was very happy to finally catch something on a hula grubs, I have over 10 packs of various colors. I knew that I could catch fish with them that’s why I kept buying a pack here and there over the past 2 years, I was just slow to use them. I had a good day.

[Swamp Girl]

37 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

@AlabamaSpothunter the bass in that picture is beautifully marked, and that crappie ain’t so shabby either??

I love when we appreciate fish for more than just their size. 

[NorcalBassin]

Finally got the opportunity to take the kayak out to some bigger water.

 

First scorable spot in the yak.

 

Funny how the little fellas feel bigger than they are when you're right on top of the water.

 

Pretty cool of these deer to come out for a swim as I was cruising along.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

24 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

Finally got the opportunity to take the kayak out to some bigger water.

 

First scorable spot in the yak.

 

Funny how the little fellas feel bigger than they are when you're right on top of the water.

 

Pretty cool of these deer to come out for a swim as I was cruising along.

Awesome, I saw a family of deer swimming in a cove today as well, but it was right at dark.  Not that deep though, maybe a foot or two.   

 

As for the Spot, now we're talking my man ?

[Swamp Girl]

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Funny how the little fellas feel bigger than they are when you're right on top of the water.

Heck, yeah! I even like when they splash me.

[PhishLI]

10 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I catch a couple Crappie after trying to catch them for 3 days with Tuffy minnows lol.

Try a swim bait next time?

 

Wednesday night

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

Try a swim bait next time?

 

Wednesday night

 

Dang that's huge.....what that fish weigh, 2lbs+?

[throttleplate]

Friday we went to scout 2 more small dams on the sheyene river in north dakota. This time we brought live fat head minnows, scheels was out of shiners. Cost was $3.75 for 1/2 a scoop.

Wife was bobing with the minnows i was throwing lures of course to start out.

I bought some vmc mooneye hair jigs that were on sale, i never used hair jigs before and went below the dam in an eddie and caught a little smallie.

 

I thought for sure i was on the fish but for the next 2 hours nothing. I then went to jigging minnows and using a bobber well below the dam in the eddies and just nothin.

Wife caught 8 walleye and it was now pitch black dark and just couldnt see so we decided to go.

As she was picking up our things i had a zip lock baggie with some water and minnows on the ground and didnt zip it up.

Wife picked up the baggie and asked me if i put a frog inside it. What? no i did not and she brought me the bag and here was a small frog in it.

She asked me if i want it and i said no so she tossed it on the ground and then i thought why not try it on my 1/4 oz ball head jig, nothin else has worked for me.

So i with my headlamp spot the frog on the ground and i pick it up and lip hook it and toss it out.

I am jiggin it in on first cast and whamo it gets hit and i bring in my saturday night dinner. That experience i will never forget.

 

[throttleplate]

On 10/28/2022 at 7:39 AM, gimruis said:

Nice job @throttleplate, the dams have been good to you this season.

 

Technically, I think a catch of walleye should be in the "other species pics" thread though if I'm not mistaken.  Minor detail that I've made the same mistake on before too.

 

On 10/28/2022 at 8:11 AM, TnRiver46 said:

It’s all good since he caught some smallies  

 

Thank you,

[Swamp Girl]

Huge crappie, Phish! You're a heckuva fisher.*

 

 

 

*Sorry 'bout the cussin'. The crappie made me do it. 

[Jmontgomery87]

A couple more on the Super Spook Jr. this morning. This one was 3ish lbs 18".

[Swamp Girl]

25 minutes ago, Jmontgomery87 said:

A couple more on the Super Spook Jr. this morning. This one was 3ish lbs 18".

Its head is so big that it could eat itself, if it started at its tail.