Latest Catch Pics Thread

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

 It's only as complex as we choose to make it Katie. A T-Rig or jig, and a handful of moving baits are all that are really required. 

Minus the handful of moving baits……..

 

8 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

How many thrusts is that Minn paddle up front? ?

 

Beautiful creatures as always, you are blessed in that TN is an amazing state for wildlife.

 

ETA:   This is the second ridiculously close call with lightning, and ironically enough both have been while I wasn't fishing.    This one happened within meters, and I smelled the electrified air and saw the bolt along with sparks.   Crazy it was on film.  

 

currently I think the minn paddle is about 195 lbs thrust……… 

 

that’s a wild video, I live right near that road. Those mtns are not a fun place to be during a storm 

[Swamp Girl]

@T-Billy

 

Thank you, Voice of Reason. I need that reminder now and again.

[roadwarrior]

Well, I have my core baits then add baits and colors recommended by our members.

I generally prefer soft plastics and jigs which is pretty simple, but I like fishing jerkbaits

and shallow crankbaits.

 

My main baits:

Senko & Fat Ika

Rage tail Structure Bug, Menace and Baby Craw

Siebert Grid Iron G2 Jig/ Rage Craw

 

Hard baits:

Megabass Vision 110

Jackhammer

Norman Fat Boy

Red Eye Shad

Sworming Hornet/ LFT Live Magic Shad

Megabass PopMax

Bandit 200

LC Sammy

Zara Spook

 

Then I have a 1000 more to decorate my tackle bag!

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

14 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@Blue Raider Bob

 

I do want to see those pics! Sausage and taters are you due.

 

@Bluebasser86

 

What a day! 

 

I think I'm going to change my name to Blue Crickety. Given what the two Blues produce, I want in on the blue action!  

Nothing special about the fence other that half the posts had to be formed and poured due to surface rock. The other half had to be dug in soil full of rocks, roots, and old fence wire. Serious pain you know where. The 6x6 posts are overkill but I like the way they look. Also had to sandwich a metal fence between the posts and the horizontal panels because my daughter uses this paddock as a nursery for baby goats in the spring when they start arriving. Got to keep those little critters in and the coyotes out. That was a PITA as well. Notice the corner post and the older wood where the new section begins. It has been several years since that section was completed but things kept getting in the way such as........pre-spawn.......post-spawn...ect. I've completed about a thousand feet of this fence so far and still have a thousand to go. Due to lumber costs and fishing trips, it won't happen soon!

[Swamp Girl]

@Blue Raider Bob

 

I respect people for many things, such as kindness and living a grateful life, but of all the traits I admire, I think I admire hard work the most. I'm a gardener and amateur forester who lives in New England, the Land of Rocks. I've planted hundreds of trees, so I know it takes dogged grit to dig "in soil full of rocks, roots, and old fence wire." 

 

But you're more than muscle and tenacity, Bob. You're got an artist's eye. It's not easy to make a fence good looking, but you did it, Bob.

[Blue Raider Bob]

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

@Blue Raider Bob

 

I respect people for many things, such as kindness and living a grateful life, but of all the traits I admire, I think I admire hard work the most. I'm a gardener and amateur forester who lives in New England, the Land of Rocks. I've planted hundreds of trees, so I know it takes dogged grit to dig "in soil full of rocks, roots, and old fence wire." 

 

But you're more than muscle and tenacity, Bob. You're got an artist's eye. It's not easy to make a fence good looking, but you did it, Bob.

You are very kind. When we bought our place 30 years ago I planted several hundred trees as well. The forestry service sells bundles cheap! Now we are benefiting from the effort. We have an abundance of acorns for the goats and deer as well as flowering trees all over the farm. Love the flowering Crabapples, Dogwoods, and Redbuds in the spring!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

46 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Nothing special about the fence other that half the posts had to be formed and poured due to surface rock. The other half had to be dug in soil full of rocks, roots, and old fence wire. Serious pain you know where. The 6x6 posts are overkill but I like the way they look. Also had to sandwich a metal fence between the posts and the horizontal panels because my daughter uses this paddock as a nursery for baby goats in the spring when they start arriving. Got to keep those little critters in and the coyotes out. That was a PITA as well. Notice the corner post and the older wood where the new section begins. It has been several years since that section was completed but things kept getting in the way such as........pre-spawn.......post-spawn...ect. I've completed about a thousand feet of this fence so far and still have a thousand to go. Due to lumber costs and fishing trips, it won't happen soon!

Bob, that's an epic job, and that fence is beautiful.   There's some serious money and sweat equity in that job!

 

Like Katie, I admire hard work/strong work ethic the most in fellow humans.   It's a rare quality, especially when you find someone that has a strong work drive and is equally talented like you are with carpentry.    

 

I'm a firm believer that if you continue to do the right things in life, the universe will eventually find a way to reward you.    

[Eric 26]

@Blue Raider Bob I’ll echo the same with nice job on the fence. I’m fortunate living in Illinois as most of the areas around me were cornfields, not many obstacles in my way of digging. I’ll never forget being a first year apprentice and being handed a gas powered auger. I had 8 hours to prep/create as many post holes as possible. I got through the first 1/2 dozen and when I got on #7 and my breaker bar couldn’t pull the rock out I told my foreman who suggested (not so politely) that  I figure out how to get the hole dug. Well I smoked that bit so bad the dang tip was practically worn down to nothing. After 2 hours on the same hole and my foreman making some heated phone calls it turns out we were working on an old parking structure that was demolished and back filled with the base layer being left behind ?

[Aaron_H]

12 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Got out after work, caught two smallies, two white bass, saw two eagles, then saw two lightning bolts. Ran away 

 

Wise choice. I live here in the lightning capital of the world, I don't mess around with that stuff, especially when I'm holding a 7 foot long lightning rod. Weather app I use on my phone (Weatherbug) has a great lightning radar map paired with it that I keep an eye on if the weather starts to look dicey, if lightning gets within ~10 miles of me I'm out of there.

[T-Billy]

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@T-Billy

 

Thank you, Voice of Reason. I need that reminder now and again.

Yer preachin to the choir sister. I just dropped about a hundred on stuff to make my own A-rigs, and I'm not even 100% sure the design in my head is gonna work!!! Lol. I'm pretty sure it will though, and if so, I'll have quality rigs for a few bucks each. Those muskie wreck em in a hurry.

[Blue Raider Bob]

4 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Yer preachin to the choir sister. I just dropped about a hundred on stuff to make my own A-rigs, and I'm not even 100% sure the design in my head is gonna work!!! Lol. I'm pretty sure it will though, and if so, I'll have quality rigs for a few bucks each. Those muskie wreck em in a hurry.

Tim do you use a lighter version of A-rigs compared to the commercially produces versions? I'm asking because the ones I have tried are so heavy that it takes away from the enjoyment of fishing. Seems like work cranking them back. I'd like to try again because you have seemed to really have a lot of confidence in them so obviously they work. 

[T-Billy]

2 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Tim do you use a lighter version of A-rigs compared to the commercially produces versions? I'm asking because the ones I have tried are so heavy that it takes away from the enjoyment of fishing. Seems like work cranking them back. I'd like to try again because you have seemed to really have a lot of confidence in them so obviously they work. 

I like the Yum ultralite for bass and eyes. I've gone to the full size Yumbrella in lakes with muskie. Muskie wreck the fullsize pretty fast too, but they hold up better than the ultralite. 

A slow retrieve works best most of the time and doesn't take much effort. 

[ScottW]

Friend up north sent me this pic of him and my nephew out fishing in their canoe. Said it was a ‘might bit cool’ that day. ?

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 hour ago, ScottW said:

Friend up north sent me this pic of him and my nephew out fishing in their canoe. Said it was a ‘might bit cool’ that day. ?

 

This is the stuff of nightmares for me.  I would be eaten alive in those type of elements.   That type of cold makes you tough as nails.  

[Blue Raider Bob]

1 hour ago, ScottW said:

Friend up north sent me this pic of him and my nephew out fishing in their canoe. Said it was a ‘might bit cool’ that day. ?

 

All kidding aside....your friend did a fantastic job with this! Everything is perfectly symmetrical. Very pleasing to the eyes! Why isn't your nephew paddling? He has his arms raised like they're fixin' to crash!

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

This is the stuff of nightmares for me.  I would be eaten alive in those type of elements.   That type of cold makes you tough as nails.  

You know there are tens of millions of people that live there just like you?? Hahah

[A-Jay]

15 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

You know there are tens of millions of people that live there just like you?? Hahah

It's not that bad really . . .

A-Jay

[MN Fisher]

11 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

It's not that bad really . . .

A-Jay

I remember mornings like that....

 

Oh wait - that was just last winter.

[ScottW]

1 hour ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

All kidding aside....your friend did a fantastic job with this! Everything is perfectly symmetrical. Very pleasing to the eyes! Why isn't your nephew paddling? He has his arms raised like they're fixin' to crash!

Nephews! Pffft! He was milking it for all he could. ?

 

On a warmer note, since the storm last night the pond is back up to full pool again and the fish were enjoying themselves with the new forage that got washed in. Managed to catch 2 before my ‘honey-do’ alarm went off and had to stop. First one was caught on a red craw crank bait and the second one liked the white/green chatter bait. Pond was very muddy so I figure the lures must have bonked them on the kisser to get noticed. ?

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

38 minutes ago, ScottW said:

Nephews! Pffft! He was milking it for all he could. ?

 

On a warmer note, since the storm last night the pond is back up to full pool again and the fish were enjoying themselves with the new forage that got washed in. Managed to catch 2 before my ‘honey-do’ alarm went off and had to stop. First one was caught on a red craw crank bait and the second one liked the white/green chatter bait. Pond was very muddy so I figure the lures must have bonked them on the kisser to get noticed. ?

 

Nice, last night's rain was incredible.   My lake rose several feet, and changed the water color bigly.  

 

Excited now that I have all these new areas to fish with submerged stuff I remember.

[Aaron_H]

Just another day catching those giant Florida jerkbait bass:

 

Did catch my 100th tilapia of 2022, though.

 

 

Threw the chatterbait around some, too, only managed to get a few Zako tails bitten off by tilapia. I hate them

[Blue Raider Bob]

19 hours ago, ScottW said:

Nephews! Pffft! He was milking it for all he could. ?

 

On a warmer note, since the storm last night the pond is back up to full pool again and the fish were enjoying themselves with the new forage that got washed in. Managed to catch 2 before my ‘honey-do’ alarm went off and had to stop. First one was caught on a red craw crank bait and the second one liked the white/green chatter bait. Pond was very muddy so I figure the lures must have bonked them on the kisser to get noticed. ?

 

Too bad about that "Honey-do Alarm". There's got to be a way you can silence yours. I just use ear plugs. Works great....for a while. Looks like buzz-bait time on the pond!

[ScottW]

It was a haptic alarm. Felt it more than heard it. ?

[Jmontgomery87]

First time using the Tatula CT this morning. I just spooled it up with some 12lb Big Game I had laying around. 27° air temp; water around 40°.

 

I got this 1.5lber on the first cast and another a few minutes later. Both on 1/2 oz chart/sexy shad KVD spinnerbait. I didn't used to fish in the Winter so I think these are the coldest bass I've caught.

[thediscochef]

22 hours ago, Jmontgomery87 said:

First time using the Tatula CT this morning. I just spooled it up with some 12lb Big Game I had laying around. 27° air temp; water around 40°.

 

I got this 1.5lber on the first cast and another a few minutes later. Both on 1/2 oz chart/sexy shad KVD spinnerbait. I didn't used to fish in the Winter so I think these are the coldest bass I've caught.

I absolutely love my CT. Least problematic reel I own for the price. Gets used exclusively with 14lb sufix elite for 1/2oz red eye shad. I like it almost as much as my Curado DC. The DC squeaks by it with smaller lures. 

 

Went out to the LBJ grasslands with my buddy and my jon boat. Spent about 3.5 hours on the water, caught this one dink and then proceeded to break my St. Croix Mojo Yak at the tip while casting a 6th sense jerkbait. Tip and bait were not recovered. I'm really not sure how it happened; the only thing that makes any sense is that I had line around the tip when I casted. But I usually feel that in my thumb when I bounce the lure. Baffling. If anyone has experience with St. Croix customer support, pointers are appreciated.

Bout to get the curado DC off the busted mojo and go to my honey hole to see if the honeys have returned. This 'cold water in November' thing is really birddoggin my quail right now