Latest Catch Pics Thread

[AlabamaSpothunter]

24 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Got a nice LM on the poor man’s ned rig. Got a redbreast, couple drum and a spot with black marabou jig. Also got a skipjack for future bait and the spot came home for the freezer. Kind of forgot to keep the sunfish but it would have been excellent. LM are not recommended for consumption where I was so he/she got a reprieve 

 

RIP Mr Alabama Bass, that's what you get for venturing into TN ?

 

That's a really nice river LGM!  

 

eta:   To me that doesn't look like a pure Alabama Bass.....do you have Kentucky Spots, or could that be a meanmouth.   The genetics of your fish are pretty much one of a kind, that area is like an ocean of species.  

[Swamp Girl]

Fished from a friend's little red kayak for 2.5 hours this evening. I was pleased by the plumpness of the bass and caught 20 of them. I caught most of them on big Senkos, both black and green, either wacky or T-Rigged. Paddling back, I had a 19.25-incher hit. I heard it jump behind me and knew she was heavy. I photographed her twice, on the board and pinching her chin. Three times, I had what I assume were pickerel hit my worm in the weeds, pull hard, and cut the line. 

 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

There's no doubt it's "Katie season"......copious dark butterballs rolling across the counter like it's Thanksgiving eve ?

 

4th to last pic/fatster is my favorite, and that lake looks big, quite different than your normal places.  

[TnRiver46]

@AlabamaSpothunter, I was thinking ky spot, they are native here 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

@AlabamaSpothunter, I was thinking ky spot, they are native here 

Right on, that's really cool....go figure, everything in freshwater seemingly swims there ? 

 

Sure you got Alabama's as well.   It's like the most beautiful Black Bass soup you could concoct.

[gim]

Looks like it’s time for another haircut @TnRiver46.

[TnRiver46]

3 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Right on, that's really cool....go figure, everything in freshwater seemingly swims there ? 

 

Sure you got Alabama's as well.   It's like the most beautiful Black Bass soup you could concoct.

I don’t think there are tons of Alabama bass where I live yet but definitely some. Lakes on the little Tennessee like fontana and tellico have a lot of them. They seem to radiate from the mountains 

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

Looks like it’s time for another haircut @TnRiver46.

Fashion police found me again! 

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

There's no doubt it's "Katie season"......copious dark butterballs rolling across the counter like it's Thanksgiving eve ?

 

4th to last pic/fatster is my favorite, and that lake looks big, quite different than your normal places.  

 

I didn't roam the pond like I usually do. The kayak was so short that it couldn't track in a straight line. I'd paddle on the right side and the kayak would turn to the left and vice-versa. So, I pretty much fished one spot. I started shallow in the weeds and caught nothing, which was no surprise since it was still bright and the bass weren't going to risk being seen by the raptors. So, I went deep and had a little luck and basically followed them into the shallows as the light faded. 

 

I'm glad you get a kick out of those chubby bass too! They're funny looking, aren't they?

 

Playing that 19.25-incher in the dark was both exciting and scary. 

[Swamp Girl]

Good job getting that clamp, @Dominat0r!

 

How long was your LMB, @TnRiver46?

[TnRiver46]

A tad over 18” I think 

[Swamp Girl]

11 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

A tad over 18” I think 

 

She's a beauty!

[softwateronly]

Work's a mess, but the time available has been great over the last week...

 

scott

 

 

[PhishLI]

I know better than to go fishing after my wife makes tacos for dinner, but I was jonesing after missing all these days, so I bucked up and hoped for the best. Quickly popped a decent scrapper on the Zman Pro Crawz, then the bite went dead. Post spawn struggles are par for the course at my ponds during these 2 weeks in June, and it's hit or miss trying to catch a bite window, but I was in it for the long haul. Darkness fell eventually and I was out of ideas, so I tied on a coppertruese finesse TRD and went to work. A mongo yellow perch scooped it up and I was hoping things might finally light up a bit, but like a shot to the gut the gurgling began. I figured my odds were 50/50, but I was unwilling to bet on a bubble and lose, and with cold sweat creeping over me I clinched down to my toes and flew home for dear life and my sacred honor. By some miracle I caught green lights all the way and just made it, barely.

[IcatchDinks]

4 hours ago, BigAngus752 said:

Guess who LOVES Zoom Trick Worms in Watermelon Candy and really doesn't want the hook removed after he eats one.  I named him Bitey McBiterson.  He does not consider us to be friends. 

 

Ha! I caught a snapper on the whopper-plopper last summer. He did NOT like it when I tried to remove the hooks. He was so unfriendly I chose not to name him. He was angry, I was angry. It was not a fun time.

19 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

Work's a mess, but the time available has been great over the last week...

 

scott

 

 

Now I'm ashamed to post my dinks.  Those are some NICE fish, my guy!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

29 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

I know better than to go fishing after my wife makes tacos for dinner, but I was jonesing after missing all these days, so I bucked up and hoped for the best. Quickly popped a decent scrapper on the Zman Pro Crawz, then the bite went dead. Post spawn struggles are par for the course at my ponds during these 2 weeks in June, and it's hit or miss trying to catch a bite window, but I was in it for the long haul. Darkness fell eventually and I was out of ideas, so I tied on a coppertruese finesse TRD and went to work. A mongo yellow perch scooped it up and I was hoping things might finally light up a bit, but like a shot to the gut the gurgling began. I figured my odds were 50/50, but I was unwilling to bet on a bubble and lose, and with cold sweat creeping over me I clinched down to my toes and flew home for dear life and my sacred honor. By some miracle I caught green lights all the way and just made it, barely.

Bawhahahaha.......nothing worse than when that gurgle kicks up on the water, you're playing deadly games once you start that game.   

 

Friend has this scene framed on his bathroom wall ?

[Dominat0r]

Little night time therapy.....I have made it a mission to catch a bass every day for the whole summer. Since I can walk down to my pond in like 2 mins, I can hit the moonrise and dusk. 

 

This will be my log ?

 

[Swamp Girl]

Okay, @softwateronly lives in Chicago with nearly 9,000,000 people and he's catching those bass? Count me bedazzled. And gobsmacked. 

 

5 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

with cold sweat creeping over me I clinched down to my toes and flew home for dear life and my sacred honor

 

Count me bechuckled. 

[Blue Raider Bob]

13 hours ago, BigAngus752 said:

I only got about 2/3rds of it back.  It was a clean cut where she bit it off.  Looked like I did it with scissors.  I was impressed.  It's a Spiny Softshell and they eat fish and insects so they must have a pretty good chomper. 

And they are the fastest turtle ever on dry land. The only time they leave the water is to lay eggs and if they are startled, they can seriously run to the water. I've never seen anything like it.

11 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Fished from a friend's little red kayak for 2.5 hours this evening. I was pleased by the plumpness of the bass and caught 20 of them. I caught most of them on big Senkos, both black and green, either wacky or T-Rigged. Paddling back, I had a 19.25-incher hit. I heard it jump behind me and knew she was heavy. I photographed her twice, on the board and pinching her chin. Three times, I had what I assume were pickerel hit my worm in the weeds, pull hard, and cut the line. 

 

 

Wow Katie! You are crushing them. I know you've invited me up but its a couple thousand miles from Tennessee! I am slowing regaining my natural color from the deep green from a few minutes ago! One of these days though........sausage and taters and a boat load of bass!

[Swamp Girl]

I know it's horribly far, Bob. However, it is Maine, i.e. waves crashing against pink granite (Google "Schoodic Maine" and click on images.) and Camden, a town with not one downtown waterfalls, but two, and a harbor full of 1800s sailing ships. And then there's taters and sage chicken sausage sizzling in my kitchen! 

 

However, the distance does daunt. It daunts me too, for I've friends I'd love to visit in Tennessee, including you. 

 

Speaking of snappers, I was paddling a bog a couple days ago and I happened to look down and to my right just as I was about to paddle on that side and a snapper was suspended there inches below the surface. It was big, but aren't they all? I don't think I've ever seen a small snapper.

[TnRiver46]

Baby snappers are cool, we always waved twigs in front of them and watched them snap them in half 

[Dominat0r]

Afternoon session, keeping my streak alive.....every day of summer. Also, caught Dom's Dink of the Day!

 

[PhishLI]

16 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Bawhahahaha.......nothing worse than when that gurgle kicks up on the water, you're playing deadly games once you start that game.   

It was dark out, so at least none of the neighbors saw me doing the penguin walk from my truck to the house.

[T-Billy]

4 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

It was dark out, so at least none of the neighbors saw me doing the penguin walk from my truck to the house.

To bad the bucket brigade wasn't there. Copping a squat on one of their bait buckets would be a priceless moment.

[Woody B]

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

To bad the bucket brigade wasn't there. Copping a squat on one of their bait buckets would be a priceless moment.

Just so you know, iced tea is really painful when you laugh so hard it comes out of your nose.   

[Team9nine]

Had a pretty decent bite today considering we were just sliding on to the back side of a high pressure system that moved through overnight, and a breeze that had already shifted to coming out of the north. The lingering cloud cover probably helped in that regard. Picked up a couple dozen today, along with another dozen last night when I went out to test a presentation that popped into my head. Was able to land the one big bite I got, a nice bass that inhaled a finesse jig on the fall that was cast right over the only well defined depth breakline in the entire lake.

 

 

And for the curious; I’m wearing shorts, not jeans with even bigger holes in the knees, and it started out in the mid 60s today, so I grabbed the flannel again today to wear over my clean T-shirt (more versatile than a jacket) ?