Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Swamp Girl]

@Team9nine:

 

Yes, you chose this as your screen name: Team9nine

 

But I wonder if Mr.Consistency was taken. 

[Dominat0r]

Well, could only get a few casts in before the lightning struck about 2 miles and right in my line of sight...going to go back out...but caught a bass.....a coughpeakcockcough bass, its still a bass......well, sorta.....close enough....STREAK DOES GO ON, come on thunder storm, go AWAY!

 

Pardon the pic, when the light struck, it scared both me and the fish. I wanted to get the hell out of dodge so I didn't want to snap another and be that guy that dies snapping a pic with a 2lbs peacock. Btw, on a Booyah One knocker. 

 

[TnRiver46]

This here dink is special because I was on the clock haha. I work weekends at a kayak rental place and sometimes we take folks upriver and run a shuttle for them. I usually have to wait 2-3 hours and the downstream takeout, my boss says you better take a fishing pole or book to read. I don’t like reading books 

[TheBasslayer]

New personal best Smallmouth Bass today! I got em on a Megabass Dark Sleeper, and it is nice to be back on the site after a hiatus.

[NorcalBassin]

Took the family out a few days ago. Windiest I've ever been out on our home lake, which made the conditions pretty brutal. Can't remember the 60" TM shaft ever struggling to stay in the water.

 

Found a semi-sheltered cove and of course my oldest caught the biggest of the evening. ?

 

My only semi-pic worthy bass of the trip.

[Glenn]

Welcome back!!

[T-Billy]

Ah... Now I understand. ? 

 

[Dominat0r]

Well, storm lasted until 1230, but got out right after to play with the carolina rig again. Got 2, one being 2lbs 13oz. I am having some fun with this rig and zoom lizard. Streak continues....these are for Monday 7/3.

 

[PhishLI]

The full moon was hanging directly over the lake when I got there, and it seemed to stubbornly stay put over the next few hours. Fortunately, the soft filter of wildfire smoke mixed with occasional passing clouds would blunt its shine just enough to where they were willing to bite during certain moments. Even then, nothing was interested in breaking the water's glassy flat surface while the electric-white brightness was periodically muted, and definitely not when it wasn't. Wakes and topwater baits were ignored, so I ended up either dragging or swimming plastics slow and low to get my bites. Missed a few but got some too.

[Jmurphy87]

I got out yesterday between the storms that came through. I caught 3 all on a stick bait. The pond I fished is definitely tougher than normal, although I have not been there in a minute. I only took pics of two of them because one was a lot smaller than the other 2 dinks. I also caught 2 on Friday at a lake, one on a stick bait and one on a frog. I also blew my reel up on a cast when my worm flew off my straight shank hook mid cast lol. I was like why is my worm in the air over there and then I felt the spool still spinning and knew that it was going to be ugly when I looked down. Yep had to walk back to the car and throw a different reel on. I also caught a rock bass on the frog also, no pictures from Friday because I was waist deep in water.

[Swamp Girl]

8 hours ago, TheBasslayer said:

New personal best Smallmouth Bass today! I got em on a Megabass Dark Sleeper, and it is nice to be back on the site after a hiatus.

 

That's a beautiful bass and like Glenn said, it's great to have you back. How were you fishing your Megabass Dark Sleeper?

 

@Dominat0r, your top bass has a sweet shape.

 

@PhishLI, as you know, I once focused on muskies. Muskies are so dang hard to catch that you must leverage every possible advantage, which means noting all minutiae. A good musky fisher sees more, hears more, and remembers more. You're like that on your pounded lakes.  

 

I observed and deduced like PhishLI once and was rewarded beyond my wildest dreams. We'd been fishing a wilderness lake for muskies for five days. I'd caught nine in those five days, but two of the four in our party hadn't caught a single one because the wind was a cool northwester. One day, we were fixing lunch on our island when the wind swung 180 degrees. It was suddenly coming warm out of the southeast.

 

Well, at the far end of the lake was a strait that ran from the southeast to the northwest. I guessed that the change in temperature and pressure would trigger the muskies and that they'd cluster and feed at that strait, with water pushing through it. 

 

"Let's go fishing!" I yelled to my partner.

 

"Lunch?" he said.

 

"Later!" I said.

 

We paddled as fast as we could to that strait. I caught five muskies in an hour, which is, given the length of time it takes to play, land, and release a musky, close to Constant Musky (TM). I lost a sixth just as the wind died. The fishing conditions were really tough as we each had about one cast before we were blown out of position. 

 

My point, PhishLI, is that you're always trying and often succeeding to crack the code at your Long Island ponds by paying attention to light, wind, temperature, and even smoke and deducing from the clues.

[N Florida Mike]

I was out at daybreak this morning and fished til mid morning. The first 3 fish I caught were on the TRD popping frog. Only lost one out of the 4 that bit. 2 were blow ups, and 2 were so subtle I didn’t even realize I had a fish until I picked up and felt the fish swimming off.

I tried a couple different swimming toads/frogs for a while, and lost one .

The sun had gotten over the treetops( yes, I thought of the song), and  I got the notion for a trick worm. I immediately caught one on the watermelon seed. It started getting hot , so I moved to the shady side of our island. Ended up with 7 more on the trick worm. Called it a day and ended up with 11…?

[Bluebasser86]

Had to get out this weekend and get after them after getting my teeth kicked in at my tournament last weekend. The bite wasn't great, but I would have only needed 4 of these fish to beat my 5 fish limit from last weekend?

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Fished last night 8pm-4am and caught 8, missed several. 6 were in the 3-4lb class. Weirdly, these fish were pretty close to the same size. This is my second limit on this lake and a big upgrade from the last.

 

A gambler burner worm in Backatya did most of the damage. It did not matter to the fish how I presented it as long as it was in the water. They bit it on the initial fall (1/2oz), after I worked it, and while swimming it back to the boat. The largest fish bit on the latter retrieve. 

 

[Jar11591]

First time getting out with my main fishing buddy this year. Fished a shallow, extremely weedy lake. 
 

Started out a wet, rainy daybreak but that gave way to a beautiful morning on the water. 

 

Fishing was ok. Lots of bass boated, including a couple chunks. Spinnerbaits, poppers, weedless frogs and senkos did the damage today. 
 

 

Also saw something I’ve never seen before. Loons in trees. Like way up at the top. Didn’t know loons perched on trees so I though it was pretty cool:

 

Also saw a couple bald eagles. Watched one grab a fish right out of the water. 10 years ago eagle sightings were pretty rare around here. Now, I don’t think there is a body of water I fish that doesn’t have a resident eagle. 

[LrgmouthShad]

Nice man

 

That crazy looking spinnerbait strikes again. Killing me with that thing. Major bait monkey impetus.

[Jar11591]

@LrgmouthShad that brass/copper willow leaf and green tomato skirt combo is killer! 

[LrgmouthShad]

@Jar11591 well I'm about to go to academy because I need more 1/2oz weights. I think I got hung in trees 2-3 times last night with a t-rig, lol. So if I see that bait, I will at the very least take a closer look. I know they carry that series of spinnerbait

 

Thanks man

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

First time getting out with my main fishing buddy this year. Fished a shallow, extremely weedy lake. 
 

Started out a wet, rainy daybreak but that gave way to a beautiful morning on the water. 

 

Fishing was ok. Lots of bass boated, including a couple chunks. Spinnerbaits, poppers, weedless frogs and senkos did the damage today. 
 

 

Also saw something I’ve never seen before. Loons in trees. Like way up at the top. Didn’t know loons perched on trees so I though it was pretty cool:

 

Also saw a couple bald eagles. Watched one grab a fish right out of the water. 10 years ago eagle sightings were pretty rare around here. Now, I don’t think there is a body of water I fish that doesn’t have a resident eagle. 

Nice ones! Our loons have mostly left for the season and now we have cormorants everywhere. They stay in trees all day and crap on unsuspecting fishermen below . 
 

do y’all have cormorants? 

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice ones! Our loons have mostly left for the season and now we have cormorants everywhere. They stay in trees all day and crap on unsuspecting fishermen below . 
 

do y’all have cormorants? 

 

They are pooping digested fish. Collect it, package it in tubes, and sell it as fish attractant. 

[Jar11591]

@TnRiver46 I’ve seen cormorants on the bigger bodies of water. My first thought was possible cormorant but they flew just like loons, and when I used the binoculars they looked to be loons. I’m like 90% sure. I’ve seen loons on this lake before. But as I type, the less sure I get….

[The Baron]

Got out not a small-ish back lake today.  I thought it was a hidden gem, but we were first to the launch spot (no ramp - it’s a bit rough) at 4:30am and two more guys showed up while we were backing up.  When we left at 10am, there were 6 trucks/trailers parked along the road and another guy just showing up.

 

I enjoyed a decent topwater bite on smallies throwing a popper - my buddy had no bites on a whopper plopper.  I lost an est. 3lb. and then a 3.5-4lb. on jumps, but of course landed all the dinks.  haha.  Topwater slowed and I was marking lots of fish moving 8-10ft. deep over 20ft. of water so I clipped on one of my favourite jerkbaits - a Rapala Ripstop.  1st cast, about 1/2 way back and whack - a 4# pike.  Netted him and he rolled and thrashed, but came free of the lure.  So I quickly retrieved the lure and flipped it out of my way into the lake.  Released the pike and then realized when he thrashed he’d bitten through my line, so my $15 jerkbait was gone. ?

 

Went on to find a good worm bite right along a weed edge in 8-10ft. of water.  Best of my morning was about 3.5#, but we boated about a dozen 1.5-2.5#.  I do love the 10” worms and really leaning into a decent one with a 5/0 on 40# braid. ?  Despite the unlanded smallies and the jerkbait whoopsie, it was a great morning.  I’m LOVING our little Bass Tracker 165 setup.

[IcatchDinks]

That's both comedic and tragic about your lure, @The Baron. Very nice bass, though. 

 

I'm surprised the popper outperformed the whopper-plopper. Usually for me, when I can't get bit on a popper, I'll switch to the whopper-plopper. And if they aren't hitting that, I just rule out topwater entirely. 

 

I went out in a light rain last night and realized that I quite like fishing in the rain. It's cool, there's not nearly as many people out. And if the rain isn't too heavy, the sound of the rain falling can be quite cathartic. I caught a little rock bass on a 6.75 inch Wyrm from Engineering Hooksets. And then hours later, just before dark, I caught a LMB on the Rebel Wee Craw; a lure I usually throw out of pure desperation when they won't bite anything else. I plan to go back out this evening after dinner. We'll see if I have better luck then. 

 

 

[TnRiver46]

58 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

@TnRiver46 I’ve seen cormorants on the bigger bodies of water. My first thought was possible cormorant but they flew just like loons, and when I used the binoculars they looked to be loons. I’m like 90% sure. I’ve seen loons on this lake before. But as I type, the less sure I get….

In either case don’t linger below that tree, they got me good once. Plum ruirnt my shirt 

[gunsinger]

Saturday was one of those magical days. While waiting for my expected fishing buddy, I made a few casts with my TR stick bait. On the 3rd cast I snagged a 4.5 LM. My next catch was a 3+. My next was another 4 lb’er.  I was on a roll. My 4th fish was this 23” beauty who weighed in at 5.9 lbs. 
 

 

I was thinking, “This can’t last.”  And it didn’t. Mr next catch was a 12” dink ?

 

I wound the day up with a couple of 2 lb fatties.