Latest Catch Pics Thread

[LrgmouthShad]

Fished yesterday evening 6pm-9pm and caught 5, missed several again, and I think one or two were larger fish. It started out so windy that I actually dismounted from the kayak and went on shore throwing a spinnerbait. Those are the first two photos you see.

 

Third limit on the lake, by the way! SV-3 from bank and gambler burner worm from boat, same color and weight as this past weekend.

 

Couple thoughts/observations I had on this trip:

- I need to adjust what worm hook I'm using on the burner worm

- Most my bites came rapidly from one new area that I'd never fished, and I could detect a pretty hard bottom throughout a lot of the structure.... it's going to be a place for me to monitor for sure.

 

[The Baron]

1 hour ago, GreenPig said:

...Water temp 90.

 

 

Wow!  That's warm (?Canadian guy shocked look - lol)

[Pat Brown]

New PB for the Mrs™

 

Meagan and I got home and unpacked and of course, we wanted to get back our beloved green grass donkey flock to see how they were fairing.

 

We were greeted by an empty marina, slick calm green water with less than a foot of visibility and 91° surface temps with bluebirdish skies.

 

We decided to fish out local grass lake for this occasion for some odd reason.  

 

I think Meagan just wanted to see how that lake was doing and suggested it.

 

She tied on a fluke and a red Z Man Chatterbait I bought her for Christmas and said with authority, 'these are the right baits for this lake today '

 

We leave the marina and she loses a 4-5 lber right at the boat on her 3rd cast with the fluke.

 

We work some drops and some grass edges and get nary even a whiff.

 

I decided we need to make a move for possibly some of the only 'current' on the lake: the dam.

 

We fish around the dam and don't see much and then we start to slowly work the adjacent bluff wall.  I can see the bottom here and surface temps are 89°, a bit cooler.  I start to see active bream beds all up and down the bluff bank and I know it's on.

 

Meagan switches to the Chatterbait and starts working the 15-9 ft zone.  Casting it out, letting it fall to the bottom,  hopping it up, letting it fall, reeling up slack, letting it fall again etc.

 

She felt a 'tap tap on the lift and stopped moving and then it went THUNK' and I tell you what her pole about got ripped out of her hand.

 

The fish was peeling drag and I could sense it was a giant bass.

 

The fish jumped twice and then went straight under the boat.  Jake was quick with the net and landed this gorgeous 7 lb summer stunner!

 

Got a great release on her and she swam back to the depths post haste and with gusto.

 

[Swamp Girl]

Go, Meagan! And hooray for Pat too, for being so happy for his wife!

 

Nice pics and bass, @LrgmouthShad!

[gim]

Went with the family last night for a couple hours locally and did well.  A stunning 75 degree evening with a light breeze and minimal other watercraft made for an enjoyable outing.  I just happened to catch the biggest largemouth of the season too - a 20 1/4 incher (definitely post spawn).  Even my 4.5 year old boy got in on the action netting and catching fish.  Honestly I was satisfied just sitting there with a cold beer in my hand.  I could have not caught a single fish and still enjoyed it.

[Swamp Girl]

@gimruis: That is a beauty bass! Beautiful family too. 

[gim]

23 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

That is a beauty bass

It was definitely on the skinny side though.  Musta been a post spawn.  I don't catch many 20 inch bass during a season.  This is number 3.  My average is about 2 per season (last year I only caught 1 that big).  As you know fish that size in the north are rare.

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, gimruis said:

It was definitely on the skinny side though.  Musta been a post spawn.  I don't catch many 20 inch bass during a season.  This is number 3.  My average is about 2 per season (last year I only caught 1 that big).  As you know fish that size in the north are rare.

 

Heck, yeah, those 20-inchers are rare at our latitude. Congrats on landing three already this season. I'm always thrilled when I catch one. I average about SEVEN 19-inch-+ class bass for every 20-incher-+.  

 

That bass in front of your son sure is a chunk! Here's a video in honor of that bass:

 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

@gimruis yup, well done man. In NY, my benchmark for lunker status was >=4lbs

[gim]

18 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

That bass in front of your son sure is a chunk

Ya the smaller ones were chubbier than the big one.  Caught about a dozen of those 14-16 inchers.  Presumably all males.

[Jar11591]

@gimruis awesome dude. Doesn’t get better than that. 

[casts_by_fly]

Had an hour or so while my wife was out and the sun was behind a cloud so went to a local pond. Tiny place- 1/2 acre, 3’ deep. I’ve never seen or caught a fish bigger than 12” there before but it’s 3 minutes away and has a bunch of 6-10” fish. Grabbed the bfs rod. And because someone on an other thread got me fired up about them, a Zara pooch, the tiniest spook ever made which hasn’t been made for 20 years now. Three casts in a get a little birds nest and as I pick it a little bass comes up for the spook but doesn’t eat it. Fourth cast I put it right on the little log he came from and am immediately snagged in an inaccessible place. I considered wading for it then realized I had another choice. I still bad my gear in the truck so grabbed a flipping stick with 50lb braid and pitched it right past the spook. One twitch later and I had it- my spook firmly caught in the braid. A quick pop and it was free. Best catch of the day. First cast with the jig. 
 

I managed three little bass and a bluegill on trout magnets before I called it. 

[TnRiver46]

Those little Zara’s are awesome 

[Dominat0r]

Dom's Dink of the day! The worm was just an inch shorter haha....already got one today, but the streak goes on! 33 days!

 

[Team9nine]

Hot and sunny, mid to upper 80s, and light winds. Ended the afternoon with 15 bass; 8 on swimbaits and 7 on finesse worm. Bass weren’t overly active, but the catfish sure were for some reason - maybe spawning or post-spawn feeding. Both ate finesse worms but saw several others cruising I couldn’t get to bite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dominat0r]

Streak continues for Sat 7/8/. Rain let up for a bit and again, the mosquitoes were out for BLOOD! Sounded like little helicopters flying around. 

 

Dinks again, but the bigger one did put up a fight....first 2 were on Carolina rig and the 3rd was on a speed worm. 

 

 

 

[Jmurphy87]

It’s been a while since I pulled a night session, I got up for work at 5am Friday morning and went to work. I got the urge to go fishing around 10:30pm Friday night, so I went. Started around 11:30pm with plastics and a glass bead and brass clacker with a 1/8oz tungsten bullet weight. I tried 3 different spots and not as much as a sniff, decided to throw top water. That was the right decision, I caught 2 small ones on a whopper plopper 110 in blue blood color. Then it went dead, decided to throw a pop max and had a few miss it. I finally caught a decent one around 2:20 am that went for 3.20lbs, not huge but still a decent fish for Michigan and where I was fishing. I called it a night after that one. It 3:14am now and I am getting ready to go to bed. Saturday is off to a good start, sorry for the bad picture quality but my phone has duck tape on the back of it so I don’t have a flash so I used my headlamp.

[treble hook]

A couple of hours on the lake this morning…

[IcatchDinks]

Got up early this morning to try a pond I never fish. There was a light drizzle coming down, but I figured, what the heck, it wasn't bad. I got to the pond around 7:30 and as soon as I walked to the water it started dumping buckets. It continued that way for about five minutes. Then it stopped raining. Then it would just turn into a torrential rainfall for a couple minutes. Then it would let up again. It went like that for the entire two hours I was out. I caught three fish total. Nothing big. But I figure that's not too bad for a pond I don't know. The mist rolling off the lake in the dry intervals was pretty beautiful too. Unfortunately my phone camera couldn't quite capture it. By the time I went home, I was soaked and cold from the light breeze that's been blowing all morning. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I like the two bottom photos, @IcatchDinks, i.e. the fat-bellied bass and the beautiful pond. Fish on, my bass brother!

[Woody B]

I caught 8 today (and a small Perch I didn't waste pixels on).   Got to the landing at 5.  I caught 5 before 7 on a Devils Horse.   The topwater bite died....and most of the other bite for me too.  I caught 3 more before leaving around 11.   One was just over 18".  2 were dinks (under 14")  1 of the dinks was tiny.   On a side note.  "They" (the State?) have been working on a "day use" near the landing I use.  It features a swim beach, fishing trails and several fishing piers.   It opened yesterday.  "They" said police would be there today for crowd control.  When I left today, around 11 the only people there were the crowd control police.   I figure it will be popular, I just think no one knows it's open yet.  

[Bluebasser86]

Caught my biggest of the year this morning 

Also caught about a 15lb grass carp on a Berkley Surge Shad.

 

[gim]

Since I’m the dedicated haircut police now.

 

@IcatchDinks you need to trim up the mop.

 

@Woody B is looking good with the recent trim.

[Swamp Girl]

@Bluebasser86

 

Here's some footage of your blimp swimming right before you caught it:

 

 

 

[gim]

Best outing of the season for largies this morning. A friend and I caught 24 bass and 2 pike in about 5 hours. There was a decent spinnerbait bite early with a low cloud deck, and as the sun came out the dock bite really took off with plastics.  I followed up my skinny 20 incher on Thursday with a beefy one (last photo).