Latest Catch Pics Thread

[T-Billy]

9 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Got up to my spot after the moon was already below the western tree line, which is just how I like it, but couldn't find a better bite. Sometimes a skunk-beater is as good as it gets, and I didn't harpoon my finger with a treble hook this time. No siree. I'll take it!

Tough night for me last night too. We had some storms roll through. I had to haul butt to the ramp and ride em out in the truck twice. Only managed a handfull of dink LM and a 2# eye. I thought maybe the wind on the front side of the storms might get 'em chewing, but... NOPE!!!  All good though. Tough bites make us appreciate the good ones.

[gim]

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Couple of them def had the black spot disease but you can still eat them

Ya I know its safe to consume, I just can't get past it visually.

[PhishLI]

19 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

I thought maybe the wind on the front side of the storms might get 'em chewing, but... NOPE!!!  All good though. Tough bites make us appreciate the good ones.

Same here. Everything set up perfectly. Very low light with a nice southern wind is always very good news to me. Worked four zones with 6 baits over 3 hours, and my photo'd catches all came very quickly, but I couldn't find anything else other than a few basslings on mini jigs in those areas until I moved down. The water's quite low here already with the drought, and they're scattered again just like they were this time last year. Tis what it is.

[T-Billy]

2 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

Same here. Everything set up perfectly. Very low light with a nice southern wind is always very good news to me. Worked four zones with 6 baits over 3 hours, and my photo'd catches all came very quickly, but I couldn't find anything else other than a few basslings on mini jigs in those areas until I moved down. The water's quite low here already with the drought, and they're scattered again just like they were this time last year. Tis what it is.

10-4. Been dry and stable here for awhile, with not much wind. Last night the pressure was falling fast, blowing 10-15 straight onto the wide, slow tapering point where I've been catching those good ones. It's got a 150yd long strip of hydrilla in the 4'-5' range with a hard edge, then some stubble on the outside out to 8' or so. I got there with HIGH hopes. Everytime I think I know what I'm doing.......... LOL.

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

I thought maybe the wind on the front side of the storms might get 'em chewing, but... NOPE!!!  All good though. Tough bites make us appreciate the good ones.

 

Love ^this^ attitude. 

 

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Been dry and stable here for awhile, with not much wind.

 

We've been just the opposite. We're wet and roiling and the wind never stops blowing. 

[Team9nine]

High 80s with dewpoints in the upper 70s made it miserable outside, but storms just south of me brought some cloud cover, so I made a dash to a small lake to try and catch a few - tomorrow is high in the upper 90s with heat indexes in the 100s. Managed a baker’s dozen which wasn’t bad since this spot has a big year class of bass running 14” or better - decent sized fish. You rarely catch dinks but you rarely catch big bass, either. Today’s largest was 17.5”, and most fish here run between 1.5 to 3 pounds. Everything split between wacky and Ned today.
 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

4 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

most fish here run between 2-3 pounds.

 

^These^ fish remind me of teenagers. They're not as bulky and strong as they'll be in their twenties, but lawdy, are they scrappers.

 

4 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Everything split between wacky and Ned today.

 

Are you bouncing a Ned rig off a weedy bottom? I haven't used a Ned rig once this year fearing I'd be weed fishing. 

[Team9nine]

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

^These^ fish remind me of teenagers. They're not as bulky and strong as they'll be in their twenties, but lawdy, are they scrappers.

 

You would have been impressed by the aerial acrobatics the bass put on display today  

 

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Are you bouncing a Ned rig off a weedy bottom? I haven't used a Ned rig once this year fearing I'd be weed fishing. 

Yes, partially. There is some deeper open water outside the weedline, but more/most bites come at it, so its inevitable you “catch” them…but it’s mostly Chara, so you can snatch it through the tops of it pretty well, and half the time they eat it while still attached to the weed stem ?

[Dominat0r]

My streak continues, pouring now and suppose to for the rest of the night, but got out there right before the storm happened. Broke off a HUGE snakehead, at least 10lbs if not more. Stupid thing ran under the drain pipe and scrapped my line, had him on the shore and boom, line snaps. 

 

Got these 2 of a Rat-L-Trap. 

 

[J._Bricker]

I was running down the channel, which is an opportunity to cool off a bit when it’s 95 and there’s no wind to speak of. Anyway, I went by a mat about 40 yards long that probably doesn’t get fished because everyone just goes by it like I was doing and paying no attention to it. So I said to myself, “Self, you outta’ fish that mat because you probably won’t later. After all, you’re here”.  Good thing I stopped. Pulled 8 bass out of that mat out of 10 bites including my biggest of the day, this 3.64 crawdad eating Delta bass. 

[TnRiver46]

I’ve posted this many times here before but I’ll do it again……

 

we ❤️ Michigan!!!!!!!

 

the bigger fish got wrapped up in a logjam as we zoomed by Mach 3 in the canoe. I clicked it to backreel and said honey please paddle backwards as hard as you can. I could see the fish hung up still when we got back to it. I jumped in to free it, iPhone still in my pocket (still works great). I thought it was gone and my line wouldn’t come loose, then a few toobers and kayakers came by and asked what I was doing. I told them I lost it, then I saw it again!!!! Grabbed the tag end and landed it , totally blew their mind! Thanks wife for paddling and photos and thanks to seaguar 6 lb floro for not breaking in a log jam in swift current attached to a bass 

[roadwarrior]

Man, GREAT story!

 

 

 

                             

                                 

[J._Bricker]

23 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve posted this many times here before but I’ll do it again……

 

we ❤️ Michigan!!!!!!!

 

the bigger fish got wrapped up in a logjam as we zoomed by Mach 3 in the canoe. I clicked it to backreel and said honey please paddle backwards as hard as you can. I could see the fish hung up still when we got back to it. I jumped in to free it, iPhone still in my pocket (still works great). I thought it was gone and my line wouldn’t come loose, then a few toobers and kayakers came by and asked what I was doing. I told them I lost it, then I saw it again!!!! Grabbed the tag end and landed it , totally blew their mind! Thanks wife for paddling and photos and thanks to seaguar 6 lb floro for not breaking in a log jam in swift current attached to a bass 

Great stuff! Great story ?

[Swamp Girl]

@TnRiver46: This is in the BR bylaws: "Any fisher who goes in the water to retrieve a bass gets to double the weight of the bass."

[hokiehunter373]

49 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

@TnRiver46: This is in the BR bylaws: "Any fisher who goes in the water to retrieve a bass gets to double the weight of the bass."

Oh, so that's how I can finally break 5 pounds?!? *noted*

[Swamp Girl]

36 minutes ago, hokiehunter373 said:

Oh, so that's how I can finally break 5 pounds?!? *noted*

 

It's in the bylaws, which makes it the law. 

 

#hookathreepounderandleapintothewater

[TnRiver46]

I forgot my wife sent me some videos of yesterdays debacle ? 
 

 

 

 

[thediscochef]

Found another good bite at sunrise, fished to about 9am. Two of the five tiny spotted bass and the only LM are pictured, the black bass only wanted the tiny pop-r today. A massive school of white bass showed up and I picked off 7 juveniles with a red eye shad. They were moving fast and puking shad all over me. It's been a good morning. 

[Swamp Girl]

12 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

They were moving fast and puking shad all over me. It's been a good morning. 

 

I read this and am proud of my clan. 

[Fishlegs]

@TnRiver46

[MIbassyaker]

21 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve posted this many times here before but I’ll do it again……

 

we ❤️ Michigan!!!!!!!

 

the bigger fish got wrapped up in a logjam as we zoomed by Mach 3 in the canoe. I clicked it to backreel and said honey please paddle backwards as hard as you can. I could see the fish hung up still when we got back to it. I jumped in to free it, iPhone still in my pocket (still works great). I thought it was gone and my line wouldn’t come loose, then a few toobers and kayakers came by and asked what I was doing. I told them I lost it, then I saw it again!!!! Grabbed the tag end and landed it , totally blew their mind! Thanks wife for paddling and photos and thanks to seaguar 6 lb floro for not breaking in a log jam in swift current attached to a bass 

 

River floats are so much fun, I wish I could do them more often.  Might get my chance Sunday down here, a couple hours south of you, on a stretch that hopefully won't have too much weekend traffic.  

[TnRiver46]

@MIbassyaker, bringing our own canoe has more than paid for itself, those rentals add up. Did get about halfway to losing it on i75 in Lima Ohio tho…… 

[IcatchDinks]

23 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

 

we ❤️ Michigan!!!!!!!

 

It truly is a wonderful state. I'm proud to call it home. 

 

Awesome story! River smallies are so much fun. 

[Dominat0r]

Streak continues!!! Wasn't able to go out long, but took a tiny trap out (my oldest bait, old school Bill Lewis hard case with the little card inside). Got this little guy. 

 

However, I ended up losing the lure to a BIG peakcock. He broke my 15lbs braid when he ducked under some rocks. Bummer, but I have caught TONS off that and I already ordered another tiny trap. I had to pick a different color his time around, something that has been working here in my pond. 

 

[The Baron]

@J._Bricker  Good decision!  Certainly possible guys just zipped by and never fished that patch.  But I read somewhere about boat traffic actually adding oxygen, so I wonder if that might be a factor in why a mat right by the boat channel fished so good. ?