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[MN Fisher]

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Hair Police has issued a citation here.  Clean it up Jonny. ✂️

One of these nights, I'm a gonna come up there and glue extensions in your hair while you sleep...leave the hippy alone - I miss those years.

 

5 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Nice fish tho.

Got that straight...keep up the good work, Jonny - and ignore the square-dude in the corner.

[hokiehunter373]

12 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

It ain't much.  But it's my first fish ever on a buzzbait and at the Pressured Pond ™ no less.

 

Storm rolled through leaving clouds and wind.  Fished an hour after work.  Got 7 blow ups on the buzzbait and connected with this one.

 

My retrieves are 'keeping it just under the surface and gurgling it up occasionally by accident and keeping it just under the surface and then sorta slow plinking it with occasional squeaky acceleration flurries.  Seems all of these retrieves trigger bites.

 

I'm gonna be tossing this thing a lot more this fall as I know it's basically made for the fall.

 

 

Bizzbaits dinner bell with the old rage menace on the back.  Skirtless.

Absolutely shocked this is your first buzzbait fish.  Do yourself a favor and get a MegaStrike Cavitron or 6 and run that sucker completely on the top with a rage bug or similar in black/blue behind it.  I get the itch to throw one just thinking about those blowups lol.  Can't imagine with one of your tanks attacking it

 

[Pat Brown]

I have two different cavitrons!  Never gotten a blowup on one yet but maybe they're just so dang popular my fish have seen/heard/felt em.  I haven't had bites on the Strike King head banger either but fished those a fair bit as well.   They seem to hate my dinner bell though so maybe it's the clacking flavor they prefer at my waters?

 

But yeah I find that most days and most of the year, topwater is a big old waste of time but I'm LEARNING to watch out for opportunities to be productive with topwater....

[hokiehunter373]

14 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

I have two different cavitrons!  Never gotten a blowup on one yet but maybe they're just so dang popular my fish have seen/heard/felt em.  I haven't had bites on the Strike King head banger either but fished those a fair bit as well.   They seem to hate my dinner bell though so maybe it's the clacking flavor they prefer at my waters?

 

But yeah I find that most days and most of the year, topwater is a big old waste of time but I'm LEARNING to watch out for opportunities to be productive with topwater....

I gotcha.  You may be right.  I don't know which colors you've got but I forgot to say all black is what the fish around me like

[T-Billy]

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

@Pat Brown, glad you got one on the buzzer! One of my all time favs but I use a white skirt and always keep it on the surface 

I'm just happy to see @Pat Brown catch a dink like the rest of us mere mortals!!! 

[Woody B]

43 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

I'm just happy to see @Pat Brown catch a dink like the rest of us mere mortals!!! 

 

I bet he used some kind of trick photography to make is look smaller than it actually is.   

[Swamp Girl]

34 minutes ago, Woody B said:

 

I bet he used some kind of trick photography to make is look smaller than it actually is.   

 

@IcatchDinks gave him a lesson.

[Pat Brown]

Buzzbait fish number 2 on the books!

 

Jake caught a monster on a morning dawn trick worm off a bridge piling.  SUPER spawned out.

 

I caught one on a creature bait and Jake got a nice one on the old Siebert brush jig.

 

Fun fun afternoon.

 

I'm flattered by all the big bass expectations but I usually catch 100 normal size bass at LEAST for every 5+ lber!

 

It's called fun for a reason!  Wouldn't be fun if they was giants every time!

 

[LrgmouthShad]

2 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Buzzbait fish number 2 on the books!

 

Jake caught a monster on a morning dawn trick worm off a bridge piling.  SUPER spawned out.

 

I caught one on a creature bait and Jake got a nice one on the old Siebert brush jig.

 

Fun fun afternoon.

 

I'm flattered by all the big bass expectations but I usually catch 100 normal size bass at LEAST for every 5+ lber!

 

It's called fun for a reason!  Wouldn't be fun if they was giants every time!

 

Buzzbait bite is my favorite bite, probably. Punching probably still my favorite technique and spinnerbaits my favorite lure (it’s confusing), but buzzbait bites so dang fun. That flush when they bite… man

[Pat Brown]

3 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Buzzbait bite is my favorite bite, probably. Punching probably still my favorite technique, when it’s working, but buzzbait bites so dang fun. That flush when they bite… man

 

 

I actually hooked a 4-5 lb class fish on the buzzbait that bent it in half about half an hour before I caught that 2.5 lber later on.   It got off 2 feet from the net. I'm learning quickly to look for big flats with stumps or grass clumps or rocks or all of the above in sort of dirty water in wind.  This is where the buzzbait is probably the best lure to throw.  The shallower the better it seems.

[Team9nine]

Stuck between two low pressure systems, and afternoon popup storms were the norm. Got out just before the worst of them came though late in the afternoon. Water is showing signs of a light algae bloom, so a little more stained than usual. Bass were biting though, as I got 26 total, all on finesse jigs. Good numbers, but nothing of signifcant size.

 

[LrgmouthShad]

4 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

 

 

I actually hooked a 4-5 lb class fish on the buzzbait that bent it in half about half an hour before I caught that 2.5 lber later on.   It got off 2 feet from the net. I'm learning quickly to look for big flats with stumps or grass clumps or rocks or all of the above in sort of dirty water in wind.  This is where the buzzbait is probably the best lure to throw.  The shallower the better it seems.

Dude, awesome. 4.5-5 is a great fish.
 

Shallow water close to deep water. That’s not coming from me, it’s coming from the Shaky Head Wizard ?‍♂️ 

[Pat Brown]

It's ALWAYS gotta be near deep water.  I mean deep IS where ole big lives ???

[LrgmouthShad]

Queue @A-Jay cracking his knuckles and preparing to type out his explanation of many trophy smallmouth he’s caught on a flat totally away from deep water

 

[Dominat0r]

Streak is still going....went out earlier, drained me so bad I had to come home and nap for a bit. Day 63, fish for 8/8. 

 

I actually setup the go pro, but didnt notice it was on time lapse. So I got a few shots of me catching him, but not the video =( Also, It was set to 1080p as well, corrected so the next video will be better. 

 

Caught on the good ole ball and chain......

 

 

 

[thediscochef]

3/4oz red eye shad continues to do work. 7lbs 5oz on this one, I took a swim off the pier while trying to land it but worth the trouble for a near-PB. 5oz away. Biggest bank bass yet. Thank you oprah Winfrey, thank you Tom cruise

[LrgmouthShad]

5 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

3/4oz red eye shad continues to do work. 7lbs 5oz on this one, I took a swim off the pier while trying to land it but worth the trouble for a near-PB. 5oz away. Biggest bank bass yet. Thank you oprah Winfrey, thank you Tom cruise

Dang son!! AWESOME bass!!

[thediscochef]

8 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Dang son!! AWESOME bass!!

Thanks! Also caught a small white bass on the same lure. I'm pretty sure I lost this same fish about 5-10 minutes before landing her, but the second time around she inhaled it and somehow only caught one barb of the zowire trebles i swap onto every RES. Bonus points for catching it in front of the workingmans tournament guys who were waiting for weigh in. Like Billy Joel, I put on my best shows for true fans; that's the first time I've been in the lake since 2021 lol those boots are gonna need to dry out 

[MIbassyaker]

1 hour ago, thediscochef said:

3/4oz red eye shad continues to do work. 7lbs 5oz on this one, I took a swim off the pier while trying to land it but worth the trouble for a near-PB. 5oz away. Biggest bank bass yet. Thank you oprah Winfrey, thank you Tom cruise

[T-Billy]

3 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

It's ALWAYS gotta be near deep water.  I mean deep IS where ole big lives ???

ALMOST always. I can only recall one really big'n that was a long way from deep water. That's a bad memory, would'a been my PB had I landed it. It wrapped me in a big laydown just out of reach, and I ended up breaking it off while trying to free it. 20# Invisx. All my other big fish have come near deep water.

The fish mentioned above was an early prespawn fish. It was way back in a bay on a laydown. That laydown was the prime piece of cover in the area. It's on a channel swing bank, and the creek channel comes within 10' of the tip of it. Deepest spot and heaviest cover within a few hundred yards. I've only ever caught a few fish off that tree, but they've all been good ones, all early spring. 

[Pat Brown]

@T-Billy I'm being fairly tongue in cheek with that one.  The Pressured Pond ™ I fish at where I caught a 9.1 and multiple 8 lbers and there are double digits that have eluded me, the closest deep water is about 10 minutes down the road at a different body of water ?

 

These ponds max out at 4 feet of water and are 5 acres a piece and have virtually no cover.  Most of the castable water is 2 feet or less.

 

So yeah, deep water nearby is only a requirement until it's not at all.

 

I have also caught some big fish at the very backs of creeks on lakes not particularly near deep water access.

 

Just depends on the time of year.

[Woody B]

Don't forget that the deep water big bass like is usually always close to shallow water too.  

[TnRiver46]

Water temp 73, muddy, and ultra fast but we managed a few 

[Swamp Girl]

12 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

 

 

I actually hooked a 4-5 lb class fish on the buzzbait that bent it in half about half an hour before I caught that 2.5 lber later on.   It got off 2 feet from the net. I'm learning quickly to look for big flats with stumps or grass clumps or rocks or all of the above in sort of dirty water in wind.  This is where the buzzbait is probably the best lure to throw.  The shallower the better it seems.

 

This is actually comforts me. I lose soooo many big bass in the bogs, but to hear that Pat the Conquerer sometimes loses a tussle reminds me that bass are tough to boat.

 

10 hours ago, thediscochef said:

3/4oz red eye shad continues to do work. 7lbs 5oz on this one, I took a swim off the pier while trying to land it but worth the trouble for a near-PB. 5oz away. Biggest bank bass yet. Thank you oprah Winfrey, thank you Tom cruise

 

You should have heard me gasp and yelp when I scrolled to this beast! And now my eyes are shining! I'm so proud of you and just as happy for you too. Now, will you please, please, please give the details of the battle? PLEASE!

 

4 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

@T-Billy I'm being fairly tongue in cheek with that one.  The Pressured Pond ™ I fish at where I caught a 9.1 and multiple 8 lbers and there are double digits that have eluded me, the closest deep water is about 10 minutes down the road at a different body of water ?

 

These ponds max out at 4 feet of water and are 5 acres a piece and have virtually no cover.  Most of the castable water is 2 feet or less.

 

So yeah, deep water nearby is only a requirement until it's not at all.

 

I have also caught some big fish at the very backs of creeks on lakes not particularly near deep water access.

 

Just depends on the time of year.

 

Thanks for qualifying. Some of my bogs have no deep water.

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

You should have heard me gasp and yelp when I scrolled to this beast! And now my eyes are shining! I'm so proud of you and just as happy for you too. Now, will you please, please, please give the details of the battle? PLEASE!

 

Thank you! I'm still buzzing about it. 
I caught this one at a weird time, about 20 minutes after sunset on a cast angle I'm sure I've made before but typically avoid for...really no good reason at all. Not sure why I don't make that cast more. And most of the time, I have a dead zone from the time the sun dips until about 10PM. Weird.

I got onto the end of the rocks at the Ray Roberts fishing pier, casting parallel with the bank about 10-15 yards from the shoreline. The entire area is creek bed that has been built up with rip rap, goes from either side of the boat ramp and then opens up into a 20-30 foot zone. So I decided to make the RES look like it was going out into deeper water with this cast relating to the pier. It's about a 60 yard cast, lands just barely up into the creekbed. Just a slow rolling retrieve, I believe about 2 feet above the rocks, through the mouth of the creek and out into the deeper zone.

And then WHAM. Big bite after about 15 yards. But it rushes towards me, and I also begin to realize that I messed with my drag while I was untangling myself from other people's snapped off lines. It was loose. I didn't get a great hookset. But me being me, I had just replaced the hooks not even two hours earlier with owner STX38 size 2. I clicked down the drag just enough to fight the fish without worrying about my line (thank you sufix elite, very cool!) and that's when we started getting jumps. First jump was probably 30 yards out, second one was about 10 (and gave me just enough of a visual to have a second adrenaline rush), the third jump was maybe ten feet from me, and the last jump was me out of the water with a fish ? as I went to lip her, the wet rocks I stepped onto decided that friction was just too much, and I got about thigh high into the water. My leg is very sore today.

As I pulled her out I saw that the lipless was deep in the mouth, which always sets off my alarm bells for bleeding/gills. I did nick one, but I didn't get a bunch of barbs in her somehow - only one that was just ahead of the gills. I did my best to make the process quick, I had my hands on her for less than a minute and she got to breathe while I turned on the scale. She swam off a little slowly but never had issues staying upright, I think she'll be OK. Probably the fattest 7lb I've caught yet, I don't hardly cheer or holler when I get a nice fish, but a Bank PB is worthy. Still working on that 7-10 boat PB, but I feel like I'm inching closer to that.