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[Pat Brown]

Sweaters and frog bass to start out a day in August in NC!?!?!  Well how about I'll take some more of them please!?!?

 

That white pad perch is going on the mantle and I'm ordering 3 after this summer SHEESH!

 

[Team9nine]

Tried to dodge the rain cells today with just partial success - lol. It meant waiting a couple out under a tree or in the truck, and waiting a couple out at home - so several repeat trips. Caught 16 bass on a mix of Ned and finesse jigs, but never got to really focus on good areas for any length of time due to the weather, which is a shame, because the bass were biting pretty decent.

 

 

 

[BigAngus752]

22 hours ago, thediscochef said:

Thank you oprah Winfrey, thank you Tom cruise

Please don't let the invisible fire burn @thediscochef! 

 

Awesome fish.  I would have jumped in the drink for that one too.

[scaleface]

22 hours ago, thediscochef said:

Thank you oprah Winfrey, thank you Tom cruise

Over my head.?

[The Bassman]

2 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Tried to dodge the rain cells today with just partial success - lol. It meant waiting a couple out under a tree or in the truck, and waiting a couple out at home - so several repeat trips. Caught 16 bass on a mix of Ned and finesse jigs, but never got to really focus on good areas for any length of time due to the weather, which is a shame, because the bass were biting pretty decent.

 

 

 

 

 

Over two inches of rain in a little over an hour here. Gonna hit some drains in the morning. Should be fun.

[TnRiver46]

42 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Over my head.?

It’s from the movie “talladega nights”

[Dominat0r]

Streak is still going.....Heat warning today, but it started to rain a bit so I went out in it (it stopped for an hour or so ) and got my fish. My first spot was a bust, nothing....2 bites, but no takers. I moved over to another spot and got this guy. Should be 4lbs when fat, but was just under 3lbs. 

 

Got him off a swim jig with a paddle tail swimbait trailer. Believe its a strike king 3/8 swim jig. The trailer is a Keitech, blue sparkle, forgot the name of the color. 

 

PS- Added Gopro footage. 

 

 

 

[keagbassr]

Been a bit of a  struggle since I got back from Vaca to find and also land fish,but finally got a decent one today on a frog that weighed 4lbs.even

[Swamp Girl]

@keagbassr: You are a big fish machine!

[Mbirdsley]

first post in a while.  first time on the titabawassee river this summer.  it’s finally starting to fish like it did before the dam failures in 2020.  

 

finally caught some fish with a OG6.  only took me a year and a half and it was a decent smallie.  it was the silver and black back og6.  caught 2 sheep head also on the OG6.  rest of the fish came on a black and blue spine craw t-rigged with 1/2 oz sinker.  did catch the cat fish on a sexy shad rogue jerk bait. 

 

it’s been such a weird summer up here.  today was the first day in about a month it got above 82 degrees.  i’ve not had a great summer fishing wise.  i think i hit it to hard in the spring and was burned out by mid june. had to soul searching and reevaluating on why i’m i loved fishing in the first place. I think i’m good to go now. 

 

Generally speaking it seems that the hotter the weather the better the river systems are up here for small mouth 

[gim]

I have an old college friend who just moved back to MN from Colorado and he wants to start getting into fishing. He is a good friend of mine and we have kept in touch, so I took him bass fishing tonight for a couple hours. He caught 6 largemouth including one pretty solid fish. When we were done he pulled out his phone calendar and said “when can we go again.”

[MN Fisher]

^ Good for you, man...one of these days we gotta get the Metro crowd together.

[IcatchDinks]

@Mbirdsley that looks like a pretty awesome day on the river. I've never fished the Titabawasee, which is ridiculous because I only live about half an hour away from it. I'm gonna have get out that way sometime. 

[MIbassyaker]

2 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

first post in a while.  first time on the titabawassee river this summer.  it’s finally starting to fish like it did before the dam failures in 2020.  

 

finally caught some fish with a OG6.  only took me a year and a half and it was a decent smallie.  it was the silver and black back og6.  caught 2 sheep head also on the OG6.  rest of the fish came on a black and blue spine craw t-rigged with 1/2 oz sinker.  did catch the cat fish on a sexy shad rogue jerk bait. 

 

it’s been such a weird summer up here.  today was the first day in about a month it got above 82 degrees.  i’ve not had a great summer fishing wise.  i think i hit it to hard in the spring and was burned out by mid june. had to soul searching and reevaluating on why i’m i loved fishing in the first place. I think i’m good to go now. 

 

Generally speaking it seems that the hotter the weather the better the river systems are up here for small mouth 

 

I count 6 species -- nice day!

[MIbassyaker]

 

3 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

Generally speaking it seems that the hotter the weather the better the river systems are up here for small mouth

 

100% -- Seasonally, smallies are firing up in the rivers just as largemouth in the lakes are slowing down.  The rivers here can be spectacular on a hot day, and a lot of them have stretches that are really underfished.

[Dominat0r]

Streak Day 65! Went out around 1am to see if they were biting. Looks like they are, this is the second biggest bass out of this lake so far. 4lbs 13oz.....just 3oz shy of the largest I have got. Fought it for 2mins as it dove into the grass after he hit it. I really thought for a second it was a snakehead, but didn't feel the slither when it took off. Really happy it wasn't. Got it off a Blazin worm in Junebug color. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

5 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

first post in a while.  first time on the titabawassee river this summer.  it’s finally starting to fish like it did before the dam failures in 2020.  

 

finally caught some fish with a OG6.  only took me a year and a half and it was a decent smallie.  it was the silver and black back og6.  caught 2 sheep head also on the OG6.  rest of the fish came on a black and blue spine craw t-rigged with 1/2 oz sinker.  did catch the cat fish on a sexy shad rogue jerk bait. 

 

it’s been such a weird summer up here.  today was the first day in about a month it got above 82 degrees.  i’ve not had a great summer fishing wise.  i think i hit it to hard in the spring and was burned out by mid june. had to soul searching and reevaluating on why i’m i loved fishing in the first place. I think i’m good to go now. 

 

Generally speaking it seems that the hotter the weather the better the river systems are up here for small mouth 

 

Nice mixed bag.

 

5 hours ago, gimruis said:

“when can we go again.”

 

You hooked him. Well played.

 

Beauty, @Dominat0r.

[Pat Brown]

I'm a man that loves to see results. I have been greatly rewarded for committing to the buzz bait this week with this beautiful, five and a half pound chunk that I caught on a 1/8 oz white lunker lures with a double tail zoom split tail trailer which feels about as old school and cool as it gets when it comes to bass fishing clout. She was a heck of a bite and a heck of a fight and look at the bucket on that beautiful fish. I wish I could tell you guys how thick she was from side to side.

 

 

guess I'm gonna have to just keep on buzzin'

 

??????

[TnRiver46]

@Pat Brown it was only a matter of time!

[A-Jay]

56 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

 

 

 

Nice Bass and Great Picture !

Congrats on both accounts

A-Jay

 

[IcatchDinks]

When I grow up, I wanna be like @Pat Brown

 

Nice catch, man! 

 

@Dominat0r I think following your streak is the most invested I've been in a sporting event since 2012 when the Tigers made it to the World Series! Keep it up! 

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, IcatchDinks said:

When I grow up, I wanna be like @Pat Brown

 

Take a number!

[Swamp Girl]

This morning was strange. I rose at 3:00 a.m. and launched too early. I caught a couple bass in the dark. Then, when it was light enough to see the weeds, they largely weren't there because we had three inches of rain two days ago. Yep, the bog had risen over the weeds. I caught 20 bass before 7:30 and then two bass in the next 1.5 hours. It was a good morning for birds, with owls, eagles, and herons. The pics start with the bog and end with the main lure I used, which had a feathered tail at the start of the morning. Hey, I also caught a couple bass on a frog! I also used a T-rigged six-inch Senko and a T-rigged Rage Tail and had hits on both, but caught nothing because I set the hook so soon so that I don't gut hook them. Here are the pics:

 

 

[herder]

Well after not being able to get out for a little while, a friend invited me and my son to a private lake up in North Jersey.
 Not sure about the rest of the country but here many of the lakes are private communities.
Anyway, we launched our kayaks at 9:00am, and it took a couple of hrs to find some willing participants.
 I forgot my depthfinder so I was a little lost for a while as I’m always checking for drop offs etc, this lake though has a max depth of around 14 ft, water visibility was around 2 ft.
Finally was able to find em on the shady sides of docks and pontoon boats.
Wound up with 6 Largemouths, 6 Smallmouths and one Sunfish.
All throwing a wacky worm and 3” Keitech Swing Impact on a 1/8 jighead.
Sizes went from 6” to 18”

 

 

[Fishlegs]

I think it's so interesting how diverse bass fishing can be. This thought comes from @Dominat0r's picture of a 4 lber standing on a sidewalk next to what looks like professionally manicured grass, versus @ol'crickety's pictures from a bog that she drags her canoe through what looks like untouched wilderness to get to. Very cool that bass can be caught in both places.