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[NJBasstard]

Fished a new area further up the canal than I've ever fished before. Got 9 bass between 15"-17" and 2 snakehead with the biggest at 26". All caught on a jig.

[Blue Raider Bob]

15 hours ago, NJBasstard said:

Fished a new area further up the canal than I've ever fished before. Got 9 bass between 15"-17" and 2 snakehead with the biggest at 26". All caught on a jig.

Are the Snakeheads edible? Looks like some really good fillets could be obtained.

[Bluebasser86]

Cooler weather has let me get out before work again. Got some Zman Tiny Goatz the other day and have been having a good time fishing them on the UL. Catching a little bit of everything including a pretty warmouth and a monster bass.

 

[NJBasstard]

5 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Are the Snakeheads edible? Looks like some really good fillets could be obtained.

 

I personally haven't eaten from here but I'm told they're edible. The one pictured went home with my buddy who took the pic. 

[Pat Brown]

 

Really fun quick pre morning session.  Trying out 'finesse' fishing with 8 lb big game/weightless fluke he and did alright with a 2.5 and a 5 lber.  Missed a couple and then needed to retie but it was too dark for that light line and my clumsy fingers and I couldn't get a bite on my alternatives.

 

Definitely gonna be putting more time in with the old soft jerk technique.

[Swamp Girl]

Are you guys fishing less because of the transition? Shorter days? Hunting? There are not as many pics and stories are being posted and I miss them.

 

I'm going fishing for two hours this evening and five hours tomorrow morning, fishing the little stream that leads to the bog this evening and then tomorrow morning, the pond I fished last Monday morning. So, in two sessions, I'll be fishing a stream, bog, and pond and I'm excited about that.

 

My Zoom Trick worms arrived and I'll be fishing them for the first time in my life. I've rigged some black ones and I just hope it's not too late in the year for them to work well. I'll also be casting my 6th Sense squarebills that Alex (@AlabamaSpothunter) suggested way back when and zooming them. I'll also be working a bone-colored River2Sea popper with extra split rings and upgraded hooks, tricks I learned at BR. Anyone else here decide what they'll be using before they reach the water? It saves me time on the water to have all my outfits rigged and ready. 

 

A MH spinning rod to replace the last of my whippy rods also arrived, so now all my rods are wonderfully stout and I've been loving my two new reels too, which replaced one with missing gear teeth and another with a handle that stuck on every rotation. The handles of the new ones turn like the gears are buttered!  

[LrgmouthShad]

@ol'crickety nice, good luck

 

Just not much happening here. I poked around on some ledges last night looking around and caught a couple dinks out really deep but didn’t care to share. One was in 30ft though so that was cool. Think that’s my deepest bass ever

[galyonj]

13 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Are you guys fishing less because of the transition? Shorter days? Hunting? There are not as many pics and stories are being posted and I miss them.

 

I'm fishing less because all I do right now is work.

 

Also black goes with everything. They'll work.

[Swamp Girl]

@Pat Brown: Nice ones! Pat, I love how you're always working new lures and being successful with them. I work new lures, but don't have much success. One of the BR guys opined that one doesn't need to use all the lures in their tacklebox, only three well, i.e. a surface lure, a shallow-running lure, and adeep-diving bait. I'd rather master a couple dozen lures, but so far, I've failed. Seeing you score on different lures keeps me trying though! 

[Pat Brown]

Katie I'm fairly certain if I only brought the same 3 lures every day of the year, I'd catch fish...but not these ones at this pond today ?

 

Ironically, when I hit a big lake, I'm more prone to approach it with three baits I have a lot of confidence in.

 

These pressured ponds are more like a chess match that unfolds day to day year to year between me and these big spooky bass.

 

It always surprises me what new technique I try that they go bananas for a second over and then never bite again!  ???

[Basstermind]

On 9/19/2023 at 9:59 PM, NJBasstard said:

Fished a new area further up the canal than I've ever fished before. Got 9 bass between 15"-17" and 2 snakehead with the biggest at 26". All caught on a jig.

 

Killer haul my man.  With that said, I (somehow) have never heard of a "snakehead" and figured it was another name for a bowfin.  I looked it up and while they have a very similar body structure, they aren't that closely related and the snakeheads appear to be an invasive species.  So do you keep the snakeheads to reduce their population, or what is the policy where you are?

[king fisher]

I'm not bass fishing because of a four letter word starting with w and ending with k.

     I am getting the boat I captain ready for a two week trip in late October early Nov. to Magdalena Bay on the Baja Peninsula. This will could be the fishing trip of a lifetime, if all goes as planned, or a total disaster, if I am not prepared.  I am in the middle of a complete electronics upgrade, 5,000 hour engine service, and fixing all the other systems, that decide to break during the hot summers in PV.

      After the Mag Bay trip, I hope to have some time and money to chase bass.  I haven't caught a bass since early June, and have been looking at all the big bass pictures posted here, makes me want to quit work and move to Maine.  

[Basstermind]

Bagged this yesterday in shallow water with a pumpkin worm with a chartreuse tail.  It popped off just as I got'em on shore, so it saved me the trouble of removing the hook and its a heck of lot better than it getting loose a foot from shore (which happened to me 3 different times last week ?)

 

Also, I got the small one which had a yellowish tinge to its fins, which I have not seen before.  Anyone recall what the cause might be?   Maybe specific to their preferred diet?

 

 

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, Basstermind said:

Bagged this yesterday in shallow water with a pumpkin worm with a chartreuse tail.  It popped off just as I got'em on shore, so it saved me the trouble of removing the hook and its a heck of lot better than it getting loose a foot from shore (which happened to me 3 different times last week ?)

 

Also, I got the small one which had a yellowish tinge to its fins, which I have not seen before.  Anyone recall what the cause might be?   Maybe specific to their preferred diet?

 

 

from what I remember fin coloration is usually attributed to diet, typically high in crawfish or other non-shad forage. Can also be influenced by the local water chemistry

[Swamp Girl]

@Basstermind: Gorgeous bass! 

 

This is all I know about yellow-finned bass: Whatever you do, don't call one "yellow," for if you do, they'll reply, "Who you callin' yella?" and then it's on. 

[thediscochef]

A couple of little 2-2.5s on the good old T rig this morning. Our days have been sunny and 90-95 and overnight lows still in the 70s so the water temps have come down but we aren't fully into a fall pattern yet - scattered business. Basically just have to follow the bait and hope for the best.

I got an opportunity to put the Sufix Tritanium Plus line to the test around some concrete pillars...it did not disappoint. Not a scratch on the stuff. So far I'm having a hard time understanding why it's not the premier line in LMB fishing. 

2 hours ago, king fisher said:

I'm not bass fishing because of a four letter word starting with w and ending with k.

I desperately need this hollywood strike to end so I can get back to work, this stoppage is killing my wallet

[Swamp Girl]

Excellent fishing tonight. I caught 26 bass in two hours and I didn't use a Whopper Plopper. Most were on a bone-colored popper, but I also scored on a paddletail and Zoom trick worms, my first Trick bass ever. I paddled up my beloved stream, then paddled back to where it widens to a river, and ended in a bog. I caught 12 in the stream, 12 in the river, and only two in the bog, but that's because I was out of light. The big girl came out of the bog. I lead with two ordinary fish, then two pics of the stream and river, and then two nice fish from the stream, one nice fish from the river, and then the bog bass. It was so gratifying to land 26 of the 27 bass I hooked. I added extra split rings to my popper and changed the hooks this afternoon and I think that helped, plus five of my six rods are now MH and that helps too. The only bass I measured is the first one after the two river pics and she was 17", but I think a couple of the others are bigger. The last bass, the bog fish, was a powerhouse. I'm fishing again in the morning. It will be in the forties when I launch, but I don't care because I'm returning to a pond with four-pounders. Here's hoping I can catch a five or six-pounder too!:

 

 

[TnRiver46]

@ol'crickety, awesome evening trip!! 
 

We got several medium 15” class fish tonight 

[Blue Raider Bob]

14 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Excellent fishing tonight. I caught 26 bass in two hours and I didn't use a Whopper Plopper. Most were on a bone-colored popper, but I also scored on a paddletail and Zoom trick worms, my first Trick bass ever. I paddled up my beloved stream, then paddled back to where it widens to a river, and ended in a bog. I caught 12 in the stream, 12 in the river, and only two in the bog, but that's because I was out of light. The big girl came out of the bog. I lead with two ordinary fish, then two pics of the stream and river, and then two nice fish from the stream, one nice fish from the river, and then the bog bass. It was so gratifying to land 26 of the 27 bass I hooked. I added extra split rings to my popper and changed the hooks this afternoon and I think that helped, plus five of my six rods are now MH and that helps too. The only bass I measured is the first one after the two river pics and she was 17", but I think a couple of the others are bigger. The last bass, the bog fish, was a powerhouse. I'm fishing again in the morning. It will be in the forties when I launch, but I don't care because I'm returning to a pond with four-pounders. Here's hoping I can catch a five or six-pounder too!:

 

 

WOW!!!!

[galyonj]

Since we didn't wrap at the office until almost 11 last night, I stole a couple hours for myself this morning.

 

[Swamp Girl]

I was too excited to sleep through the night, so I was up at 12:30 a.m. and went fishing on two hours of sleep. Still, I fished well, catching 36 and I've posted a typical bass followed by the four biggest, although the first of the biggest is kinda skinny.

 

It was dark when I launched, but I photographed the way to the pond coming out. First, the road. Then the meadow. Then the woods. Then the pond. Looks a bit boggy, but it's not as you'll see in the last pond photo. Then the bass!

 

P. S. - A chubby, small Whopper Plopper was my best lure, followed by a Zoom Trick worm. I really like the Zoom Trick worm and last night was my first time using one. I'm thinking I'm the only one at BR who knows about Trick worms, so here's your heads-up. J/K!

 

P. P. S. - It was 47 degrees this morning and I was wearing shorts. Brrr!

 

 

[TnRiver46]

Nice one @galyonj! 
 

pretty pics @ol'crickety

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice one @galyonj! 
 

pretty pics @ol'crickety

 

You take us along on your fishing trips with your pretty pics, so I figured I owed ya. 

[galyonj]

@TnRiver46 I gave it a mighty yeet to get it back into the water. Also I think it was illegal, cause I caught it right next to the boat ramp on Topside, near a sign that explicitly says I'm not allowed to be doing that.

 

[Swamp Girl]

9 minutes ago, galyonj said:

@TnRiver46 I gave it a mighty yeet to get it back into the water. Also I think it was illegal, cause I caught it right next to the boat ramp on Topside, near a sign that explicitly says I'm not allowed to be doing that.

 

 

I had to google "yeet." Cool word. Nevertheless, I must report you to Johnny Law, aka the Man from Minnesota.