Latest Catch Pics Thread

[galyonj]

Fishing memes x latest catch pics CROSSOVER EVENT

 

Had yesterday off, so I went fishing. It was a good day, because I caught a fish.

 

 

Didn't plan on being bullied on my day off, but I saw this on my timeline after I got home.

 

[you]

Went to Ocala National forest on Sunday. This was right after our first decent cold front of the season. Think it scattered the fish a bit, but the weather was beautiful. The fish were beautiful, too. Caught a few dinks like this one:

 

[thediscochef]

Watched the bass boat across the creek channel boat two really nice ones in deeper water, always hurts but I've worn that shoe on the other foot before and I will again sometime probably soon. 

Again nothing to write home about today but I'm gaining some confidence with the crawler. Two on that today including one I had to do a little work for. There's a bass up in that milfoil. Fishing has improved but that water is still pretty warm. Need more rain and cool weather.

[TnRiver46]

Well, I guess there’s a first for everything. I’m not 100% sure but I think my buddy pulled a tagged fish into my boat with a fly rod. There wasn’t anything on the tag to read, looked like weedeater string. So we just let the fish go. 
 

we caught several smallies and redbreast sunfish, floated some shoals in the shallow boat 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Well, I guess there’s a first for everything. I’m not 100% sure but I think my buddy pulled a tagged fish into my boat with a fly rod. There wasn’t anything on the tag to read, looked like weedeater string. So we just let the fish go. 
 

we caught several smallies and redbreast sunfish, floated some shoals in the shallow boat 

 

 

 

 

I think your buddy's bass has a transmitter in it. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

39 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Well, I guess there’s a first for everything. I’m not 100% sure but I think my buddy pulled a tagged fish into my boat with a fly rod. There wasn’t anything on the tag to read, looked like weedeater string. So we just let the fish go. 
 

we caught several smallies and redbreast sunfish, floated some shoals in the shallow boat 

 

 

 

I love how firstly you have so many friends, and you share the love so much by always taking them, but secondly how every single one of your friends looks like they were in ZZ Top or Lynyrd Skynyrd 🤣

 

I've caught three fish over the last year with tags exactly like that.....no number to call, nothing, just yellow algae covered tags.

 

When I was a kid, I ask for a tagging kit for Xmas, and IIrc it was the same thing as these.   I think people just do it for fun hoping to catch a fish they tagged.   I wish people wouldn't tag fish that weren't being studied though.

[gim]

46 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

but I think my buddy pulled a tagged fish into my boat with a fly rod

Tell your friend he needs a haircut. It will increase his catch rate by 33%. And he will go through a lot less shampoo.

[MIbassyaker]

I'm starting to think @gimruis was repeatedly locked in a room as a child and forced to watch the musical Hair...

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I think when @gimruis was a kid, there was a barber clown who lived in the sewers, terrorized him and his buddies, and threatened to return if he was ever needed again. So, Gimruis works overtime to make sure the clown is never needed again.

[MIbassyaker]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

I think when @gimruis was a kid, there was a barber clown who lived in the sewers, terrorized him and his buddies, and threatened to return if he was ever needed again. So, Gimruis works overtime to make sure the clown is never needed again.

 

"He who battles monsters, should take care that he does not himself become a monster. And when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

--Friedrich Nietzsche

[gim]

Didn't really think I'd be able to top the tremendous outing I had on Monday for largemouth.  But I think I did today chasing brown bass.  A friend and I caught 12 smallmouth, 3 pike, and a walleye today.  Four of the smallmouth were quite sizable too, 20+ inches, with a bunch of others in the 17-19 inch range.  And just by a stroke of pure luck, the walleye happened to be in the 20-23 inch keeper slot.  At one point, I caught a smallmouth, walleye, and pike on 3 consecutive casts.  A perch colored jerk bait was the most effective presentation.  I've been smallmouth fishing 3 times this season and it was easily my best season targeting them in years.

[Team9nine]

Back out on the water after sitting out the weekend along with a couple very windblown days to start the week. Today was heavy cloud cover and dead calm. Water level is dropping, down about a foot, and surface temps have dropped 8-9 degrees since I last visited, now down to 70 degrees.
 

Started on crappie, and actually found a few willing biters. Picked up about 15 from a variety of brushpiles, all on jig. A few had some really good color to them, almost a ‘sexy shad’ like look - lol.
 

Decided to check out the roadbed spot and found the schoolers had returned. Managed 17 bass, most on Ned, but a couple on deep cranks. Only boat on the water today, and starting to see some decent fall colors. Can’t complain…

 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Broke in the 110 Stick this afternoon with a Vision 110 in GG Threadfin, it's a keeper after landing one of the harder fighting LGMs I've caught in some time.   She was only 6.6 but she was magnificent in fight and overall health.  

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

5 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Broke in the 110 Stick this afternoon with a Vision 110 in GG Threadfin, it's a keeper after landing one of the harder fighting LGMs I've caught in some time.   She was only 6.6 but she was magnificent in fight and overall health.  

 

 

 

ONLY 6.6? Ha! She was strong. What a fighter. What a jump too. 

 

Hooray for @gimruis too! A second day of multiple big bass in one week. Whoa!

 

And @Team9nine keeps on scoring.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

11 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

ONLY 6.6? Ha! She was strong. What a fighter. What a jump too. 

 

Hooray for @gimruis too! A second day of multiple big bass in one week. Whoa!

 

And @Team9nine keeps on scoring.

Haha, she pulled so hard, and that first Tarpon jump made me think she was bigger....but the appreciation is still the same for that encounter with her.   

 

The odd thing is that every fish over 7lbs I've caught this year fought way less than this fish, and I've found that the best fighting size LGM are easily the 5-6lb class fish.   I'm sure teeners pull crazy, but I do know that 5-6lb LGMs pull harder than 7-10lb ones.     I still remember a 6.10 in the Spring that went bananas and I could really lay into her with a big worm hook and a 7ft MH/16lb Shooter.   

 

 

[TnRiver46]

@AlabamaSpothunter posting fish pics, life is back to normal !!! stud LM 

 

my friend’s uncle works for berkley and had given me a Choppo, somehow I lost it until now. Threw it today and missed a small fish twice in a row. Then a nice one smashed it in shallow shoals, he jumped a few times and fought like crazy, 17.5 “ 

 

we also caught several redbreast sunfish 

 

[gim]

39 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Hooray for @gimruis too! A second day of multiple big bass in one week. Whoa!

It's been quite a week.  The end of the season is near and its finishing on a high note.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

31 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

@AlabamaSpothunter posting fish pics, life is back to normal !!! stud LM 

 

my friend’s uncle works for berkley and had given me a Choppo, somehow I lost it until now. Threw it today and missed a small fish twice in a row. Then a nice one smashed it in shallow shoals, he jumped a few times and fought like crazy, 17.5 “ 

 

we also caught several redbreast sunfish 

 

Thanks brother!   Beautiful fish as always, and I know you made the Whopper Plopper Queen happy 🤣

[Pat Brown]

Whenever I catch fish on a Jerkbait I feel like I have to play them to avoid losing them and I think it's my favorite 'fight' in bass fishing to begin with.  I shudder to think what a real mad 10+ would do to me with 8 lb line and light wire trebles on a long cast.

[Swamp Girl]

Alex, I hope you're right about 5-6-pound largemouth fighting harder than bigger ones. I've worried that I couldn't land an 8-pounder based upon the strength of the five and six-pounders I've caught.

 

Yes, @TnRiver46 made me happy for finally catching a bass the proper way. 

[Bluebasser86]

Thought my tournament season was over for the year but I got invited to fish in the championship for the little weeknight circuit I fished with a few times this year. It was on the same lake that I'd just fished the weekend before for my main tournament circuits championship. Unfortunately, a huge cold front moved through and changed the bite pretty drastically but I boated enough fish to take 3rd. I had the bites to win, but my lost and missed fish issues continued from last week. Don't think I'm doing anything wrong, just a run of bad luck.

 

[Swamp Girl]

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I had the bites to win, but my lost and missed fish issues continued from last week. Don't think I'm doing anything wrong, just a run of bad luck.

 

Even a hardened windshield like you has to take a turn or two as the bug. 

 

Sometimes I'll land a string of bass and think that I'm the best.

 

Then I'll lose a string of bass and think that I'm the worst.

[gim]

11 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Whenever I catch fish on a Jerkbait I feel like I have to play them to avoid losing them and I think it's my favorite 'fight' in bass fishing to begin with.  I shudder to think what a real mad 10+ would do to me with 8 lb line and light wire trebles on a long cast.

I lose fish on a jerk bait too.  In fact, I lost at least 2 good ones yesterday and another on a crank bait. My friend also lost one on a crank bait.  Sometimes they get multiple trebles in their mouth or head and they aren't coming off, but it does seem like a fair amount barely get hooked by the back treble too.  Those barely hooked ones got off yesterday.

 

Bear in mind I'm not talking about a 10 pound largie here.  I'm referring to 5 pound smallmouth which is what were getting into yesterday.  Seems like a largemouth would get hooked better with a bigger mouth, especially a really big one.

[Swamp Girl]

I'm assuming @gimruis's hot streak is going to continue, so I'm pre-posting his next fishing trip report:

 

I went musky fishing with a buddy this afternoon and we landed nine, but four were over 40 inches and the biggest was 44". We also caught another five-pound smallie and a four-pound LMB. 

 

#Minnesotapalooza

[gim]

23 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I think when @gimruis was a kid, there was a barber clown who lived in the sewers, terrorized him and his buddies, and threatened to return if he was ever needed again.