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[Pat Brown]

 

This was harder than catching a DD 😂😂😂😂🎣🎣🎣🎣🎃🎃🎃🎃

[GreenPig]

2 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

 

This was harder than catching a DD 😂😂😂😂🎣🎣🎣🎣🎃🎃🎃🎃

I bet. Nice.

[TnRiver46]

@Woody B, my car needs fixed get back to work………

[MIbassyaker]

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

 

This was harder than catching a DD 😂😂😂😂🎣🎣🎣🎣🎃🎃🎃🎃

[PhishLI]

With my brother headed to Texas in 2 weeks for some big bass hunting, yesterday might've been our last Jon boat trip of the season. Who knows what the weather will be in a month or two weeks afterward. I can easily imagine it knocking us out of our bi-monthly trip both times as it has several times most recently. With that, we just had to hit it even though a full-full moon would be beaming down over dead flat water. It was, and it went badly for quite a few hours. Not a sniff.

 

45 acres might not sound like much, but when you're forced to row through endless-battery killing-topped out pondweed time goes by quickly. We simply couldn't find very small baitfish grouped up in any of the shallow areas we worked through. Not until the end anyway, and not until we paddled all the way up north into an ultra-shallow flat only 1-2 feet deep. By that point we both could've used a chiropractor, but we buckled down and started working. By some miracle wind blew in from the north, puffy clouds softened the moon's glow, and the bite finally turned on a bit. Had a few just slurp and shake off, then I got a good one to commit on a small wake.

 

The wind turned off as quickly as it turned on, and so did the bite. I really wanted to my brother to hookup, but his back was seized by that point. He was happy enough with our boat beating the skunk, so we called it a win and bounced.

 

[Woody B]

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

@Woody B, my car needs fixed get back to work………

 

If I didn't have to work I could come there and fix your car......then we could go fishing. 

[The Baron]

I fished with my son on Saturday.  Sadly, I missed a couple beautiful days during the week and Saturday was post cold front and windy.  We fished everywhere from the bank to 20ft. of water, even finding some fairly green weeds on a few spots.  I caught two largemouth about 1.5-2# and a couple small pike, my son only a few small pike.  That’s probably it for our season, unless the weather next Saturday is fantastic I’ll be winterizing the boat.😢

[Swamp Girl]

@PhishLI: Gorgeous bass and made even more beautiful by the tough, tough fishing conditions. Please let us know how your brother does in Texas. 

 

@The Baron: My great love of Ontario has me sad that you're done for the year. Oh, Canada. Sigh.

[N Florida Mike]

Fished a favorite pond on the work route and got a few on the watermelon red speed worm and speed craw…the cypresses are turning a little…

[TnRiver46]

@N Florida Mikeis back!!!

[Bluebasser86]

I like big bass and I cannot lie.

 

Huge cold front hit and our temps dropped down into the high 30's with 10-15mph north winds and off and on rain Saturday, beautiful fishing weather if you ask me. I was hoping they'd eat the big balsa crank, and my first bite didn't disappoint.

19" and a touch over 5lbs. I wouldn't see another that big all day, but I did catch a bunch more with some quality players in the mix.

This guy had found a great place to hide from the bow hunters.

 

[Swamp Girl]

I LOVE those Kansas bass. 

[Aaron_H]

18 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Fished a favorite pond on the work route and got a few on the watermelon red speed worm and speed craw…the cypresses are turning a little…

 

Good to see you're still at it, Mike!

[ak6388]

Fished a local lake on my lunch break the other day. It’s drained down quite a bit for renovations to the walking path around which is appreciated but has made a bit difficult this year.
 

Regardless caught two nice fish between 1.5 to 1.75lbs. First on a chatterbait and second on a buzzbait. Pretty confident if I had my kayak I could have had more out in the middle of the lake where the isolated pad clusters are still there. Both bites came from running right over the grass next to isolated pads on the ones closer to the bank. 
 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@ak6388: Hey, new guy! Nice to see your fish and where you fish. Please keep posting. Go, Bucks!

[Bluebasser86]

11 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I LOVE those Kansas bass. 

The big one was a beautiful specimen. I'd love to run into her again when she's 24". I've caught one that was 24" from this lake, but unfortunately, it wasn't built anything like they usually are. 24.5" long and only 14" around.

[Swamp Girl]

@Bluebasser86

 

That green beshemoth you caught is famous. Here she is wearing her superheroine clothes:

 

 

I can't imagine boating a 24" bass. I caught two in 2023 over 22" and might have hooked a few that were bigger, but getting those biggest gals out of the weeds and into my canoe...again, I can't imagine doing that. I watched your video and saw her taking you for a ride. I've gone for rides too. Better than any roller coaster.

[BassSteve]

Hey,

 

Wanted to chime in and say hi as I have not been on for a while. Decided to cast out after a few months of not fishing and managed to snag a pretty decent peacock bass. 

 

Hope everyone is doing ok in these turbulent times

[Bazoo]

I got this guy yesterday. 2.7 pounds. weightless Texas rigged Zoom Lizard 
 

[TnRiver46]

 

well I had from about 3:30-5:45 free time, my buddy said he was down to fish a short spell

 

Got nothing but redbreast sunfish nibbling worm tails off so I caught a few on ultra light to teach them a lesson. Then my buddy sets the hook and the line starts ripping, line that came on the reel he bought on Facebook marketplace 😂 . Here’s how it sounded

 

Turns out that was a 23” smallmouth !! On a Texas rig finesse worm 
 

 

After some pics and measurements, it was returned to the deep

Had about ten minutes left and my buddy gave me one of his worms and I put it on a jighead, got an 18.5”

 

and the sunfish were cool 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

12 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

 

well I had from about 3:30-5:45 free time, my buddy said he was down to fish a short spell

 

Got nothing but redbreast sunfish nibbling worm tails off so I caught a few on ultra light to teach them a lesson. Then my buddy sets the hook and the line starts ripping, line that came on the reel he bought on Facebook marketplace 😂 . Here’s how it sounded

 

Turns out that was a 23” smallmouth !! On a Texas rig finesse worm 
 

 

After some pics and measurements, it was returned to the deep

Had about ten minutes left and my buddy gave me one of his worms and I put it on a jighead, got an 18.5”

 

and the sunfish were cool 

Awesome fish brother!  

 

Wonder what that 23" fish weighed, relative weight chart says between 5 and 6lbs.   Imagine it was your friend's SM PB.    That's a daygum stud fish.   Old fish too.  

 

ETA:  The more I look at that big girl, the more it looks like a Meanmouth, is this just me?    It's pretty like a Meanmouth 😁

[Swamp Girl]

Tw-tw-tw-23 inches??? Man, oh, man, oh, man!!! And an 18.5-incher to follow? Nice bellies on both bass.

 

When does your boat launch again? 

 

I love the handle, @Bazoo. It always makes me smile. 

 

Nice to have you back, @BassSteve. 

[TnRiver46]

@AlabamaSpothunter, tried the ole spring scale but it was shot, def his biggest SMB. Kind of looked meanmouthish to me but we did let it chill in the livewell for 6-8 minutes while getting the measuring tape and phone ready and wetting the floor of the boat . It got much more tiger striped after that 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

That's a magnificent fish, wish I could fish N AL. and S. TN during the Falls......sucks for the most part in terms of LGMs down here or anywhere else, but those big brown fish seem to really chew up there in the Fall.   That's when I got my PB SM below Wheeler Dam.

 

I'd be right back there tomorrow 😎

[gim]

23 inches?! Sheesh. That’s one of the longer smallmouth I’ve ever seen posted here.

 

@TnRiver46 how can you post an 18.5 after a 23. That’s slightly embarrassing lol