Latest Catch Pics Thread

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Merry Christmas to all the filthy stinking animals, glad to see everyone's catches who was lucky enough to get a visit by Saint Bass.  

 

@Creek Pirate   Great job brother!    

 

@TnRiver46   Awesome fish on such a tiny setup, I guess you know how I felt yesterday lol.   Glad the day didn't end on the lost fish!   

 

If we adopt TNRiver46 as an Alabamian there's a trend here.   Had a huge warm rain last night, fished for about 4.5hrs this afternoon in drizzle.    Caught 20-25......15+ came in about 20 mins all in a 10ft x 10ft area, all b/t 1-3lbs.....winter fishing is just wild, then caught a pair on the new KGB 7" TSG in Threadfin.    

 

Oddly enough there was another angler and his wife out there, he asked me....."you throwing live bait?"   Even KGB fools humans 😂

As cool of a color line as I've ever seen.

[TnRiver46]

@AlabamaSpothunter, I actually thought about just that haha. I’m striving to catch one single bluegill and Alex is sorting through 30  bass looking for one as big as a coffee table 😂 

 

that mud line looks like where the rio ***** flows into the Amazon 

[Swamp Girl]

You can see a similar, but much larger mud line where the Missouri meets the Mississippi and it lasts for several miles, where the muddy water of the Missouri flows along the clear Mississippi for a couple miles before they meld. Here it is with the Missouri on the left:

 

[Swamp Girl]

9 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Oddly enough there was another angler and his wife out there, he asked me....."you throwing live bait?" 

 

With the kind of fishing you enjoy in the winter, there should be lots of other anglers out there. 20-25 one-to-three-pound bass would sure get me out of bed!

[Bluebasser86]

Last trip of the year was a little slower than the last, but still pretty good. Biggest fish was on an A-rig. 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Fantastic season @Bluebasser86!!

 

I have Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday to fish Badin. Few more trips to ol muddy as well. Weather is lining up that there might just be a good spinnerbait bite 

[gim]

A nearly identical line of water clarity exists when the St Croix meets the Mississippi River along the MN-WI border too.  The St Croix is significantly clearer, cleaner water.

[Swamp Girl]

You're right. I'd forgotten that. I've paddled the Namekagon to the St. Croix down to the Mississippi. The St. Croix gets rush hour busy near the Twin Cities. 

[gim]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

The St. Croix gets rush hour busy near the Twin Cities. 

Extremely busy in the summer time south of about Hudson, WI.  Further north it is too shallow and rocky for larger boats.

[Swamp Girl]

Yeah, it's whitewater up north and wakewater down south. 

[TnRiver46]

Most years dec 26 is one of my favorite days of the year to fish, Christmas is finally in the rear view. Started fishing around 11am and couldn’t make anything happen on the offshore magic. Hit some docks for crappie and still nothing. Riding a 4 hour skunk I fished some vertical rock cliffs. I still wasn’t having any luck and the water started rolling pretty swiftly. I’m right next to dry land sitting in 30 feet of water and it’s 80 feet deep right behind me so I think it was a significant amount of water moving thru . I finally hooked one on a tube on 8 lb seaguar basix, decent SMB. 


 

couldn’t get any more bites there so I skipped over to a spot about 40 feet deep with swift current. I caught two in a row over there and one of them was fat, then I kept getting stuck and breaking off in the rain, took it back to the ramp. I think it was a classic TVA day when the current increased so did the bite 
 

Happy Boxing Day 🥊 

[gim]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Christmas is finally in the rear view

Depends on how you look at it. Only 364 more days until Christmas 2024.

 

BTW I’m glad it’s over too. I turn into a Scrooge for almost 2 months. Lights, shopping, trees, ornaments, and Christmas songs drive me crazy.

[Swamp Girl]

Great day, GP!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

That's a beautiful winter fish and heck of day @GreenPig nice job!  

 

 

@TnRiver46Third guy is a Meanmouth ha?   Second guy could have fed a starving army of Pygmies 🤣

 

I wonder if Meanmouth could survive in slightly warmer waters....what the full menu of genetic differences exist b/t them and both Alabama and SM Bass.   

[TnRiver46]

I thought they were all pure SMB when I caught em 🤷‍♀️ 

[N Florida Mike]

I went all afternoon again. The weather was my favorite: cloudy with just a nice ripple of wind, temps around 70. 
The bite was about the same as the other day except more  of the fish I caught hit baits as they were moving today. Got the most fish on the watermelon seed uv speed worm, but also got a few on lucky strike worms, baby brush hogs, and yum dingers. The first fish pictured was caught right before dark against a dock. The fish grabbed it and went on up under the dock, wrapped around a piling but I kept it tight and eventually got it to the boat. 
All in all, a good , relaxing day - ended up with 12. I may go again tomorrow…

[Pat Brown]

A couple little guys on lipless cranks.  I think red is the deal for those right now.  

 

Got a nice one on the underspin with a little keitech in bass candy on the back.

 

Saw tons of big fish glued to the bank today.  It's looking like we might get a false spring and round of early spawners this week!

 

[Team9nine]

Lake was trashed as expected (see pic in ‘Photo A Day’ thread). Pretty much an inch or two vis about everywhere. Did find 6”-8” in a couple areas, mostly way back in the ends of pockets far from any deep water wintering areas. Dam had a small area of similar clarity water, but very limited. Will probably move to another rez next trip that I think will have held up better. Did get 1 bass and 2 crappie, but it will be a bit before things start to settle and the bite picks back up, I’m afraid.

 

[RipzLipz]

@Pat Brown That small cut on the left index finger looks familiar - fishing line by chance?

[Pat Brown]

No.  I was holding something stupidly and using a sharp tool at work and sliced into my finger.  Thankfully it was mostly a surface tear.  

 

Fishing line this time of year makes the tip of my thumb cracked and bloody from thumbing the spool on casts in the cold!  

[RipzLipz]

4 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

No.  I was holding something stupidly and using a sharp tool at work and sliced into my finger.  Thankfully it was mostly a surface tear.  

 

Fishing line this time of year makes the tip of my thumb cracked and bloody from thumbing the spool on casts in the cold!  

I will get cuts almost exactly like that trying to snap line wrapped around my hand. Got used to doing it when I used lighter mono on spinning reels & do it out of habit with fluoro & often ends in stinging regret. 🤣🤣🤣

[LrgmouthShad]

@Pat Brown another report from NC. Two small ones on a jig and a lipless today on Badin. Jig was into a laydown and the lipless was off a ledge. I expected to catch more on the lipless, but I will try Pat’s red. 
 

Here, I am not seeing bass shallow and could not get bit shallow. Bass are still holding off the bank, but pushed up a little in some places. Water is clear towards main lake but transitions quickly to murky and even muddy in creeks. Lots of shad movement in shallow water towards the evening, however.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Lake is blown out from the huge Xmas rains to a degree, but the bite is still really hot.  Now that it's truly winter fishing, the fish seem to eat whatever you want to catch them on.    For me unlike most anglers, I want stained water for the A-Rig, that's when it works best for me.  This was the first day they were really chewing on the A-Rig, had two double ups but both came off.    Caught about 25 fish, big fish was close to 5.     

 

Like last winter, watching schools of 1-5lb fish toss seemingly hundreds of Threadfins in the air for 10mins on some days to all day long on others is one of the greatest spectacles I've ever seen in the wild.   I'm overwhelmed with excitement, and anything that can do that to me as an adult is worth its weight in gold.  

 

 

[RipzLipz]

@AlabamaSpothunter Just tanks, dude. You & @Pat Brown need one of those "On ‘Em" hats. @LrgmouthShad, get one as well.

[Swamp Girl]

Alex, you are dialed into those bass. I've got a good feeling that you'll be swinging an eight to ten-pound monster into your boat soon.