Latest Catch Pics Thread

[TnRiver46]

Hahah thanks @AlabamaSpothunter, I just assumed it was a carp in the tail so I could remain somewhat calm 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Had a great day, caught 55 fish which is the most I can remember catching in a single day since I was a kid fishing a golf course pond for sub 12" Bass.   Big fish was a 5.4.   Caught some 4s, and 3s, but well over half the fish were sub 3lb fish.    Best 5 would have likely been around 20lbs.   

 

This Drift Fry is really something else, today I both mopped and mid strolled it.   Also vertical jigged quite a few fish on the Vaults.     I'd say 30/55 fish came off it.    The durability of this bait is incredible.    The thing I never really mention is the fact that 2D sonar so many days is the most important piece of "tackle" in the boat, today included.   It's such a novelty catching fish from sonar alone, I can only imagine FFS makes the novel experience 100x better.     

 

As I type it's dumping rain, and will be for the next many hours, it's also gusting 40-50mph, and then the rest of the week is equally unstable.  The fish and pattern will scatter like the few remaining leaves of our trees.    The puzzle will completely reset, and that's why we love these green fish.    You go from mainlining the secret truth of the Bass universe to wondering if all the fish in your lake died within a span of a month.   

 

 

 

 

[Pat Brown]

Boy they sure do eat good in that lake brother!  Shewwwww!  🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

[Bluebasser86]

Made the first trip of the year to the power plant lake Saturday. Every report I've been hearing from there has been terrible. No fish and no size at all. I wasn't hoping for much, but actually had a really good numbers day, just wasn't able to find the big one I was hoping for. Still caught around 30, mostly on a Zman Big TRD on a 1/16oz head. They're not missing any meals. 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I'm going to start my 2024 fishing with the Drift Fry. Alex is having so much success with it that I'm thinking of going out this afternoon. It will lie on snow atop the ice, but I'm thinking a twitch and pause retrieve might work. Even fishing it on ice might be better than fishing it in Alex's 50 mph winds.

 

As always, I love your fat fish, Officer 86. 

[fishingtx]

First tournament of 2024 ended pretty good. Weighed 5 fish for a total of 12.30lbs on Sam Rayburn this past Saturday putting us in 8th place and giving us a small check. If we would have fished the BFL event we would've placed 30th.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@Bluebasser86 love seeing those fatties!  Looked a little too cold for me though 😁

 

@benburkefishing   great job, and great finish!   Here's to an even better 2024!

 

[Bluebasser86]

54 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@Bluebasser86 love seeing those fatties!  Looked a little too cold for me though 😁

 

@benburkefishing   great job, and great finish!   Here's to an even better 2024!

 

It was pretty nice, 34-38 during my time on the water. Comparatively, it's barely supposed to make it to double digits this weekend 😒 

[Swamp Girl]

I love seeing young men catch bass and there are millions like me. Keep it going, @benburkefishing!

[thediscochef]

I am so sick of this wind I could scream. Tried to go out today and backlashed on my second cast. I might not ever complete a 12-month challenge, January is impossible 

[Pat Brown]

Yeah the rain and wind really messed things up here too @thediscochef 

 

Let's hope when things stabilize the fish are hungry!  😎😎😎🎣🎣🎣

[PhishLI]

1 hour ago, thediscochef said:

I am so sick of this wind I could scream.

Amen, and just as it'll be letting up, we'll go back into the freezer next week. Teens at night.

 

[TnRiver46]

@thediscochef, just keep fishing man. I had no business fishing Sunday but it ended up in a 24 lb striped bass 

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

Amen, and just as it'll be letting up, we'll go back into the freezer next week. Teens at night.

 

I've got a low of 9 in my forecast Monday lmao I'll be working anyway tho

[Jamesg0418]

The water is still soft in Connecticut…

[Blue Raider Bob]

1 hour ago, Jamesg0418 said:

The water is still soft in Connecticut…

Big fat bass! Share what you are catching them on if you would. Looks like some bridge pilings were in the story somewhere.

[Jamesg0418]

2 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Big fat bass! Share what you are catching them on if you would. Looks like some bridge pilings were in the story somewhere.

Yeah it’s a place called Wethersfield cove, awesome place for numbers but not normally size.  From the cove you can take folly brook out to the CT river.  The mouth of the cove/brook is killer during the tide change, and generally that’s when the bigger fish come out.  These were caught on 7” Ramsey Core shot Curl tail worms.  These photos are not from recently, but you can see the bridge and the brook from the previous photos in the background.  Pretty sure Wethersfield cove used to be a pirate hangout at some point in history.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

You folks in the New England area that catch green fish amaze me!

 

It's cultural down here, but up there you really have to march to your own beat to target them.  

[PhishLI]

5 hours ago, Jamesg0418 said:

The water is still soft in Connecticut…

My buddy was just up at Candlewood.

[gim]

7 hours ago, thediscochef said:

I've got a low of 9 in my forecast Monday lmao I'll be working anyway tho

The high here on Monday is 2 below. That’s the HIGH. Lol

 

And yet some lakes are still open water here as of today. They will be frozen solid in a week. The fake winter was fun while it lasted.

[T-Billy]

5 hours ago, gimruis said:

The fake winter was fun while it lasted.

Amen to that brother. First time I've ever been able to fish clear into January. 

 We got a bunch of warm rain two days ago, but the extended forecast is looking like typical January. If it holds the lakes will have a lid on them by late next week.

[gim]

5 hours ago, T-Billy said:

First time I've ever been able to fish clear into January. 

 

I don't know how long you've lived there but have you ever seen it like this right into the middle of January?  I sure haven't.  And I'm quite a ways north of you.

[TnRiver46]

11 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Gosh, that's a looooooooooong bass, @PhishLI. And his arms aren't extended, so I can see how loooooooooong it is. Wow. Did he get a length?

Long as a rake handle. Looks like . 

[T-Billy]

31 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

I don't know how long you've lived there but have you ever seen it like this right into the middle of January?  I sure haven't.  And I'm quite a ways north of you.

All my life. This is the mildest start to winter that I can recall. We've had some others that weren't much colder though. It's been this way all year. With last year's spring being long, and unseasonably cold, everything's been about three weeks late this year. The spawn, weed growth, the fall cool down... That carried right over into winter. 

Ol Man Winter is on the way though. Snow all weekend, then temps falling into single digit lows, with highs in the teens and twenty's next week. Looking like an "interesting" work week for us truck drivers.

[PhishLI]

56 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

  11 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Gosh, that's a looooooooooong bass, @PhishLI. And his arms aren't extended, so I can see how loooooooooong it is. Wow. Did he get a length?

He didn't mention length. He didn't weigh it either after a long fight in deep water. But yes, that sucka is long.