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[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.

[Swamp Girl]

It's the longest smallmouth I've seen posted at BR. 

 

Stay safe, Tim. 

[Jamesg0418]

19 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

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.  

We only have green ones and brown ones lol.  This one came out of lillinona a few weeks ago.

 

19 hours ago, PhishLI said:

My buddy was just up at Candlewood.

does your buddy have a black kind?  He looks familiar, we are in candlewood a lot.

 

I think for New England winter has shifted a month late.  Last year was warm also, and looking back at snow records it’s mostly late January and February now.  April has been pretty darn cold the last few years also.

 

we ride the Pittsburg ridge runners trails up in New Hampshire, they have been opening later and later every year.  

 

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

It's the longest smallmouth I've seen posted at BR. 

 

Stay safe, Tim. 

Candlewood is a small mouth factory now that the grass is gone.  And theirs some big ones in there.  I got a 5.1 earlier this year in about 50’ of water.

 

 

We are taking the boat down to Florida for the next couple of weeks to fish the kissimee chain and headwaters,  hopefully we can find some monsters.  I’ve never fished outside of CT before so we are amped.

[Swamp Girl]

@Jamesg0418, that's another long smallmouth. I'd like to take a Candlewood bass (long) and breed it with a Menderchuck bass (fat). Presto, in ten years or so, a new world record!

[Jamesg0418]

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

@Jamesg0418, that's another long smallmouth. I'd like to take a Candlewood bass (long) and breed it with a Menderchuck bass (fat). Presto, in ten years or so, a new world record!

Sounds good to me…. It’s unfortunate, the state added a ton of grass carp to candlewood which has impacted fishing severely.  There’s almost no grass in the place now.  I heard someone pulled a 9 lb LM out of it this year, which is a monster for CT.