Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Pat Brown]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

So pat is post spawn February-December ? 😂 I’m still stuck in the twilight zone 

 

It's post pre post spawn today for some poor fish out somewhere.  🥹🫡

[TnRiver46]

I’m going to fish for them on a drop off from 25 foot down to 40 so I don’t know what they are doing down there in the darkness. Might even be some of those fish with flashlights sticking off their heads down there 

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’m going to fish for them on a drop off from 25 foot down to 40 so I don’t know what they are doing down there in the darkness. Might even be some of those fish with flashlights sticking off their heads down there 

 

If there were bass down there in the darkness with laser beams attached to their foreheaads, expect this guy to want to go fishing with you:

 

 

[Pat Brown]

 

Got a tank on the Jimmy Houston spinnerbait.  Rain prevented us from doing the boat but single Colorado in cold muddy water getting it done.

 

Jake also got a nice one on the old red eye shad 😎😎😎🫡🫡🫡🎣🎣🎣

 

[Swamp Girl]

Way to fish, Jake and Pat!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

On 1/25/2024 at 5:33 PM, Pat Brown said:

 

Just trying to do you proud!  We all know who the master is dude!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

I wish brother, but in all honesty your results are VASTLY more significant than mine.  I've pondered at times "what if Pat fished this lake".    I have little doubt you'd show me what actually lives in the lake, the fish I've tried to catch so unsuccessfully.  

 

You've gotten a 9.1, 11.5, and 9.3 in NC on pressured public small bodies of water within the last year or so, I really can't stress enough how incredibly impressive that is!   

 

@Woody B  Let's GOOOOO!   Congrats on the tank of a Spot!

On 1/25/2024 at 8:15 PM, Jamesg0418 said:

Last day of our trip from CT, we headed to Kenansville lake.  Fishing was slow but we got a couple decent ones.  It’s probably the steepest ramp I’ve ever seen, however the road in wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone made it out to be.  We got this one on a 12” finesse worm.

 

That's more than a decent one, congrats!   

[Swamp Girl]

@AlabamaSpothunter: Six days:

 

Jan. 3rd:: 23.5lb bag anchored by a 6.2 fish.  

 

Jan. 4th: Fished about 6 hrs., caught 21.    Best 5 went about 20.5lbs with a big fish of 5.9 and 4.13 got weighed, 4+ on the 110, and a nice 3lb Spot were the highlights.  

 

Jan. 5th: A true 50 fish day, right on the nail, it's like the Bass Gods gave me the 50 and then said now go home.  27lb+ bag.....7.6 and 6.4 weighed fish, with 3 easily in the 4-5lb range. 

 

Jan. 6th: Caught 32 + 2 big Crappie.......22lb+ bag, big fish was a 6.8, and a 5.15 got weighed as well.   Another close to 5, along with numerous 3+ fish rounded out today's bag. 

 

Jan. 7th: Caught 36 fish, with the best 5 going 22.5lbs.   A 5.5 was big fish (red Vault), 4.8 (mid strolled Drift Fry), and a 4.7 (Bucca Burrito) were weighed, and then another pair of 4lb+ fish rounded out the bag.  

Jan. 8th: 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. 

 

Alex's six days = Ol' Crick's entire 2023, more or less

 

I caught more four-pounders over many months than Alex did in six days, but I didn't catch a 7.6.

[TnRiver46]

Got a couple!!! Zoom lil’ critter craw on 6 lb tatsu
 

 

[Woody B]

Alex is a hammer, but keeps the humility that most hammers have.  Same for some others around here.

 

I managed 1 tiny spot today.....kinda.   It came loose with I boat flipped it,  I just pushed it off the deck back into the lake.   It wasn't hooked.  the hook was still embedded in the shaky head.  I brought it up from 20 feet deep,  but it had to just be hanging on.  Lake was really muddy, and the wind was terrible.   I saw some Bass(?) on sonar hugging to cover...dock posts, lay downs brush piles.  I simply couldn't make accurate casts in the 20 mph winds.   I also saw some kind of fish suspended.   I couldn't get a reaction from them except for 1.   It was strong and quick but came loose quickly.  I suspect it was a Gar.   Most of the time with I hook a (longnose) Gar they jump, throw the hook back at me and laugh.   This one was suspended 15 feet deep.  It didn't make it to the surface before it came loose.   It might have been a decent size Spot but I got a good hookset on it.  I've never been able to keep a Gar stuck.   Spots and Gar look similar in schools on sonar.....at least to me.   

 

A bad day fishing is still a good day.   I got out of the wind, came home early, picked up my Dad and took him to Supper.   

 

 

[RipzLipz]

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

A bad day fishing is still a good day.

Amen brother. 👍

[Blue Raider Bob]

On 1/27/2024 at 12:49 PM, FishTax said:

I found the bait this morning. Confirmed with this photo. No bass though. Still spending a lot of time playing with electronics and learning how to position kayak in the wind, and my confidence launch spot wasn't accessible so I've been in a newer area trying to figure it out this winter. 

Is this a threadfin? I think it is but would love someone more experienced to confirm. 

It Counts!

[Pat Brown]

I honestly love when I hook something they're eating.  It's like a day where the universe smiles and gives me a big clue.  AND it's a skunk beater for sure.

[Swamp Girl]

19 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

I honestly love when I hook something they're eating.  It's like a day where the universe smiles and gives me a big clue.  AND it's a skunk beater for sure.

 

Trout fishers are forever trying to match the hatch. You do too, Pat, and I think more bass fishers should be hatch aware and I'm one of them who should tender more time to figuring what they eating from moment to moment. I do buy a lot of alewife and golden shiner patterns because that's what Maine bass eat. 

[Pat Brown]

This summer my frog got stuck up in a tree and knocked a bunch a little red bugs down and then a giant bass suddenly reveals itself snarfing those red dudes right where they fell.

 

I freed my frog and made some casts and the bass sharked hard on it but didn't commit.  After a few casts they cooled off and I got bored but I remembered that moment and when I saw those red bugs falling on the lake later that week...well I tied on a big worm with red flake and caught my first DD.

 

I'm always watching what they're eating as close as I can.

 

It's not necessarily about matching the hatch exactly as knowing a few presentations that can get them to react when they're keyed on something.  Learning what they're keyed on helps me dial it in (dropping red stuff under tree lines/fluttering little white things flying through the water column/little black things crawling slow around rocks and stumps/shiners meandering around lily pads eating moss and little krill/bluegill popping on bugs)

[Swamp Girl]

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This summer my frog got stuck up in a tree and knocked a bunch a little red bugs down and then a giant bass suddenly reveals itself snarfing those red dudes right where they fell.

 

I freed my frog and made some casts and the bass sharked hard on it but didn't commit.  After a few casts they cooled off and I got bored but I remembered that moment and when I saw those red bugs falling on the lake later that week...well I tied on a big worm with red flake and caught my first DD.

 

^Great story!^

 

One June day in 2023, smallmouth were launching themselves like Trident missiles from submarines at hovering dragonflies. If only I had a drone with me that day. I could have put hooks on it, tied my line to it, and had my own, great story to tell!

[NorcalBassin]

Been fortunate to get in weekly trips between winter storms. All about the Ned rig again but I'll gladly take it.

 

Pops with his first of the day, also on a Ned.

 

And his last one of the day.

 

Nothing big to speak of, but the way these guys fight anything decent is a good time.

 

[Pat Brown]

Couple little guys at the pond yesterday morning for y'all before I head out to the pond this morning.  Got chilly last night.  Wonder how it may affect the bite this morning.

 

 

Red eye shad continues to get it done and I got my first little guy on the Bill Lewis Hammer Trap.

 

Get a load of how pale these LMB are!!!

 

I lost a really big one that ate my trap and swam towards me.  I didn't feel the bite - I watched it - I saw her wake out of nowhere on it and then I stopped feeling my bait vibrating.  I felt her on for maybe two seconds before she lunged towards me while surfacing enough for me to see her mouth as she spit the lipless.

 

Giant.  Oh well.

 

I also had a duck dive-bomb my lipless in the early morning twilight, hook itself, land in the pond and free itself in the water thankfully. 🥴🥴🥴

 

At the in flow I hooked either a carp, a gar or a catfish that was probably 30+ lbs.  It was peeling drag on my trap rig which is heavy duty 7'6 high speed Daiwa reel and spooled with 15 lb big game.  I don't set my drag very light.  It was just swimming where it wanted I couldn't move it.  It pulled me into what felt like a beaver dam under water after waking all over the place like a underwater bull rodeo.  Literally looked like an overslot drum out there 😂😂😂😂

 

Thankfully....it came free and I got my trap back.  Would have been interesting to see that fish.

 

It hit the trap like a freight train so it definitely wasn't foul hooked.  I'm thinking big big catfish.

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

I lost a really big one that ate my trap and swam towards me.  I didn't feel the bite - I watched it - I saw her wake out of nowhere on it and then I stopped feeling my bait vibrating.  I felt her on for maybe two seconds before she lunged towards me while surfacing enough for me to see her mouth as she spit the lipless.

 

Giant.  Oh well.

 

It happens to the best of anglers...because the best anglers simply hook more big bass. 

 

With that huge whatever you also hooked, you had an exciting session, Pat.

[Blue Raider Bob]

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

 

 

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

It happens to the best of anglers...because the best anglers simply hook more big bass.

Well said!

I get to read about the best anglers daily thanks to BR!

[The Bassman]

Finally got some open water today after being locked in for two and a half weeks. Got out for a little while after work and caught four, all counters. The beat up ned just keeps on catching. It's overdue for a remount.

[Swamp Girl]

Nice ones, Bassman. I love that the same Ned keeps catching and catching.

 

[Team9nine]

Gambled on a new lake I’ve never been to hoping to find fishable water after all this rain (2nd wettest January on record). BINGO - Got my first bite within half an hour, so I ran with the clue and was able to put a pattern together, good for 4 keepers. Biggest went 5-08. Only got 3 hrs on the water this afternoon, but I’ll be back soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gim]

Still looks like Kemps chocolate milk to me @Team9nine.

[Team9nine]

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

Still looks like Kemps chocolate milk to me @Team9nine.

 

Good stain, but the pic is right in the sun, so the red clay was getting reflected, I think. I'll get a secchi reading next trip out. Betting at least 12" of vis or more.

[RipzLipz]

@Team9nine Nicely done. I’d be throwing that bug until they’re sick of it. 👍

 

@The Bassman If we ever go, I’m hiding that spinning rod. Well done, bud. 👍