Latest Catch Pics Thread

[The Bassman]

First things first: kudos to @Creek Pirate. How does one follow an act like that? Congrats! 

Now on to less exciting things. Got on a great bite this afternoon. Caught about a dozen on Flashy Swimmer/Swimmin Trout Trick and Mini Max bladed jig. Definitely a transitional feel to the seasons. Neds are bread and butter but moving baits are more fun.

[ATA]

18 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

First things first: kudos to @Creek Pirate. How does one follow an act like that? Congrats! 

Now on to less exciting things. Got on a great bite this afternoon. Caught about a dozen on Flashy Swimmer/Swimmin Trout Trick and Mini Max bladed jig. Definitely a transitional feel to the seasons. Neds are bread and butter but moving baits are more fun.

Thats one of my secrets with fat 3.3" or 3.8" keitech when I want to catch uncatchable bass. Great catch 

[GreenPig]

Best three of today.

[The Baron]

Wow @Creek Pirate that's an epic result on those jerkbaits!

 

We've had an easy winter so I expect even the protected bays of Lake Ontario will be open very early this year.  Fingers are crossed I might be launching our little See Bass in April and chasing fat pre-spawn smallies to start my season.  If that happens, I figure jerk baits, slow rolled Keitchs and slow dragged finesse football jigs or small tubes might be my go to's.🤞

[Swamp Girl]

Green Pig of Georgia is catching them steadily through the winter. Now Creek Pirate had smallies go bonkers with a jerkbait in Alabama and Alex had his great streak too. I'm thinking a little Georgia/Alabama rivalry might be fun. 

[PhishLI]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Green Pig of Georgia is catching them steadily through the winter. Now Creek Pirate had smallies go bonkers with a jerkbait in Alabama and Alex had his great streak too. I'm thinking a little Georgia/Alabama rivalry might be fun. 

The next best thing to catching them myself is seeing the BR gang get some. Thought I might get out tomorrow morning with my brother, but the weather gods say NO!

[Woody B]

I went late today.   I had a little work to finish on my boat last night and I had some kind of bug.  Instead of working on my boat I went to bed.  I got up this morning, finished what I needed to do and went fishing.   I caught 5 cookie cutter Spots.  I didn't measure any of them.  They all were close to the one pictured.  Then I caught a 15 pound Blue Catfish.   The wind and waves were rocking my boat so the scale wouldn't lock in , it was bouncing between 15 and 16 pounds so I'm calling it 15.   It was 32 1/2 inches long.   After I released it I realized I didn't take a picture.   I was considering calling it a day, but decided to fish some more.  A couple casts later I caught a 11 pound Blue Cat.   Same thing, scale wouldn't lock due to boat rocking.  It was bouncing between 11 and 12.  This one was 30 inches long.  Picture in other species thread.   It was nice to get the skunk out of the boat from last week even though none my Bass were big.  I'll go earlier tomorrow and hopefully get some fishing in before the wind starts,   

 

[TnRiver46]

Today was one of those days I wish I checked the forecast… granted they likely would have missed. It was cold and WINDY, winter is relentless this year. I went to a tributary where I knew the water wouldn’t be raging to try out some new T rig hooks, didn’t realize the wind would be raging. I laboriously paddled to a mud flat and finally got my anchor to grab. Then sitting still in a hurricane was pretty cold so I got my jacket on and rigged a fluke on a jighead and casted into open water, proceeded to catch 6 consecutive drum………

 

Also got some yellow bass, a white bass, more drum, then a channel catfish. The jighead/minnow was on fire. All the other boats appeared frustrated with the wind and left so I was able to try a stretch of docks and caught a LM with a T rig worm, courtesy of @KP Duty (thanks buddy). My canoe was slamming into dock posts and Mach 3 even with an anchor on the bottom so I just headed on back to the truck (downwind thank god ). Ended the day catching 20-30 fish, mostly drum 😂, but quite a surprising result considering the conditions. Saw a billion shad flipping and had no net, plan to go back tomorrow with net and bigger boat. 

 

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                                                   

[FishTax]

I went out for half a day. Forgot my rain coat and wasn’t prepared for the wind but I pushed through despite being cold and wet. Got a big skunk for my efforts. I think I’ll try a different lake next time, maybe that’ll be the spark I need. All those new lures couldn’t get it done, the bait monkey is an idiot. 🙈

[Pat Brown]

My birthday is next weekend and I'm pretty sure the bait monkey is coming over to take his toll.  Those Zaldaingerous 7" swimbaits look fun and unnecessary.  I had a tough time yesterday too @FishTax  those winds shifting to out of the north makes the bait monkey happy 😂😂😂

[Creek Pirate]

20 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Green Pig of Georgia is catching them steadily through the winter. Now Creek Pirate had smallies go bonkers with a jerkbait in Alabama and Alex had his great streak too. I'm thinking a little Georgia/Alabama rivalry might be fun. 

Green Pig has got me beat.I didn't believe bass lived deeper than 10 ft.Last week he caught one in 44 ft.

That's ocean fishing in my book lol.

I tip my hat to anglers who can fish deep.Honestly I would rather take a treble hook to the eye as fish that deep.🤣

[Creek Pirate]

My oldest daughters boyfriend has wanted to catch a smallmouth.He never has.Hes rarely off work but yesterday he was available.I informed him the second day after a cold front was tough especially when a hillbilly sore mouthed them the day before.Long story short.Limited experience in a kayak.No experience paddling upstream.No experience bass fishing.But the kid has grit and yesterday grit was enough to get him his first smallmouth on 3 inch keitech.

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

50 minutes ago, Creek Pirate said:

Green Pig has got me beat.I didn't believe bass lived deeper than 10 ft.Last week he caught one in 44 ft.

That's ocean fishing in my book lol.

I tip my hat to anglers who can fish deep.Honestly I would rather take a treble hook to the eye as fish that deep.🤣

 

So true.

 

I was alluding to football actually, but it was, I think, I a swing and a miss, which means I'm now alluding to baseball. Oh, bother. I've confused myself now. 

 

P. S. - Way to guide the boyfriend to his first bass and his first kayaking experience. Good jump getting that PFD on him too. Some young men believe they're immortal. I've tussled with a few who wanted to step into my canoe without a life jacket.

[Creek Pirate]

2 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

So true.

 

I was alluding to football actually, but it was, I think, I a swing and a miss, which means I'm now alluding to baseball. Oh, bother. I've confused myself now. 

Saban's gone so green pig wins there too.🤣

[The Baron]

22 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Green Pig of Georgia is catching them steadily through the winter. Now Creek Pirate had smallies go bonkers with a jerkbait in Alabama and Alex had his great streak too. I'm thinking a little Georgia/Alabama rivalry might be fun. 

I’d suggest a little Maine/Ontario competition too, but I’ve seen too many of your posts to be that foolish! 😝

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Creek Pirate said:

Green Pig has got me beat.I didn't believe bass lived deeper than 10 ft.Last week he caught one in 44 ft.

That's ocean fishing in my book lol.

I tip my hat to anglers who can fish deep.Honestly I would rather take a treble hook to the eye as fish that deep.🤣

Well when you can cast underhand to the bank and the boat is sitting in 125’, you really don’t have much choice. We’ve got tons of places like that 

[Swamp Girl]

5 minutes ago, The Baron said:

I’d suggest a little Maine/Ontario competition too, but I’ve seen too many of your posts to be that foolish! 😝

 

Ha!

 

The best fishing of my life was down logging roads on Crown Land in northwestern Ontario. If you took Robert Frost's advice and chose the road less traveled, you'd outfish me, but beware: those less traveled roads are bumpy and muddy. 

[The Baron]

6 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

…beware: those less traveled roads are bumpy and muddy. 

 
I have a truck.  And a canoe. 🤔😁

[Swamp Girl]

9 minutes ago, The Baron said:

 
I have a truck.  And a canoe. 🤔😁

 

That's all you need.

 

 

[OmegaDPW]

Threw a couple different Texas Rigged worms, a weightless stickbait and a tiny 3 inch worm with no luck this morning. Finally decided to take out my favorite lure- a Beetle Spin. Hadn't fished it since October because I didn't think I'd get many bites with a moderate retrieve in the cold water. It was the ticket. Caught 4 bass and a surprise catfish. That's why I love the Beetles (and it's driving me nuts that some of my pics still show up sideways even though they're right when I load them into my computer to re-size).

 

 

By the way, is this a brown bullhead? I'm not too swift when it comes to catfish species...

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[riverratryan]

6 hours ago, Creek Pirate said:

My oldest daughters boyfriend has wanted to catch a smallmouth.He never has.Hes rarely off work but yesterday he was available.I informed him the second day after a cold front was tough especially when a hillbilly sore mouthed them the day before.Long story short.Limited experience in a kayak.No experience paddling upstream.No experience bass fishing.But the kid has grit and yesterday grit was enough to get him his first smallmouth on 3 inch keitech.

 

 

Awesome!! Glad you could help em get his first smallie!! 

[T-Billy]

3 hours ago, OmegaDPW said:

By the way, is this a brown bullhead? I'm not too swift when it comes to catfish species...

It is. Nice one too.

[Dwight Hottle]

Congrats to @Creek Pirate for such a successful day. I'm glad those LC's did the job.

[Woody B]

I didn't skunk today.  I caught a 17 inch spot within 10 minutes of launching the boat.  I thought that was a good sign.  I fished 3 more hours without another bite.   I won't be able to make it out again until March.  I caught a few decent sized Bass during February but numbers should have been better.   In March I'm looking for a BUNCH of decent sized Bass.