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[CastingClinic]

Fat perch and a dinky bass.

 

Slow fishing yesterday.  Got in trouble with the wife trying to chase the skunk away before finally snagging these two.

 

Tied a handful of baits but a spinnerbait came in again to save the day.

[Pat Brown]

Pre Work Froggin' Success!

 

 

Pad Perch - gone.

 

She hit right off a dock as the sun came up.  Had little bass blowing up on my braid a lot this morning!  Very weird and a new thing for me this year.

 

Missed on that got the frog for a split second but I think it was small.

 

Looking forward to hitting it after work for hopefully some more topwater action!

 

Tight lines to all today.

[Jmurphy87]

Well I stopped by maple lake after another 13 hour shift this morning. I caught 2 dinks and an upgraded dink all on a weightless fluke. I followed @Woody B advice and left after catching the upgraded dink and not making one more cast. I fished for 30 minutes or so. The smaller ones came along the bank and the larger one was hiding underneath the tree in the shade. Hard to believe that we got crazy storms yesterday.

[Swamp Girl]

Nice bass, Murph (@Jmurphy87). 13 hours...whoa.

 

Pat (@Pat Brown) just keeps catching and catching and catching.

 

 

Love that perch, @CastingClinic!

 

Of course, @Bazoo wins the day for taking a kid fishing.

[Huckfinn38]

Yesterday Fall Lake Raleigh Nc

 

[MIbassyaker]

Only three on "Lake 26" this morning; the best was this 16-incher:

Zoom super fluke again. 

[bp_fowler]

Quick trip out to the Crappie Hole today.  
We had some T-storms roll through last night so there were bluebird skies, 80 degrees and 8 mph west winds.  
 

Only caught two.  One dink with a paddle tail on a swim bait head. 

 

The other fish I caught with a square bill.  I weighted it at 2.14 pounds making it my biggest fish that I’ve caught cranking. So far I’m pretty hit or miss with the technique but catching this fish definitely motivates me to keep trying.

[Swamp Girl]

@Huckfinn38: Huck, your lure rotation is impressive.

 

@MIbassyaker: You remind me to use flukes again. I haven't yet this  year.

 

@bp_fowler: Way to go, buddy!

[Bazoo]

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Nice bass, Murph (@Jmurphy87). 13 hours...whoa.

 

Pat (@Pat Brown) just keeps catching and catching and catching.

 

 

Love that perch, @CastingClinic!

 

Of course, @Bazoo wins the day for taking a kid fishing.

Thanks.  My boy does love to go. He usually goes 2-3 times a week.

[N Florida Mike]

First cast again on a yum dinger…

[MIbassyaker]

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@MIbassyaker: You remind me to use flukes again. I haven't yet this  year.

 

looks like the fluke is working for @Jmurphy87 too.

[Swamp Girl]

Mike, that looks like a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnngggggg fish. Did you get any numbers on her, weight or length?

[N Florida Mike]

19 inch is all…

[Swamp Girl]

8 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

19 inch is all…

 

I love those 19-inchers. 

[Jmurphy87]

8 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Nice bass, Murph (@Jmurphy87). 13 hours...whoa.

 

Pat (@Pat Brown) just keeps catching and catching and catching.

 

 

Love that perch, @CastingClinic!

 

Of course, @Bazoo wins the day for taking a kid fishing.

Yep 14 hours today and the rest of the week lol. It’s good for the paycheck, well sort of I am salary so it’s straight time. But at least I got something extra instead of nothing. I definitely recommend that you try a fluke, I started throwing them last year and I have confidence in them already. There was a couple of guys in a boat throwing spinner baits past me and people fishing on other banks. I never saw them catch anything and that always baffles me, I want everyone to catch fish and have fun it’s just my nature.

[BrianMDTX]

Ok, not great but not bad. Went out this morning and caught six. All were 1 to 1-1/2 lbs. 

 

Did have something occur I’ve always wondered about and it finally happened. I was working a weightless Senko TR and was casting under the low limbs of a hemlock that juts out over the water. One cast was a bit high and the line went over a limb and the Senko dropped down into the water. As I started to reel it in slowly to see it I could ease it over the limb without snagging, a bass took the bait. So it was fish on! and the line was over a limb. To make matters worse, the branch was covered in someone’s old line. What a mess! I had to cut the old line to get my line loose, but in the end, I freed my line, removed the old line…and boated the bass! Thank God it wasn’t a 5 lb’er or I would have lost it for sure. 
 

It’s the bass in the second pic. 
 

[GreenPig]

Fish last night from 8p - 3a and caught two. Bigger one pictured. There's an amazing amout of cicadas on the water.

[TnRiver46]

20 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

Only three on "Lake 26" this morning; the best was this 16-incher:

Zoom super fluke again. 

Fluketastic 

[T-Billy]

2024 night ops are officially underway. No bigs, but decent numbers of these guys running the inside weed edges. Got started at 02:30 this morning.

@A-Jay, I thought of you this morning at 03:47. Didn't connect, but I got a bite that startled me so bad I got goosebumps. Given the lake and location, I'd wager either a small muskie or a big eye. 

 I don't know the reason, but my hook/land percentage isn't good on those super hard bites. My theory is that they have it so tight in their mouth, that it's hard to move the bait in their yap enough to bury the hook good. Dunno, it always leaves me wondering how the heck those fish didn't get hooked.

 Anyway, the night bite should only get better from here. In a couple weeks we'll have lots of topped out hydrilla beds up shallow, and the girls will be getting over their post spawn funk and come shallow looking to fatten up on spawning gills.

[IcatchDinks]

Got an hour of fishing in on Tuesday. It was overcast with a sporadic drizzling rain. Caught a nice bluegill and small largie.

 

[keagbassr]

Got out this morning around 7-11:30. Boated 13 bass,1 on a spinnerbait, 2 on a frog and 10 on a buzzbait with one decent one that went  3-8 on the buzzbait. 

[Dwight Hottle]

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

2024 night ops are officially underway. No bigs, but decent numbers of these guys running the inside weed edges. Got started at 02:30 this morning.

 I don't know the reason, but my hook/land percentage isn't good on those super hard bites. My theory is that they have it so tight in their mouth, that it's hard to move the bait in their yap enough to bury the hook good. Dunno, it always leaves me wondering how the heck those fish didn't get hooked.

 Anyway, the night bite should only get better from here. In a couple weeks we'll have lots of topped out hydrilla beds up shallow, and the girls will be getting over their post spawn funk and come shallow looking to fatten up on spawning gills.

@T-Billy That's been my experience especially with wood baits since they get a couple of teeth into the wood & you can't move it for a hook set. That's why I prefer hard plastic or metal so you can move it enough to get a hook set.  

[bp_fowler]

Went back to the Crappie Hole today.  After thinking about it last night I realized that every fish I’ve caught over 2 pounds I’ve caught there with one exception.  
 

Overcast skies, 64 degrees and winds 3mph from the NE.  Overnight showers had the water up about 18-24”.  The overhanging bushes where I caught 2 pounder yesterday were now flooded and the water which was already pretty murky was now chocolate milk.

 

I started fishing the same spot I had caught the 2 pounder yesterday Interestingly enough on my second cast I caught this fish which turned out to be 3.8 pounds.

 

Unfortunately I couldn’t get anything going after that and moved on to a different body of water.  I caught another three fish.  One of which (last fish pictured) looked a little different to me I’m not sure what it is if anyone can help me out it'd be appreciated.

 

 

[TnRiver46]

Last one is a smallmouth @bp_fowler, heckuva day 

[bp_fowler]

@TnRiver46 Thanks!  I suspected that’s what it was, that makes it my first smallie.  Wouldn’t have expected to catch that there.