Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Swamp Girl]

@PhishLI

 

 

I've been wanting to toss a fluke all year. 'Cause of you, I'm rigging one for this afternoon's fishing trip.

 

FWIW, I know the gif looks like a Muppet, but it's not. That's actually me celebrating your catch.

 

Was your brother with you?

 

That's sure a pretty pond. 

[IcatchDinks]

Got skunked for the first time in a long time this morning. The first hour was dark and overcast with lots of lightening and crazy thunder. And then the rain hit and I had to run for cover. It was a really weird and ominous atmosphere pre rain. Odd, dim light that made me feel like I was going blind.

 

I also went to the river for an hour yesterday evening and tried to catch some Smallies. But the river is blown out from all the rain, and the only action I could get was a kind of fish I am currently being bullied about. 😄

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

lots of lightening and crazy thunder. And then the rain hit and I had to run for cover. It was a really weird and ominous atmosphere pre rain. Odd, dim light that made me feel like I was going blind.

 

Sounds like my last fishing trip. I sat for an hour on the shore waiting for the lightning to pass. When the lightning started, the bass stopped. 

 

@gimruis better live a good life or when it's over, he'll find himself with a tacklebox full of Whopper Ploppers at a lake full of only rock bass. 

[gim]

So not only did you only catch a loser, but you also posted it in the wrong thread.  Paging Roadwarrior...

 

[IcatchDinks]

Just now, ol'crickety said:

 

Sounds like my last fishing trip. I sat for an hour on the shore waiting for the lightning to pass. When the lightning started, the bass stopped. 

I was just reading through that fishing report. At least I didn't have mile and a half paddle to get back home. 

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

So not only did you only catch a loser, but you also posted it in the wrong thread.  Paging Roadwarrior...

 

 

We covered this last year: rock BASS are BASS. And therefore I posted it in the BASS thread. 😆

[Swamp Girl]

4 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

I was just reading through that fishing report. At least I didn't have mile and a half paddle to get back home. 

 

I kid you not: I had a mile of paddling north and the wind and rain were in my face. Then I had half of mile of paddling west and the wind and rain shifted to still be in my face. 

 

5 minutes ago, gimruis said:

So not only did you only catch a loser, but you also posted it in the wrong thread.  Paging Roadwarrior...

 

 

I saw a bass. ICD caught a bass. He scored!

 

[gim]

35 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

We covered this last year: rock BASS are BASS.

 

While true, they are losers.  They're like that distant cousin who can't hold down a job that you only see twice a year, but wish you didn't see at all.

 

Every family's got one.  And the rock bass is that one in the bass family.

[thediscochef]

Will hopefully be fishing Lake Meredith sometime in the next few days, one of the very few water bodies in Texas with a sustained Walleye population. Hopefully the work days are short enough to make it happen. The banks of that lake are basically cliffs so I will likely be relegated to the marina and boat ramps. Still, there are nice fish that hang out on those areas at most Texas reservoirs. 

 

It's been tough fishing for a while now. I miss the summer night bite at roberts. Sunday I fished Texoma and also a lake in central Texas and caught a total of three stripers. I blame the barometer - while it was sitting right around 30 in/hg, there was little more than 0.2in of change in a three day span. Most of the time in those conditions I find that it's almost exclusively a nighttime bite. It's just how it is right now, I expect to be back to fishing normally in about 6 weeks but in the meantime I'm just not gonna be fishing much. Probably a good time to work on flipping a jig with more accuracy in the yard or something. For now I live vicariously through y'all 

[PhishLI]

40 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

FWIW, I know the gif looks like a Muppet, but it's not. That's actually me celebrating your catch.

🤣

41 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Was your brother with you?

Solo mission. Had an apocalyptic nightmare that woke me up wide eyed with heart racing at 4:30am. Dante's Inferno meets Jacob's Ladder( Jacob's Ladder (1990) - IMDb). Chimeras and other 'thingz". Yeesh. No more melatonin for me! Figured I'd take advantage of the adrenaline rush and buzzed up for some swings

[Swamp Girl]

Just now, PhishLI said:

Had an apocalyptic nightmare

 

No lie. I have them too. Weird, huh?

[The Baron]

Hey… how to y’all post so many photos?  I get capped at 1mb and have to shrink my photos to be pretty grainy. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Swamp Girl]

@The Baron: I just fiddle with the numbers until I get the file between 40 and 100 kb. 

[PhishLI]

12 minutes ago, The Baron said:

Hey… how to y’all post so many photos?  I get capped at 1mb and have to shrink my photos to be pretty grainy. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I crop them by using the edit function on my iPhone. Then I send them to my email. There's a drop-down menu that appears which allows for sizing all the photos in one shot before you send the photos. I then save the sent photos to documents on my laptop, then upload them here. I assume you could do that on your phone, but I prefer to use the properties function on my laptop to strip all info from each photo.

 

[IcatchDinks]

@The Baron I use a third party images hosting site. Postimages.org is what I use. Then I use the link from that site and paste it into the "insert image from URL" option in the "Other Media" tab. 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

So not only did you only catch a loser, but you also posted it in the wrong thread.  Paging Roadwarrior...

 

It wasn’t a rock trout …….

[Swamp Girl]

20 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

It wasn’t a rock trout …….

 

Exactly!

[T-Billy]

@ol'crickety monster!!! 

 

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

 

While true, they are losers.  They're like that distant cousin who can't hold down a job that you only see twice a year, but wish you didn't see at all.

 

Every family's got one.  And the rock bass is that one in the bass family.

[MIbassyaker]

3 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

We covered this last year: rock BASS are BASS. And therefore I posted it in the BASS thread. 😆

 

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

 

While true, they are losers.  They're like that distant cousin who can't hold down a job that you only see twice a year, but wish you didn't see at all.

 

Every family's got one.  And the rock bass is that one in the bass family.

 

Well, if we're going to split hairs about it, not even the "black basses" are bass.  They are sunfish. 

 

Actual member of the Bass family:

[IcatchDinks]

Just now, MIbassyaker said:

 

If we're going to split hairs about it, not even the black basses are bass.  They are sunfish. 

 

So are large and small mouth. 

[T-Billy]

I had another solid predawn excursion. I got started about 02:00 and put a couple dozen-ish in the boat by first light around 05:00. Then added another dozen or so with the flippin stick. Best of the trip was this 4.11#. I had three others that were within a bluegill or two of 3#. Lots of 12-16 inchers. 

Y'all think she wanted that chatterbait? 

Couldn't get any skis to cooperate. I raised three, but no takers. Back to the grind tomorrow, won't get to fish again until next Sunday night. Boooooo!!!

[BluegillsTightlines]

Went fishing yesterday morning before it got so dang blasted hot and caught a decent handful of bluegill and a couple shellcracker like this one. The bluegill were up at the lakefront dock, caught the shellcracker on an island sticking out from the bank. Then went down another turn down below a large rock, where I noticed a bass giving some bream absolute heck in the weeds, so I decided to bait up for a 3-4 inch bluegill(not sure how people here feel about that, but it's 100% legal here according to the game warden) and use it to see if I could coax thst bass out. And almost immediately it began pursuit of thst bluegill and had bad intentions for it-- absolutely hammered it, I saw the wake trail it left as it pursued my bluegill. It was a very enjoyable morning yesterday.

 

That Daiwa Triforce-Z 153iV is a baitcaster my dad bought for me 25 years ago when I was in middle school. I had been wanting a baitcaster and he said if I did well enough on my report card that year, he would do it, as he believes good work should always be recognized. So he placed $5 per B $10 per A, and being a math major, he placed $15 bucks on As in math. I ended up with $155 in all and we went to Bass Pro and I got it.  I am happy to be catching bass on it and even thouhh the reel handle shows some paint chipping, it still works wonderfully.

[Bazoo]

Love the dark spots on this one.  Same fish as above, but better picture.

 

 

Pretty

 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@BluegillsTightlines: Its great to have you posting in this thread. Keep it up! I love your story about your reel. 

 

@Bazoo is back! Missed ya, buddy.

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

 

Well, if we're going to split hairs about it, not even the "black basses" are bass.  They are sunfish. 

 

Actual member of the Bass family:

I have caught this bass 

[Fried Lemons]

Green fish are finally starting to bite again. Got 5 all on a jig fished in wood 8-12’ deep. 

Biggest of the day went 4.7lbs. Earlier on I dumped one around 6 on a glide. I couldn’t stop her jumping and on the second jump out flew the bait.