Latest Catch Pics Thread

[T-Billy]

Nice work @Bluebasser86!!!  Congrats!!!

[MIbassyaker]

Well, I've managed the three outings I'd hoped for this month before hanging things up for the year. 

 

First trip I got skunked. Second trip was to a lake I have never fished before; I caught one small pike and one tiny largemouth. 

 

Third trip was better, with 12 in 3 hours --a pretty good rate for me-- but this pair of 17"s were the only ones of any size:

 

 

BFFs Lizard and Spinnerbait, enjoying the fall colors:

 

 

And that's probably going to be a wrap for me on the year. I might find a spare hour here or there to walk the riverbank and make a few casts, but the chances of actually catching any more bass before Spring are pretty low.

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, T-Billy said:

Nice work @Bluebasser86!!!  Congrats!!!

Thanks @T-Billy! They don’t get nearly as big here, but anybody who chases them knows that each one feels like a real achievement. I’m hoping to do it again next year and drag a couple buddies along who have never caught one before so I can get them addicted to chasing them also 😂

[gim]

5 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

but anybody who chases them knows that each one feels like a real achievement

I know that feeling. It’s an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment.

[thediscochef]

Caught about a dozen super dinks on the dawg junior and the red eye shad today. Then these two slightly better fish, a nice chunky spotted bass and about a pound largie. Missed one really good fish but overall not a bad morning. 

[killobet]

Walk the dog kinda day😁

[A-Jay]

Had to find a way to get out on the water

as it was just stupid nice for the 3rd week of Oct up here.

Paid off too.

A-Jay

[Swamp Girl]

Another beautiful beast for Andy!

[Swamp Girl]

I fished for the fourth time in six days and am fishing again tomorrow morning at the leaky dam, which I scouted yesterday to see if it's safe to launch beside the dam. It is! Then I'll take a break for a week or so. I wanted to take advantage of our Indian Summer and I have! 

 

This morning's fishing fit the fall pattern of schools of bass here and there and long stretches of unproductive water in-between. I caught three in three consecutive casts to begin my morning. Here are two of those three, both 17-inches:

 

 

I caught more smallmouth that largemouth this morning, but I don't photograph most of the smallies because they're skinny:

 

 

I fished three lures: a Yum Ned bait, a Yo-Zuri popper, and a Depps 6" fluke. All worked about equally well. Here's a pretty 17-incher:

 

 

And here's my thickest fish:

 

 

And my longest bass at 19.25-inches:

 

 

I'm excited about fishing the river tomorrow above the leaky dam. It'll be our last warm day and it'll be cloudy and foggy, unlike this morning's sunshine. Fingers crossed!

 

I caught a dozen of this morning's bass at the pond's last weed bed. Most of the others have rotted and collapsed. @Glenn taught me that fall bass will cluster at the last greenery and he's right. You can see the weed bed behind the bass in the last two bass pics.

 

I also went an hour without getting a single hit. Fall fishing sure is hot and cold, just like the days of fall. 

 

Pretty pic:

 

[Swamp Girl]

I caught a dozen bass like this out of 56 total. More photos in a stand-alone trip report titled "I love it when a plan comes together.":

 

[A-Jay]

My Last Trip out onto Lake Menderchuck in the Pro-V Bass

for 2024 was productive .

But more importantly, it was wicked FUN !

A-Jay

[Swamp Girl]

Sigh. @A-Jay's done now too, joining @gimruis, @The Baron, and others. It's getting mighty lonely on the Northwoods lakes. At least the three anglers I just mentioned finished in style!

[A-Jay]

13 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

Sigh. @A-Jay's done now too, joining @gimruis, @The Baron, and others. It's getting mighty lonely on the Northwoods lakes. At least the three anglers I just mentioned finished in style!

Thanks 

I might still get out in the Old Town Canoe a time or two before it's all said and done.

Lake Minichuck has a few brown bass.

A'Jay

 

[gim]

My boat gets winterized on Monday.

 

I plan to muskie fish on Saturday though.  That's likely to end in failure but even so, October had some ridiculous fishing.

[Swamp Girl]

4 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Thanks 

I might still get out in the Old Town Canoe a time or two before it's all said and done.

Lake Minichuck has a few brown bass.

A'Jay

 

 

I hope you do! You might not know this about me, but I'm quite fond of canoes. 😉

 

I'll do one more hoping-for-big-bass trip and then I might do a final trip or two on my pond because I'm simply happy on my pond. 

 

2 minutes ago, gimruis said:

October had some ridiculous fishing.

 

Oh, I remember your four big bass, three weighing four pounds and one topping five. And those thick pike too! You were my motivation to go out and catch some four-and-five-pounders too!

[Team9nine]

A great fall afternoon on a local reservoir, and the bass were mostly biting crankbaits - 16 total in just over 3 hours - but the largest coming on Ned. Surface temps at 68 degrees with a nice stain to the water. Expecting cooler temps along with some cloud cover this weekend. Might be enough to break my ‘no weekends’ rule and give it another shot.

 

 

 

 

[BrianMDTX]

Summer and half of October was brutal. Hot, humid, not much action. But it has been heating up! Out for a few hours this morning. Caught 7, lost two. 
 

Started with a Zara Spook. Nothing. Used two different jigs (a 1/4 and a 3/8 oz). and the A-Jay Special. Nothing. Tried a Ned (not my favorite bait). Also nothing. Tried a squarebill (also noth…you get the picture). Cut off the squarebill and put on a 1/8 oz. bullet weight, a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG and a Zoom Z-Craw in California 420. And that’s what they wanted. 
 

Most were 1-1/2 to 2 lbs., but one was over 4 lbs. I was using a Daiwa Aird-X MHF (which IMO feels more like a MF or maybe a MHMF) and a Garcia Black Max with 12 lb. Yo Zuri Hybrid. It’s not a top-shelf rig but it handled those bass without a hitch. Fun day! They are really smashing baitfish in the shallows. Right on the bank. I caught the last 5 by casting to where they were actively feeding. The big gal absolutely smashed it!

 

[Swamp Girl]

@BrianMDTX: I sure admire your tenacity. And I admire that big bass too!

[BrianMDTX]

@Swamp Girl I haven’t used that bait in a long time. I was going to put on a Zoom Trick Magnum but grabbed those by accident and wow! They just loved it today. 

[1984isNOW]

I basically never go fishing without my scale, but I went after work the other night. 

 

Heart stopping! Without a scale, a little heart breaking. 

 

Easily the longest bass I've ever caught, I'm going to measure my foot to above my knee for a length estimate. 

 

I think it's going to be my PB that never was, can't verify...

 

What do you think? 

[Swamp Girl]

@1984isNOW: Gosh, I wish I could help you. Your perspectives are different than what I'm accustomed to seeing. The one's that familiar to me is the mouth shot. I've learned that when a bass reaches five pounds, I can fit my fist into its mouth. It looks like your fist would fit, so if there's any truth to what I'm saying, she's at least five pounds. She does look long beside your leg. How long? I can't say.

[bp_fowler]

@1984isNOW I don’t how tall you are but I’m pretty sure those boots are at least 14-15” high. 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

The only pic that's close to providing a clue to how big it might be is the mouth pic as Katie alluded to.    That pic, and then just judging the fish's health and build qualities I'm going to say it's likely in the 6s somewhere.    I highly doubt it's less than 5lbs.  Congrats!

 

What I can say for sure based on all the pics is that the fish is at absolute peak health, and I suspect she'll get bigger.   I don't know your locale, but any fish that is built like that in October has figured out the game and is thriving.    Don't let not having a weight sour such a special memory and interaction with a prize/peak specimen.     

 

[softwateronly]

Fortunate to have the time and lake, had 3 epic mornings in a row.  Almost like @Swamp Girl's legendary Maine bog bass mornings, like 35-40 bass in 3 hrs with bigguns mixed in.  My bass have fully embraced a shad diet this week, and they are set up to massacre them every morning as they exit a narrow channel/choke point to a large 25' deep flat.  It was interesting to see the bite evolve, days 1 & 2 a small under spin or scrounger counted down and slow rolled 8-10' off the bottom got the bites, day 3 the bait needed to reach the bottom, followed by a few fast reel turns ripped from the bottom to medium speed retrieve.  Got hammered with lots of slashing at the baits that required reel rips and kills to actually hook up.  So much fun!  Scrounger and a little salt spoon did the work.  Here's too many pics, without enough visual context, but it was 9-10 hours of fishing that's absolutely perfect and I need to return to the buffet asap.

 

scott

 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

That's a crazy looking bait @softwateronly, I'll have to look into those.

 

Awesome fish, and your facial expressions are why people Bass fish.