Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Pumpkin Lizard]

17 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

My Mayors don't last long for me too, but with my VMC Heavy Duty underspins, I squeeze out more than three bass.

 

I grabbed some of these and some VMC Hybrid Swimbait Jigs. I think they will be vastly better than what I have been using.

 

5 hours ago, gimruis said:

 

That's a rock bass?  Doesn't remotely resemble the ones I'm used to seeing.  The ones I see look like swimming turds with red eyes covered in scars and wounds.

 

I'm not sure what's more embarassing here.  The rock bass itself or the fact that the rocky is bigger than your smallmouth.  I woulda not posted the smallmouth alltogether lol

 

You know the world record rock bass is only like 3lbs? I put one Rock Bass in my childhood pond and I’m fairly certain it hit world record territory. It was enormous.

[gim]

1 hour ago, Pumpkinseed Lizard said:

You know the world record rock bass is only like 3lbs

I didn’t know exactly what it was but I knew it wasn’t impressive by any means.

 

Minnesota’s state record is 2 pounds, and Wisconsin’s state record is 3 pounds. That I knew.

[Pumpkin Lizard]

14 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I didn’t know exactly what it was but I knew it wasn’t impressive by any means.

 

Minnesota’s state record is 2 pounds, and Wisconsin’s state record is 3 pounds. That I knew.

They fit the category of “if a pickerel were a bass”.

[Pumpkin Lizard]

More after work fun. They have been slamming the shad on this bank all week. The mayor and hybrid swim jig. I need to dig out my scale.

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

Big bass, @Pumpkinseed Lizard!

[Peacedivision]

Fun BFS fishing morning. Found a little school chasing a bait ball they had trapped in a grass pocket. The bass would only bite when they decided to flash through the school but it was consistent for almost 4 hours.

[Pumpkin Lizard]

45 minutes ago, Peacedivision said:

Fun BFS fishing morning. Found a little school chasing a bait ball they had trapped in a grass pocket. The bass would only bite when they decided to flash through the school but it was consistent for almost 4 hours.

 

Nice! What's your BFS setup?

[Peacedivision]

5 minutes ago, Pumpkinseed Lizard said:

 

Nice! What's your BFS setup?

Dobyns Sierra 701 with an Aldebaran bfs and 6lb tatsu. Today I was throwing a 1/16oz #2 head and a 2.75 swammer.

[Crow Horse]

Last day out for the season. 2 nice bass were the highlights of the day. It was a great way to finish a great season.

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@Crow Horse: Your fishing trip looks like my fishing trips: pretty shoreline, healthy bass, and your boat being pulled around by those healthy bass!  

[Crow Horse]

28 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

@Crow Horse: Your fishing trip looks like my fishing trips: pretty shoreline, healthy bass, and your boat being pulled around by those healthy bass!  

It is a very pretty spot and 99.9% of the time I have it to myself  only to share it with the furred & feathered.

[Swamp Girl]

15 minutes ago, Crow Horse said:

It is a very pretty spot and 99.9% of the time I have it to myself  only to share it with the furred & feathered.

 

It sounds 99.9% perfect! 

[Crow Horse]

12 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

It sounds 99.9% perfect! 

Allow me to respectfully correct you. It's 100% perfect.....😁

[TnRiver46]

Interesting day ! Fished my way up the river and wasn’t having anything but dink nibbles . After a couple

hours I finally got a solid hit and it was and 18.5 + inch SMB on a black jig! Ambassaduer 4600c and 50 lb seguar tactx braid . Great fight lots of fun. For some reason I went way on upstream and tried some different stuff until I drifted back down to where I caught the first one. I tried one of @Bluebasser86’s bladed jigs with no trailer in sparse millfoil and a 4.82 lb large grabbed it! Using the st croix mojo rod seviin reel and seaguar jdm braid.  Only two fish but they were two nice ones for here 

[BrianMDTX]

Full clouds, light rain. Slight breeze. Thought it was going to be a great morning. But one missed (dink) bite and one catch. That was it. 
 

But the catch was unique. I saw a bass busting baitfish against the bank and cast a TR Senko to the spot. It took it right off the bat then it felt like it was gone. Then it started fighting again but it felt completely different. As I got it near the boat I saw it hooked in the belly. But I saw my Senko up near its  mouth. After netting it, I saw it was an old, almost rusted through hook stuck in its belly and my line was threaded through the gap in the eye. As I lifted the bass out of the net, both hooks fell out. So I caught one bass and helped it get rid of an old hook. 
 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@TnRiver46   Certified TN River monster LM there 💪

[Swamp Girl]

42 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@TnRiver46   Certified TN River monster LM there 💪

 

Heck, yeah, it is!

[Aaron_H]

Been in Fort Myers for the last ~9 days for work. Had one day off to fish a large pond next to the hotel, according to past satellite imagery it's been there for a bit over 30 years, super fishy looking and the weather was calling for high winds and overcast skies so I was pretty hyped. Didn't have much room for rods, so I took a gamble that the chatterbait bite would be the ticket. Here's what I caught:

 

Lost the gamble, sadly. Fished my way around a good portion of the pond a couple of times, never got so much as a follow. Very little activity in general, just saw some baitfish and plecos, with only one blowup that I believe was a bass.

 

This makes my first skunk since December of 2021, hate to see that streak end but it was bound to happen sometime.

 

On the plus side, a new Academy opened in Fort Myers and I snagged some good deals while I was down there.

 

[Swamp Girl]

17 minutes ago, Aaron_H said:

 

This makes my first skunk

 

I already knew you're a fine stick, but now I also know that you're an honest man. We all have our skunky moments:

 

[Aaron_H]

12 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

I already knew you're a fine stick, but now I also know that you're an honest man. We all have our skunky moments:

 

 

That's kind of you to say, Katie. I will be honest that I am a little salty that I broke that streak, but I just checked and I cannot be mad at 181 trips in a row without skunking as I know that is very fortunate.

[TnRiver46]

City fishin! Only had an hour of daylight left after work so I never even got on plane 

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, Aaron_H said:

I just checked and I cannot be mad at 181 trips in a row without skunking as I know that is very fortunate.

 

Then you're way ahead of me. I skunked twice last spring! Yeah, multiple skunks:

 

 

To cut myself a little slack, one skunk was me standing on snow and casting, but the other was in my canoe, so no slack cuttin' there, just me slackin'.

 

Love city bassin', Russ!

[Pat Brown]

Special post time:

 

Had an incredible weekend all culminating with an ABSOLUTE monster fish.

 

 

Started the weekend out with a couple nice frog fish - made plans to hit it with @FishTax and we did and we caught them great!

 

 

Did most of our damage with buzzbait/jig one two punch!  Caught em just about everywhere on the lake that we went but couldn't connect with anything bigger than ~3 lbs.  Fun fun.

Me and Jake waxed the crappie and small bass when the cold cloudy front hit on Sunday.  Caught all our fish on spinnerbaits.

 

Jake caught 10 bass and 3 crappie on a Johnson beetle spin!

 

 

We woke up this morning - Jake had the day off and we decided to go to the lake for a boat trip around noon.  We caught 3 decent sized bass - I missed a big one in the lily pads on the buzzbait.  Missed one in the back of a wind protected shady pocket on the frog that looked big. 

 

Lake wants everyone off the water by 4:30 this time of year so me and Jake went to one of our bank fishing spots with the waning daylight and it had a bunch of fellas crappie fishing and cooking the fish they caught in real time on the bank!

 

Got my stomach grumbling.  Saw some GIANT wakes on my frog that wouldn't commit.

 

A man fishing a point for crappie packs up and moves down river and I move up to his point and grab my glide bait rod.  Remembering a giant I saw shoot out and grab my big soft swimbait earlier this month - I throw my glide bait parallel to the same channel swing.

 

The wake this girl produced freight training my BPS swerve was comical to say the least - impressive and magnificent and powerful to put it more bluntly.

 

She looked like a motorized beaver going 30 MPH 20 feet to slam the glide.

 

I felt the THUD and set the hook and felt her on.  GIANT I shout to Jake.

 

He's pretty far away and she comes up and she's WAY bigger than I expected...

 

I scale the sandy bluff wall of the point while keeping my pole tip candy caned while she thrashes around in some brush right where the water meets the bank and I lip her triumphantly.

 

8 lb 9 oz NC monster on the BPS Swerve 

 

 

Second biggest of 2024 and my biggest ever on a glide bait and such a special memory for me and Jacob!  If she wasn't spawned out as heck she'd easily go 10+!!!

 

Wow!!!

 

Happy veterans day to all who serve or have served!  Thank you! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

Wow, Pat. First-rate storytelling about a first-rate bass. Thanks so much for taking the time to put us there with you.

[Aaron_H]

48 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Special post time:

 

Had an incredible weekend all culminating with an ABSOLUTE monster fish.

 

 

Started the weekend out with a couple nice frog fish - made plans to hit it with @FishTax and we did and we caught them great!

 

 

Did most of our damage with buzzbait/jig one two punch!  Caught em just about everywhere on the lake that we went but couldn't connect with anything bigger than ~3 lbs.  Fun fun.

Me and Jake waxed the crappie and small bass when the cold cloudy front hit on Sunday.  Caught all our fish on spinnerbaits.

 

Jake caught 10 bass and 3 crappie on a Johnson beetle spin!

 

 

We woke up this morning - Jake had the day off and we decided to go to the lake for a boat trip around noon.  We caught 3 decent sized bass - I missed a big one in the lily pads on the buzzbait.  Missed one in the back of a wind protected shady pocket on the frog that looked big. 

 

Lake wants everyone off the water by 4:30 this time of year so me and Jake went to one of our bank fishing spots with the waning daylight and it had a bunch of fellas crappie fishing and cooking the fish they caught in real time on the bank!

 

Got my stomach grumbling.  Saw some GIANT wakes on my frog that wouldn't commit.

 

A man fishing a point for crappie packs up and moves down river and I move up to his point and grab my glide bait rod.  Remembering a giant I saw shoot out and grab my big soft swimbait earlier this month - I throw my glide bait parallel to the same channel swing.

 

The wake this girl produced freight training my BPS swerve was comical to say the least - impressive and magnificent and powerful to put it more bluntly.

 

She looked like a motorized beaver going 30 MPH 20 feet to slam the glide.

 

I felt the THUD and set the hook and felt her on.  GIANT I shout to Jake.

 

He's pretty far away and she comes up and she's WAY bigger than I expected...

 

I scale the sandy bluff wall of the point while keeping my pole tip candy caned while she thrashes around in some brush right where the water meets the bank and I lip her triumphantly.

 

8 lb 9 oz NC monster on the BPS Swerve 

 

 

Second biggest of 2024 and my biggest ever on a glide bait and such a special memory for me and Jacob!  If she wasn't spawned out as heck she'd easily go 10+!!!

 

Wow!!!

 

Happy veterans day to all who serve or have served!  Thank you! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

 

 

 

JUMBO

 

Congrats on a beast of a fish. So big it gave your scale the blue screen of death 😅