Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Swamp Girl]

@Bluebasser86: Clayton, I don't hire guides because they're above my pay grade, but if I lived in Kansas, I'd scrape and save the money to hire you. I wouldn't even be focused on catching fish. I'd be focused on learning. That six-pounder has a mountain of a back!

 

However, I wouldn't want to fish in the snow. I can do that in Maine.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@Bluebasser86  Is a real one no doubt........covered in snow in a kayak, yeah you gotta be in for the love of the game at that point 😎

 

Beautiful fish!    

[Swamp Girl]

I think @T-Billy should loan Clayton his fur hat for the next two or three months. 

[T-Billy]

6 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

I think @T-Billy should loan Clayton his fur hat for the next two or three months. 

Not a chance. I've been out in high teens to low thirties the last couple days muskie fishing. 17hrs over the past two days with zero fish to show for it. 

 I thought this cold front would get 'em fired up, instead they've been unbelievably lazy. I had one HUGE fish bite a live crappie, but drop it before I could get to the rod, and two others of unknown size do the same with dead shad. Tons of lazy follows on artificials, but no bites on them. 

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Not a chance. I've been out in high teens to low thirties the last couple days muskie fishing. 17hrs over the past two days with zero fish to show for it. 

 I thought this cold front would get 'em fired up, instead they've been unbelievably lazy. I had one HUGE fish bite a live crappie, but drop it before I could get to the rod, and two others of unknown size do the same with dead shad. Tons of lazy follows on artificials, but no bites on them. 

 

Dang, you're still out there too??? How big do you think the crappie-eater was?

[T-Billy]

6 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

How big do you think the crappie-eater was?

High 40's at least. Top five I've ever seen on down scan. It sat there right under my transducer looking at the crappie for a few minutes after it dropped it, but decided not to bite again. 

[gim]

12 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

but decided not to bite again

 

I could see why a fish would choose not to bite into a mouthful of sharp treble hooks again after it had just done so.  I certainly wouldn't lol

[T-Billy]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

 

I could see why a fish would choose not to bite into a mouthful of sharp treble hooks again after it had just done so.  I certainly wouldn't lol

I don't know man... For a free crappie dinner? I'd at least have to consider it. 😂

[Team9nine]

Dropped down to 20 overnight, but we clawed our way back to 50 by late afternoon, so I hooked up and ran to the lake for about 3 hours. Sunny skies with SW winds of 10-15, gusting 20-25 were a challenge, but I managed to get half a dozen bites on a mix of jerkbaits and blade baits, including one that hit the 6 lb. mark, making it worth being out there.

 

[gim]

4 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

so I hooked up and ran to the lake for about 3 hours.

 

Fashion police approves of the new pants.  Guessing Mrs Team9 had something to do with that.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Nice fish @Team9nine!   

 

She's got the mark of Dottie.....amazing to me that so many big LMB share that genetic marker across so many different states, and perhaps even abroad.  

[Team9nine]

36 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

Fashion police approves of the new pants.  Guessing Mrs Team9 had something to do with that.

 

More the cold weather than the wife  Cold enough to pull out the ski bibs for the next few months, I imagine.

[Aaron_H]

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

Dropped down to 20 overnight, but we clawed our way back to 50 by late afternoon, so I hooked up and ran to the lake for about 3 hours. Sunny skies with SW winds of 10-15, gusting 20-25 were a challenge, but I managed to get half a dozen bites on a mix of jerkbaits and blade baits, including one that hit the 6 lb. mark, making it worth being out there.

 

 

[MassBass]

These are some bass that beat the skunk on a trout quest. Kept a two bass limit.

[Team9nine]

Rule #1 - Don’t blank - lol. Avoided that fate with this chunky keeper this afternoon. Briefly touched 60 around lunch, then temps started dropping. Blue skies again along with gusting winds over 30 mph made me change lakes to somewhere slightly more boat friendly.

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Rather jealous here y’all. Some nice fish yall are catching. I haven’t fished for nearly three weeks since the kayak tourney on Fork. Hoping to make it out to Stillhouse Saturday 

[The Baron]

A few of the die-hards still at it.👍🏻

 

Update from Canada: The boat is still sealed up and most lakes are freezing over now.  Only about 4 months left until we fish again.😩

 

One good thing about getting old is the 5 months of suck will go by as fast as our 5 months of fun did.

[LrgmouthShad]

Really messy day of fishing and I made a lot of bad decisions but got lucky with one over 6lbs on a jerkbait. Long fish. About 23”. Windy, cold, rainy. Pardon me if I don’t look more excited, lol. Fun fish to catch

[AlabamaSpothunter]

It's officially winter fishing season down here with the first good fish caught on a blade bait.

 

This one came off the Dyna Response, which I plan to fish quite a bit more instead of just the Vault this year.    Much more of sneaky bait than the Vault.

 

6.3

[Team9nine]

Forecast for most of next week isn’t looking too promising, and we broke 50 today for our high along with very manageable SW winds from 6-9 mph, so I made a rare weekend run to a local lake. Turned out to be a good decision, as I was able to catch a limit of bass in the 3 hours I was out there, topped by this 7.0 pounder (top two pics). Also answered 3 recent forum posts with today’s catch - MB 110’s are worth the $$; Katsuage hooks will easily hold big fish if your setup is right; and a moderate action rod does a really nice job with jerkbaits 😎 😄

 

 

 

[F14A-B]

17 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Forecast for most of next week isn’t looking too promising, and we broke 50 today for our high along with very manageable SW winds from 6-9 mph, so I made a rare weekend run to a local lake. Turned out to be a good decision, as I was able to catch a limit of bass in the 3 hours I was out there, topped by this 7.0 pounder (top two pics). Also answered 3 recent forum posts with today’s catch - MB 110’s are worth the $$; Katsuage hooks will easily hold big fish if your setup is right; and a moderate action rod does a really nice job with jerkbaits 😎 😄

 

 

 

Very nice catch you made there. I guess the MB jerks are worthy after all. I’ve been trying to get my son to make a run to Land between the Lakes but he’s been caught up with deer and now duck hunting.. it’s a bit of a drive but I always do well on Kentucky lake, it’s coming back in a strong way after a considerable downturn.. 

[Team9nine]

Definitely wasn’t as good as yesterday, but did score one over 3 lbs. this afternoon on blade bait. Three days of rain starting tonight might really change things here if we get more than the 2.25!inches they are forecasting.

 

[TnRiver46]

My wife was in Nashville for a concert this weekend, therefore I fished

 

Saturday me and a friend floated 11 miles of shallow river in my small long tail boat , started off with temps in low 20s but fish were still biting ok, I was just mainly missing them. We ended up catching 5-6, my buddy got at least one with the fly rod. The two better ones I got were with a 2” helgrammite. I’m  still waiting on him to send the pics of the ones I caught 😂. The old predator engine still runs like a top, no clue how but she does. Of course Mr or Mrs eagle went along with us 

 

Sunday I took my wife’s kayak (on top of the Honda, fuel efficient rig all the way around) fishing down by the lakehouse, got 3 fish I believe but two were decent keepers, a LM and a spot or maybe meanmouth which I got on the way in right next to the neighbors dock. Winter drawdown created a nice little dry storage for the kayak 😂.

 

 

Pretty scenery and the clouds were doing some crazy stuff, also had loons screaming at me most of the day 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Those gotta be Meanmouths......look super fat and healthy too.

 

One thing I've never heard much about in regard to Meanmouths, is the Hybrid Vigor aspect that they should exhibit.    

 

In theory, and Meanmouth should grow bigger and faster than both an Alabama Bass and a SM.    

[TnRiver46]

2 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Those gotta be Meanmouths......look super fat and healthy too.

 

One thing I've never heard much about in regard to Meanmouths, is the Hybrid Vigor aspect that they should exhibit.    

 

In theory, and Meanmouth should grow bigger and faster than both an Alabama Bass and a SM.    

I’ve caught a good many meanmouth back in the day before the Alabama bass was considered a species, and the SMB cross successfully with the KY spots and the result is always a very fat meanmouth, sometimes comically fat