Latest Catch Pics Thread

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Awesome fish Pat!     I guess that's why you get a lure color named after you 😎

[Pat Brown]

15 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Awesome fish Pat!     I guess that's why you get a lure color named after you 😎

 

 

Thanks man.  December has been a GRIND - but I'm so blessed to have caught and released that fantastic specimen and right before Christmas with good friends and my son with the net.  That jig is going in my 'not for fishing anymore ' drawer with some other special lures to be passed down to Jake when I'm gone.

[Fishlegs]

Excellent fish @Pat Brown!

[Swamp Girl]

Whoa, that bass is FAT! And look at the muscle in her tail. W-O-W!

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I came back to have another look at Pat's bass. It's just as whoa-y today as it was when I first saw it. 

[GaryH]

Congrats Pat and LMS. She’s a beauty. Good teamwork 👏

[Dwight Hottle]

@Pat Brown Sweet !

[Jigfishn10]

@Pat Brown that’s an OINKER! Congrats  

[TnRiver46]

A Christmas Eve I won’t soon forget!

 

got done shopping around 10:30 and had my buddy meet me at the boat ramp. I was thinking we should fish deep on the bottom with spoons, maybe the white bass had showed up. As we were making our way upriver , there was a boat in the middle drifting for walleye. I slowed down to go around him and saw some strange disturbance on the surface. SHAD!!! I broke out the cast net and got plenty of bait. I haven’t used this particular boat since about the weekend after thanksgiving and doggone it I also haven’t charged the trolling motor battery. So break out the paddle and the cinder block anchor, Yee haw. Thankfully I had a long rope on board as well, the current was fairly swift. Not long into fishing on anchor I get a bite, nice 16” SMB. A couple minutes later I got another SMB a little smaller. Some time passes and we discuss where to fish next and I hook up again. The fish is fighting weird, I kept saying it was surely a drum. My buddy sees the fish out of the back and says nope it’s big smallmouth. Get that one boated and it’s 3.9 lbs, forgot to measure length. We drift down a ways and I think I’m snagged and sure enough the snag begins swimming and it’s a 3.6 lb largemouth. Water temp 46-49, fish caught with live and dead threadfin shad and 6 lb line 

A little report with some more pics from Monday afternoon. Had 1 hour after work in the kayak but caught 2 SMB and a bluegill. Had a lovely sunset at 6:09 pm, getting tiny additions of daylight time makes me happy. Did have to paddle the kayak back to the dock in the dark and cold, but it wasn’t too bad. Got her up to 4 mph for a little while, good speed for a 90 lb boat you can stand in 

[Swamp Girl]

@TnRiver46: That first smallmouth is perfect. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Katie's eyes never lie, that's a beautiful fish.   Congrats @TnRiver46 on an early XMAS present

 

Merry Xmas and happy holidays everyone!   

[Swamp Girl]

11 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Katie's eyes never lie, that's a beautiful fish.   Congrats @TnRiver46 on an early XMAS present

 

Merry Xmas and happy holidays everyone!   

 

If I were a talented painter and I wanted to paint a perfect smallmouth, it would be @TnRiver46's.

[Fishlegs]

I agree. That’s a beautiful smallmouth!

[Bluebasser86]

Sunday was a weird day. I fished for 5 hours and caught 5 dinks and a big crappie. Then the switch turned on and I caught 40 more in the last 3.5 hours doing the same things I'd been doing all day, go figure.

 

[Swamp Girl]

Hey, @Bluebasser86, quit stealing @Team9nine's crappie! Where's an LEO when you need one?

 

Seriously, that switch turning on is something I've enjoyed. It's the sweet can't catch-can't catch-can't catch-CAN catch!

[Blue Raider Bob]

Got to go Sunday and hooked this beauty. 3lbs 2 oz is a nuisance is some but its borderline trophy for me! Only fish I caught but It made my day!

went back yesterday but left quickly. The jet ski crowd was out in force!   ☹️

[Swamp Girl]

Bob shoots, he SCORES! And the crowd goes crazy!!!

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

Bob shoots, he SCORES! And the crowd goes crazy!!!

 

That's about how I felt! About 15 minutes before this fish, I hook a big one and was in for a hard, long fight. Got it to the surface and It was a five foot gar! Thankfully I got my Vault back!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Awesome fish Bob, keep throwing that Vault brother!    

 

I wouldn't mind catching a 5ft Gar, anything that fights that hard is gonna be a blast to catch.  

[Team9nine]

First day back on the lake after nearly a week. Surprised to see a big water level drop that had 1 of the 2 ramp lanes closed. Not surprised at the heavily stained water. Got a limit of bass, and lost a real nice one right near the boat. Also caught 6-8 crappie just playing around between spots. Unfortunately, 3 days of rain in the forecast, so this might have been it until next week. Water 46 deg.

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@Team9nine: You and I both have the consistency gene. Whether you're north or south, in winter and summer, you catch bass, and I too caught/catch bass in rivers big and small, in farm ponds and the largest lakes, in cities and wilderness water. 

[LrgmouthShad]

If you are having trouble catching, you are not alone. I’m at five consecutive skunkings averaging about five hours a session in NC

[Pat Brown]

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

If you are having trouble catching, you are not alone. I’m at five consecutive skunkings averaging about five hours a session in NC

 

We gonna get em Monday I guar-on-TEE.

[gim]

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

If you are having trouble catching, you are not alone. I’m at five consecutive skunkings averaging about five hours a session in NC

 

Wow that sounds more like my muskie fishing in the summer time.

[Swamp Girl]

7 minutes ago, gim said:

 

Wow that sounds more like my muskie fishing in the summer time.

 

Muskies can be tough, no doubt...even for the Great Furred Musky Hunter @T-Billy.