Latest Catch Pics Thread

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@Jar11591 and Katie, you guys are so kind, I really appreciate it!    

 

Attaboy @LrgmouthShad!     I wish I had confidence in jigs.  

 

 

 

 

[softwateronly]

1 hour ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@Jar11591 and Katie, you guys are so kind, I really appreciate it!    

 

Attaboy @LrgmouthShad!     I wish I had confidence in jigs.  

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Michigan in late april // early may.  Those 4 weeks will instill jig confidence in anyone!

 

scott

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

11 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

 

Visit Michigan in late april // early may.  Those 4 weeks will instill jig confidence in anyone!

 

Do tell. Where do you cast them and how do you work them?

[softwateronly]

@Swamp GirlOn any break with weed growth, throw to 15' deep and drag toward shore.  Stop by, I'll point the way.

 

scott

[Swamp Girl]

43 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

@Swamp GirlOn any break with weed growth, throw to 15' deep and drag toward shore.  Stop by, I'll point the way.

 

scott

 

You might think I'm joshing you, but I don't fish a single body of water that's 15' deep. 10' deep is the deepest. 

[10,000 lakes Bassin]

4 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

You might think I'm joshing you, but I don't fish a single body of water that's 15' deep. 10' deep is the deepest. 

I’m surprised by that. How long do your water bodies have ice on them for? Anything up here less then 15ft will almost certainly winterkill if there’s not flowing water. 

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, 10,000 lakes Bassin said:

I’m surprised by that. How long do your water bodies have ice on them for? Anything up here less then 15ft will almost certainly winterkill if there’s not flowing water. 

 

They don't winterkill. At least not yet. We won't see open water until March. Here's my pond a couple days ago. The white beyond the weeds is the pond:

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

It's still so wild to me that all those big fat northern LMB are just cruising around living their best lives under many inches of ice.    

 

If you caught a Bass in one of your bogs ice fishing, you'd really blow my mind.....double dog dare you too 😆

[softwateronly]

8 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

They don't winterkill. At least not yet. We won't see open water until March. Here's my pond a couple days ago. The white beyond the weeds is the pond:

 

 

There's a couple sweet looking bogs near my lake that I've always assumed would suffer winterkill because of depth......I might need to rethink this.

 

scott

[Swamp Girl]

10 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

If you caught a Bass in one of your bogs ice fishing, you'd really blow my mind.....double dog dare you too 😆

 

Oh, I could catch one. There's an ice fishing tourney at my pond this weekend. It's just that standing over a hole in the ice is as much fun as this:

 

 

10 hours ago, softwateronly said:

There's a couple sweet looking bogs near my lake that I've always assumed would suffer winterkill because of depth......I might need to rethink this.

 

Reference the image above your comment.

[LrgmouthShad]

Today’s catch of the day is this Floridian shivering during a Texas cold front holding a 12 bass. 12 ounces. We caught small ones today. I picked up 3 more. Where are the bigger fish???

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Did you look in that incredibly juicy looking standing timber to the side of you? 😁

[Rocky998]

12 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Did you look in that incredibly juicy looking standing timber to the side of you? 😁

For real. I'd be chucking anything I could into that stuff, taking my time picking it apart.

[LrgmouthShad]

@AlabamaSpothunter @Rocky998 standing timber is synonymous with TX. The area in that photo is covered with it. He is sitting next to the last visible standing timber before it becomes fully submerged. Seeing big trees in 60ft is not uncommon around there. We fished a lot of timber today

[Rocky998]

Just now, LrgmouthShad said:

@AlabamaSpothunter @Rocky998 standing timber is synonymous with TX. The area in that photo is covered with it. He is sitting next to the last visible standing timber before it becomes fully submerged. Seeing big trees in 60ft is not uncommon around there. We fished a lot of timber today

Ah ok. Not as common where I am

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Caught 28 + 2 Crappie + 1 big Channel Cat in the middle of what seemed like millions of shad, and hundreds of Bass.   At one point I watched a wolf pack of 15-20 fish cruising on the surface.   I knew they did that when corralling bait, but it's the first time they were close enough to the surface for me to witness.   Bass will never stop impressing me, they're just such a supreme predator.  

 

 I watched a 25-30lb sack blow up all around me for hour after hour but never even caught a single big one.   I've said it a number of times in this thread over the last several years, but schooling Bass can easily be one of the most frustrating things I've experienced in life.  Watching 5lb+ fish clear the water over and over and not being able to catch them is akin to being waterboarded 😂

 

 

 

[gim]

23 hours ago, 10,000 lakes Bassin said:

I’m surprised by that. How long do your water bodies have ice on them for? Anything up here less then 15ft will almost certainly winterkill if there’s not flowing water. 

I’ve questioned that before too since it’s something we often experience here in shallow waters with long winters. I’d be surprised if it never happened there.

[10,000 lakes Bassin]

11 minutes ago, gim said:

I’ve questioned that before too since it’s something we often experience here in shallow waters with long winters. I’d be surprised if it never happened there.

Yeah less than 10ft would freeze out every year for us I’d imagine, at least for bass. Pike on the other hand are tough, they live in some swamps and little lakes that are really shallow for as cold as it gets. 

[Swamp Girl]

That video was EXCITING, Alex. In 2023, I couldn't catch any wolfpacking bass, but I had some success in 2024 reeling an underspin right under the surface. I moved it so fast, I'm guessing, that they couldn't differentiate between it and shad.

[gim]

20 minutes ago, 10,000 lakes Bassin said:

Pike on the other hand are tough, they live in some swamps and little lakes that are really shallow for as cold as it gets. 

Small pike, yes. They are very tolerant of poor water conditions.

 

Bigger ones, no. They need colder, well oxygenated water.

[10,000 lakes Bassin]

30 minutes ago, gim said:

Small pike, yes. They are very tolerant of poor water conditions.

 

Bigger ones, no. They need colder, well oxygenated water.

lots of times the old ones in those water bodies are small as well, they can get stunted from the lack of food. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Thanks Katie, it's hard to describe the frenetic activity, as well as the numbers of shad and Bass but that little snippet of video I felt was the perfect representation of it.   That went on for the 5 hours I was there, and I'm sure it was going on before I was there, and after I left.   

 

I tried two different underspins along with:

 

2 different jighead minnow combos

Shimano jerkbait

A-Rig

1/8th jighead/3.3" small paddletail swimbait

Molix 1/2oz tailspinner

Crush Flat 75x crank

3/8oz Vault

1/2oz Dyna Response

1/8th Flashback mini/3"armor shad

Spinnerbait

 

The fish certainly won that round.  

 

 

 

[softwateronly]

1 minute ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Thanks Katie, it's hard to describe the frenetic activity, as well as the numbers of shad and Bass but that little snippet of video I felt was the perfect representation of it.   That went on for the 5 hours I was there, and I'm sure it was going on before I was there, and after I left.   

 

I tried two different underspins along with:

 

2 different jighead minnow combos

Shimano jerkbait

A-Rig

1/8th jighead/3.3" small paddletail swimbait

Molix 1/2oz tailspinner

Crush Flat 75x crank

3/8oz Vault

1/2oz Dyna Response

1/8th Flashback mini/3"armor shad

Spinnerbait

 

The fish certainly won that round.  

 

 

 

 

That's spoon water!  

https://thehookuptackle.com/products/metal-adict-01?variant=42594966208679

https://shimreels.com/search?page=2&search=little jack metal adict zero

 

Ripped and killed, give em the erratic flash they want!  Seriously though, these two salt spoons have been magical at times when my fish behave like you're describing.  

 

scott

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Thanks Scott, and that funny you bring those up because I remember asking you about them earlier and thinking I'd like to get some.  

 

I was actually going the opposite direction, trying to go slower and more dead action.     The blade bait usually gets them when they won't eat the normal schooling lures, but I think I only caught a couple on the Dyna Response.

I've got some spoons I'll try next time and report back, thanks again! 

[thediscochef]

A friend took us out to the local nuclear power plant lake on Thursday. Water temps about 77 degrees. It was my buddy's birthday, he caught all the numbers and I caught the big bass at the end of the day. Probably like three to four pounds. Nothing like fast squarebill fishing in mid February. I haven't been out since, work took me away from a trip I'd hoped to make to a special central Texas lake. 

 

Spawn is just around the corner