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[Swamp Girl]

@thediscochef: Have you lost weight? Nice bass!

[TnRiver46]

11 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

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 😂

 

 

 

I think we all know why you didn’t hook up in the first part of that video when they were jumping all around, because you threw a spinnerbait! That footage proves the uselessness of that lure beyond the shadow of a doubt! 😂 

 

in addition to @softwateronly’s spoon suggestion, a weightless fluke can sometimes trigger them. I’d even toss a spook/popper into that madness, I’ve seen hundreds of white bass ignore everything but walk the dog action many times 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@TnRiver46, thanks for the tip on the fluke buddy!   I'll hit them with that next time out.   I give the spinnerbait a hard time like you, but occasionally a blind squirrel finds a nut 😁

 

@thediscochef   Nice one buddy!  Those power plant fish are interesting especially in regards to spawning

[Swamp Girl]

10 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@TnRiver46, thanks for the tip on the fluke buddy!   I'll hit them with that next time out.   I give the spinnerbait a hard time like you, but occasionally a blind squirrel finds a nut 😁

 

I thought a fluke would be the solution to my 2023 wolfpacking bass, but it wasn't. It was rod tip up and reeling like crazy that fooled some 2024 wolfpackers. Of course, YMMV.

[Blue Raider Bob]

12 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

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 😂

 

 

 

I'm going to get you a trolling motor handle whether you use it or not!

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

I'm going to get you a trolling motor handle whether you use it or not!

 

Will you also buy me a floatplane whether I want it or not?*

 

 

 

 

 

*I do, I do want one!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Haha, I fix that stupid motor seemingly weekly.

 

Yesterday I broke a blade off a prop, and the day before the tilting mechanism broke.

 

The term b.o.a.t. still applies to the S.S. Minnow too.....it's just b.o.a.d......bust out another dollar instead of thousand 🤣

[thediscochef]

4 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

@thediscochef: Have you lost weight? Nice bass!

Thanks! She hit like a freight train. And yes, I have. Just over 40lbs since mid November. I appreciate that you noticed

[Blue Raider Bob]

22 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

Just over 40lbs since mid November.

Dude !  That's a half pound a day! I will always admire people with discipline! Unlike me. I'll loose five only to celebrate at Las Fiestas! And, you did it over the holidays! Way to go!

[TnRiver46]

Had an interesting fun fishing trip on Super Bowl Sunday. The water was incredibly swift, my buddy with his robot trolling motor and spot lock was fishing nearby and the spot lock was no match. I beached my craft in an eddy and started casting a swimbait. Whilst doing so, I noticed a bunch of shad swimming by. Got the trusty cast net out and got some, then deployed one on a jighead. Something took off with it and swam really fast, I thought surely a striper. After a few good runs in the current, I got some video rolling. Some bald eagles were up in a nest nearby, noisily cheering me on. If you turn the volume up on the video , you can hear them well. I took this as a sign that the eagles would win the Super Bowl, go birds! When I finally got the fish near the boat, it turned out to be a medium sized drum. They aren’t typically that fast but this one sure was ! I then caught another small drum and decided to go try something else for a bit. Found a slower spot tucked in behind a bridge pillar and tried some night crawlers. My first fish was a nice shellcracker that I let go. Then I got a couple nice bluegill and a yellow perch that I also let go. Well they just kept biting so I decided to start keeping some and ended with nice little mess of tasty fillets. A largemouth even decided to show up and bite a nightcrawler. After I ran out of nightcrawlers, I went back down to the eddy where the drum were. This time I got an even bigger 26” drum but it didn’t fight nearly as hard as the first one. Cleaned the fish and froze the fillets, took a shower and made it to a Super Bowl party in the nick of time. Water temp was 48 

 

the blooper pics near the bottom are a goose that identified as a pigeon, trying to nest on a bridge 60-70 feet off the ground. And an accidental photo of a shellcracker that flipped up right when I hit the button 

 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

Once again, I want to live like @TnRiver46. He lives with gusto!

 

40 lbs.??!!?? That deserves a Texas yee-haw, @thediscochef!

[thediscochef]

2 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Dude !  That's a half pound a day! I will always admire people with discipline! Unlike me. I'll loose five only to celebrate at Las Fiestas! And, you did it over the holidays! Way to go!

 

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

Once again, I want to live like @TnRiver46. He lives with gusto!

 

40 lbs.??!!?? That deserves a Texas yee-haw, @thediscochef!

Thanks y'all, I feel better for sure. I was 247 then, and at the doctor this morning I was 203. It's been work and I still have about 10-15 to go. Hopefully I can get a workout from lifting bass again soon 

[Bluebasser86]

Made it out on Sunday in the yak on the power plant. I thought about skipping it and going to a different lake to avoid the crowds after the idiocy I dealt with out there last week, but I decided I'd go and stay until boats got bad or until the fish quit biting, whichever came first. It was a cold morning with a pretty good breeze, I headed straight to my point that I got ran off of last week and it was on right away. There was tiny shad everywhere, looking like they were stunned from the cold snap, and fish were occasionally boiling on them. Water temps had come up about 6* since the week before and I don't know if that or the cold front rolling in or maybe a combination of both, but something had them moving. I had several baits to try but my guides were freezing all day, and that always messes with my willingness to switch up too much. They were chewing a Ned real good like usual, but I had some Geecrack Neko Hack neko rigging tools I wanted to try, so I tossed a Neko rigged Big Bite Baits worm and stuck a nice one. When I say these fish were gorging on dying shad, I'm starting to wonder if it's possible for a bass to eat itself to death?

18.5" and 5.08lbs, a fitting football on Superb Owl Sunday. 

 

Very next cast with the Neko, another bite, another heavy fish. I was thinking megabag at this point.

This one was "only" 4 and some change.

 

Those would be my only big bites of the day though. I caught fish steadily the entire 9 hours I was on the water, to the tune of over 30 fish and constantly had them boiling around me, but the big ones stopped biting after those 2. I did catch the biggest little bass I've ever seen. I thought it was a white bass when I first saw it flash under the surface. Nope, just a 13 incher that weighed 1.75lbs.

Huge winter storm coming again this week. We're looking 6" to a foot of snow on Wednesday and really cold temps, not looking good for next weekend. Might have to finally do some trailer maintenance that I've been neglecting all winter. 

[Swamp Girl]

@Bluebasser86: I laughed out loud at your bass. They're, they're preposterous! 

[Aaron_H]

46 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Made it out on Sunday in the yak on the power plant. I thought about skipping it and going to a different lake to avoid the crowds after the idiocy I dealt with out there last week, but I decided I'd go and stay until boats got bad or until the fish quit biting, whichever came first. It was a cold morning with a pretty good breeze, I headed straight to my point that I got ran off of last week and it was on right away. There was tiny shad everywhere, looking like they were stunned from the cold snap, and fish were occasionally boiling on them. Water temps had come up about 6* since the week before and I don't know if that or the cold front rolling in or maybe a combination of both, but something had them moving. I had several baits to try but my guides were freezing all day, and that always messes with my willingness to switch up too much. They were chewing a Ned real good like usual, but I had some Geecrack Neko Hack neko rigging tools I wanted to try, so I tossed a Neko rigged Big Bite Baits worm and stuck a nice one. When I say these fish were gorging on dying shad, I'm starting to wonder if it's possible for a bass to eat itself to death?

18.5" and 5.08lbs, a fitting football on Superb Owl Sunday. 

 

Very next cast with the Neko, another bite, another heavy fish. I was thinking megabag at this point.

This one was "only" 4 and some change.

 

Those would be my only big bites of the day though. I caught fish steadily the entire 9 hours I was on the water, to the tune of over 30 fish and constantly had them boiling around me, but the big ones stopped biting after those 2. I did catch the biggest little bass I've ever seen. I thought it was a white bass when I first saw it flash under the surface. Nope, just a 13 incher that weighed 1.75lbs.

Huge winter storm coming again this week. We're looking 6" to a foot of snow on Wednesday and really cold temps, not looking good for next weekend. Might have to finally do some trailer maintenance that I've been neglecting all winter. 

 

I'm surprised some of those fish can even swim with how fat they are, my goodness.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@Bluebasser86  Mother of Pearl!!!!!!!!  Some of the fattest Bass I've seen!

 

Man that's awesome.   What's the lake record in that place?   I'd fish that place 24/7 😎

 

@TnRiver46  Fantastic report and what a fun day!  Those bream are beautiful too.    I can only imagine how happy that drum makes Roadwarrior wherever he may be 🤣

[Team9nine]

We hit 80 yesterday, but struggled to top 50 today under partly cloudy skies and an east wind at 6-10 mph. Water temps cooled slightly, now 53-54 deg. Found bass working shad schools uplake and landed between 25-30 keepers in just over 3 hours. Fun afternoon on the lake. Now we wait and see what 3 straight days of heavy rain does to everything. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

The BR crew is doing it all, catching big numbers, big bass, and even big drum plus delicious bream. All the weights are up except for @thediscochef's scale!

[TnRiver46]

11 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

 Now we wait and see what 3 straight days of heavy rain dies to everything. 
 

I think I know the answer 

 

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@Bluebasser86  Mother of Pearl!!!!!!!!  Some of the fattest Bass I've seen!

 

Man that's awesome.   What's the lake record in that place?   I'd fish that place 24/7 😎

Lake record is 10lbs 15oz, caught not too long ago in a tournament on the guys first cast of the morning on a DT6, he’s got a good video of it on YouTube. Our state record is only a pound heavier. I’ve caught more fish over 7 out of that lake than all other lakes in the state combined, but I’ve never broke 8 yet. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Heak yeah Clayton, that place is the stuff of big Bass dreams.

 

The WR Striped Bass was caught not too far from me, and it was using a cheat code where warm water flows out of steam plant IIrc.   I fished a hot water discharge area on Lay Lake which was good fishing in the winter but never seen fat fish like your lake.   Those fish are crazy. 

 

eta:  You'll get an 8 before summer if you get to fish it some more 

[Swamp Girl]

For a long time, I thought he was called @Bluebasser86 because he protects and serves, but I learned today that he's also called Bluebasser because he catches bass shaped like Bluegills. I think he's called 86 because he 86s all our hopes of ever catching bass as fat as his. 

[The Baron]

On 2/9/2025 at 5:54 PM, LrgmouthShad said:

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???

Hey, that’s doubles digits. Just say you caught a 12 and leave it at that. 👍🏻

[Blue Raider Bob]

13 hours ago, Team9nine said:

landed between 25-30 keepers in just over 3 hours.

EPIC !!!!   Sounds like a dream day on the water!

[GreenPig]

Visited my friends pond/nursery in the cold misting rain and caught 15 micros in 2 hours. Caught them all on weightless Zoom finesse worms drug very slowly.