Latest Catch Pics Thread

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Back to back to back posts of members getting on the board for the first time in 2025......Let's GOOOOO gents!   

 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@J._Bricker: Nice bass, but I couldn't take my eyes off your outerwear. I see an undershirt, a hoody, and a jacket. And it's 71 degrees! If you came to Maine, I think you'd have to wear five sleeping bags. 

 

I'm not complaining. I'm as jelly as Smuckers...both about the bass and that warm breeze.

[J._Bricker]

15 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

@J._Bricker: Nice bass, but I couldn't take my eyes off your outerwear. I see an undershirt, a hoody, and a jacket. And it's 71 degrees! If you came to Maine, I think you'd have to wear five sleeping bags. 

 

I'm not complaining. I'm as jelly as Smuckers...both about the bass and that warm breeze.

Ah, yes Katy hahaha it was 71 degrees- when I got back to the ramp and started the truck. In another three months air temperatures will rise to around triple digits here in the Big Valley, fortunately it’s a comfortable dry heat. And all that haberdashery is welcome when the boats on plane, I was heading back when I decided to hit one last spot because I was there. Definitely glad I did 😁. 
 

And as for the Smuckers comment- how’d you guess what I brought for lunch? It’s my jam 

[Swamp Girl]

@J._Bricker: Great, just great! Now I have three reasons to be jelly:

 

1. Your warm weather.

 

2. Your big bass.

 

3. You were full of jelly!

[Bluebasser86]

Went out Sunday hoping to find some big prespawners with the warming trend. If I'd put every bass I caught together, I could have made a good 5 fish limit, problem was, I caught 52 of them. 52 bass, and the biggest was 13", smallest was 9.25". I don't know how I caught that many fish and not a single one was any bigger, but I sure did. I did manage to Ned rig a limit of trout, including a nice 20.5" fish, and this really fat 18" rainbow.

This was my last trip locally. I'll be headed to Texas Friday. 

[Swamp Girl]

@Bluebasser86: Considering you catch the thickest bass at Bass Resource, that was a weird trip. At least the rainbow represented

[Bluebasser86]

5 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

@Bluebasser86: Considering you catch the thickest bass at Bass Resource, that was a weird trip. At least the rainbow represented

I'm hoping I'm saving up to catch a DD at Fork next week. 

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I'm hoping I'm saving up to catch a DD at Fork next week. 

 

If that's the way it works, I'm going dink fishing too!

[Fishlegs]

I've struggled fishing from the bank so far this year so I was excited about my first trip of 2025 in a boat. The air temp started out in the upper 30s, but warmed up to a perfect 70 degrees. Bluebird skies, 50 degree water temp. It started immediately. I hooked up on the first cast! I was pumped...until it turned out to be a drum. Sorry, no picture @TnRiver46.🤣

 

That was the last bite for over an hour, and the next bite was just a dink smallmouth. After the dink we got nothing for about two hours. The wind was blowing hard against the current which made it tough to manage the boat. We were getting frustrated, but things finally started improving. After only catching two fish for the first three hours, we got 8 in the next two hours. The best two are pictured below. It slowed down again after that burst of activity. We only managed 2 more over the final two hours, but these two fish are enough to make it a good day.

 

4 lb 9 oz smallmouth

 

4 lb 13 oz largemouth

[Swamp Girl]

@Fishlegs:

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@Fishlegs   What an amazing day!    Such beautiful and healthy fish as well.   

[IYAOYAS]

well at least it looks cool. Spotted bass on Hartwell have some of the most vivid coloring of all spots.

[Jar11591]

@IYAOYAS that really is a beautifully colored spot. 

[Swamp Girl]

@IYAOYAS: It's a beautiful bass!

[Team9nine]

If the Rapala digital reads 5.95, can we just call it a 6 pounder and assume it reads a few hundredths of a pound light 😆 

 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@Team9nine: Another beauty! I treasure six-pounders. I don't see many of them up north. Thanks for the water photo. I love those!