Latest Catch Pics Thread

[bp_fowler]

12 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

@bp_fowler: Another beauty for you! Is @Pat Brown selling his mojo on the open market now? Was that a canoe bass or shoreline bass?

If @Pat Brown were selling his mojo I’d be willing to pay top dollar to learn the arcane art of the frog.   🐸 🥷🏻
 

Shore bass, winds gusting up to 30mph today. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

52 minutes ago, bp_fowler said:

I’d be willing to pay top dollar to learn the arcane art of the frog.

 

Me too! Frogs are hard!!!

 

52 minutes ago, bp_fowler said:

Shore bass, winds gusting up to 30mph today. 

 

Whoa. Next week, you'll be posting five-pounders you caught in a tornado.

 

 

"I don't know why no one ever thought to cast into a tornado," you'll explain. "They are water and suck up all kinds of things, bass included. However, I'm still working on catching tornado bass with a frog."

[Bird]

16 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Me too! Frogs are hard!!!

 

 

Whoa. Next week, you'll be posting five-pounders you caught in a tornado.

 

 

"I'm still working on catching tornado bass with a frog."

Shorter casts and try to stay in the eye 😁

[Pat Brown]

Anyone who knows how hard I've been grinding this spring/winter for that frog bass knows that was my trophy of trophies for the year pretty much.  Anything else from here out is icing on the cake.

 

Thanks for all the kind words y'all make me blush.

 

Frog fishing is basically simple - be dumb enough to keep throwing the Frog and eventually a big one eats it.  😂😂😂🐸🐸🐸🎣🎣🎣

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, Bird said:

Shorter casts and try to stay in the eye 😁

 

I believe in BP. He can do it.

 

He'll say, "I'll fowler that twister, for sure! Those 'nado bass won't escape me!"

[keagbassr]

Got out on the water fo the first two times this week. Tues. I caught 10 all on a spinnerbait. Mostly dinks but hafd 1 about 5.5 shake off but got a chunky short 3-2 about 5 minutes later fo the best of that day. Today(thurs.) I only managed to scrounge up 3 bites,1 on a bladed jig and 2 on a spinnerbait. With one of those the biggest  weighing 5-2.

[TnRiver46]

@keagbassr is baaaaccckkk!!!!

[Swamp Girl]

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

@keagbassr is baaaaccckkk!!!!

 

Heck yeah, he is!

[keagbassr]

8 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

@keagbassr is baaaaccckkk!!!!

I'm never really gone. I just sometimes like to hang out under my 'lurker rock' for a while🙂

[Swamp Girl]

10 minutes ago, keagbassr said:

I'm never really gone. I just sometimes like to hang out under my 'lurker rock' for a while🙂

 

I think I've cast at your lurker rock and hooked you briefly. I got footage of you leaping and throwing my hook.

 

[TnRiver46]

I knew you were just waiting for a thaw to continue catching big uns

[Bluebasser86]

Just got back from Texas this morning. The Bassmaster Kayak Classic was an adventure but the week leading up to it was pure awesomeness. I caught several bass over 5, 3 over 6, 2 over 7, 2 over 8, and one nearly 10 pounds, my second largest bass ever. Of course, I never lost a big fish all week, until tournament day, then I lost 2, but that's fishing. I'm proud with my efforts and how I did on a notoriously tough lake with no previous experience. I finished above some of the biggest names in the sport, so I did okay in my book. I'll get to writing up a recap and posting pictures and videos as I have time, but here's a little sample for now.

 

[Fishlegs]

12 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I finished above some of the biggest names in the sport

The names don’t get much bigger than @Bluebasser86 to the BR community. Looking forward to the write up.

[Swamp Girl]

48 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

The names don’t get much bigger than @Bluebasser86 to the BR community. Looking forward to the write up.

 

We call him Mr. Bluebasser86!

 

[928JLH]

Few from my kiddos first time Kayaking yesterday. Water temp 58 degrees with smallies bedding in AZ. Haven't been out in a long time.

[softwateronly]

@Bluebasser86  Congrats!!  That's a showing!

 

 

Air temps in the mid 30's, got out there for a couple hours in the clean water of a wind protected marina in NW indiana and was sticking them one after the other till the sun popped out.  Terrible pics incoming and still no scale, but landed what certainly is over 5lb and my pb.  All in all, about 18-20 in 3hrs.

 

scott

 

couple chunks to start...

 

 

A real nice one...

 

bonus brown?...

 

 

my pb....

 

[Fishlegs]

@softwateronly What a fish! Congrats on the new PB!

 

@Swamp Girl I assure you there is nothing but respect for Mr. Bluebasser in my book!

[softwateronly]

Just now, Fishlegs said:

@softwateronly What a fish! Congrats on the new PB!

 

@Swamp Girl I assure you there is nothing but respect for Mr. Bluebasser in my book!

Thanks!  Just an absolute pig who's body is brutalized.  That's the most beautiful ugly fish to me.

 

scott

[Bluebasser86]

The Adventures of Blue goes to Lake Fork started on the 14th at 2am with an 8 hour drive to the lake. The wind was supposed to be howling all day (a recurring theme during the week), so I decided to launch from the Lake Fork Highway 19 Ramp because it was pretty protected. 

 

I put in a hard 6 hours on the water there, had 1 bite I think was a bass on a frog, caught 2 catfish on bladed jigs, and found the motherlode of gar and spawning carp before I decided to move to a different ramp. 
I moved to Fisherman’s Cove Ramp for the last 4 hours of my day. It took about 2 hours before I finally got a bite. My first Lake Fork bass was a Whopping 13.50” bass on a Neko rig. I caught a 12.25” fish on a jerkbait off a boat ramp and missed one more off a seawall on the Neko. I was not feeling great about my first day on Fork.

Day 2 I launched at Coffee Creek and went under the bridge with the intention of flipping and frogging the shallow grass. After a couple hours, I had 1 bite flipping that I missed. I headed out of the shallows and around the point to try and fish a channel swing point. Unfortunately there was boats all over it so I continued around and found some dead cattails with emerging cattails mixed in on the backside of the point I wanted to flip. As soon as I started down the bank flipping, I got cutoff by a boat about 20’ in front of me but decided to just continue on my course. Didn’t take long before I caught a little 15” fish, and a few flips later, I got another a little bigger. I figured out any spot with laid over cattails right on the bank, had a fish under it. I went from no fish, to 7 or 8 in about 30 minutes. The bite stopped when I got to the back of the pocket and there was nothing on the front, so I went to the backside of the next point. There wasn’t as much grass, but I flipped the little bit there was. One of my lifts was greeted with a little resistance so I hammered the rod back and a good fish was thrashing on the surface immediately and quickly in the net. It took me well over a solid days, but I finally had a nice Lake Fork bass in the boat. 

 

I found one more clump of cattails and flipped a 16” fish out of there, and that was it, radio silence the rest of the day.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

On 3/19/2025 at 8:59 PM, Swamp Girl said:

@Pat Brown: Your little boat looks a lot like Alex/@AlabamaSpothunter's boat.

 

You both do so much more with less. @pdxfisher too. And @softwateronly is on the shore! And there are others who catch more with less. 

You're the Queen of K.I.S.S. though Katie 😎

 

You don't need no stinking Glitter Rocket, electronics, or gas/electric propulsion 😁

[Swamp Girl]

@softwateronly: You are smokin' hot!

 

 

3 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

You're the Queen of K.I.S.S. though Katie 😎

 

You don't need no stinking Glitter Rocket, electronics, or gas/electric propulsion 😁

 

Ha! I wouldn't have it any other way. Rather, I couldn't have it any other way or I wouldn't be able to fish most of the water I fish.

[Bluebasser86]

Part 2 of Blue goes to Lake Fork started on Day 3 when I decided to launch from our campground at Patriot Park. I was flipping docks and not overly impressed with the area but caught a decent fish pretty quickly on a Bang Stick under a dock. Just a few minutes later, I caught little bigger fish, around 17”, on a wacky rig. As I worked around the pocket, I was catching them pretty regularly on the T-rig and wacky rig. Lots of people were sight fishing, but I don’t have much luck with catching bedding bass so I wasn’t spending any time with the beds. As I was getting to the backside of the pocket, I saw what looked like a light spot a little deeper, and flipping the Bang Stick on it. My line took off immediately and a strong, heavy fish went ripping off for deeper water. She took me back and forth around the front of the kayak before I could get her in the net. My second big fish of the trip was a 21.25” 6.80lb chunk.

 

The bite stayed pretty steady into the next pocket, mainly on the wacky rig. There was 3 standing trees that were growing in the water. The first one was empty. The second one, my wacky rig was picked up and slowly swam off with. My hook set was super heavy, if I was at home I would have been thinking catfish, but then the fish jumped. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a bass make me nervous during a fight that wasn’t in a tournament, but I was nervous fighting this fish. I had 3 boats watching me and a chorus of cheers when I got the net under her. 
In all the years I’ve fished in Kansas, over 30 years, I’ve never caught an 8 pound bass, it took me 3 days in Texas.

I caught a few more small fish, covered a lot of water, saw 2 swamp puppies and almost ran over one,

Day 3 was a big success. I saw several other big fish caught, it was obvious this was a potential area for the tournament.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Let's go @softwateronly!   Congrats on such a beautiful smalljaw and PB!  

 

Awesome trip Clayton!!!!   That's more big fish than many will catch in years or a lifetime.   

 

Too many awesome posts/big fish to keep up with since I been gone, seems Spring is here or just right around the corner for the Bassresource universe.   Bad time to be a Bass it seems 😁

[Swamp Girl]

36 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

In all the years I’ve fished in Kansas, over 30 years, I’ve never caught an 8 pound bass, it took me 3 days in Texas.

 

@AlabamaSpothunter has praised Texas's bass rearing program many times.

 

34 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Too many awesome posts/big fish to keep up with since I been gone

 

It's been a heckuva spring for the BR gang. I seem to remember you, Alex, starting off the parade of beshemoths with your near DD and all your sixes, sevens, and eight-pounders.

 

 

[Bazoo]

Got this one today. He spit the hook just as I was flipping him on shore, and flopped on the bank and I grabbed him for a pic. Still counts!

 

Got a couple of his brethren with a beetle spin loaded with an FF sonar minnow.

 

 

These pretty flowers were growing all over the hillside.