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[Pat Brown]

Looks like beaver lodges might be a good thing on that body of water.  Definitely always prefer muddier water with more current.  Good stuff @bp_fowler 🙂🙂🙂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[928JLH]

Went out Friday morning. Caught a few dinks on keitechs. The weatherman should be fired. 15mph winds came up. In frustration I paddled as hard as I could into some tullies out of the wind. Flipped a Jika rig around and long casted through sparse tullies. Spawn is definitely in bloom now.

[thediscochef]

Stuck a couple after a shoot with red bull. Tough day but a good topwater bite fixes a lot

[Smirak]

Pulled up so much vegetation with her, I thought I had hooked a DD…scale batteries dead, I’m thinking in the 6 range…

[Bazoo]

[Lottabass]

21 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I’m mostly just out there crappie fishing for bass 😅 Everyone is out there powerfishing while I’m fishing a ML spinning rod with a 1/16oz jighead and a 4” piece of straight plastic that does almost nothing, except catch lots of fish.

Shades of Charlie Brewer!!!!!

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, Lottabass said:

Shades of Charlie Brewer!!!!!

I did catch several on a slider head Sunday 😅

[Fishlegs]

Black bass were tough to come by yesterday, but the fishing was not slow. We caught 6 smallmouth in the 2 lb range, but we caught a total of 45 fish in about 6 hours. My friend caught a 10.5 lb buffalo, and I caught the longest skipjack I've ever seen in person (over 18" & over 2 lbs). Everything else was white bass after white bass. The dogwoods are blooming, and the white bass showed up on cue.

 

We tried several lures, but the only thing that worked was a mid-depth crankbait. Everything I caught was with a green/brown craw pattern with a red belly (pictured), and my friend was using an orange belly craw pattern. The only bad thing was the wind stealing my favorite fishing hat. They were releasing water at 80,000 cfs so we couldn't catch it before the current pulled it under. It's hard to complain about a day where you average catching a fish every 8 minutes, but I'll sure miss that hat. Otherwise, it was a great day.

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@Fishlegs:

 

A. White bass are a blast.

 

B. That skipjack is crazy big.

 

C. Nice smallie.

[Bluebasser86]

I had an early day at work (I’ve been working so many hours this week, it doesn’t feel like I’ve been home since Sunday). Getting off at 2 today felt great and the wind wasn’t howling for a change so I snuck out for a couple hours in the kayak. The fish were small but cooperative. I popped a couple under a dock on my Okuma X combo. Had to add a leader of 15lb Seaguar Pounce because I could see bottom in about 5’ of water. I was really impressed that I was able to accurately skip a 5” Bang Stickz with a 1/8oz tungsten. I didn’t think I’d be able to do it with a heavy action rod like that but it did it no problem. I also found someone’s boat in 8’ of water.

 

[Swamp Girl]

Someone should let @Bluebasser86 know that someone has hacked his account. Clayton would never go fishing and just catch some "small" bass. Clayton would cast a 1/64th ounce jig into a 50 mph gale a quarter mile to hook and land an eight-pound bass. Being a Kansas bass, it would be a perfect sphere, measuring an incredible 15 inches by 15 inches by 15 inches. And then he'd hook a 100-pound blue cat to simply have it tow him back to the dock. 

[Team9nine]

Been a while since I’ve been on a good jigging spoon bite, but after a lot of futile casting and trolling with a variety of other baits, I finally figured out that was what they wanted. Caught a good 2 dozen bass up to 3 lbs. in a stiff south wind with regular gusts of 20-25 mph. 
 

 

 

 

 

[Lottabass]

On 3/30/2025 at 8:02 AM, Swamp Girl said:

@Lottabass: Holy Greenies, Al, those are big bass!!!

@Swamp Girl Thank you!  I'm blessed to have good lakes to fish.

[Dwight Hottle]

9-10 release.

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

Now Dwight's red hot too. Way to go, my faraway friend! Great photo. It's not just big bass being caught, but they're being photographed in cool, creative ways too.

[bp_fowler]

The rain had been relentless for the last 48 hours.  All of my spots nearby are blown out for the time being.  Decided to head out east to the AEP. 
 

Bit cooler today with a steady drizzle and overcast skies.  Wind was dead though mostly so that made it much easier to take the canoe out.  
 

When I pulled up to the launch I saw tons of smaller bass cruising in the clear shallow water.  I tossed a Ned around and caught a half dozen dinks before I decided to put my canoe in and search for larger fish.

 

I used a bluegill pattern bladed jig caught another 12.  Including my best of the day this fish right here.

 

Had something big hooked further down the way   But it ran into weeds near the bottom and came off.  Also on my way back out spooked two more that were easily the same size as the big one I caught.  
 

The bigs were spread out, some near shallow cover, the others near the middle in deeper water.  Next time I’m here I’ll need to be equipped to fish not only the shallow stuff but also the deeper spots and steep rocky bluff banks.

 

[TnRiver46]

@bp_fowlernice fish and nice boat! Cool spot to fish

[Swamp Girl]

@bp_fowler: You are crushing it with your new canoe! 

 

1 hour ago, bp_fowler said:

But it ran into weeds near the bottom and came off.

 

Story of my life. It's amazing how they use weeds to free themselves.

[bp_fowler]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

@bp_fowlernice fish and nice boat! Cool spot to fish

Thanks!  And yeah it is a pretty neat spot (s).  If it was just a bit closer I’d probably spend all my time fishing there. 

 

32 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

@bp_fowler: You are crushing it with your new canoe! 

I’m loving it.  It lets me fish places I’d never be able to fish from the bank and it gives me a whole new way to fish my regular spots.  My only regret is that I didn’t go bigger.  

[Swamp Girl]

7 minutes ago, bp_fowler said:

My only regret is that I didn’t go bigger.

 

Smaller gives you some advantages. Utilize them. For example, I launch at places bigger boats can't launch.

[N Florida Mike]

Got a good fish in the church pond where I’m still after Mrs Big…This one was 4 pounds 5 oz.

[Alex from GA]

Nothing wrong with that one; you'll get her.

[IcatchDinks]

First fish of the year here in Michigan. I had about an hour window this afternoon to get out of the house while the children napped. Hit up the pond where I caught my PB last year. Third cast with a soft plastic minnow on a jig head, and I hooked up. It was my only fish today, but I'm thinking I'm back! 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, IcatchDinks said:

I'm thinking I'm back! 

 

You are back, Papa! Good job.

[softwateronly]

  Spent some time with the country bass, and didn't catch any worth a pic.  Lots of 1-2lb bucks sitting on the 12-15' break.  They were very susceptible to highly erratic cranks and twitch baits.  The duo bayruf 85 hw seek is a blast to fish, and even called em up at times from 20-25'fow at times.  I meant to bring it back with me to the city, but forgot.  

  So I spent the next 2 mornings fishing in the city and boy did the smallies cooperate.  Water clarity was dropping as the winds shifted, but the bass were on bait.  Shaking a minnow was catching every few casts but playing the swirling current was tricky.  1/2oz scrounger would only get bites when ripped and killed, but the lip would leave a poor hookup ratio.  Walked a 12g br head near the bottom, and immediately got smashed.  Unfortunately, the hooks on those heads are slightly brittle, and I left the point of my only 12g in the upper lip of a nice 4ish lb bass.  So I decided to put a 4" deathadder on a 3/8oz ballhead and mimic the scrounger retrieve.  I was met with instant success and access to more water with my longer casts.

  In about 7hrs over 2 mornings, ended up with at least 45 bass.  I'd bet on a 20lb+ bag each day with another thrown in for great luck.  Couldn't leave without dragging a jig/tube when the action slowed down, and got rewarded with 3 more good fish.  Lots of rambling and boring pics, but the variation in color always fascinates me.

 

scott