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[N Florida Mike]

Got 7 this evening , all on 5 inch senkos. Stayed up at my end of the lake again and fished eel grass pockets. Had a couple on that felt bigger, but gave me the slip. I did get this one anyway.

Tried the frog again awhile, and nothing again. Frog bite has been almost non existent for me this summer.

Im not sure whats up with this weather but its been a very rainy but relatively cool summer . The fish have never slowed down this summer. It felt almost like the early fall out there this evening.

[MichaelCopeland]

Got out for a couple hours to a new lake, to me anyways, Ivan Lake in Cotton Valley, La. It has lots of potential plus lots of bank and 5 fishing piers to fish from. Wasn't there long enough to really figure anything out as it was too hot. Didn't catch any bass. Did catch another bowfin. No pic of it because it shook my bait as I got it on the bank and disappointed it wasn't a bass just pushed it back in the water with my foot. It was a cool catch though. It slammed my 110 Whopper Plopper. Sounded almost like a whip cracked when it hit. It was a pretty good sized one too. Almost as big as that 6lb 11oz one I posted earlier this year. After being back home for a while I was checking the line on the rod I caught it with for any nicks or abrasions and happened to notice the teeth marks it left behind. Some serious grooves in my 110. Glad I didn't have to deal with unhooking it! ?

[Glaucus]

Biggest Smallmouth ever on this particular river. Throwing the Ned Rig off the dam. It doesn't just catch dinks! I was shaking for awhile. My buddy gets credit for it too because he climbed down the wall and lipped it for me and raised it up to me so I didn't have to horse it up the wall and risk breaking it off. 

 

And then we waded down to some islands and this behemoth ate his Ned Rig. 

My buddy down the wall doing me a solid. 

[deep]

On 8/5/2018 at 12:53 PM, boostr said:

He won fish of the day!

 

 

 

That fish looks bigger than all of @EGbassing's 10 pounders!

[WolfyBrandon]

[August 06, 2018]

 

 

It's been 17 long days since Jeremy & I last fished. There was a bass tournament held last Saturday (4th). It's the summer season and temps are now reaching into the 90's. The past weekend saw a lot of pressure from both tournament & weekend anglers as well as recreational boaters. All in all, I was just happy to finally get back out and get some casts in, and thought even if I only caught a little 8 incher to stay consistent, I would consider that a bonus.

 

Well I caught that little 8 incher...

 

 

As well as a few upgrades...

 

 

 

WolfyBrandon

 

[NHBull]

13 minutes ago, Glaucus said:

Biggest Smallmouth ever on this particular river. Throwing the Ned Rig off the dam. It doesn't just catch dinks! I was shaking for awhile. My buddy gets credit for it too because he climbed down the wall and lipped it for me and raised it up to me so I didn't have to horse it up the wall and risk breaking it off. 

 

And then we waded down to some islands and this behemoth ate his Ned Rig. 

My buddy down the wall doing me a solid. 

Great catch and thanks for not "long-arming " it......

[NYWayfarer]

My Nephew came for a visit this weekend. I took him and my son for a fishing trip to a local spot for some Smallmouth action. Everyone caught fish. It was a good trip. We got them on Ploppers, Dingers, Berkley Atomic Tubes and Ned Rig TRD's

 

[Glaucus]

Larry decided to eat my Ned Rig at the dam today. 

 

[haggard]

I got you all beat. Last Sunday landed this, no wonder they call these things "smallies" ?

 

In all fairness, I did land a PB smallie estimated 3-4 lb later in the day. No photo as I deep hooked her and had to focus on hook-free recovery/release ASAP. Thank you, through-the-gills method and @jbmaine for the tip on where to find her

 

[deep]

Not quite what I was hoping for, but apparently Tiny Swimbait doesn't discriminate.

 

 

Caught this one on a jika rig, and life was good.

 

 

Had to sit out a couple thunderstorms, but still got rained on. Rain stopped, I stuck another decent one, and called it a day.

 

 

[NHBull]

Fish on a rat.....doesn't get numbers, but better than average size

[Glaucus]

On 8/6/2018 at 8:10 PM, Glaucus said:

Biggest Smallmouth ever on this particular river. Throwing the Ned Rig off the dam. It doesn't just catch dinks! I was shaking for awhile. My buddy gets credit for it too because he climbed down the wall and lipped it for me and raised it up to me so I didn't have to horse it up the wall and risk breaking it off. 

 

And then we waded down to some islands and this behemoth ate his Ned Rig. 

My buddy down the wall doing me a solid. 

Followed that beast up with this one today. Another Ned Rig masterpiece. 

 

 

Didn't have time to get a horizontal photo of this one. She was of the same quality, however. Not sure which was bigger. She was missing half of her top lip, if you look closely. Don't believe I did that to her. 

 

Earlier in the day I caught another quality Smallie at the smaller dam. I thought she was going to be my star of the day until that one on top happened later on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the camaraderie of the bass fishing community. My friend helped me land the first big girl the other day, and then today there was a teenager there fishing with his dad and the teen saw me fighting her and without hesitation grabbed his net and netted her for me. Once again over the wall and I'd have possibly broke off. I'm going to have to start standing in the water below the wall.

[keagbassr]

Got out  Tues. And thurs. For about 5 hrs. Each day. Looking for frog bite but could only get a few to swipe or swat at them. Fell back on pitching again and got 1 decent one each day. 4-3 and 4-2 or vise versa can't remember.

[Team9nine]

Warm summer evenings and biting bass - a good combination in my book...

 

[The Bassman]

8 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Warm summer evenings and biting bass - a good combination in my book...

 

 

I'm finding myself accidentally walking right up on bass hanging out under the bank in muskrat holes.  Do you have a lot of that?  One can almost step through as the pond edge is really compromised.

[Team9nine]

2 hours ago, The Bassman said:

 

I'm finding myself accidentally walking right up on bass hanging out under the bank in muskrat holes.  Do you have a lot of that?  One can almost step through as the pond edge is really compromised.

I've got a couple ponds where they go nose to the shoreline in those depressions. Figured out many of those fish are catchable even after I spook them off the bank ?

[Jar11591]

Weird bite today, but the fish played nice, including some good ones. Topwater at daybreak produced nothing, but around 11 a.m. a very quick window opened up when they started hitting on top. Picked up 4 in a span of 10 minutes on the Pop Max before the topwater bite shut down again. 

 

Texas rigs also produced some good fish, a couple around laydowns and a few more in the thickest weeds I could find. 

10” Culprit ribbon-tail: 

 

[lo n slo]

it was nice and cool before the sun came up, but just like the bite, it got quite hot in a big hurry. caught close to 30 (mostly those “hammer handle” spots) but my big fish was this 20”+ largemouth. threw them a curve ball with this yellow bullet/june bug lizard deal too. crazy man.

*pics loaded out of sequence 

[A-Jay]

First Smallie this morning ~ on her way home.

She smashed a popper.

5-14.

A-Jay

[haggard]

The southern Maine smallies really made me work for it today. 6 hours in the yak with not even a nibble, and in the 7th hour three of them finally connected after a change in lure and technique. Apologies to the one I deep hooked. Got everything removed but she swam off slow   I'm starting to really love this feisty species.

 

[jbmaine]

Had a cool, foggy, drizzly morning. Was hoping for top water but had to go deep. My wife hooked a good one ( I'm holding it for her) then a couple minutes later it was my turn. Notice her rod and reel on the first pic. Nobody will ever convince me a Zebco isn't up to the task.

[haggard]

3 minutes ago, jbmaine said:

My wife hooked a good one ( I'm holding it for her) then a couple minutes later it was my turn. Notice her rod and reel on the first pic. Nobody will ever convince me a Zebco isn't up to the task.

Nicely done, both of you.

 

[Bluebasser86]

Third Thursday night win in a row for me last week, plus big bass. We had a 5 fish limit, every other boat blanked. 

 

[NYWayfarer]

 

I was on the river today trying out my new Whopper Plopper 75. I arrived just after the top water window closed but I tried anyway. Around 9:30 am I switched to a split shot rig, weedless hook and a Z-man Hula Stickz in green pumpkin on my Lew’s Mach II size 100 spinning reel/St Croix Premier med light rod, Suffix Elite 8lb line. Got a dink Smallmouth right away. Kept throwing the same bait for the next half hour, dragging and deadsticking. Around 10am “THUNK” I set the hook and my rod bent over. This was a big fish! Fought like a demon trying to keep her away from rocks and a fallen log. I was praying she stayed on as I was able to drag her ashore on the sandy beach. 

 

She weighed in at 3.33 pounds. My new PB Smallmouth Bass from the Hudson River.

 

[MIbassyaker]

Took a 6-hour float on a river stretch I haven't fished before. This particular river is small, but loaded with fish and absolutely teems with life all summer.  Most of the bass are small, but solid keepers are fairly frequent, with an occasional beast.  What I discovered on this stretch was a lot of skinny water in the 1-2 foot range (in some places, less, making it as much a wet hike as a float), interrupted by a deeper pool here and there. As it's late summer, I figured the fish would be concentrated in such pools if I could find them, and they were...although the productive spots seemed fewer and farther between than is other stretches I've fished on this river. 

 

I caught around 30 smallies, a couple of largemouth, and a few rock bass.  All came on a tiny torpedo and 4" senkos and ochos. About 10 were in the 14-16 inch range; these two are representative:

 

 

 

...and then near the end, I broke off a beast that looked to be  4+ lb, and would almost certainly have been a pb smallmouth for me.  It came up, got a look of my hand a foot away, and took one last hard dive... snap! 

 

Of course, the last time had I retied was 10 fish ago.