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[keagbassr]

Got out today for a quick 2.5hr. After work bonus trip. Got 7 pitching a double wide beaver with the best  checking in at 6-1

 

[tdcarl]

 

Not the biggest smallie by any means, but the first one I've ever caught on the fly. Here's to many more! Also didn't manage to get a decent picture of it because the darn thing flopped out of my hands and into the water right as I got the hook out.

 

[PAbasser927]

Got out this weekend and had my best day from the kayak yet.  Got my PB smallie along the way with this one!

[NYWayfarer]

I am addicted to the topwater bite. My new Whopper Plopper 75 loon color has failed to produce a fish for me. I had one fish on my very first cast with it. That one shook the hook at shore and nothing since then.

 

My Whopper Plopper 90 Bluegill color however is a solid producer.

 

[the reel ess]

There is this little spot next to a creek that I drive the Jeep to when I'm out riding with the wife or daughter. Last time i was there I had my sunglasses on and I could see a few small bass swimming around. I made a mental note of that and went back on my lunch break today. I caught 4 including a bass. there were bigger bass there and there were more pools to wade, but it's a lunch hour. I'm going back when I have more time to kill and can walk further. 

[WolfyBrandon]

[August 19, 2018]

 

This year is really flying by quick, I can already see it's starting to transition from summer to fall with the shorter days and colder temps. The forecast for today shows partly cloudy with a high of 88F, low of 59F, with falling pressure. That doesn't tell the whole story though, as the conditions lately have been heavily impacted by the smoke from the local wildfires...

 

 

It's been twelve days since our last fishing trip, and today we finally had the opportunity for another one. It was on our weekend, so I met up with Jeremy at his place around 6:00am to gear up and head out.

 

 

We arrived at the ramp and noticed it was pretty busy, which was expected being a Sunday. Water temp was ~71F, and had a little color to it probably from all the boat activity over the weekend. First location - we both quickly hooked into our first bass of the day, and Jeremy also landed a nice pike.

 

 

We left in a hurry this morning so I didn't have a chance to change/retie baits from our previous trip like I usually do. The bite seemed to slow down so I made a minor change swapping my current squarebill (KVD 1.5) to my new 6th Sense Crush 50x (Live Baby Bluegill) that I wanted to try out. The main difference between them that I noticed was the KVD is silent, where the 6th Sense has a faint rattle chamber.

 

 

We fished our first location for an hour and a half, and the only other thing I caught was an 8 & 1/2" yellow perch on the new squarebill. Time to move...

 

 

Second Location, 8:45am, Water temp 71F, Clarity 10ft+. First cast with the grub, I hook into my "fish of the day" that was followed by one of equal size to the boat.

 

17", 1 lb 12 oz

 

As we were moving along I saw a lot of activity out deep on the graph, so I made a short cast behind us and pulled up an 11 & 1/4" Smallmouth out of ~30ft. I did try working a lipless out deep along the bottom, but it never resulted in anything. Continuing to throw my new 6th Sense Squarebill, I hooked into something big... and told Jeremy to head for deep water. After a good long fight, it turned out to be my very own "freshwater cuda" aka pike.

 

9lb, 10oz

 

It was now after 11:00am, I made a long bomb cast with my topwater popper next to a dock as we were moving to another area that resulted in a 12" Smallmouth exploding on it, and becoming my 6th bass today. 11:30am Jeremy hooked his 3rd bass on a Spinnerbait that had ~7 followers with it.

 

 

Around noon he hooked into his 4th on the Spinnerbait, this time Largemouth. We decided to move again, but sadly our plans were cut short as the pull cord on the big motor broke (luckily it started on that pull). A change of plans put us at a different location within range of the ramp using the electric motor.

 

 

Third Location, 12:45pm, ~3ft Clarity, Water Temp 73F. Worked a Horny Toad across the entire field of pads within the area and only had a single small bass blow up on it multiple times, but no hookup. Using a grub, Jeremy made a perfect cast into an open boat house and hooked into his 5th bass today...

 

 

We fished our way back to the ramp and decided to call it a day at 2:15pm.

 

 

All in all it was a good day, we each caught 5 or more bass, no giants unless you count the sizable pike. Had to deal with the wind a bit during the first part of the day and waves from boat traffic during the later. Actually had one wave come over the front of the boat a bit... It's too bad the pull cord broke on us, was really hoping to continue on to some key locations, but at least we were able to catch something when trying to salvage the rest of the day. The smoke from the wildfires was thick on the drive home, this is the worst I've seen it this year...

 

 

WolfyBrandon

 

[TnRiver46]

@WolfyBrandon, those Pike are monsters! Didn't realize they lived out there. I always keep an extra t handle, some Paracord and thin tools on board  to route a new rip cord. Glad y'all didn't have to paddle all night! Haha

[MichaelCopeland]

Went out to Caney Lakes lower lake side this morning around 6am. The day started out kinda slow, I was throwing a Texas rigged drop shot with a 6" Aaron's Morning Dawn Roboworm tied on and a 1/4oz drop shot sinker. Got tons of bites, but nothing doing. Had to be bream or something pecking at my bait. Some of the hits were pretty hard too. Decided to go to the pier around 9:30am. Kept throwing the drop shot, because I was determined to catch something on it. Persistence and the virtue of patience paid off as I finally caught my first bass with a drop shot. It weighed in at 1lb 1oz. After several more bites and nothing doing with it, those darn bream...lol, I decided to start chunking my munky butt 110 Whopper Plopper. Made about 4 casts before this hawg sized bass annihilated it. When I got it on the pier, I just knew I had a new PB. Put it on the scale and was surprised to see it only weighed 3lbs 6oz. I weighed it several times just to be sure. It was pretty skinny. All head and no body...lol. Didn't get a measurement, but I guesstimate around 20" or so. If it had been eating good it surely woulda been a new PB. Probably woulda weighed at least 5lbs. Oh well, it was a great day out there all by myself. Plus I didn't break any rods this time either. I learned my lesson and when I got both bass close enough to the pier, I reached out, grabbed the line and pulled them up that way. All around great day. Now it's time for a shower and play some Yahtzee with my beautiful baby Linda! ?

[lo n slo]

that looks like an older fish Mike, probably a monster in her prime!

[MichaelCopeland]

10 minutes ago, lo n slo said:

that looks like an older fish Mike, probably a monster in her prime!

I thought that too, actually. The way she didn't put up any fight after annihilating my 110 WP. It was like it took everything out of her just to slam my bait. She swam off ok when I let her go though, so I don't know really.

[NYWayfarer]

14 hours ago, MichaelCopeland said:

Now that's what I call a BUCKET mouth. Nice fish, grats!

[the reel ess]

@MichaelCopeland Nice fish. I would have guessed it bigger than 4.5 lbs. Could possibly be a big and very mature male. They sometimes get long and skinny.

[MichaelCopeland]

5 hours ago, the reel ess said:

@MichaelCopeland Nice fish. I would ahve guessed it bigger than 4.5 lbs. Could possibly be a big and very mature male. They sometimes get long and skinny.

 

6 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

Now that's what I call a BUCKET mouth. Nice fish, grats!

Yeah when I saw it come up with that big bucket mouth and chomp my 110 WP I just knew I had a new PB. The next one I catch with a mouth that big is gonna have the belly to go with it...lol! ?

[lonnie g]

On 8/19/2018 at 8:51 PM, JustJames said:

A bad day and good day for me.

The good was, I went out fishing all night with my budd, the night pretty slow only caught a few of small one. Until the sun start rising, got 4-5 bites on buzz bait, follow by another 4 fish the last hour with brass n glass.

The biggest of the brunch.

 

The bad, pretty bad.

I broke the tip of my favorite dropshot rod about 2 guides down (4"). I was in a hurry and closed garage door over the rod. This is Shimano Crucial dropshot casting rod CRC-D611M. I love this rod it is rate down to 1/8oz but got a very good backbone. I do have spare Shimano Compare worm/Jig rod with same 1/8oz rate but backbone is not comparable (too soft).

I can't do the night thing , mosquitos like me to much.  sorry about the rod , nice fish tho

On 8/21/2018 at 5:28 PM, MichaelCopeland said:

Went out to Caney Lakes lower lake side this morning around 6am. The day started out kinda slow, I was throwing a Texas rigged drop shot with a 6" Aaron's Morning Dawn Roboworm tied on and a 1/4oz drop shot sinker. Got tons of bites, but nothing doing. Had to be bream or something pecking at my bait. Some of the hits were pretty hard too. Decided to go to the pier around 9:30am. Kept throwing the drop shot, because I was determined to catch something on it. Persistence and the virtue of patience paid off as I finally caught my first bass with a drop shot. It weighed in at 1lb 1oz. After several more bites and nothing doing with it, those darn bream...lol, I decided to start chunking my munky butt 110 Whopper Plopper. Made about 4 casts before this hawg sized bass annihilated it. When I got it on the pier, I just knew I had a new PB. Put it on the scale and was surprised to see it only weighed 3lbs 6oz. I weighed it several times just to be sure. It was pretty skinny. All head and no body...lol. Didn't get a measurement, but I guesstimate around 20" or so. If it had been eating good it surely woulda been a new PB. Probably woulda weighed at least 5lbs. Oh well, it was a great day out there all by myself. Plus I didn't break any rods this time either. I learned my lesson and when I got both bass close enough to the pier, I reached out, grabbed the line and pulled them up that way. All around great day. Now it's time for a shower and play some Yahtzee with my beautiful baby Linda! ?

heck of a mouth on that last fish , looked like you had a fun day, nice ones

[MichaelCopeland]

37 minutes ago, lonnie g said:

I can't do the night thing , mosquitos like me to much.  sorry about the rod , nice fish tho

heck of a mouth on that last fish , looked like you had a fun day, nice ones

Thanks brother! It was a pretty fun day. Just wish the belly on that last one woulda went with that mouth...lol! ?

[Fairtax4me]

So after a month of waiting for my river to clean up so I can see to wade it again, I got one day on it... It rained like a hurricane the night after and its up three feet and solid mud again. I might get to fish it in another month! 

 

Either way, my buddy has been getting big into fly fishing and he wanted to catch a smallmouth on the fly. We hit the river Sunday at 7:30 am and he caught his first smallie on the fly rod after about 3 casts! He kinda struggled the rest of the day, trying to get the hang of fishing different lures in the current while wading, but I think he got a dozen or so.  We only fished maybe 3/4 mile stretch of river in 8 hours, but it is loaded with 8-12" smallies and has the occasional 2-3lber cruising around. I did what I always do, and went with a bag of senkos, some blue and chartreuse keitechs, and a bluegill plopper 90. Got one to hit the plopper but didn't hook it. I ended up with maybe 18 for the day (didn't really keep a close count after ten) Bunch of short strikes and/or missed hooksets especially on the Keitech for some reason. My biggest of the day came out of a hole that I fish all the time and know it's kind of a hot spot for these brownies to sit in when the current is up.  

 

Can't compete with AJ but I SAW one that's gotta be close to half the weight of that last giant he posted! 

Still had an awesome day. Haven't had the time lately to fish like I want to and the next few weekends will be much the same, but I'm looking forward to a big charter trip out to the Gulf Stream for a day! 

 

[SDoolittle]

Ordinarily, I wouldn't be posting a picture of a 3.25 lb bass, but this one earned it's 15 minutes of fame as the second hardest fighting bass I've ever caught. She turned my boat 90 degrees and nearly wedged me between two docks. She stayed deep and pulled so hard that I just knew that I was hooked up with a double digit bass. The pictures don't really do justice, but this girl was buff! She reminded me of one of those overgrown bluegill whose body looks too big for their heads. I'm pretty sure that she would have tested positive for PEDs! The only bass that has ever fought me harder weighed over 12 lbs.

[PNW LipRipper]

37 minutes ago, SDoolittle said:

Ordinarily, I wouldn't be posting a picture of a 3.25 lb bass, but this one earned it's 15 minutes of fame as the second hardest fighting bass I've ever caught. She turned my boat 90 degrees and nearly wedged me between two docks. She stayed deep and pulled so hard that I just knew that I was hooked up with a double digit bass. The pictures don't really do justice, but this girl was buff! She reminded me of one of those overgrown bluegill whose body looks too big for their heads. I'm pretty sure that she would have tested positive for PEDs! The only bass that has ever fought me harder weighed over 12 lbs.

Dam that bass has linebacker shoulders

[TnRiver46]

Awesome fish! I love the ones that fight hard. That fish will probably lay eggs just so it could eat its own young! Haha

[NHBull]

Any day I get 3 over 3lbs, it's a good day.

It's a good day

[lo n slo]

we had a low of 57 last night and i could really feel it while cruising across the lake in the little johnny this morning. but i aint gonna complain about it one bit! blue bird skies and a pesky NE breeze, changing to SE, never seemed to bother the fish, just the fisherman. caught close to 25, mixed bag of spots and largemouth. life is good.

[NHBull]

Seams 3 is the lucky number for the week thanks to the Fat Ika. Lately it has been my jid substitute 

[Team9nine]

Still biting with the cooler weather we had come through the past few days. Back to near 90 again starting tomorrow after a big line of storms moves through. Half on top last night, half not...

 

[Glaucus]

Waiting on the other couple to start wading today and this happened. What an amazing start!

 

 

[TnRiver46]

23 hours ago, lo n slo said:

we had a low of 57 last night and i could really feel it while cruising across the lake in the little johnny this morning. but i aint gonna complain about it one bit! blue bird skies and a pesky NE breeze, changing to SE, never seemed to bother the fish, just the fisherman. caught close to 25, mixed bag of spots and largemouth. life is good.

I wish I had a spot like you to fish! Always getting numbers of spots and a largemouth kicker! Nicely done yet again