Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Dwbassin]

https://postimg.cc/gallery/2k6adyzne/

Figured it out, so here’s my biggest of the year, was out snakehead fishing in blackwater refuge. Thanks @J Francho

[J Francho]

SLOB!!!!!

[Russ E]

Decided to try a local lake for the first time in 2019.

After  catching dinks all day, I finally caught a decent fish. it hit a ned rig.it was 18 inches long and weighed 3lb. 1oz.

 

 

[Dponchay]

Friend and I went fishing. I spotted her a few feet from the shore. She didn't want anything to do with me, but my buddy came and yanked a smaller one off the bed and she destroyed my fluke. Got her on an ultralight with 4lb test. 

[NorcalBassin]

Been awesome getting so much water time this past week. Tried a different lake today and had some solid action with quite a few in that 2-3# class. Lost a solid 5 pounder at the boat on a jumping head shake, but watching that was almost as good as actually landing her.

 

This fella took it right off a bass bed

 

One of the nicer ones of the day

 

This one hit at the end of a small cove, went crazy stripping line as she passed under the boat rubbing the line along the hull, and then found vegetation to run through and around. I free spooled her assuming the tension from her run and the line rubbing on the boat was going to snap her off, and to my surprise she jumped about 30 ft away on the opposite side of the boat right after I got the line away from the motor. Line was frizzed out, but 6# sniper was even tougher than I thought.

 

This tom was trying to impress his hen and kept squaring up to my truck and boat as we were trying to pass through on the way to the lake. Not the smartest turkey.

[deep]

Got me a new rod, so of course I had to test it out. Only had a little bit of time. Rod (903C MBR) works great btw!

 

 

And another one, before I had to leave.

 

 

[Derek1]

Gotta admire there heart and determination 

[roadwarrior]

Nice fish, great pic!

 

[928JLH]

Went out for a few Friday afternoon. Really liking the owner 3/16oz jig rig with small swimbaits. Merry Easter!

 

[JLindsey]

She’s no giant, but still my biggest of the year so far. 3lbs 3oz

 

Happy Easter! 

[HazeRVA]

Went down to visit my cousin yesterday and spent the whole day on the water. 3 different lakes over the course of 11 hours. Caught this one 2 hours in and another smaller one a few hours later. My cousin caught 4, but this was the catch of the day! 5.73lbs. Booyah Glow Blade spinnerbait, white with white willow blades. Over my right shoulder are 4 old dock posts, I cast right between front 2 and landed just to the left of the back left post. Slow rolled it out, just as it passed between the 2 front posts it got slammed! Heart was racing! Felt big but I was pulling it through the pads so wasn't sure. My cousin netted it and we both just looked at each other, holy crap! A full 2 pounds bigger than my previous biggest! Such a great day on the water! Made dealing with 12-17mph winds on his little bass raider well worth it. 

 

 

[Dwight Hottle]

Congrats on the new PB. Don't forget to change your profile pb to 5-6. 

[CrankFate]

Still no fish. Bootleg dark sleeper got its guts ripped out after getting hung up a few times. This did not happen to the authentic one that I got snagged with more times than I could count.

 

Switched to a black/blue BooYa Jig with orange grub tail on it to get some chatter going, managed to see a few dink’s hit the grub tail very close in, but they were barely 3x bigger than the 3/8’s jig.

 

Nowhere near as durable as the real thing

 

 

 

[MIbassyaker]

Finally got out to do my first actual fishing of the year....

 

The water of choice was a little natural lake, under 100 acres, visibility to about 10 feet. Water temp was 52 a couple feet down.

 

First two bass of 2019 were these little guys, 12" and 13" on a Ghost Sunfish Slender Pointer:

 

And then....nothing for the next hour and a half. Tried some different things at various spots and various depths: a ned rig, a jig 'n craw, a shiny new Jackhammer I've been waiting to break in...nothing.

 

Until i got up near a guy fishing on the bank, and saw him pull in a bluegill. Immediately, I had another jerkbait dink on. We congratulated each other, and he said he had been around most of the lake on foot over the last few hours, and the spot he was on was the only place to produce any 'gills. I made a mental note ("Now, if I were a bass....").

 

5 minutes later he left, so I moved in....and 2 casts to the deeper side of his bluegill spot, this 20-incher hit, just shy of 4lbs (3.96):

 

And then one more "non-scorable" bass to finish the excursion.

 

So first trip out for the year, 3 hours, 5 fish, one good one, all on the slender pointer -- feels good; I'll take it. 

[Mbirdsley]

First large mouth of the year from Murphy lake michigan on Easter Sunday.  Makes it even sweeter that I caught it on a chatter bait I poured ( do-it mold), painted, cured, and assembled. Jig is silver, skirt silver and black, with a 2.5 inch twister tail for a trailer.  I lost another about the same size.  Made it all worth while is both nailed the lure as 2 separate group of guys came motoring up to ask how I was doing 

Heres a close up of the chatter bait 

.  Now I just need a differnt mold to enminate the split ring 

[TnRiver46]

Nice bass. Looks like that bait works pretty well with the split ring 

[WolfyBrandon]

[April 22, 2019]

 

It's been a long winter... working on fishing tackle projects, waiting for the snow to melt, and the ice on the lake to thaw. My buddy and I headed out for our first fishing trip of 2019 back on April 15th, 2019, but we both zeroed. Water was cold & dirty (~45 degrees, <1ft clarity), and there had been two tournaments the past two weekends. Not making excuses, just the conditions were tough. We fished area's we had history with in the past and tried to hit high percentage areas that we know hold fish... but it didn't work. So a week passes, we get a few more days of warm weather, and come up with the idea to fish a completely new location and area of the lake that neither of us have ever fished before. No history or memories to worry about, we will have only our instincts and what we have learned to guide us through our fishing day...

 

When we got to the ramp we could see the water clarity was around 3-4ft, water temp was around 46-50 degrees, and the forecast showed today to be sunny through the morning, then become overcast with falling pressure and wind in the early to late afternoon. We both knew bass are currently in the pre-spawn phase, so it's a matter of finding where they are staging and what they will react to. The new area we fished was amazing, literally everything looked good from rocky points, to boulders, to deep water breaklines, to docks & laydowns, you name it. We fished so much amazing looking stuff for hours and hours without a bite constantly covering water, throwing lipless crankbaits, spinnerbaits, deep diving crankbaits, jerkbaits, softbaits, bladed jigs, jigs, over and over and over until my arm was sore. "Keep Grinding" I told myself as I had in my mind today's success could come from a specific location or time of day or even a combination of both. Well the night before our trip I did a little research on Google Earth and Navionics, and found three key locations that looked good. Well the day was now about over, and we were on the last one. It was the last major secondary point before you get to the back of the cove where the spawning area would be. It had an area off the point with ~10-15ft before it breaks off into 30+. By this time in the day the clouds had rolled in along with the wind and it was becoming harder to control the boat. Not only could I now see the ramp we launched from this morning, I could also make out the truck and trailer - we were that close to the end of our day. It only took a couple of casts (par usual when fishing around fish) and I felt the rod load up...

 

1st Bass of 2019 - 18 & 1/4'', 2lb 13oz / 2.88lb

 

 

6th Sense Curve 55 (Crackle Craw)

 

WolfyBrandon

 

[PAbasser927]

First decent smallie of the year!  Couldn’t find the fish all day, this was the only fish landed.  At least it was a good one!

[keagbassr]

Got out from 8:30 til.2 today. Got 10 -1 on a chatterbait and 9 on a jig with the best two weighing 3-2 And this one at 4-13

[MIbassyaker]

Post-frontal fishing from the riverbank today.

 

Was hoping for a bigger smallie to show off, but it was not to be.  So here is a little one instead. Also, a somewhat foamy largemouth:

 

[NYWayfarer]

First New York Largemouth of 2019 for me! The pond Bass have finally come out of hibernation.

 

I was out for Trout with a size 100 reel, 4# mono and a light action pole. Had a worm threaded on a size 6 Aberdeen hook. Saw this girl hanging by some cover with my polarized glasses. Tossed it about a foot and a half away and she shot out and slammed the worm. A nice little fight on the Trout and panfish gear for sure.

 

[superkamikazee]

A little slow lately, a lot of dinks, so I was happy to get something decent. Also, my first fish on a soft plastic (senko). I usually only fish hard baits, and frogs.

 

 

Next cast caught this guy on the senko, near the same laydown.

 

And a PB Crappie for me lol, on a jerkbait

[MIbassyaker]

Broke in my new Jackhammer chatterbait on a new lake today...in 3 hours I caught 16, all about the same size -- around a pound or two, like this one:

 

 

[MIbassyaker]

Spinnerbait chunk this afternoon, best of 9 (didn't get a weight; likely 3-something):

The shoreline areas had some weeds, and some wood; the key was finding where there were both.

[Will Wetline]

 

It was a beautiful day to be on the water: sunny and just the right amount of wind. However, as much as this fisherman liked the conditions, the smallies didn't. I went to a presentation that's worked in the past, a simple, 1/8 oz. bucktail jig fished slowly and deep off a rock pile. This 4.37 lb. smallmouth made the mistake of taking it for lunch!