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[Bassfishingfred]

Jerkbait in Colorado

[jbsoonerfan]

Finally got some good weather and a day off. Went to a power plant lake to give it a shot because the water warms up there faster than it does at the other lakes close to me. Got on the water about 9:15 and drove about 500 yards to a grass flat that I had caught some before. Tied on a 1/2 oz black/blue Project Z chatterbait and hooked up on about my 5th cast. Fished for a bit longer and switched to a 1/2 oz Spro Aruku shad lipless in Mudbug red. Caught 3 good fish in about 45 min. I weighed them just to see and they were from 2lb 4oz to 3lb 2oz. Fished the rest of the day with nothing. Finally caught another fish about 3:00 that was about a pound. Not sure what happened the rest of the day but as soon as the wind died and the sun came out it shut them down. I did better than a couple guys I talked to at the ramp that said they only managed a couple dinks. All in all, it was a good day. 

 

Edit* I don't think any of these are the same fish, but they might be. Trying to take pics using a ram mount and my phone set on burst mode. Not real good at it yet so I took a bunch.

[WVU-SCPA]

Confirmed over lunch break that bass like the action of the suspending quake as much as I do.

[A-Jay]

18 hours ago, jbsoonerfan said:

Finally got some good weather and a day off. Went to a power plant lake to give it a shot because the water warms up there faster than it does at the other lakes close to me. Got on the water about 9:15 and drove about 500 yards to a grass flat that I had caught some before. Tied on a 1/2 oz black/blue Project Z chatterbait and hooked up on about my 5th cast. Fished for a bit longer and switched to a 1/2 oz Spro Aruku shad lipless in Mudbug red. Caught 3 good fish in about 45 min. I weighed them just to see and they were from 2lb 4oz to 3lb 2oz. Fished the rest of the day with nothing. Finally caught another fish about 3:00 that was about a pound. Not sure what happened the rest of the day but as soon as the wind died and the sun came out it shut them down. I did better than a couple guys I talked to at the ramp that said they only managed a couple dinks. All in all, it was a good day. 

 

Edit* I don't think any of these are the same fish, but they might be. Trying to take pics using a ram mount and my phone set on burst mode. Not real good at it yet so I took a bunch.

Nicely Done ~ 

Great Smile

Congrats 

A-Jay

[PhishLI]

Got together with a bunch of wading pals for a late afternoon/evening session on Monday. Conditions were textbook perfect, or at least as good as it gets for mid February up here. We had an arsenal between the 5 of us, and we covered alot of water between 2pm -8pm, and nobody got a sniff. Blanked.

 

I was cozy on my couch last night, still exhausted from Monday and wrapped in a quilt like a newborn when the phone rang. It was Joe. I was going to let it ring, but I picked it up in the end. "I've got a gut feeling about tonight", said Joe. "But I'm already in my feet pajamas", I said. He went to work on me and I became energized. I got clearance from the wife and off I went. You've gotta get clearance to go bass fishing deep in the woods at midnight on a weekday. Those are rules of marriage. It's somewhere in the manual.

 

We did OK for a northeast mid February midnight sesh. Missed a few, but got some too. It felt good to find some action after the massive skunkage of the day before. IMA crankbait, Nories Spoon Tail Shad, and the Dark Sleeper helped to warm up our frozen feet.

[J._Bricker]

I was able to get out for a few hours the past two days and do a little fishing. Weather was sunny, air temps around 70°, water temps around 53° and pretty much dead calm both days. I didn’t get numbers by any stretch, but I’m happy with the ones I did get. Tuesday’s chatterbait fish was 3.81lbs and today’s was 5.86lbs on the same bait. It’s getting close and the prospect of another drought maybe helping the prespawn bite at this point here on the delta.

[Dorado]

After work, had to get my fix. Females are getting their grub on finally! Ned rig (Green Pumpkin Orange) caught right off the bank. 
 

 

[TnRiver46]

Nice one @Dorado

[N Florida Mike]

Got out the last 2.5 hours of daylight. 
Had a urge to use my finesse Combo with 8 pound line , and tied on a t rigged baby brush hog .Got the first one on the 2nd cast at the dock before I even left. Got the middle fish on the same, and got the last one off a sea wall where fish are known to bed, on a 6 inch senko type bait. Also got 6 or so on the super fluke.

[Bluebasser86]

Started off on fire Friday. Cold morning so I'd started the Merc and was waiting for her to warm up, caught 4 right by the ramp on a Berkley Frittsider, including a 5.25 pounder before we even went to our first spot. Only ended up with 10 by the end of the day, plus a heartbreaker tail hooked carp and side swung drum.  My picture hurt someones feelings though, called me out for catching a "release fish", almost a full week after the last hot water shootout and claiming I catch all my fish from the boat ramp and don't figure anything out, so I posted the previous 10 big ones I'd caught, none of which were from the ramp area. Those were probably just lucky catches though ?‍♂️

[N Florida Mike]

You ought to challenge him to a one- on- one competition. My bet is you would never hear from him again...

[A-Jay]

Nice Bass Blue ~

The rest of that's actually pretty funny.

And Mr Salty is wrong, you did figure something out.

 You figured out they were at the ramp and then how to catch them. 

A-Jay

[Bluebasser86]

I thought catching 4 in less than 5 minutes from a notoriously difficult lake was certainly figuring something out, but I must have violated his unwritten rules for fun fishing. Obviously doesn't watch any of my videos either. I don't try to hide them from in those, and he'd know I don't just fish the ramp then. I have a theory that maybe someone is discounting my catches to try to make a lack of their own catches, just a theory.

[J._Bricker]

Nice healthy bass Clayton, congrats on putting four in the boat before “leaving fish to go find fish”! We all want to be on fish like the ones you’re posting, especially this time of year. Unfortunately the fish and weather related circumstances can make it difficult to say the least, so I say it’s great you’re able to do it. Continued good fishing and be safe.

[kayaking_kev]

Not very big, but it's a fish. One of my goals this year is to catch one in every month, this is my February fish. As you can see, almost half the pond/lake still had ice on it, so I'm just happy I got to fish. I caught it on a jerkbait, just like my January fish. I also went to the river afterwards and caught some small 5 inch fish that I have no idea wth it was, the scales on it almost looked like a baby carp, but the mouth didn't, but I would't really know, I've never caught a carp. My GoPro battery died out right before or else I would have a picture of it. I caught it on a Ned Rig.

 

[Bassfishingfred]

February bassin:) 3 lb largie loving the jerkbait

[Bluebasser86]

12 hours ago, J._Bricker said:

Nice healthy bass Clayton, congrats on putting four in the boat before “leaving fish to go find fish”! We all want to be on fish like the ones you’re posting, especially this time of year. Unfortunately the fish and weather related circumstances can make it difficult to say the least, so I say it’s great you’re able to do it. Continued good fishing and be safe.

We'd worked the area over pretty well by the time we left. I was hoping my backseater would get a fish or two before we took off but they were really keyed on that Frittsider for some reason, he couldn't get them to eat a similar colored Flat-A all day.

 

I had to go back and look because I noticed the black spot on that fish, I thought maybe I'd caught her before, but maybe it was her sister?

[bassh8er]

On 2/24/2020 at 12:38 PM, kayaking_kev said:

Not very big, but it's a fish. One of my goals this year is to catch one in every month, this is my February fish. As you can see, almost half the pond/lake still had ice on it, so I'm just happy I got to fish. I caught it on a jerkbait, just like my January fish. I also went to the river afterwards and caught some small 5 inch fish that I have no idea wth it was, the scales on it almost looked like a baby carp, but the mouth didn't, but I would't really know, I've never caught a carp. My GoPro battery died out right before or else I would have a picture of it. I caught it on a Ned Rig.

 

I got my first boat in July of 2015 and have also made it a goal to catch at least one fish every month of the year.  2 kids and Nebraska winters haven’t stopped my yet.  November and February are the toughest months but still going strong.

[.ghoti.]

From a recent trip to Toho. Kent with a 10

Kent with an 8

[galyonj]

I snuck out to play in the mud a couple days ago. It'd been too long since I last fished, and even longer since I caught anything. Caught one, lost another when it shook loose before I could get it lipped, and then I found one of those tiny little micro chatterbaits. So I'll call this sesh a win.

 

[Bassfishingfred]

Giants! Nice catches

[Bluebasser86]

AKA Roadwarrior ?

 

I had David Harrison, who does some writing for many fishing publications, most notably In-Fisherman, in the boat with me Thursday. Being a transplant from Colorado, bass aren't his strong point and of course the lake we were on isn't nice even to the most skilled bass anglers. So he started by catching a fish on his very first cast of the morning, and after commenting how he'd never caught a bass on jerkbait, quickly caught the largest bass he'd caught since he was a teenage, maybe ever, on a 78 pointer I loaned him.

 

[FrankN209]

Caught 1 at day break. I'm not sure what type of bass this is. This is on the Sacramento river in Isleton. 

[J._Bricker]

Looks like a spot @FrankN209. Check for teeth on the tongue, it’s somewhat surprising. After all, if a lake has bass and drains into the Delta, those bass are there...

[FrankN209]

Oh ok. I never caught one before. I wasn't sure if it was a spot or small mouth. Next time I catch one, I'll check for the teeth on the tongue.