Super User N Florida Mike Posted September 19, 2020 Super User Posted September 19, 2020 Got 16 today in the rain, including this 4 .6 on a rage tail cut-r. 14 Quote
Super User Team9nine Posted September 19, 2020 Super User Posted September 19, 2020 This guy doesn't look like anything special - lol - but according to my counts, this bass was number 2,000 for the year Front came through yesterday with blue skies and 15-20 mph winds, but today the winds calmed to 5-6 mph. The fish, which really seemed to shut down yesterday, have adjusted and started prowling the deep edge of the weedline or slightly out from it (you can see that edge pretty well in the pic above - at very top). Managed 26 fish in less than 2 hours on Midwest Finesse gear (1/16 oz. mushroom head jig paired with slightly shortened Zman Finesse WormZ). Now sitting on 2,008 bass with some of the better months ahead of us as the water cools, and assuming we don't drop straight into a winter scenario. However, my bass time might start getting conflicted with my crappie time 10 Quote
Super User scaleface Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 58 minutes ago, Team9nine said: This guy doesn't look like anything special - lol - but according to my counts, this bass was number 2,000 for the year congrats . I'm stuck at 800 . Havent been able to fish in three weeks because of a pinched nerve in the neck . I was well on my way to 1000 too . Hoping to get out this week and add another 50 to the total . 1 Quote
Super User Team9nine Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 2 hours ago, scaleface said: congrats . I'm stuck at 800 . Havent been able to fish in three weeks because of a pinched nerve in the neck . I was well on my way to 1000 too . Hoping to get out this week and add another 50 to the total . I was in nearly the same boat as you. Lost ~3 weeks due to being down sick, and just started back fishing the past 7-8 days. Still not 100%, but gained a new appreciation for just how much I've been able to go this year up until that point. 1 Quote
TriStateBassin106 Posted September 20, 2020 Posted September 20, 2020 Got on a bunch of quality fish recently including a 3.7lber and a 2.4lber. All fishing out deep with deadsticking finesse jigs and some soft plastics. The smaller fish were all caught on a war eagle double willow spinnerbait in chartreuse. 8 Quote
Super User NorcalBassin Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 Had another really nice trip. Best two were twin 4 pounders. My dad's LM was the biggest one he's caught in at least a couple years and it outweighed my spot by exactly one ounce. 13 Quote
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted September 20, 2020 Global Moderator Posted September 20, 2020 My buddy got a nice smallie and I got......... A HERRING!!!! I did not chop down a shrubbery with the herring 11 Quote
Super User DitchPanda Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 22 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said: My buddy got a nice smallie and I got......... A HERRING!!!! I did not chop down a shrubbery with the herring I fart in your general direction 2 Quote
Super User NYWayfarer Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 Cold weekend mornings both Saturday and Sunday. Temps were in the mid-thirties when I arrived at the water. Saturday I was glad to still be able to catch River Smallmouth on the Whopper Plopper. http:// Later that day my anniversary present arrived. My wife ordered the Kastking Compass telescopic rod for me. I paired it up with my Lew’s Tournament MB http:// With the morning being so brisk I took a hike with the rod collapsed. I tried a popper with no luck so I switched to a Ned rig and caught a bunch of Smallmouth Bass. http://http://http://http:// 7 Quote
Super User scaleface Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 Caught a good one this morning on one of my spinnerbaits with copper blades . 11 Quote
Super User NYWayfarer Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 19 minutes ago, The Bassman said: How do you like the rod? It’s fine as far as telescopic rods go. Things I like: EVA foam handle Collapses to less than 17” Nice blue finish on the rod Screw off end cap to drain water Things I don’t like: Only 6 guides (No floating guides) the Kastking logo, Rod name and rod specs are all stickers on the rod. Graphite/glass hybrid Short split grip 2 Of the Smallies I caught I didn’t even feel so sensitivity is an issue that I expected. When fighting the fish I could see the 6 guides were too few for the job at hand. The short split grip made it feel like a pistol grip rod. Overall I like it and it will serve its purpose as a hiking/travel rod just fine. I have the Kastking Blackhawk II and the BPS Adventur 1 Spinning telescopic rods and they are way better than the Compass. The floating guides and graphite make a big difference. 1 Quote
Super User NorcalBassin Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 Quick family trip this morning. Agreed to take a pic with whatever each of us caught first, and thank goodness mine wasn't the smallest or I'd never hear the end of it. ? 13 Quote
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted September 20, 2020 Global Moderator Posted September 20, 2020 1 minute ago, NorcalBassin said: Quick family trip this morning. Agreed to take a pic with whatever each of us caught first, and thank goodness mine wasn't the smallest or I'd never hear the end of it. ? Awesome! You were second smallest tho haha 1 Quote
Super User NorcalBassin Posted September 20, 2020 Super User Posted September 20, 2020 6 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said: Awesome! You were second smallest tho haha Lol, that is true! Quote
ryanerb Posted September 21, 2020 Posted September 21, 2020 22 hours ago, NorcalBassin said: Had another really nice trip. Best two were twin 4 pounders. My dad's LM was the biggest one he's caught in at least a couple years and it outweighed my spot by exactly one ounce. Those are some nice ones!! I'm guessing you were throwing jigs? Or what sort of arsenal? Or is that not allowed to be asked on this thread? If not, sorry about that. Quote
Super User NorcalBassin Posted September 21, 2020 Super User Posted September 21, 2020 37 minutes ago, ryanerb said: Those are some nice ones!! I'm guessing you were throwing jigs? Or what sort of arsenal? Or is that not allowed to be asked on this thread? If not, sorry about that. No problem and I'm always happy to share info if it might help someone. I have a bit of a tackle and rod/reel addiction problem, so unless something is red hot I tend to intentionally junk fish each trip in order to use a lot of different things. In this case I anticipated the orange/red jig trailer bite that seems to happen each Sept/Oct to be on, but I didn't even get a hit in the 45 minutes or so I threw it. He picked up his on a baby bass pro senko wacky rigged and mine was on a 3.3 Keitech with a 1/4oz guppy head. 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted September 21, 2020 Global Moderator Posted September 21, 2020 Nothing but guide trips for me this weekend, but thankfully both days they were alright with me fishing too. Friday I had Mark on a solo trip and in search of his first ever smallmouth. Took a while but we finally found it. He also caught his first ever sauger. PB white bass and PB channel cat on a crankbait All told, we had over 50 fish come to the boat, and saw plenty big smallmouth, but they just kept missing our topwaters and never did connect. The only big smallmouth of the day was my 14lb smallmouth buffalo on a spinbait ? Saturday I had Eric and his son Jason who just wanted to catch fish and didn't care how big they were. It's a good thing because the bigger ones didn't cooperate but the little guys were hungry. They were both pretty new to it, had to learn how to use a wacky rig and dropshot but by they end of the day had it down pretty well. Jason actually caught a fish his first 2 cast of the morning with a wacky rig. Once they figured out that they could get a bite off almost ever dock or brush pile I marked on my graph with a dropshot though, they were both fishing that. The fish were really eating a pink or morning dawn colored worm, make wasn't important. The craziest part was Eric got a "bite", and reeled in a freshwater mussel that had clamped down on his dropshot sinker. I spent a lot of time fishing an Antidote glide trying to pull fish out from under docks for them to flip wacky rigs back at but I managed to catch one little guy and a suicidal sunfish on it. Also found one dock loaded with nice black crappie that were catching a Ned rig on the drop. Had to skip way back under it though so I caught a couple and kept moving because that dock was getting beat to death by the baits bouncing off the side of it ? 14 Quote
Mbirdsley Posted September 22, 2020 Posted September 22, 2020 Forgot my phone at work today so no pics but, fished the Tittabawassee this morning untill almost 3 . Bass are still busting Shad every where. Took a pretty nice 27-28 inch northern 2 bends north from m-46 on a lucky craft 8ft crank. He was a filled out and looking good. I know since the flood there has been some talk of the pike being down in numbers. took him on a lucky craft silver 2.5 crank. I was cranking and actually went to mess with somthing for a couple of second which made me stop reeling. As soon as I again started he hammered it Caught a keeper smallie on a home made chatter bait. Right after catching that fish I proceeded to throw chatter bait into a tree. Luckily I can make a lot more Caught a really nice white bass maybe 12-14 inches on a crank, caught 2 more 12 inch smallies. Lost a huge fricken smallie on a kvd flat side crank. He hit so hard I thought I snagged untill he started taking line. In fact I didnt get a good hook set because, I thought I snagged. One jump and a head shake he was gone. I was not pleased. I think this skeet Reese crank rod days are numbered. I’m just not a fan of how slow the action and how whippie it is. this is the kvd crank. Somthing about this color I have has good success with. First time using this flat side crank but, I’ve caught a lot of fish with the same color in a 300 kvd deep jerk bait 5 Quote
Super User Team9nine Posted September 23, 2020 Super User Posted September 23, 2020 Picked off this 5.5 pound bass this afternoon on the finesse outfit. Totally engulfed the worm, but was barely hooked. So glad it didn't jump, otherwise I probably would have lost it. Stayed down and bulldogged the entire time, making me think I might have hooked the rare catfish you sometimes stumble across in these little lakes. Finally backreeled her in like a charm 16 Quote
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted September 23, 2020 Global Moderator Posted September 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, Team9nine said: Picked off this 5.5 pound bass this afternoon on the finesse outfit. Totally engulfed the worm, but was barely hooked. So glad it didn't jump, otherwise I probably would have lost it. Stayed down and bulldogged the entire time, making me think I might have hooked the rare catfish you sometimes stumble across in these little lakes. Finally backreeled her in like a charm Nice one! Love the back reel. The sound of drag is like fingernails on a chalk board to me 1 Quote
Super User NYWayfarer Posted September 24, 2020 Super User Posted September 24, 2020 I took the kayak out on the river for a fishing session on Monday. It was a rare afternoon session for me as I was on the water at 11am and stayed out until 3pm. I had nothing but soft plastics with me. Ned, T-rigged craws and worms. Caught a bunch of Smallmouth and one Largemouth. http://http:// http:// http:// http:// http:// http:// And I almost forgot a huge Redbreast Sunfish http:// 2 nights with temps in the low thirties has made fishing tough the two days after this trip. Got skunked one day and nothing but a dink Largemouth today and some Sunfish. 12 Quote
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