Super User A-Jay Posted April 29, 2021 Super User Posted April 29, 2021 41 minutes ago, king fisher said: I landed this10.3 pound bass at Tepic yesterday. Caught this one, along with a 6.3 and 6.7 bouncing a 6th. Sense Mini Mag square bill through this submerged tree in 28 feet of water. I was close enough to shore, I could peddle to the bank while holding the bass in the water, and take a quick picture. I am having difficulty taking pictures of bass while by myself in a kayak. Would appreciate any advice from kayak anglers on taking pictures with as little harm as possible to the fish. Wow ~ ! That's a Freaking GIANT ! Congrats A-Jay 1 Quote
lo n slo Posted April 29, 2021 Posted April 29, 2021 46 minutes ago, king fisher said: I landed this10.3 pound bass at Tepic yesterday. Caught this one, along with a 6.3 and 6.7 bouncing a 6th. Sense Mini Mag square bill through this submerged tree in 28 feet of water. I was close enough to shore, I could peddle to the bank while holding the bass in the water, and take a quick picture. I am having difficulty taking pictures of bass while by myself in a kayak. Would appreciate any advice from kayak anglers on taking pictures with as little harm as possible to the fish. y’all missing any pets or small farm animals? 1 3 Quote
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted April 29, 2021 Global Moderator Posted April 29, 2021 @king fisher, congrats!!!! I think that fish ate all the ones I caught. You scale might be off, looks more like 17 lbs Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted April 29, 2021 Super User Posted April 29, 2021 Congrats on the DD. You could get a holder for your cell phone to mount on the kayak. Then get a Bluetooth hand held device that takes the pic from your phone when you press the button. 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted April 29, 2021 Global Moderator Posted April 29, 2021 4 hours ago, king fisher said: I landed this10.3 pound bass at Tepic yesterday. Caught this one, along with a 6.3 and 6.7 bouncing a 6th. Sense Mini Mag square bill through this submerged tree in 28 feet of water. I was close enough to shore, I could peddle to the bank while holding the bass in the water, and take a quick picture. I am having difficulty taking pictures of bass while by myself in a kayak. Would appreciate any advice from kayak anglers on taking pictures with as little harm as possible to the fish. That's a great fish, congrats! When I'm in the kayak, I like to take pictures of them on the measuring board. I can sometimes get a decent selfie, but I'm not so worried about getting my ugly mug in the picture as I am getting a good shot of the fish on the board. 2 1 Quote
Holetail Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 Nice 4 lb. ILM pond fish tonight. Caught her on brand new Fury 705CB and Fuego 6.3:1 I had picked up today and spooled up right before leaving. She ate a chatterbait after 3 turns of the reel. Not bad for first fish on new combo! 20 Quote
Bluegillslayer Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 On 4/27/2021 at 7:21 PM, BrianMDTX said: None over 8 I fish a pond with a bunch of little dinks around that size, its funny though because they grow a few inches every year. Quote
Biglittle8 Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 Got the skunk off my back yesterday! After fishing Sutton Lake Wednesday and getting skunked ( my buddy got two) I returned to pond fishing Thursday. They had just stocked a gazillion bluegills on Tuesday, so l figured I'd give it a try. Caught a lot of fish but a lot of them were dinky. Also, my old friend the Koi was back for a visit! He's about 2ft long and fat as butter. 16 Quote
Super User PhishLI Posted April 30, 2021 Super User Posted April 30, 2021 Posting pics of my minor glory so closely following @king fisher and his DD beast has me feeling as if I were walking down main street in broad daylight while stark nekkid in zero degree temps. Shriveled and apologetic. Sorry everyone! Onward! I think I can count on one hand the number of Crappie I've caught over the past few years at one of my local spots. I thought they were somewhat rare in this lake, but I was wrong. Some bass have already started bedding, the season closes on May 1st, and I was hopeful the bass bite would be on fire near the flats, but it wasn't. My 1st bass came on the outside corner of a pad field in about 4 feet of water. He smashed my Shellcracker G2, then fought like crazy the whole way in, then every second while I was trying to get the pic. Then he shot off like a rocket when I released him. I've never seen a bed that deep around here before, so maybe he was guarding fry? All I know for sure is I haven't ever had a 3 pounder fight that hard and with no quit. It was like battling a decent smallmouth. Next, a big crappie nailed the G2 within a few feet of where the bass hit it. Several more from the same general area hit the G2 and the Livingston Bullnose. This lent some weight to my theory that the bass was fry guarding. It's possible that the Crappie were there trying to pick them off. They were clustered up and keyed in on something, so who knows? Anyway, I stopped counting the crappie after a while. They were everywhere I went, with some bigs mixed in. A turtle or a bird took a nice chunk out of one of them, but it seemed unfazed. Not what I was going for, but no complaints either. High winds and real feel temps of 28* tonight, which is a 40* swing overnight. One last bite at the apple on Saturday night before the 6 week shutdown for the spawn. It's Walleye time again. 16 Quote
Will Wetline Posted April 30, 2021 Posted April 30, 2021 Here are a few pics from a still cold (40ºs) Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. Photos are from April 20 and 27. A double caught on suspending jerkbaits. This smallie took a vibrating blade bait assembled from components from www.barlowstackle.com. A decent (3.63 lb.) smallie caught on a blade bait. It's not unusual to catch lake trout among the smallmouth early in the season. This plump one weighed 4.91 lbs. and put up a strong fight. 26 Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted May 1, 2021 Super User Posted May 1, 2021 Three years is the making - Day 1 on the water with Big Fish Jeff ~ Tough sledding but we got a few ~ Back at it in the morning. Fish Hard A-Jay 21 Quote
Super User gim Posted May 1, 2021 Super User Posted May 1, 2021 On 4/28/2021 at 11:23 PM, Bluebasser86 said: When I'm in the kayak, I like to take pictures of them on the measuring board. I can sometimes get a decent selfie, but I'm not so worried about getting my ugly mug in the picture as I am getting a good shot of the fish on the board. I was going to mention this because I remember your video of the kayak tourney you posted a while ago. Seems like a hawg trough or a measuring device that the fish can sort of “lay in” would work. 2 Quote
Biglittle8 Posted May 1, 2021 Posted May 1, 2021 Today was a good day of fishing. Started out with the "Choppo" test first thing, I posted that under the appropriate thread. Then I moved to the Carolina rig and never looked back. The red Roboworm with chartuese tail was the bait of the day two nice fish in just 15 mins. 17 Quote
Fishingintheweeds Posted May 1, 2021 Posted May 1, 2021 The last time I caught one this big, I finally bought a scale. And then proceeded to never bring it, sometimes purposely deciding to leave it in the truck, and end up catching very good fish. This time, I figured we would just run out for fun and it was extremely windy, right around noon anyway, so...no need for the scale. Again, I got another I wished I had a weight on. Measured 22.5 up against the kids rod. That's the best I can do. But I'll still start off the story to my cousins and friends telling them this was over 8 lb ? Maybe this is another topic altogether, but once I started figuring out how to get them like this, I quit believing people when they would say there's no fish in a place or nothing big. They just haven't seen them. Not bad for a smaller size Michigan lake. 22 minutes ago, Fishingintheweeds said: The last time I caught one this big, I finally bought a scale. And then proceeded to never bring it, sometimes purposely deciding to leave it in the truck, and end up catching very good fish. This time, I figured we would just run out for fun and it was extremely windy, right around noon anyway, so...no need for the scale. Again, I got another I wished I had a weight on. Measured 22.5 up against the kids rod. That's the best I can do. But I'll still start off the story to my cousins and friends telling them this was over 8 lb ? Maybe this is another topic altogether, but once I started figuring out how to get them like this, I quit believing people when they would say there's no fish in a place or nothing big. They just haven't seen them. Not bad for a smaller size Michigan lake. https://postimg.cc/dZR6XQB8/a355657e https://postimg.cc/K1jVKLfw/b108fd2c Maybe somebody can help me out with the posting? I read somewhere on here that uploading to this link would size the pics correctly and all I had to do was paste the link and the software would do the rest? Thanks! 15 Quote
galyonj Posted May 1, 2021 Posted May 1, 2021 11 minutes ago, Fishingintheweeds said: Maybe somebody can help me out with the posting? I read somewhere on here that uploading to this link would size the pics correctly and all I had to do was paste the link and the software would do the rest? From my experience, it has to be a link to the image itself, instead of to a page containing the image: The image page you posted: https://postimg.cc/dZR6XQB8/a355657e The image itself (obtained by clicking on the "share" link above the image on that page, copying the "Direct Link" text, and then pasting it into the post field here on this site) : 1 Quote
Fishingintheweeds Posted May 1, 2021 Posted May 1, 2021 8 minutes ago, galyonj said: From my experience, it has to be a link to the image itself, instead of to a page containing the image: The image page you posted: https://postimg.cc/dZR6XQB8/a355657e The image itself (obtained by clicking on the "share" link above the image on that page, copying the "Direct Link" text, and then pasting it into the post field here on this site) : I'm about to give this a shot right now but if I'm doing it wrong, how do we get the link from the image? If I do it right, maybe it will help someone else...I got it. Feel free to delete. Thanks! Quote
galyonj Posted May 1, 2021 Posted May 1, 2021 On your image page, you wanna look for a button across the top that reads "Share". Click that, and the page will expand to show you different options for sharing the image. The option you want is "Direct Link." It's highlighted in the screenshot below. Click the clipboard icon to the right of the link text, then press ctrl+v (or right click, then click "paste") to paste it into the post field here. 1 1 Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted May 1, 2021 Super User Posted May 1, 2021 Day 2 on Lake Menderchuck ~ Big Fish Jeff & I had to battle some fairly insane conditions again ~ But still managed to put a few in the net . . . . Fish Hard A-Jay 27 Quote
Super User MIbassyaker Posted May 2, 2021 Super User Posted May 2, 2021 A month ago while watching Jason Christie win the Bassmaster Sabine River event, I remembered I had previously bought a few of the Booyah Covert Spinnerbait he was using, but hadn't tried them yet. I got to remedy that this morning with a gold double-colorado model -- yup, it's good: 17 Quote
softwateronly Posted May 2, 2021 Posted May 2, 2021 Some recents, didn't grab pics of all the bigs. Swim jig and pitching jig, I guess that's all I need.... 19 Quote
Super User N Florida Mike Posted May 2, 2021 Super User Posted May 2, 2021 Was planning to get out today after 4 ( I may still ) but a thunderstorm was coming . So I stayed home. Walked down to the dock , caught a little bream, hooked him on my bait rod , tossed it out 10 feet, and about 20 seconds later this was the result... 20 Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted May 2, 2021 Super User Posted May 2, 2021 Day 3 was a numbers day for Big Fish Jeff ~ Fish Hard A-Jay 18 Quote
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