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[HaydenS]

Did a little prefishing for some local Wednesday Nighters.  We destroyed them, but only caught one 15+ inch fish.  Caught a couple smallies out of the lake, which is pretty rare.  

 

Fished the Wednesday nighter tonight, and my partner caught the only keeper.  The fish spit a lot of lures tonight.  I missed a big fish flipping that would've give us the win, but we got second... out of 4-6 boats ?

Caught another smallie too, except this one was not much bigger than the bait.

[Jmurphy87]

Well no bass for me today while testing my new curado bfs xg on my zodias bfs ml rod. The rod does really well even below it’s 3/16 rating, handles 5 grams just as well as my other reels distance was good, around 3.5 grams it did ok I was happy. I still need to try 1/16 oz on it but I don’t expect much as that’s 3 grams away from the lowest rating. Now onto the fish, using a 13 fishing magic man micro 40 in cosmic perch weighing 3.5 grams we have a decent little sunfish. I tried for the 9 inch bass I saw with a 1/8 oz roadrunner. He looked at it and all the small gills chasing it, checked it out and gave me the I am not having any of that stare lol. It was fun either way ? I didn’t get skunked so that is good. If I am honest I sort of wanted to catch a small bluegill of sorts with my bait caster and I did ?

[TnRiver46]

My buddy got a nice one with a popper
I got a couple monsters like this 

[Mbirdsley]

Best bass day of they year as far as size and weight. Fished little field lake in Isabella co Michigan.  I think this lake was a old gravel pit the drop off goes almost straight down like a cliff from 2ft to 30 ft of water. Water very clear can see almost 16-18 feet down.

 

   Caught a 4lber on a strike king 5xd ( forget the name but pictured).  The rest came on a arkie jig I make with a googan summer craw bandito bug for a trailer.

 

  Glad I took a half day off from work to come up here 

 

 

[TnRiver46]

8 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

Best bass day of they year as far as size and weight. Fished little field lake in Isabella co Michigan.  I think this lake was a old gravel pit the drop off goes almost straight down like a cliff from 2ft to 30 ft of water. Water very clear can see almost 16-18 feet down.

 

   Caught a 4lber on a strike king 5xd ( forget the name but pictured).  The rest came on a arkie jig I make with a googan summer craw bandito bug for a trailer.

 

  Glad I took a half day off from work to come up here 

 

 

 Nice green fish!! I can see that drop off in the photo behind the scale

[Mbirdsley]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

 Nice green fish!! I can see that drop off in the photo behind the scale

That was the most intense drop off I’ve fished.  Probably went around at least half the lake.   All The fish except the last 2 which,  were shallow were caught in 10-12 ft of water.  If I could find a like 10-15 step midway down the  drop off before it went deep I could mark and catch fish.  Didn’t even mark any thing on the drop off that went right to 30ft  

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, Mbirdsley said:

That was the most intense drop off I’ve fished.  Probably went around at least half the lake.   All The fish except the last 2 which,  were shallow were caught in 10-12 ft of water.  If I could find a like 10-15 step midway down the  drop off before it went deep I could mark and catch fish.  Didn’t even mark any thing on the drop off that went right to 30ft  

That’s how almost all the water is where I live 

[David 7]

Not bass but caught 17 of these porgies and two sea bass yesterday on Long Island Sound.

[TnRiver46]

12 minutes ago, David 7 said:

Not bass but caught 17 of these porgies and two sea bass yesterday on Long Island Sound.

That’s pretty cool, I’ve caught those jokers all the way down in FLA 

[Jmurphy87]

Well today we have a small bass, largest of the three I caught. I saw a decent one but it was definitely not interested in my offering. More sunfish and a bluegill also, on my lure of choice today. I used a 1/32 jig head with a tiny black and red beetle spin plastics for a trailer. Total weight less than a 1/16 of a ounce, rods only rated down to 3/16 so I didn’t have high expectations. The new curado bfs does really good, it would do better with the correct rod but nobody around here has any in the stores. I think today was a good day of fishing ?

[TnRiver46]

9 minutes ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Well today we have a small bass, largest of the three I caught. I saw a decent one but it was definitely not interested in my offering. More sunfish and a bluegill also, on my lure of choice today. I used a 1/32 jig head with a tiny black and red beetle spin plastics for a trailer. Total weight less than a 1/16 of a ounce, rods only rated down to 3/16 so I didn’t have high expectations. The new curado bfs does really good, it would do better with the correct rod but nobody around here has any in the stores. I think today was a good day of fishing ?

Quit making me want one of those spools! Haha 

[GreenPig]

Fished Thursday 2am - 10:30 am at my local lake. Water is 86 degrees and slowly cooling. Caught 7 LM & 1 surprise catfish, fishing a Shakey Head in 18 - 25' on rocks and humps. Biggest LM was 4 lbs 10 oz

[The Bassman]

7 hours ago, David 7 said:

Not bass but caught 17 of these porgies and two sea bass yesterday on Long Island Sound.

Porgy & Bass. Wasn't that a Broadway play?

[TnRiver46]

I ventured downstream a tad and got a decent one, dragging a worm deepish 

[MIbassyaker]

3 hours ago, The Bassman said:

Porgy & Bass. Wasn't that a Broadway play?

 

? Summertime, and the fishin' is easy.... ?

 

[N Florida Mike]

Got a couple in the church pond just after daybreak with the june bug speed worm… Lost the biggest one.

It’s Kind of a wierd little pond. Ive fished it off and on for 25 years and haven’t caught anything over 2.5 pounds. 

[The Bassman]

9 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Got a couple in the church pond just after daybreak with the june bug speed worm… Lost the biggest one.

It’s Kind of a wierd little pond. Ive fished it off and on for 25 years and haven’t caught anything over 2.5 pounds. 

Your pic tells me that your pond could stand some harvest. Too many fish?

[NYWayfarer]

Texas rigged TRD TicklerZ strikes again. They wanted it hopped along the bottom in the strongest current of my local river. Caught a bunch of Smallies under a pound before getting this stout girl.

 

[N Florida Mike]

1 hour ago, The Bassman said:

Your pic tells me that your pond could stand some harvest. Too many fish?

It would seem that way, but I dont ever catch many in numbers either. I catch 0-3 fish each time, never more than 3. Many of the fish are lean like that one, which points to overpopulation, or lack of forage, but the pond is full of small bream… I fish with various baits , but the only baits Ive caught fish on are speed worms and flukes.

Ive even live bait fished with small bream but the turtles interfere. Had a good run with a bream last week but whiffed with the hookset somehow. 
Had 4-5 other runs that Im reasonably sure were turtles…

[Jmurphy87]

Nothing special but a few bass on my bfs setup. I hate how the camera angle makes them look huge when they are not ☹️ I like catching big fish but when a smaller one looks big you need to admit that it’s still small and not play it off, enough of my rant lol. Biggest small fish of the day came on my first pitch after I got to the lake second and third came at my third spot. Not horrible for 45 minutes. Caught on a megabass 1/16 secret jig head with a 2.8 inch keitech in sungill weight of 5-5.5 grams.

[Jmurphy87]

Well I got out this morning at 8-11 am trying to beat the heat. First place I stopped wasn’t very good two of my three prime spots were taken, tried for a hour or less. I was going to use a Ned rig today and this place is fairly weedy so you have to choose the right spots. Well onto the next spot my old favorite little pond, maybe six inches of visibility in the water if you are lucky. My plan was still stick to the Ned rig. The first 40 minutes not much happened. I started wading around checking the bottom composition with my feet lol, if I had to guess maybe 8-9 feet deep at the max. There are nice weed less soft bottom banks from 1-5 feet deep around the perimeter one lay down that I mapped with my feet to check for branches to the side that I might snag on, none of those. My first fish was a black bullhead, not too big but still a fish. Next was two tiny bass. Then the last one was the biggest of the day I am guessing in the 13-15 inch range used my rod as a ruler when I got home. Bait was a 1/20oz z man finesse Ned head in green pumpkin, trailer was a finesse TRD in smelt color. Rod zodias 7’2 ml bfs, reel curado bfs xg spooled with 8lb red label. Lure weight around 5-5.5 grams, the plastic is 4 grams on its own lol. No problem casting it where I wanted to. The last bass felt nice on the rod had to steer him away from the lay down but it handed it flawlessly. I think today was a good day caught fish and get to spend time with my son who is going to be 4 months old this week ?

[LrgmouthShad]

Had another good weekend. Lost track of numbers. Two right around the 3lb mark and another slightly less. Buzzbait and frog pretty much the whole weekend. High water levels and cloudy. By the way, the rage tail menace is a killer buzzbait trailer. It does the one thing the z craw jrs cannot on the back of a buzzbait: allow it to track perfectly straight at all speeds. This means I can throw it more confidently in heavy cover since the hook is not running sideways.

 

[HaydenS]

5 hours ago, Jmurphy87 said:

I was going to use a Ned rig today and this place is fairly weedy so you have to choose the right spots.

If there are weeds, swim it... Give it a try.

[Sphynx]

Jerkbaits and Pop-R's were the ticket today, they wanted nothing to do with squarebill or lipless cranks, tubes or shakeyhead presentations, I did grab a small fish on a Whopper Plopper 90 in bone, first one of those this year and hopefully not the last 

[TriStateBassin106]

This weekend was epic. Plenty of big fish including this 4.5LBS hog. Made my weekend and most fish were caught on a mixture of black ribbontails by Berkley and swimjigs.