Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Fishlegs]

11 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The after it played a big role in my good finishes in a few of the last tournaments, including winning the championship for me in my kayak club, one of the guys asked "Why blue?" I told him and everyone else the same thing I tell everyone that ask, "Because it works". I have no idea why it works like it does, what the fish see in it, but it's a killer color in a bladed jig in the lakes around here. I've got so many pictures that look just like that one through the years, the thing just flat catches them for me. 

I always notice the pictures with the bright blue jigs because it looks so unusual. We don't have to understand why they bite it. We just have to keep throwing it as long as they do, right?

 

You should name that one the "blue flame" bladed jig because it's HOT!

[DitchPanda]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy took me fishing from about 6 pm til 11 pm and we got some poor man’s lobster! Also got white bass yellow bass striped bass smallmouth bass skipjack herring and of course a drum 

Looks yummy. I've got a bowl of crappie fillets in the fridge waiting to get fried up.

[TnRiver46]

26 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

Looks yummy. I've got a bowl of crappie fillets in the fridge waiting to get fried up.

[The Baron]

I picked up a Storm Arashi popper today.  It’s only 3 1/8” but 1/2oz. so casts great.  It also has a walk-the-dog action if you fish it faster, so seems very versatile.  I snuck out for the evening and was fishing on one side of a small bridge on a minor road when I saw a fish swirl on bait on the other side, so I zipped over there and got hit on the first cast.?

 

Then I was flirting with max cast distance and lightened the brakes enough to enjoy some birds nest clearing practice before I ran out of light - always good to keep your skills sharp.?

 

 

[TnRiver46]

Thought this joker was 7 lbs when it first jumped, fought like the devil 

[roadwarrior]

Nice fish!

 

[Fishlegs]

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Thought this joker was 7 lbs when it first jumped, fought like the devil 

Beautiful smallie!

[gim]

On 9/28/2021 at 8:15 AM, TnRiver46 said:

we got some poor man’s lobster

What do you guys call poor mans lobster in Tennessee? The ice anglers call eelpout/burbot that up here lol

[TnRiver46]

9 minutes ago, gimruis said:

What do you guys call poor mans lobster in Tennessee? The ice anglers call eelpout/burbot that up here lol

Haha! Walleye or sauger . I’ve seen videos of those burbot, not sure if I could bring myself to grab one! 
 

and apparently Sandhill crane is the rib-eye of the sky but I haven’t tried one yet 

[gim]

12 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Haha! Walleye or sauger . I’ve seen videos of those burbot, not sure if I could bring myself to grab one! 
 

and apparently Sandhill crane is the rib-eye of the sky but I haven’t tried one yet 

Walleye is poor mans lobster there?! Canadian walleye filets are like $20/pound here. Ain’t no poor man buying that.

 

I’ve never caught an eelpout or eaten one. I know a couple people who claim that they are like boiled lobster though. I am skeptical. Probably will never confirm this unless someone catches one and prepares it for me. Then I’ll try it.

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

Walleye is poor mans lobster there?! Canadian walleye filets are like $20/pound here. Ain’t no poor man buying that.

 

I’ve never caught an eelpout or eaten one. I know a couple people who claim that they are like boiled lobster though. I am skeptical. Probably will never confirm this unless someone catches one and prepares it for me. Then I’ll try it.

Well it’s not legal to purchase here, poor men catch it while fishing haha

[Bluebasser86]

Flathead is poor man's lobster here. Guess it makes sense, I don't like the taste of either of them much ?‍♂️

[gim]

9 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Flathead is poor man's lobster here. Guess it makes sense, I don't like the taste of either of them much ?‍♂️

So far we have three different parts of the country indicating a different species is "poor man's lobster."

 

Tennessee - walleye/sauger

Minnesota - eelpout/burbot

Kansas - flathead catfish

 

Anyone else want to chime in with their regional poor man's lobster?

[TravisVirginiaAngler]

caught this 8.10 lb x 23” largemouth in Virginia on a 6” paddle tail swimbait with 8 OT weighted owner hook! Killer bite!

[roadwarrior]

[HaydenS]

Biggun!

[Blue Raider Bob]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

So far we have three different parts of the country indicating a different species is "poor man's lobster."

 

Tennessee - walleye/sauger

Minnesota - eelpout/burbot

Kansas - flathead catfish

 

Anyone else want to chime in with their regional poor man's lobster?

Yes!

in my part of Tennessee a poor man's lobster is a crawdad!

[The Baron]

15 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

… and apparently Sandhill crane is the rib-eye of the sky but I haven’t tried one yet 

Sandhill crane is indeed some amazing stuff.  I hunted waterfowl in Saskatchewan several times, and cranes were very much a prime target.  We’d send ours to a local Chinese food restaurant and the owner would make a big platter of ginger crane.  There’d usually be 8-12 of us at a big table and when he put that platter down, we looked like a pride of lions on a zebra. ??

[Fishlegs]

4 hours ago, TravisVirginiaAngler said:

caught this 8.10 lb x 23” largemouth in Virginia on a 6” paddle tail swimbait with 8 OT weighted owner hook! Killer bite!

Nice fish. Congrats!

[keagbassr]

Got out 8-1 boated 6 bass, 1 on a popper, 1 on a Spinnerbait, 2 on a punch rig and 2 on a buzzbait with 1 of those the best of the day at 3-12.

[bassh8er]

Making walleye into poor man’s lobster is a huge waste IMO; that fish needs to be breaded and fried.

[A-Jay]

Cool Morning but topwater gets my blood flowing ~

 

Fish Hard

A-Jay

[throttleplate]

wife and i went back to the big culvert today in detroit lakes minn territory. Man it was a hot 80* sunny, no wind, bluebird skys and crystal clear water. Not what i wanted to see as it was supposed to be cloudy, bummer.

 

It was 11:00 when i threw the fluke in on a ewg keel hook and first cast out 30 yards out front of the culvert in the green vegetation bam was hooked up then 2nd cast,3rd,4th all in a row caught nice 3-4 lb bass.

 

I was so tired of reeling in the fish from the top of the culvert and then having to gingerly walk down the steep broken concrete embankment to unhook them that i was ready for a break and it had only been 25 minutes gone by.

 

I then got cocky and put on a jig with a new first time for me to use yum craw on a orange and brown arkie jig. I pulled 1 claw off and the casted into the culvert and hooked up. Then i threw a yum craw on jig with both claws and hooked up.

 

Then threw a jerk bait and caught sunnies and pike, no bass though. Then a square bill and caught sunnies,pike while the wife caught a few bass on square bill.

 

I took a nice long break and sat down and relaxed as the fishing slowed down after 12:30 noon.

 

It picked up again at 4pm and i went back to the jig and caught my biggest. Then the rock bass came out to play and we both caught them me using jig and wife using berkley white general on a tr catching both lmb and rock bass on that white general. We caught between us 35 bass, handfull of sunnies and pike and 5 rock bass. Not bad for hot sunny day in late september.

 

Ah 1 more thing, i stripped down to my boxer shorts and fishing gloves and went swimming and diving in the culvert. Why? i will post that in the general fishing forms later.

 

 

 

 

 

[TnRiver46]

10 hours ago, bassh8er said:

Making walleye into poor man’s lobster is a huge waste IMO; that fish needs to be breaded and fried.

That’s the way everyone eats them, they just call it poor man’s lobster because it’s really good meat, lobster quality, that a poor man can acquire 

[TnRiver46]

Launched last night and the water was really fast. We figured what the heck, we will try some downtown fishing, just searching out slower spots behind all the docks, bridges, and barge ties. My buddy got a nice smallie right off the bat with a pearl grub (sorry about the plumbers butt in the photo). Then we tried a creek mouth and my other buddy lost a nice largemouth with a fire tiger pop R in milfoil. I thought what the heck, I’ll try my booyah toad runner. Not long into throwing it, I saw a big wave following it. I told my buddies to watch the “gar” that was waking behind my frog as it approached the boat. Well about that time it went BLAM as a nice largemouth (not a gar) finally decided to eat it. Fun times.