Latest Catch Pics Thread

[bassh8er]

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

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 

Around here we call Poor Man’s Lobster when you chunk up the fillet, boil on 7-Up and dip in meted butter.

 

Eyes are ok like this but I like my breading 1000 times more.

[TnRiver46]

5 minutes ago, bassh8er said:

Around here we call Poor Man’s Lobster when you chunk up the fillet, boil on 7-Up and dip in meted butter.

 

Eyes are ok like this but I like my breading 1000 times more.

Gotcha. I’ve only ever seen striper and hybrids boiled. I was skeptical but it was pretty good 

[The Baron]

We had high hopes for yesterday, but struggled to find fish without electronics.  We started off shallow and worked our way out deeper.  Our first fish came when I ran a squarebill over the roots of a stump in 2ft. of water, on a marked shoal close to the main channel and 12-15ft. of water.  A new PB for me at 3lb. 11oz.  We picked up two more along that area, then it was a slow grind from there.  We fished 8am until 6:30pm, with everything from surface to bottom in 2-25ft. of water and could never confirm any pattern from our first few fish.

 

Funniest part was at about 5:30pm my buddy said let’s go back to where we got the first three and see if they’ve turned on, or if more have moved in.  I rolled up there slow, and as I cut the motor he cast a jig with craw trailer at the same stump I caught my big one on, and wham… catches what we’re certain is the same fish again.  It weighed 3lb.14oz., looking like it had eaten something since I caught it.  Proof that catch and release works.  As my buddy said, you can only eat them once. haha

[Alpster]

My first time fishing in FL. My first FL fish.........

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                        

[TnRiver46]

[Way north bass guy]

Hit the local lake for a couple hours with the wife. No big ones but still lots on a spook, and  caught a bunch on a scatter rap shallow that we’re feeding on crayfish. I’m surprised at how warm the water still was, 61 deg. Usually by now it’s cooled off more than this and they’re hunting in little wolf packs, but today it was all singles. 

[Eric 26]

Went out for a few hours late morning today, rough go of it but managed a handful of fish. 1 nice crappie, no pic sorry. Caught these guys on a 1/32 oz boot tail. 

[LrgmouthShad]

I fished an awful lot this weekend. Something like 18 hours. Caught quite a few fish, spinnerbaits were the best today, buzzbaits were the best Saturday. At one point I had them going good on a really large 3/4oz spinner with a #6 blade and a 4" swimbait trailer. Expected anything that bit it to be big, but that was not the case lol. No bigguns but was very fun. Here's a few fish from the weekend including one got on a t-rig. 

[N Florida Mike]

Got out for a couple hours this evening. First hour I caught 5 on the june bug magnum zoom lizard. Last hour= nothing. 

Nice evening on the water … Still nothing big. It’s like they’ve totally disappeared the last 8 months.

[N Florida Mike]

On 9/30/2021 at 9:14 AM, 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?

Crawdads may be in The deep south. I honestly would rather eat them than real lobster. 

[JohnFromLisbon]

Took a few days off and went south to fish with a buddy of mine. We caught a few, but nothing huge. After beating the bank throwing a frog over the last bits of good vegetation we could find, we hit the dock and tied on the drop shot. This 2-11 was the biggest one we caught over 3 days.

 

[TriStateBassin106]

Haven't posted here in a awhile. I was going to last Tuesday while I had the day off for my birthday but I got too busy with other stuff and forgot so here we go, so far early fall has been great to me here in New Jersey. Caught some nice size fish including a 4lber (first fish) on my final boat weekend before the lake closed for the season my final lake fish was a cool looking bass that had a weird spine and only one eye! Also caught some chubby dinks at my pond on spinnerbaits. 

[Bluebasser86]

11 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Crawdads may be in The deep south. I honestly would rather eat them than real lobster. 

Lobster is one of the most overrated foods out there imo. 

[GaryH]

10 hours ago, TriStateBassin106 said:

Haven't posted here in a awhile. I was going to last Tuesday while I had the day off for my birthday but I got too busy with other stuff and forgot so here we go, so far early fall has been great to me here in New Jersey. Caught some nice size fish including a 4lber (first fish) on my final boat weekend before the lake closed for the season my final lake fish was a cool looking bass that had a weird spine and only one eye! Also caught some chubby dinks at my pond on spinnerbaits. 

Nice ?

[N Florida Mike]

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Lobster is one of the most overrated foods out there imo. 

I agree. It’s my least favorite seafood- I would much rather have fried fish. 

My wife’s favorite seafood is lobster. 

We are polar opposites about nearly everything.

[LrgmouthShad]

14 hours ago, TriStateBassin106 said:

Caught some nice size fish including a 4lber

Nice fish!

[JWall14]

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

[Eric 26]

30 minutes ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Congratulations on your win??

[HaydenS]

47 minutes ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Great Job!

[GaryH]

48 minutes ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Good job Jwall.  Congrats ???

[MIbassyaker]

This morning I got back out for three and a half hours -- the first time i've been able to do any fishing in more than a month.

 

Went with an old stand-by strategy: "The 1-2 Punch":  (1) spinnerbait the edges and lanes of remaining green vegetation, then (2) move in on the thicker spots and pitch to any holes. The tools of choice today were a Siebert Cosmic Compact double-willow Spinnerbait with a "Pumpkinseed" skirt, and a t-rigged Rage Tail Space Monkey.

 

Hit four with the first punch, and two more with the second.  Four of the six were 14"-15" pound-and-a-halfers:

 

...and two were around 18" that went 3.07lb and 3.34lb, one on each bait:

 

All in all, a fine way to spend a precious few spare hours. I probably won't get to do this more than a couple more times before winter.

[Fishlegs]

1 hour ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Congrats! Hopefully the first of many.

[JWall14]

53 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Congrats! Hopefully the first of many.

I sure hope so! Thanks everyone!

[Standard]

Spent Sunday on Mille Lacs.  One 16.75" right away in the morning, then nothing until evening when I got 3 more from 17-19" and missed 2.  Spent the day fishing shallow but it doesn't seem like the majority of the smallies have moved up yet.