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[The Bassman]

Still can't get past 4 lb. This one was 3.96. Normally I've caught bigger by now but really can't complain. Action was fast today in spite of temps barely above 40 and occasional sleet squalls this morning. Crazy spring here. supposed to be 70 Mon. I really believe that bass are motivated by their pre spawn instincts even with the water still cold. They're very aggressive and hard fighting right now.

[BrianMDTX]

11 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

They're very aggressive and hard fighting right now.

That means it lost 0.04 lbs during the fight! 

[BrianMDTX]

2 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

That's never a good feeling man and we do what we can to try and turn them back with minimal damage...but unfortunately sometimes we kill em. Don't be to hard on yourself because it happens

Yeah, I know. But I haven’t caught many 2+ lb. bass from this pond lately, so knowing I likely killed one really stinks. 

[DitchPanda]

15 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

Yeah, I know. But I haven’t caught many 2+ lb. bass from this pond lately, so knowing I likely killed one really stinks. 

Yep I hear ya bud...it sucks...but what can ya do. Its part of it.

[TnRiver46]

My buddy was replacing the axle on his boat trailer, said he needed me to baby sit his boat all morning. It was snowing and the fish were chomping. Nothing big but I got to set the hook over and over and over. I lost several fish in trees, finally decided to switch to baitcaster for more winch power 

 

 

 

[DitchPanda]

11 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy was replacing the axle on his boat trailer, said he needed me to baby sit his boat all morning. It was snowing and the fish were chomping. Nothing big but I got to set the hook over and over and over. I lost several fish in trees, finally decided to switch to baitcaster for more winch power 

 

 

 

Awesome! Hey man I need to fix my trailer and I need your help...oh what do you need me to do? Oh its pretty tough just take my boat out by yourself for several hours and catch a bunch of largemouth...you available? Um...yes please

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, DitchPanda said:

Awesome! Hey man I need to fix my trailer and I need your help...oh what do you need me to do? Oh its pretty tough just take my boat out by yourself for several hours and catch a bunch of largemouth...you available? Um...yes please

My thoughts exactly 

[GreenPig]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

My thoughts exactly 

True friends will step up to help out with even with the most arduous task.

[TheBasslayer]

Biggest bass of 2022! I caught it in a new spot, which is a small pond by my friends house.

[Fishlegs]

21 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy was replacing the axle on his boat trailer, said he needed me to baby sit his boat all morning. It was snowing and the fish were chomping. Nothing big but I got to set the hook over and over and over. I lost several fish in trees, finally decided to switch to baitcaster for more winch power 

 

 

 

Tell him the boat catches fish just fine.

[BassSteve]

Decided to cast out this evening with an hour or so of light left, managed to land these two nice examples. First bass thrashed around and ripped the worm off...in the water of course so I could not recover it ? (was a 4" junebug yum dinger, junebug seems like a color that always does well). The second was really nice, easily 18" - 20", felt like 4 pounds easy or close to it. exploded on the surface as the finesse worm was starting to sink. I also saw a 3 foot snakehead try and ambush a fairly large bird down by the water! ? It never occurred to me they would leap out of the water to kill birds..

[BassSteve]

2 hours ago, TheBasslayer said:

Biggest bass of 2022! I caught it in a new spot, which is a small pond by my friends house.

Nice catch! ?

[TheBasslayer]

20 minutes ago, BassSteve said:

Nice catch! ?

Thank you!

[BassSteve]

1 minute ago, TheBasslayer said:

Thank you!

No problem brother, keep it up 

[PhishLI]

I hit my spot super early this morning. It was cold and the water was dead flat at 3 am, but thankfully the flock of swans were on the other side of the lake. The water is so unusually clear from the colder temps and wind, and none of my trusty shallow areas are working yet. I finally found some bait pushed hard to the shoreline inside an emerging pad field just as the wind kicked up at 4:00, then got some bites right away. Got a few midgets on small wake cranks, missed something heavy that wouldn't let go but was never hooked on the Zman Texas Eye/Diesel Minnow, then finally got a decent fish on a NorieS spoon tail shad.

 

My buddy, who was at another spot on the lake right after dawn, had snagged his crank in some weeds. He's shore-bound and I was in waders, so I met him over there and saved his lure. He was done for the day, and since I was already in the water I asked if I could take a few casts from his spot. A few casts later I hooked into something with some nice horsepower. Carp were jumping while I was saving his lure, so I thought I'd snagged a carp at first, but that's because it got wrapped around a new pad stalk just as soon as it bit. She jumped about a foot out of the water and unsnagged herself and my diesel minnow just like that. "That 'aint no carp!", my buddy cried when she flew. 4-12lbs. Good way to end the session.

 

 

[Holetail]

Got out for a couple hours yesterday afternoon. Winds have been crazy lately and yesterday was no different. Could make some headway during the sustained 10-15, but the gusts of 25-30 made it a struggle to not go backwards. Only managed two fish but had several pickups that I couldn’t get a hookup. Guessing it’s bed fish mouthing the bait to move it off their bed? Been happening quite a bit lately. Got one on a new Fogy and had another slash at it right at the kayak. 
  Did get this 2.5 on a Tokyo rig when it just slammed the bait. I did everything possible to lose her including snagging line on the bow, letting her jump 4-5 times, missed with the net and she bounced off the hull, hit her with the net… HAHA. Somehow managed to land her eventually. Super skinny fish so I’m thinking postspawn?

[Bluebasser86]

Had my first kayak tournament of my circuit this year at Mined Wildlife Area in Southeast Kansas Saturday, it was ungood for me, just short fish after short fish and lost every bigger one I hooked. 

 

Prefishing went pretty well though ?

Prefishing was super windy, sleeting, just as nasty as it could be. Tourney day was calm, almost hot by the end of the day. My pit I was planning on fishing was small and shortly after I got there, a whole group of otters showed up and started wreaking the place, fish heads all over the bank. Can't imagine that helped me any. I tried to move to a different pit but they're mostly very clear and deep so with that high sun by then, it was pretty much game over. I did get one to try and add another to my bag, but of course it flopped off my board and back into the water ? Momma said there'd be days like this I suppose. Finished right in the middle of the 62 person field with 3 little fish. 

 

 

[BassSteve]

So this is the meager catch this evening, not much but I tried lol. Of course lost another hook and worm to a snakehead....starting to worry soon all that will be hitting my lures are snakeheads ? Caught a decent peacock and good size Mayan cichlid ?

[gim]

9 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

 

 

That is some gnarly looking habitat.

[MN Fisher]

15 minutes ago, gimruis said:

That is some gnarly looking habitat.

All I'd load up for that would be wacky and jigs...and a pitching I would go.

[BassSteve]

17 minutes ago, gimruis said:

That is some gnarly looking habitat.

I agree but a great maze of underwater branches for the bass, they must be everywhere in there ?

[Bluebasser86]

1 minute ago, MN Fisher said:

All I'd load up for that would be wacky and jigs...and a pitching I would go.

They were killing a jig, and every one was 12" or less.

[NYWayfarer]

Caught my third Bass of the year while jigging a spoon for Trout.

 

 

The Bass bite has never been this good for me in April. Oh and I did catch my intended species.

 

 

[GreenPig]

Caught 5 LM on flats with a chartreuse Trickworm weightless early and 16 Spots on humps. The Spots were loving a 3/16 wobble head Sukushi Bug and 1/8 tungsten T - Rigged Nikko Hellgrammite on a 2/0 EWG. Water temp 62.8, Air 44 - 74

[Bluebasser86]

42 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Caught 5 LM on flats with a chartreuse Trickworm weightless early and 16 Spots on humps. The Spots were loving a 3/16 wobble head Sukushi Bug and 1/8 tungsten T - Rigged Nikko Hellgrammite on a 2/0 EWG. Water temp 62.8, Air 44 - 74

That Sukushi bug has been a great Ned rig bait for me, especially early in the year when the baby craws are all over the rocks.