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[scaleface]

18 minutes ago, Bird said:

Caught 9 and every single one was after the bait sat after the cast until the water calmed.

So you fished it like   floating minnow baits ?

[Bankbeater]

Caught 9 of these little guys in about 3 hours.  After the bite died on top they started going after a jig and chunk on the bottom.

[DaubsNU1]

Frances Case in South Dakota last week with my brother and Uncle.

 

19" / 2lb-14oz on a NED rig.

 

[Bird]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

So you fished it like   floating minnow baits ?

After the bait was casted, I let it sit until the water became calm. Once I started reeling, the fish hit it almost immediately......no wind this morning.

[Vilas15]

Haven't been on here lately since I only fish bass a few times a year in the spring. Figured I'd share my best from this weekend. Caught on a clown shadow rap.

[TnRiver46]

57 minutes ago, Vilas15 said:

Haven't been on here lately since I only fish bass a few times a year in the spring. Figured I'd share my best from this weekend. Caught on a clown shadow rap.

Fatty

[NorcalBassin]

First plopper fish of the year for me. He didn't get the memo of bigger baits = bigger fish. ?

 

Spot on a rover.

 

Pops on a senko to finish the trip. Been great getting to fish a little more frequently lately.

[thediscochef]

Night bassin is the thing right now, which is fine with me considering it's been over 100 degrees for a few days. Not a whole lot biting, but I have had a few quality fish in the last week. 4.1lbs tonight. Yee haw.

[Bluebasser86]

Went on a family camping trip this last weekend. Didn't get to do as much chasing blue cats as we were hoping due to the weather but still got the boys out for a little bit. I also took the boat out both mornings by myself while everyone was still sleeping. I could have caught a smallmouth every cast if I wanted to catch sub 12" fish. For some reason, the bigger fish liked the Laguna Shrimp TRD TicklerZ.

Caught a couple walleye

including one from the bank while I was waiting for a catfish bite

Caught several catfish from the bank at our campsite, but they were channels every time.

I had one spot that I'd done well in the past, so we drove the boats to it the last morning and it was pretty non stop bites, but I was having a hard time converting bites into fish.

I think this is the reason why I was missing so many bites.

[hokiehunter373]

Went out last night for another 90 minute trip.  It rained all weekend and the water was high and muddy.  90 degrees, bugs were on, and the bite was off.  My first fish of the evening would have been my best but I lost what looked to be a 2 or 3 pounder a few feet off the bank on a squarebill.  That should have been my clue to just go home then.  Tried a few different presentations and couldn't get anything to work besides slowing down to use the drop shot again and ned rig.  They were only producing dinks and bluegills. 

 

Best of the evening on the ned rig.

 

 

Luckily, the night was saved seeing a turkey strut his stuff for a few hens across the field, and watching deer walk in front of a rising strawberry full moon.  Last night was a good reminder to just try and enjoy being out, even when the bite isn't great.  Total for the evening was 6 bass and 2 big bluegills.

 

[LrgmouthShad]

1 minute ago, hokiehunter373 said:

Went out last night for another 90 minute trip.  It rained all weekend and the water was high and muddy.  90 degrees, bugs were on, and the bite was off.  My first fish of the evening would have been my best but I lost what looked to be a 2 or 3 pounder a few feet off the bank on a squarebill.  That should have been my clue to just go home then.  Tried a few different presentations and couldn't get anything to work besides slowing down to use the drop shot again and ned rig.  They were only producing dinks and bluegills. 

 

Best of the evening on the ned rig.

 

 

Luckily, the night was saved seeing a turkey strut his stuff for a few hens across the field, and watching deer walk in front of a rising strawberry full moon.  Last night was a good reminder to just try and enjoy being out, even when the bite isn't great.  Total for the evening was 6 bass and 2 big bluegills.

 

Gosh that’s pretty

 

Not a bad day fishing either!

[throttleplate]

Went to a new lake to wade and bankfish in park rapids minnesota area. Arrived at lake 1pm and got home at 1am.

Caught a ton of rock bass, couldnt keep them off of whatever I threw.

I only caught 2 small dink bass so i went for the bluegills and they were hot on the tiniest lure jig with a tiny platic shrimp dunked in yellow spike it on a slip bobber.

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Wife caught a nice walleye and she didnt want to pose with it so i held it up for the photo, she also caught another walleye earlier along with a couple largemouth and a few brownie and of course pike.

She out fished me today catching all her fish from shore using a rapala rip -stop. She was so happy with the last big walleye that she was singing when she was cleaning it at the waters edge.

 

Fishing with some buddies.                                                          

[gim]

49 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

Caught a ton of rock bass, couldnt keep them off of whatever I threw.

I've experienced that more than once.  I swear that you just keep catching about 3 or 4 fish, and they rotate on which one is biting until you stop fishing for them.

[N Florida Mike]

Got one on the swing impact fat in black , on the fall.

[throttleplate]

9 hours ago, gimruis said:

I've experienced that more than once.  I swear that you just keep catching about 3 or 4 fish, and they rotate on which one is biting until you stop fishing for them.

Have you ever eatin a rock bass? I searched it and some folks say its flakey white meat and tastes good while others say it tastes muddy and when cleaning the fish look out for parasites in a yellow form of a bump.

[casts_by_fly]

Saturday night was a nice dinner with friends and drinks after so a very late night. My wife had a couch day to recover on Sunday so I went fishing to last years favorite lake. I fished it earlier this year at 52 degree water temps and didn’t touch a fish. Last year I took multiple 4+ lb fish and had some great days, so I know the fish are there. I was surprised I couldn’t figure them out pre-spawn.

 

Sunday I thought would be a great topwater bite. Overcast, light breeze, good temps. I had a popper, frog, and weedless spoon all on at one point before I decided that it wasn’t happening. The lake isn’t very big (120 acres or so) and there is a quarter mile stretch of steeper bank that always holds fish.  50’ from shore you’re in 25’ of water but how it drops changes. There are some tiny flats that are 1’ deep for 10’ from shore. There are some places where it is 4’ right on shore and drops from there. The grass starts growing where the bottom is about 12’ from prior experience but this time of year the grass is visible (4’ water visibility) in about 8’ bottom depth. After two fish hitting on the outside edge areas and nothing in the inner pockets I decided a Texas rigged beaver pitched to every outside edge was the plan.  I picked 7 keepers in that quarter mile with two 17-18”. It was slower working that stretch than I often do, but I think that’s what the day called for. I fished that same stretch for a bit to start and nothing was hitting topwater or chatterbaits. 
 

after this trip, I’m thinking about a trip that is just plastics. Have a toad on top, a swim bait as a moving bait, and a Texas rig to pitch cover. I’d probably take a wacky spinning rig too. Maybe do it on a lake I know decently well.  Sounds like an interesting challenge of a day.

 

 

[IcatchDinks]

10 hours ago, throttleplate said:

Have you ever eatin a rock bass? I searched it and some folks say its flakey white meat and tastes good while others say it tastes muddy and when cleaning the fish look out for parasites in a yellow form of a bump.

 

I've had rock bass. Not bad. Very similar to other sunfish. I've heard you do wanna watch for parasites, but I've never seen any yet.

[gim]

10 hours ago, throttleplate said:

Have you ever eatin a rock bass? I searched it and some folks say its flakey white meat and tastes good while others say it tastes muddy and when cleaning the fish look out for parasites in a yellow form of a bump.

 

No, and I don't even care to catch them either lol.  I think they're actually listed as a "rough fish" which is the same class as carp, bullhead, suckers, etc.  Kind of a disgrace to the bass family if you ask me.

 

Take that with a grain of salt because I very rarely eat any fish anymore.  It might be worth a try if you get into them thick again though.

[softwateronly]

Day burrito...Night Burrito...and $30

 

And an obligatory night jig fish...

 

 

 

 

 

scott

 

 

scott

[IcatchDinks]

Only caught a couple of little guys. After hours of fishing, I switched to a Rebel floating frog crank, and finally found some action. Both of these guys chased it up into 3 or 4 inches of water and would only bite it when I stopped reeling. Saved me from getting skunked. 

[NHBull]

When in doubt throw the wacky

 

[Jmurphy87]

Nothing special out of me, caught 3 fish in 30 minutes on a black and blue jackhammer with a beast coast blade runner trailer. I didn’t weigh the first fish probably a pound or less next was 1.72, next was 2.40lbs. I then decided to make myself throw the jig, I am good with most other feeling presentations. Like plastics and stuff but not that good with a jig, took a while to get a bite and blew it. Hooked the fish fought it for a while and then it came off ? then I fought back and finally got a small one on a jig at 1.44lbs. Better than nothing but it just takes practice and hard lessons I guess, only way to get better though is to keep persevering and learning from failures and mistakes along with what works.

[throttleplate]

On 6/14/2022 at 11:59 AM, gimruis said:

I've experienced that more than once.  I swear that you just keep catching about 3 or 4 fish, and they rotate on which one is biting until you stop fishing for them.

They were relentless biting in the high sun in 3-4 feet clear water as i was wading. They grabbed the arashi popper, jerk baits.

At first i was havin fun catching them but then i went for bluegills changing baits to an ice fishing jig with tiny plastic on it and they still were a pain in the XXX so i had to move and i still caught them in with the bluegills.

 

rock bass attack areas.

 

[NYWayfarer]

Tried two spots this morning. The pond was a bust. I had two blowups on a Scum Frog but failed to set the hook. Got to learn to wait a few seconds before setting that hook, especially with braid.

 

I left the pond to hop over to the river. Bait of the day there was a 4” Green Pumpkin Stik-O rigged weightless. Casting upstream and letting the bait drift on slack line was the deal.

 

[TriStateBassin106]

Struck gold this weekend on the boat. Got 15lbs in the span of 24 hours. A 4lber three 3lbers a handful of 2s and 1s and a bonus smallmouth, the smallmouth was especially exciting only because they've just been introduced to our lake recently and there's not a whole lot of them.