Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Jmurphy87]

I finally got time to post some fish pics from the weekend. I got up Sunday morning and my daughter wanted to go fishing with me, it’s not everyday when my 15 year old wants to go fishing lol. She was the superstar of Sunday, handed me my butt on a plate. I gave her a wacky rig she was off and running she caught 6 or more bass on this. Her biggest was 1.70lbs, followed by a 1.50lb and more smaller ones after that. I was throwing the 1/4oz dark sleeper and caught some perch, crappie and a tiny bass. I got the biggest fish of the day a 2.86lb one and another tiny one. Yesterday I caught this 1.76lb one on a drop shot.

[PhishLI]

Yet another day of crushing heat and humidity was upon us, so I waited until dark to walk my pooch. It was one of those walks where she needed to sniff every single blade of grass she caught a scent on, so it went on and on and on. I was ready to go after we got back home, but made the mistake of plopping down on the couch for a quick minute. When I finally woke up I only had about an hour before a shiny half moon would creep up over the eastern tree line and totally kill the bite. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, so that was going to happen. I booked up to a nearby puddle for a quick wade.

 

They gave my usual stuff the finger, even my trusty black/blue Project Z/Diesel minnow chatter bait. When it was still at its darkest, a 70mm wake and a spook got no love, but I tied on a Shellcracker G2 anyway for a Hail Mary pass hoping its bigger splashes might draw some in. I got what I wanted, then the moon came up and locked them down. I was smarter than usual this time and tap danced on outta there.

 

[LrgmouthShad]

[PhishLI]

8 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

@Deleted account pm'd me the same selfie! I feel so betrayed...sniff...

[Bassfishingfred]

Nothing more fun then ? fishing

 

[Deleted account]

8 hours ago, PhishLI said:

@Deleted account pm'd me the same selfie! I feel so betrayed...sniff...

 

Now I gotta go get checked for Monkey Pox...

[Bluebasser86]

Where would a bass be waiting to eat a rat? Right below a low water waterfall seemed like a good spot. This one seemed to really like (hate?) the FishLab rat when it came over his head, really smashed it.

Then this little champion pulled it down.

[The Baron]

I decided it was Fish Flu Friday and left very early for a rematch at the smallmouth lake I discovered (went equipped for largemouth last time).  I bought a selection of Keitech and jig heads to try, and was not disappointed.  I started with a 3.3” FAT with 1/4oz. Keitech tungsten head and landed 3 fish on my first 4 casts, including the best smallie of the day (20.5”… no scale) followed by a largemouth that wasn’t far behind.  But things died off very quickly after the first hour of daylight.  It’s been hot here so I moved out deeper as the temperature climbed and picked up a few on dropshot.  In hindsight, I should have got the message and left at about 9am.  I caught about dozen or more in the first hour, then progressively slower and caught only two from about 8-11am.  Lesson learned for next trip - go early, leave early.  Also, I caught more largemouth than smallmouth so seems I need to work on my smallie mojo at my secret smallie lake. lol

[thediscochef]

Been real slow lately but I've also been fishing way less than normal. Just haven't had the motivation, life happened pretty hard in the last month.

Despite this, I have been managing some good size fish when something does happen to bite. It's weird, I haven't caught much below or above five pounds in that spot, and I get them about every third trip out there. There's a tournament that releases bags there every Tuesday and that seems to be a better luck day. I wonder why. Lmao. Lol.

Water temps are in the mid 80s right now and it's just slow unless you can get into deeper water (hard to do on foot). Even downsizing to match the small shads isn't really doing much for me. Eagerly awaiting December when water is back in the 60s and 70s.

Got this lil 5.2 chunk last week

[Cbump]

Road trip day 1 (plus night before)

 

 

[DinkDreams]

Hot as hell, little wind but a pond with a fountain helped I think. Caught 4 on a 3/8 Siebert Fogy.

[Jmilburn76]

Even though its dangerously hot I still put the kayak on the water for 4 hours today, only caught a 15.75" on a wacky rigged creme worm and two 10" ers.

[PhishLI]

Dude from my crew, Ramon, upped his PB again with this nice slugger. Woke me up from a dead sleep in the middle of the night to share. Before I got my wits about me I thought he'd won the Powerball or something. His voice went up by several octaves telling the tale. He puts in the work. Happy for him. It's not easy to crack a 7 around here. Told him I was allowed to show him the secret handshake now?

 

MattLures Strong Shad

[thediscochef]

Got a dummy thicc 4.25 tonight. Probably the luckiest catch of my life, it came unhooked as I had it by the bank. She sat between two rocks in front of me, facing me, and I was able to gently put my net behind her and land her. Strike King RES keeps pulling solid fish. All my 4+lbs been on a 1/2oz RES for the last two months. Broke the 5lb average streak tonight but I'm still happy to catch a hard fighter like this. Took drag to a point I thought it might be a PB. Three other dinks, two LMB and one spot. It was only 100 degrees out today, felt great to get some relief from the 105+

 

Edited to add photo lol

[PhishLI]

1 hour ago, thediscochef said:

Got a dummy thicc 4.25

Nice catches.

 

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

Nice catches.

 

Thanks! you as well. I see we both recently had "...is that PB?" moments 

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Day two of road trip. Sorry it’s not bass

 

 

 

[BrianMDTX]

We are definitely in a drought. It rained yesterday for all of five minutes. It’s basically been no rain in over a month. The pond is down about 2’, which is huge in a 7’-8’ pond. I only caught bass in one spot (and shallow at that), and except for the last one (#5) on a wacky rig with a #956 Senko, the rest were only interested in a purple Zoom Mag 2 Texas rig. No bites on topwater, squarebills, spinnerbaits, etc. But they did like that Mag 2! All were this size 

 

[TheBasslayer]

I caught my new Kalamazoo PB bass! I think that it was in the 4.5-5 pound range! Also caught a 3 pounder and 2 others.

[Jmurphy87]

Nothing special but a few fish, caught 2 today to break in my 5lb fluorocarbon on my bfs reel after I had to re spool it. Caught on a 4.5” fat robo worm in bold bluegill on a 3/0 trokar finesse worm hook. Would have caught a couple more but drag was not set correctly on a couple hook sets lol. 1 dink and another slightly less smaller dink at 2.38lbs. Not bad for 30 minutes or less.

[Woody B]

I caught 6 this morning.  3 on a devils horse, and 3 on a t-rig.   This particular spotted bass was 18 inches long, but only weighed 2 pounds 1 ounce.    I don't think the weight is a scale malfunction.  When I got home my 10 pound weight weighed 9 pounds 15 ounces on it.    Lake Wylie has plenty of forage.  Most of the bass I catch are fat.   I wonder if this one is sick, or just thin.   

 

[Team9nine]

In pursuit of Murphy's bass - lol. I've been threatening (myself) to pull out a split shot rig the past couple years, maybe even start a good thread on it. Finally got around to doing it today, and now kind of kicking myself for not doing it earlier. Pulled 16 on it from a stingy summer pond that has been recently treated. Learned a bunch and got things dialed in pretty quick once I got that first bite. Very interested now in playing with it a little more on a couple other types of water first.

 

 

 

 

[NYWayfarer]

Caught my best river Smallmouth Bass of the year today. A 2 pounder on a 1/16 oz EWG weedless Ned rig drifted and hopped along the current. My combo was a  6’ medium light fast action St Croix Avid rod paired with a 1000 size Shimano Vanford spooled with 6# Berkley Trilene XT. 
 

The fight with a fish this size on light gear against the current was one of my top 3 of all time. 
 

[Mbirdsley]

 Today was a struggle and almost took the L. However, I was able scratch out one to avoid the skunk .
 

Launched at lee street. Started on the Shiawassee and nodda. Went up the cass a little bit and nothing. Ran back down to down town Saginaw to one of my historically better spots. picked up one large mouth on one of my pb&j arkie jigs that make. Nothing special but, about 15 inches. 

 

Today was struggle to say the least. Did real good this spring on bass on the Saginaw and Shiawassee  but, summer has been a differnt story.
 

we need rain bad.  I was leary of the titabawassee but, should have tried it I guess. Probably would have better protected from the wind.  Rivers are down in the Saginaw Area probably 3-4 feet from the past summers.  We have not had much rain since April 

[T-Billy]

On 7/22/2022 at 7:18 AM, Deleted account said:

 

Now I gotta go get checked for Monkey Pox...

I wonder if there's a Bait Monkey strain? Hmmm.