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[AlabamaSpothunter]

28 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

When the bait pauses and you throw a little slack into the line it will continue around if it glides good. You can kind of see the cadence on how to do it in this video I took last Sunday.

The first fish I had follow it in this video I really made the bait 180 on the fish but I was drifting at it too fast and I think my shadow spooked it. 

 

HAHAHAHA....the doggies got me.   I only saw the one in the last video I watched of yours.

 

What good puppers

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

HAHAHAHA....the doggies got me.   I only saw the one in the last video I watched of yours.

 

What good puppers

Yeah mine would have attacked the fish, then each other, then me. And probably ate the lure and crapped out the hooks 

[GreenPig]

5 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Bucca Shad?   Nice fish.   You love throwing some big baits, get great results too

That's only a medium sized 7". I do enjoy the bigger than average fish. Caught these two before I came to my senses and swapped. 

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

When the bait pauses and you throw a little slack into the line it will continue around if it glides good. You can kind of see the cadence on how to do it in this video I took last Sunday.

The first fish I had follow it in this video I really made the bait 180 on the fish but I was drifting at it too fast and I think my shadow spooked it. 

 

Thanks, Blue. I had misassumed that you worked a swimbait with your rod like you do most lures. I LOVED musky fishing, but it was the size of the lures that led me to quit. Is it hard on your body to throw the big swimbaits?

[JohnFromLisbon]

When the big lakes around here are stingy the creek never disappoints.

 

7 fish in 2 hours, 5 of them keepers. Although we might be playing fast and loose with the word "keeper" here...

 

4 on the drop shot, 2 on the Vision 110, and 1 on the jig (3/8oz Dobyns Extreme "Craw Daddy" football jig + Flappin' Hog)

 

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

Thanks, Blue. I had misassumed that you worked a swimbait with your rod like you do most lures. I LOVED musky fishing, but it was the size of the lures that led me to quit. Is it hard on your body to throw the big swimbaits?

It's not easy but not as taxing as muskie fishing. I make a lot of shorter cast with swimbaits for bass instead of bombing cast like with muskie fishing and they don't have near the resistance or require as much effort to work them in most cases. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

This BD Shad really seems to produce.   Last couple weeks have been really tough as we're stuck in a holding pattern....water fell nicely from 85 to 65 before that, but has stalled out in the mid 60s.

 

This bait beats the skunk like a ned rig or roboworm lol.   

 

Every fish has hit the bait like a freight train.     This one was somewhere in that 3-4lb range.  

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Thanks, Blue. I had misassumed that you worked a swimbait with your rod like you do most lures. I LOVED musky fishing, but it was the size of the lures that led me to quit. Is it hard on your body to throw the big swimbaits?

Yes they are hard on your body......4 days of throwing either an A Rig or 5"+ hard swimbait has my shoulder barking something fierce.     

 

It's a new rod, so I'm hoping I chill out.    I've been throwing them for most of my sessions, if I would mix in other stuff I'm sure it would be all good.   

 

That's a great point though, they are a pain to chunk.  

55 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's not easy but not as taxing as muskie fishing. I make a lot of shorter cast with swimbaits for bass instead of bombing cast like with muskie fishing and they don't have near the resistance or require as much effort to work them in most cases. 

Yeah I'm done bomb casting these baits for a minute ?

[GreenPig]

16 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

This BD Shad really seems to produce.   Last couple weeks have been really tough as we're stuck in a holding pattern....water fell nicely from 85 to 65 before that, but has stalled out in the mid 60s.

 

This bait beats the skunk like a ned rig or roboworm lol.   

 

Every fish has hit the bait like a freight train.     This one was somewhere in that 3-4lb range.  

Yes they are hard on your body......4 days of throwing either an A Rig or 5"+ hard swimbait has my shoulder barking something fierce.     

 

It's a new rod, so I'm hoping I chill out.    I've been throwing them for most of my sessions, if I would mix in other stuff I'm sure it would be all good.   

 

That's a great point though, they are a pain to chunk.  

Yeah I'm done bomb casting these baits for a minute ?

I always take a Fluke or Spinnerbait to cast while giving my body a little break.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Just now, GreenPig said:

I always take a Fluke or Spinnerbait to cast while giving my body a little break.

Dang out of emotions, but that sounds like the ticket.   Balance it out with some finesse stuff. 

[N Florida Mike]

At it again this afternoon. They were biting anything I threw. Perfect weather- Mostly cloudy, temps in the 70s, Windy at times but perfect for fishing the home lake.

Started out with the baby brush hog, then the speed worm, then a culprit, then a ol monster. Caught 10 , but lost that many again. They were tight to the bank and I lost several after they got into brushpiles. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 minute ago, N Florida Mike said:

At it again this afternoon. They were biting anything I threw. Perfect weather- Mostly cloudy, temps in the 70s, Windy but perfect for fishing .

Started out with the baby brush hog, then the speed worm, then a culprit, then a ol monster. Caught 10 , but lost that many again. They were tight to the bank and I lost several after they got into brushpiles. 

Love them dark beauties you catch

[gim]

8 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Do you dangle night crawlers off all the hook points on your whopper plopper?

Mine’s a Christmas tree ornament.

[A-Jay]

Lake Minichuck was much better to me today.

Decent conditions with more & better quality smallies.

Small swimbait was lethal today. 

Getting pretty close to calling it a for the season.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

[gim]

3 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Lake Minichuck

 Lol. How many “chucks” are there?

 

[A-Jay]

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 Lol. How many “chucks” are there?

Guess we'll find out . . . 

A-Jay

[AlabamaSpothunter]

6 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Lake Minichuck was much better to me today.

Decent conditions with more & better quality smallies.

Small swimbait was lethal today. 

Getting pretty close to calling it a for the season.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

Magnificent specimen

 

All you Yanks say you're done, then you post a pig ?

[A-Jay]

5 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Magnificent specimen

 

All you Yanks say you're done, then you post a pig ?

I think we all want to go out on a high note.

Sitting on a last trip bogus outing all winter can be pretty rugged. 

A-Jay

[gim]

3 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I think we all want to go out on a high note.

Sitting on a last trip bogus outing all winter can be pretty rugged.

Having had both those results many times, I can confirm that going out on a high note makes a northern winter much more tolerable. When you finish on a sour note, it tends to bother me for a long time because I know I can’t remedy that until the following spring.

[DitchPanda]

11 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I think we all want to go out on a high note.

Sitting on a last trip bogus outing all winter can be pretty rugged. 

A-Jay

I get this but also think how much ill regret not going on a nice day because I called it just so I can go out on a high note. The not knowing to me is more bothersome than trying and failing.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 hour ago, DitchPanda said:

I get this but also think how much ill regret not going on a nice day because I called it just so I can go out on a high note. The not knowing to me is more bothersome than trying and failing.

Lol, I swear half the days I fish is because of the "not knowing" part.   I always think if I don't go when I could have, that's when I would have caught my new PB, or had raw thumbs.

 

Like you said, I can see both sides and as somebody who lives in the South I can't relate to having to sit that long on a sour outing.   

[throttleplate]

Wife and i went fishing to a dam we never heard of untill a guy at baldhill dam told me to check it out so we went wednesday.

Its a small small dam and we had gulp live minnows and then an old man gave us his live minnows when he left for home. It was 49 degrees and windy and when we left at 8pm it was actually a nice 36.

 

I of course had to try lipless cranks and jerks all the while my wife was catching smallies and walleye.

I was still convinced i was going to catch fish on lures so i finally put on a 3/8 oz jig and a 2 1/2" multicolored paddletail and caught 5 walleye.

She caught 29 fish, 5 smallies, 3 catfish and 21 walleye. 23 of her fish were on live minnows 6 on gulp live minnow all using an 1/8 oz ballhead jig and bobber.

I let her enjoy the live minnows while i kept warm by casting knowing i was missing out on numbers but i call it testing out what works this time of year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gim]

Nice job @throttleplate, the dams have been good to you this season.

 

Technically, I think a catch of walleye should be in the "other species pics" thread though if I'm not mistaken.  Minor detail that I've made the same mistake on before too.

[TnRiver46]

30 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Nice job @throttleplate, the dams have been good to you this season.

 

Technically, I think a catch of walleye should be in the "other species pics" thread though if I'm not mistaken.  Minor detail that I've made the same mistake on before too.

It’s all good since he caught some smallies  

[Swamp Girl]

13 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

At it again this afternoon. They were biting anything I threw. Perfect weather- Mostly cloudy, temps in the 70s, Windy at times but perfect for fishing the home lake.

Started out with the baby brush hog, then the speed worm, then a culprit, then a ol monster. Caught 10 , but lost that many again. They were tight to the bank and I lost several after they got into brushpiles. 

Mike, I miss fish nearly every time I fish. An average day for me is missing as many fish as I catch. By miss, I mean a fish will hit a surface lure and I won't hook it or I will hook it for a second or two or I have it hooked for a nearly full fight and have it beside the boat and it comes unpinned. I had one morning this year where I caught nearly every fish, but they were inhaling my wake bait that morning. They weren't flirting. 

[Fishlegs]

18 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

When the bait pauses and you throw a little slack into the line it will continue around if it glides good. You can kind of see the cadence on how to do it in this video I took last Sunday.

The first fish I had follow it in this video I really made the bait 180 on the fish but I was drifting at it too fast and I think my shadow spooked it. 

 

Nice job @Bluebasser86. My favorite part was when you gave the catfish the Mushu dishonor line. HaHa!