Latest Catch Pics Thread

[JWall14]

On 11/13/2022 at 7:15 PM, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Makes me crazy jelly knowing that highschools and colleges have Bass fishing teams, and you can even get a scholarship to my Alma Matta Auburn for Bass fishing.    

 

Great job, beautiful fish, and never forget to stop and enjoy this period of your life.   I guess now I've got to begrudgingly pull for the Boilermakers unless they play my Tigers in March next year.   

 

Like you said, if your losing fish, the most important thing is that you can find them.   You'll refine your techniques and equipment in due time and those fish will be boated.   My Chatterbait journey was exactly like this.    I could find the fish with chatterbaits, but just lost way too many.  Then I got a dedicated setup for them, and everything changed.  

Thanks! Changing gear is something I am playing around with this winter to try and eliminate those so hopefully it works! I don’t think we’re going to be any good this year so you will likely have an easy win if we meet in March!

[Team9nine]

Highs in the upper 30s this week, but I've snuck out twice to throw suspending jerkbaits at a couple different places. Had half a dozen the first trip two days ago, so switched water and had a better day today, picking off 26 bass. Nothing too big, but fairly aggressive fish considering some of these small waters will likely be seeing skim ice by the weekend. Should be short lived as we are supposed to warm up a bit into the upper 40s next week.

 

 

 

[gim]

25 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Highs in the upper 30s this week

Good thing you patched the holes in those jeans. Would get awful cold on the bare skin!

[Team9nine]

10 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Good thing you patched the holes in those jeans. Would get awful cold on the bare skin!

Don’t tell anyone - but I got smart and figured out how to crop my pics before posting ?

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Don’t tell anyone - but I got smart and figured out how to crop my pics before posting ?

Can't fool us...you actually went out there in shorts. That's why the cropping...don't wanna blind us with that lily-white skin.

[Swamp Girl]

52 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Highs in the upper 30s this week, but I've snuck out twice to throw suspending jerkbaits at a couple different places. Had half a dozen the first trip two days ago, so switched water and had a better day today, picking off 26 bass. Nothing too big, but fairly aggressive fish considering some of these small waters will likely be seeing skim ice by the weekend. Should be short lived as we are supposed to warm up a bit into the upper 40s next week.

 

 

 

 

Your third fish is one of the prettiest I've seen all year.

[NorcalBassin]

Love this time of year when the lake is mostly empty, mornings feel like winter and the daytime temps rise up into the low 50's. Saw a lot of bait but not many fish around it... fortunate to still cross paths with some solid ones.

 

Pops picked up a nice trout (very nice out here) on a Keitech.

 

 

This fatty really, really wanted my burrito.

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

On 11/13/2022 at 6:14 PM, Aaron_H said:

 

LMB will always be my first love, but my goodness look how gorgeous those smallies are! You northern guys are pushing me closer and closer to taking a trip up there to try targeting them (but when it's warmer ??).

Don't have to go too far north! Just make a trip to Tennessee. We got smallies and the first time you hook a four pounder and it takes off like a scalded dog, goes airborne, and rips your heart out, you will be a regular visitor!

[Swamp Girl]

24 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Don't have to go too far north! Just make a trip to Tennessee. We got smallies and the first time you hook a four pounder and it takes off like a scalded dog, goes airborne, and rips your heart out, you will be a regular visitor!

 

Heck, yeah, Tennessee is Smallmouth Town. I've never fished it, but I know its long, glorious smallmouth history. However, If you're going to fish Tennessee, Aaron, you might as well mosey up to Erie. If you're fishing Erie, you're not far from St. Clair. If you're fishing St. Clair, you're already in Michigan and you might as well roll a little farther north to its countless smallmouth lakes. Then, if you're fishing northern Michigan, you oughta....

[TnRiver46]

13 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Heck, yeah, Tennessee is Smallmouth Town. I've never fished it, but I know its long, glorious smallmouth history. However, If you're going to fish Tennessee, Aaron, you might as well mosey up to Erie. If you're fishing Erie, you're not far from St. Clair. If you're fishing St. Clair, you're already in Michigan and you might as well roll a little farther north to its countless smallmouth lakes. Then, if you're fishing northern Michigan, you oughta....

Last year I went from TN to Erie to Michigan. I fished some but my best catch was at Point Betsie lighthouse in Frankfort 

 

 

headed back in July also! 

[Swamp Girl]

Beautiful photo. 

[TnRiver46]

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

Beautiful photo. 

My cousin (in law) Diana took them, she’s great 

[Aaron_H]

1 hour ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Don't have to go too far north! Just make a trip to Tennessee. We got smallies and the first time you hook a four pounder and it takes off like a scalded dog, goes airborne, and rips your heart out, you will be a regular visitor!

 

Not that far north? I'm in Orlando, Tennessee might as well be Canada to me! ?

 

The idea is still rattling around, I kind of want to make a road trip from here to upstate NY with fishing stops along the way, Tennessee is definitely part of that plan.

[TnRiver46]

18 minutes ago, Aaron_H said:

 

Not that far north? I'm in Orlando, Tennessee might as well be Canada to me! ?

 

The idea is still rattling around, I kind of want to make a road trip from here to upstate NY with fishing stops along the way, Tennessee is definitely part of that plan.

You can find smallies in N GA and N AL if you need a shorter trip 

[Swamp Girl]

43 minutes ago, Aaron_H said:

 

Not that far north? I'm in Orlando, Tennessee might as well be Canada to me! ?

 

The idea is still rattling around, I kind of want to make a road trip from here to upstate NY with fishing stops along the way, Tennessee is definitely part of that plan.

 

How far can you cast? Work on casting really, really far. Think big lures and hurricane tailwinds. 

 

Truly,

 

Ol' Crickety, Winner of the Bad Ideas Trophy in 2003, 2007, 2016, and 2022

[Blue Raider Bob]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Heck, yeah, Tennessee is Smallmouth Town. I've never fished it, but I know its long, glorious smallmouth history. However, If you're going to fish Tennessee, Aaron, you might as well mosey up to Erie. If you're fishing Erie, you're not far from St. Clair. If you're fishing St. Clair, you're already in Michigan and you might as well roll a little farther north to its countless smallmouth lakes. Then, if you're fishing northern Michigan, you oughta....

Sign me up! If Aaron passes through Tennessee on the way to Ontario, he'd better have an empty seat!

[king fisher]

20 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Love this time of year when the lake is mostly empty, mornings feel like winter and the daytime temps rise up into the low 50's. Saw a lot of bait but not many fish around it... fortunate to still cross paths with some solid ones.

 

Pops picked up a nice trout (very nice out here) on a Keitech.

 

 

This fatty really, really wanted my burrito.

 

You had to do it.  Post a nice bass with a burrito.  The Bait Monkey has been on my back for a few months, trying to get me to buy one.  Every other Tactical Bass video has them using them.  I kept telling the Monkey to calm down because they have their own color of burrito, are simply pushing their product. Then the monkey shows me this picture and screams black Friday in my ear.  I think I have lost the battle, and will order two for Christmas.

[ScottW]

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

You can find smallies in N GA and N AL if you need a shorter trip 

Lake Guntersville!

[Aaron_H]

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

You can find smallies in N GA and N AL if you need a shorter trip 

 

We have some property in SE Alabama, might not be too far of a drive up north from there. I'm currently trying to convince my brother to take a road trip with me to Dale Hollow next year. He tried unsuccessfully to target some smallmouth a few years ago on a trip up the eastern seaboard, he's still salty about it.

[PhishLI]

Slipped in a quick 1/2 hour before wicked cold rain whipped in. Kinda crappy?

 

[thediscochef]

Went out for some catching this morning, I tried yesterday but the combo of cold, clouds, and wind kept me inside. Just too much for my hands. Today was great though, partly cloudy with the occasional 10mph NW wind. Had 6 LMB and a shad. Foul hooked it right under the pectoral fin. If I'd had some other gear it'd've become bait. 

[Swamp Girl]

Good job, DiscoChef. If you'd turn that first fish into bait, what might you have caught with it?

[a1712]

20", scale was in the truck. I ALWAYS carry my scale after November but had an hour to slip out, just grabbed my rod, reel and 3 Lipless and fished. 

13 Metanium HG, ALX OXIM Agent, Daiwa Game Vibe Lipless. Brian. 

[TnRiver46]

55 minutes ago, a1712 said:

20", scale was in the truck. I ALWAYS carry my scale after November but had an hour to slip out, just grabbed my rod, reel and 3 Lipless and fished. 

13 Metanium HG, ALX OXIM Agent, Daiwa JDM Lipless. Brian. 

Nice! Love the trap bite. 20”er, I reckon you could say somewhere between 4 and 5 

[thediscochef]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Good job, DiscoChef. If you'd turn that first fish into bait, what might you have caught with it?

Thanks! With a shad that size, it'd be likely a Flathead or Blue Catfish, a decent size Black Bass, or a Gar - at this lake probably a longnose or shortnose, alligator gar are very sparse in Ray Roberts. Very few recorded catches. My money is on a blue catfish though, I've caught them on lures there.

On 11/14/2022 at 5:52 PM, Aaron_H said:

Finally got into a nice fall fish, and got it on the new jerkbait combo to boot. Took a page out of @thediscochef's book and caught a 5lber. Couldn't stand getting run out of that spot yesterday by the storm, so went back today for some revenge. Pretty decent wind out of the east, caught most of my fish along the windblown bank on a jerkbait and lipless, including one ~3lber on the lipless. The 5 was the biggest of the evening, got it on the opposite bank twitching the jerkbait next to a point.

 

Also got a stud bluegill on the jerkbait working it through a drain outflow that's kicking pretty good from all the storms. Didn't have my measuring tape with me so I can't submit it to FWC, but took a picture of it laid out on my hand, then measured once I got home. Would've been 10.5", not my biggest but my biggest in a while and a nice surprise.

 

I think I'm starting to get the hang of throwing the jerkbaits on mono. I think my drag was too loose for the first few fish that came off, so used to being ginger with the drag throwing them on braid. I tightened it way down (not cranked down but compared to my old braid setup) and stopped missing those bites. Gotta really lean hard into them to bypass the stretch and load that rod deep/drive those trebles home instead of just reeling/sweeping into them with braid.

 

It's a learning process, but I'm happy to have some nice results. The 5lber jumped 3 times, had a couple of nice runs, but I was able to really lean into her on that 12lb mono and never felt like she was going to come unpinned, and no bent out trebles so far either.

Hey NICE! I'm still lookin for this week's fiver...she's out there somewhere. I'm gonna get her