Latest Catch Pics Thread

[GreenPig]

59 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Nice one, be interested to see you compare the BD Shad with the Bull Shad should you ever get one.    

Looking at them, I'd bet a fish that'd hit one would hit the other. If I get my hands on a BD I'll fish it and compare.

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Many of them actually scavenge on dead things. Dead fish, road kill, and this time of year they pick away at gut piles of deer that hunters have shot. Lead poisoning is a controversial subject with eagles this time of year.

I was on my way into the mountains last spring and I saw a big bird eating a dead raccoon and just assumed it was a buzzard. As I drove by it was a bald eagle, it jumped up into a tree and let me pass. Then I was telling my coworker the story and the spot and he had seen the exact same thing in the exact same spot. He said that bird lives off roadkill haha

[gim]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

I was on my way into the mountains last spring and I saw a big bird eating a dead raccoon and just assumed it was a buzzard. As I drove by it was a bald eagle, it jumped up into a tree and let me pass. Then I was telling my coworker the story and the spot and he had seen the exact same thing in the exact same spot. He said that bird lives off roadkill haha

A lot of people think they are these majestic efficient hunters but in reality most of them would much rather scavenge like crows than hunt because it’s just much easier. Free food.

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, gimruis said:

A lot of people think they are these majestic efficient hunters but in reality most of them would much rather scavenge like crows than hunt because it’s just much easier. Free food.

When I was in Alaska, all the tour guides said they don’t have vultures so the eagles clean it all up 

 

my buddy calls bald eagles “buzzards in a tuxedo”

[BayouSlide]

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

When I was in Alaska, all the tour guides said they don’t have vultures so the eagles clean it all up 

 

my buddy calls bald eagles “buzzards in a tuxedo”

 

I once saw a bald eagle fighting a buzzard over some roadkill ?

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, BayouSlide said:

 

I once saw a bald eagle fighting a buzzard over some roadkill ?

Glad I don’t have to eat it. The animal kingdom is ruthless 

[thediscochef]

All y'all and your beautiful eagles...best I got is the murder of crows that takes the shape of Roland Martin and follows me from my house to the lake

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

All y'all and your beautiful eagles...best I got is the murder of crows that takes the shape of Roland Martin and follows me from my house to the lake

[The Bassman]

21 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Ended up catching 9LM today, and had a small musky shake off while I was fumbling with the net. Water's down eight degrees over the last six days. Surface temp was 42 this morning and lake #1 is down about four feet. The ramp will be unusable in a week or two. Time is running out on the 22 season. First bite today was five pounder #4 for the year, officially making this my best year for big LM. Come to think of it, it's been a great year for big fish in general, with a PB saugeye, and a muskie just an inch short of my PB. Todays ol battle scarred big girl came in at 5.11. The mighty Sweet Craw strikes again. Caught one LM on the A Rig, the rest came on the Sweet Craw pitched to shallow sun baked laydowns.

Your posts are always incredible. I gotta get one of those hats. Has to be the secret. in Uncle Buck John Candy said his hat made a lot of people angry. Yours works on bass and muskies.

[T-Billy]

2 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

Your posts are always incredible. I gotta get one of those hats. Has to be the secret. in Uncle Buck John Candy said his hat made a lot of people angry. Yours works on bass and muskies.

LOL. Thanks. The hat gets lots of compliments, and that sucker is WARM. I think the fish bite my bait just so they can come in the boat and get a better look at it.

[Swamp Girl]

Just be careful, @T-Billy, if a grizzly bear sees you in your hat and there's a sudden twinkle in her eye.  

[T-Billy]

5 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Just be careful, @T-Billy, if a grizzly bear sees you in your hat and there's a sudden twinkle in her eye.  

Don't I know it. She's over there in her recliner eyeing me up right now!!! ?

[thediscochef]

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

You can't hear it but they're all crowing "SINK-O, SINK-O!"

[AlabamaSpothunter]

I posted a Gizzard Shad I found half alive a few months ago that was hand sized.....not all uncommon for Gizzards although seemingly uncommon in a small lake.    Today I snagged the mother of all Threadfins.    Everything in this lake gets big.

 

Today I found threadfins stacked so thick I could have caught one every retrieve with a snag.   I felt my bait bumping into thousands......never quite experienced anything like that.    Snagged them from 7"+ all the way to 1".

 

Caught half of dozen Bass, but now that my lake has dropped from 65 to 55 over the last 7-10days, fishing has dramatically slowed.   Seeing that monster threadfin reaffirms why I'm going to be fishing so hard this winter regardless how frustrating it's going to be.        My dream fish is swimming somewhere in this lake.    Baits that caught fish were the 3/16th mini underspin Gama head with 3-3.5" swimbaits, a Shimano Flashboost Jerkbait, and a Flashback Mini with 3" Armor Shad.    

 

Happy Thanksgiving all!   

The Threadfins....

 

[TnRiver46]

15 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I posted a Gizzard Shad I found half alive a few months ago that was hand sized.....not all uncommon for Gizzards although seemingly uncommon in a small lake.    Today I snagged the mother of all Threadfins.    Everything in this lake gets big.

 

Today I found threadfins stacked so thick I could have caught one every retrieve with a snag.   I felt my bait bumping into thousands......never quite experienced anything like that.    Snagged them from 7"+ all the way to 1".

 

Caught half of dozen Bass, but now that my lake has dropped from 65 to 55 over the last 7-10days, fishing has dramatically slowed.   Seeing that monster threadfin reaffirms why I'm going to be fishing so hard this winter regardless how frustrating it's going to be.        My dream fish is swimming somewhere in this lake.    Baits that caught fish were the 3/16th mini underspin Gama head with 3-3.5" swimbaits, a Shimano Flashboost Jerkbait, and a Flashback Mini with 3" Armor Shad.    

 

Happy Thanksgiving all!   

The Threadfins....

 

Another nice day on the water! The top two shad are gizzards, bottom upside down shad may be a threadfin. The blunt rounded nose is my preferred characteristic for a Gizzard 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

Another nice day on the water! The top two shad are gizzards, bottom upside down shad may be a threadfin. The blunt rounded nose is my preferred characteristic for a Gizzard 

Thanks!

 

All of them had the quintessential "threadfin" including the big one.   Do Gizzards have the threadfin too?    Dang now I have no idea how to tell them apart.  

 

 

[Team9nine]

A couple of the places I fish have been froze over with our recent cold snap, but after a few warmer days and some sun, they were partially melted today. Checked a couple of them out, passing by the areas that still had large ice sheets sitting over them. Fortunately, the deeper holes were open, and I was able to nab half a dozen bites on blade baits. May take a crack at the local reservoir in the next day or two if schedule allows.

 

[DitchPanda]

18 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

A couple of the places I fish have been froze over with our recent cold snap, but after a few warmer days and some sun, they were partially melted today. Checked a couple of them out, passing by the areas that still had large ice sheets sitting over them. Fortunately, the deeper holes were open, and I was able to nab half a dozen bites on blade baits. May take a crack at the local reservoir in the next day or two if schedule allows.

 

All the ponds here are locked up solid...heck even the river as of yesterday is mostly froze over as we've been unseasonably cold up until a few days ago. We are in a stretch of nice weather so if the river opens up enough I may try for gold eye Monday when I'm off. They will make good catfish bait come ice out.

[LrgmouthShad]

Picked up my best bass of the season and new ol muddy pond record on Turkey Day. Not using my usual high contrast scale because don’t have my gear with me. The one I used read 6.8. Only reads to tenths. 
 

Caught on the ol muddy special: a black senko.

 

Back in NC briefly to see family. Happy to be back.

 

almost no sleep today or last night. Hunting in the morn

[TnRiver46]

2 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Picked up my best bass of the season and new ol muddy pond record on Turkey Day. Not using my usual high contrast scale because don’t have my gear with me. The one I used read 6.8. Only reads to tenths. 
 

Caught on the ol muddy special: a black senko.

 

Back in NC briefly to see family. Happy to be back.

 

almost no sleep today or last night. Hunting in the morn

I was like dang that’s a monster for MO, then I kept reading down to NC haha

 

great fish buddy 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Another nice day on the water! The top two shad are gizzards, bottom upside down shad may be a threadfin. The blunt rounded nose is my preferred characteristic for a Gizzard 

After some research they do both have a "threadfin" just to update my bad info.....much harder to tell apart than I thought.    Thanks again for letting me know.  

17 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Picked up my best bass of the season and new ol muddy pond record on Turkey Day. Not using my usual high contrast scale because don’t have my gear with me. The one I used read 6.8. Only reads to tenths. 
 

Caught on the ol muddy special: a black senko.

 

Back in NC briefly to see family. Happy to be back.

 

almost no sleep today or last night. Hunting in the morn

Congrats, glad to see you fishing, much less catching a pig

[TnRiver46]

5 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

After some research they do both have a "threadfin" just to update my bad info.....much harder to tell apart than I thought.    Thanks again for letting me know.  

I do a lot of cast netting so I’ve sorted through a blue million of them over the years. 
 

heres some threadfin I got Saturday , although I did have one gizzard somewhere in the bunch. That may be it on the right but I don’t think so . Around here everyone calls threadfin “yella tails” for obvious reasons 

[Swamp Girl]

I give thanks for Thanksgiving fish photos.

 

Alex, if you land a DD this winter, I'll pay for your dinner. Promise. 

 

Woo-hoo, @LrgmouthShad!

[Jmurphy87]

Well no fish for me today I caught a skunk lol. I have been planning on getting the kayak out for one of my last few times this year today. It’s been warmer than it has been the past few days, high of 50 today so I figured that I might stand a chance. I was wrong, have not been by spring valley in a minute so I had no clue if there was any soft water at all.

 

 I took my lipless, blade bait, mid depth crank, square bill and jig trays with me and some trailers. I fought the kayak down my apartment stairs from my deck loaded it on top of my mini suv and headed off to fish.

 

 I got there and saw ice as far as I could see. I didn’t give up though I was determined. I was hoping that it was thin ice still, nope it was 1.5 inches thick. Still determined I unloaded my kayak and all my gear and set off. 
 

I had to use my anchor to knock holes in the ice to push off of and keep moving forward three to six feet at a time. I was heading for the deeper channel to reach thinner ice, nope wrong again. See the pattern lol.

 

 I was heading to the deepest part of the lake to fish the drop from 4-18 feet, there’s a very big cove that I normally do great in throughout the year. I can normally paddle there in 20 minutes or so from the far side of the lake with soft water, nope not today I was a tortoise. I think it took me a hour and forty five minutes to get there.

 

 I got about halfway there and knew that I was probably not going to catch anything because I was going to have to break ice to be able to get anything in the water. I was still determined and wet from the water splashing when I was knocking holes in the ice to push off with my paddle. 
 

I finally get there and there’s no soft water in sight, well now it’s time to make a hole and probably scare all the fish away. I proceeded to do exactly that, I am not giving up. I tried my lipless by casting it a short distance in the spot I cleared and let line out till it hit bottom and would yo yo it in tiny short burst and let it set, nothing. Time for the jig same thing cast out let line out let it reach the bottom and very gentle short raises and let it set nothing.

 

 I didn’t catch anything but I was soaking wet and had thrown my 5lb anchor to knock holes in the ice to clear my spot and to get myself back to shore, the shallows froze over on my original path. I didn’t give up though and I persevered through it and enjoyed every single minute of it and I can’t think of a better way to spend 5 hours of my time on thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving to you all and good luck, keep catching them for us poor souls up north with our frozen water. It makes me smile and feel like a kid at Christmas when I see all of you still catching them,

[PhishLI]

9 minutes ago, Jmurphy87 said:

 I didn’t catch anything but I was soaking wet and had thrown my 5lb anchor to knock holes in the ice to clear my spot and to get myself back to shore, the shallows froze over on my original path. I didn’t give up though

BadAzz! ?

4 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Picked up my best bass of the season

The kid is back! Congrats!