Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Jeff Zurawski]

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

I was cozy yesterday watching the Redcrest finals, and it's been so crappy out with freezing nighttime temps with snow and sleet, so I had all intentions of staying put. Oddly, the winds finally shifted from north to south in the late afternoon, so even though it was still miserable out, I started thinking. My brother sent me a late afternoon swimbait bass pic, then I saw @The Bassman's snow bass, so I was out of excuses.

 

By the time the Redcrest ceremony officially ended it was dinner time. I bribed my wife with delivered sushi, then made my way up. By the time I trekked to my spot my it was well into dark, and hands were already burning from the cold. Water temp dropped back down to 37 from the relentless north winds, and my dogs were barking rather quickly. My cheapo PVC hip waders literally transmit the cold to my feet. Worked the bottom nice and slow with the usual suspects, but no takers. Rigged up a hard swimbait floater and nabbed a scrappy bass pronto. Threw the chrome rat for the first time and the pickerel demolished it. Got a crazy wintertime topwater explosion followed by a ferocious fight. They didn't saw off my rat, so I bounced outta there frozen, but happy. More snow tonight, so it was good to slip in a session.

 

 

That's hardcore, man.  And topwater action under those conditions blows my mind. Outstanding!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Caught 3 and lost a toad on the Berkeley Slobberknocker.   Tough fishing continues and looks to get a bit worse over the next few days with a few nights with freezing temps.  

 

Nice 4+ came off the Shimano swimbait, then jerked the other two with a 110jr +1.   Met a new friend way offshore, so I scooped it up and put it in the middle of emerging weeds.   They suck as adults, but as babies they are too cute.    

[Swamp Girl]

Nice bass, Phish. Nice pickerel too. Pickerel don't usually impress me. They're lure thieves, but your pickerel has length and girth. I've caught them as long as yours, but never as heavy as yours. 

 

Love the belly on that first bass, Alex. I am so looking forward to seeing my Shimano. It's been mailed. And even more excited to fish it!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

Nice bass, Phish. Nice pickerel too. Pickerel don't usually impress me. They're lure thieves, but your pickerel has length and girth. I've caught them as long as yours, but never as heavy as yours. 

 

Love the belly on that first bass, Alex. I am so looking forward to seeing my Shimano. It's been mailed. And even more excited to fish it!

I'm really stoked to see your results on this bait!   I'm just excited to see your reports again, see your Spartan adventures in Bass fishing ?  

 

Your type of fishing, and the fish you are tapping into are really exciting to me, I think you are going to catch some freaks this year.    Knowing you are gonna throw a big fish bait like this one in that place you might camp out is the stuff that fuels bed time dreams.    

 

I'm going to keep saying it until it happens, but that PB is going to change fast on your avatar.     

[PhishLI]

7 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Nice bass, Phish. Nice pickerel too. Pickerel don't usually impress me. They're lure thieves, but your pickerel has length and girth.

They grow big to huge around here which is awesome and terrifying at the same time. Like bass, their heads continue to grow over time, so their mouths widen. That's an angry mouth full of daggers, and they can slice you to the bone if you're not cautious when they do the crazy shake while unhooking them. The one I caught yesterday had its top and bottom lips pinned shut by a treble, so there was no way to use the fish gripper. Yeesh yet again.

 

They can engulf a decent size swimbait too. I had one cream a Gantarel Jr a while back. Checked my line carefully and felt no nicks. I was just about to chuck the bait again when I stopped, grabbed it tightly, pulled on the line, and blink, it popped very easily exactly above the knot. A cast or two later I had a 5-15 bass hooked and landed. No way the line would've withstood the hookset. Pickerel like to head-shot a bait, so the nick is sometimes right at the knot, and it can be hard to detect doing the fingernail-feel-test. The smart move is to just retie. If you're impatient and a blockhead like me, at least grab the bait and the line and give it a good pull, but that has dangers of its own if the bait slips. Double-ouch?

[PhishLI]

9 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Nice 4+ came off the Shimano swimbait,

That one's on my list for sure in my Alewife spots. Thanks! Did you see the MegaBass SuWitch @J._Bricker posted in the monkey thread? Go to their site to read the full description about the ways it can be rigged to run. Oh boy. Sick!

[Swamp Girl]

@PhishLI, I know we've talked about alewives already, but I'm hoping you can give me a little more direction. I did buy all the lures you suggested for alewives, but I've looked at video of the alewives entering a pond I'll be fishing and they are beyond counting. The water is blackened by them. Will a bass hit a lure when there's so much live bait or is the best fishing to be had in the week or two after they're gone, when the bass are fattened and the easy eating is gone?

 

@AlabamaSpothunter, I do think I'll catch a lot of four and five-pounders in 2023, but I'm guessing that six and seven-pounders are rare in Maine. I'd like a new PB, but I'm guessing that for every 20 or 30 four-to-five pounders, I might catch one six-pounder. We'll see. I love them all, so a new PB won't make or break my season.

 

I am much better equipped for largemouth fishing. I started fishing around late August last year, which means I missed the pre-spawn and most of the summer. I also have much more largemouth tackle, thanks to you guys and your suggestions.

 

And I've read a lot of articles and watched a lot of videos. Regarding my PB, since I haven't weighed any fish all the decades I've fished, that's just a guess. I told this story already, but I think my PB is a smallmouth deformed by feeding, a smallmouth that bulged and belly-hung like a fat largemouth. I caught it after the Sun had set, so it was extremely low light and when I saw it beside my canoe, I swore at its size.

 

I've caught thousands of smallmouth and scores in the 19": - 21" range, but that fish was different than any of the others. I think it weighed more than five pounds, but I'll never know. I also caught a 21.5 largemouth in 2022, but I was so excited and shaky that I released it without photographing it. I think that was five-to-six pounds. At least, that's what the length-to-weight charts say. 

 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

5 hours ago, PhishLI said:

That one's on my list for sure in my Alewife spots. Thanks! Did you see the MegaBass SuWitch @J._Bricker posted in the monkey thread? Go to their site to read the full description about the ways it can be rigged to run. Oh boy. Sick!

Oh yeah I saw that awesome lure.    MegaBass has my credit card number on file at this point ?

[Fishlegs]

On 3/12/2023 at 10:11 PM, TnRiver46 said:

This is a meme waiting to happen! ?

[AlabamaSpothunter]

11 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

This is a meme waiting to happen! ?

If he would've added "duck lips" and put a cat ears filter on it, I would've lost my mind ?

[Swamp Girl]

It's a yoga pose. He's multi-tasking. Tom Brady and LeBron James also stretch A LOT to extend their careers. I figure Mr. 46 will still be fishing when the rest of us are being wheeled around nursing homes.

 

#46getsthelastlaughandthelastbass

[Jmurphy87]

Well no bass today had 20 minutes to fish, small wind today so I decided spinner bait. I did catch a pike though, didn’t damage the spinner bait besides bending the wire a little bit. Better than a skunk ?.

[BassSteve]

Hey,

 

After work I managed to land a few nice Mayan cichlids, just wanted to share. Hope everyone is doing well

[GreenPig]

Caught 9 Spots & 3 LM today. 

[PhishLI]

10 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I know we've talked about alewives already, but I'm hoping you can give me a little more direction.

I'll PM you instead of clogging up the works here.

[ScottW]

That about matches my latest dink @treble hook! ?

[Micaiah Lindquist]

Caught about 15 in hour yesterday on a jackhammer. 20" was the biggest, the rest were between 14-16".

[roadwarrior]

Man, that's non-stop action!

 

 

 

                                                  

[Micaiah Lindquist]

@roadwarrior Man, it was awesome! I would post the video on here but I'm not exactly sure of the rules with that. Is saying "please subscribe" or something like that at the end considered promotion? I don't promote any companies or products, but I do sometimes say something about subscribing to see more videos or whatever.

[J._Bricker]

3 hours ago, Micaiah Lindquist said:

Caught about 15 in hour yesterday on a jackhammer. 20" was the biggest, the rest were between 14-16".

Good to see a new BR member catchin’ fish and postin’ pics. Nice fish @Micaiah Lindquist and sounds like one heck of a day, one a lot of us are looking forward to a we get further into spring!

[Jeff Zurawski]

1 hour ago, Micaiah Lindquist said:

@roadwarrior Man, it was awesome! I would post the video on here but I'm not exactly sure of the rules with that. Is saying "please subscribe" or something like that at the end considered promotion? I don't promote any companies or products, but I do sometimes say something about subscribing to see more videos or whatever.

I still new here, too, and not sure of the rules, but I'd like to see that video.  Sounds like a great day (and pretty epic hour) !

[MN Fisher]

1 hour ago, Micaiah Lindquist said:

@roadwarrior Man, it was awesome! I would post the video on here but I'm not exactly sure of the rules with that. Is saying "please subscribe" or something like that at the end considered promotion? I don't promote any companies or products, but I do sometimes say something about subscribing to see more videos or whatever.

 

4 minutes ago, Jeff Zurawski said:

I still new here, too, and not sure of the rules, but I'd like to see that video.  Sounds like a great day (and pretty epic hour) !

From the FAQ - https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/guidelines/

"Content must fall in line with normal BassResource posting rules, outlined on this page. Specifically, you may not promote your own YouTube channel and videos, or solicit likes and subscribers. That means the "Hey come check out my channel/video!" posts are strictly prohibited."

 

So ya, asking for subscribers within the video is a no-no.

[Team9nine]

Didn’t expect much of a bite coming off the cold front, the snow and the hard freeze - and there wasn’t much until I put on some heavy metal. Picked up a dozen, and expecting a better bite tomorrow before the rain moves in…then another crappy few days before we get to a week of warmer weather.

 

 

 

[Jeff Zurawski]

13 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

 

From the FAQ - https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/guidelines/

"Content must fall in line with normal BassResource posting rules, outlined on this page. Specifically, you may not promote your own YouTube channel and videos, or solicit likes and subscribers. That means the "Hey come check out my channel/video!" posts are strictly prohibited."

 

So ya, asking for subscribers within the video is a no-no.

Thanks for clearing that up MN Fisher.

[roadwarrior]

1 hour ago, Micaiah Lindquist said:

Is saying "please subscribe" or something like that at the end considered promotion? 

Yes, that is promotional and not allowed.