Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Eric 26]

17 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Just here to complain about Spawning Bass and the Spring ?

 

4 fish, 5 bites.   3.5# on a buzzbait was the best fish.   The struggle bus must go on until moral improves.    

Last one is really why I'm destined for greatness, and yes he's one of the 4 LMAO

 

I truly enjoy seeing in your pictures and reading you talking about the variety of baits you throw. I feel like I’ve really stepped up my game in terms of what techniques I’m using and tuning my gear for said techniques in the last few years. A lot of that comes from mimicking quite a few members including yourself and fine tuning the gear to meet my budget. ?

[AlabamaSpothunter]

7 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

I truly enjoy seeing in your pictures and reading you talking about the variety of baits you throw. I feel like I’ve really stepped up my game in terms of what techniques I’m using and tuning my gear for said techniques in the last few years. A lot of that comes from mimicking quite a few members including yourself and fine tuning the gear to meet my budget. ?

Thanks for the really kind words, Eric! 

 

I'm the same way, I've bought baits because of folks here, and then learned to use them better by reading, or seeing how they fish them.   

[Pat Brown]

2 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Thanks for the really kind words, Eric! 

 

I'm the same way, I've bought baits because of folks here, and then learned to use them better by reading, or seeing how they fish them.   

 

 

My son got a Damiki vault from the local tackle store because I told him you were very successful with blade baits. So your influence is far reaching and I hope to share with you soon a big fish he catches on it!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

15 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

 

 

My son got a Damiki vault from the local tackle store because I told him you were very successful with blade baits. So your influence is far reaching and I hope to share with you soon a big fish he catches on it!

Awesome Pat, and thanks!   I bought it based off of Matt from TacticalBassin.   

 

Looking forward to that pic/catch!   Sure wish my father would have loved Bass fishing, let alone had that big fish magic you have ?

 

 

[TN bassmaster]

First smallie of the year! Windy day on Pickwick 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

3 minutes ago, TN bassmaster said:

First smallie of the year! Windy day on Pickwick 

Fantastic, windy here in central AL as well.     

 

If I'm lucky I'll get to catch a Smallie this year.    N AL, S TN is paradise for a Bass angler, DD LGMs on Guntersville/Chickamauga, abundant 5lb+ Smallies throughout the TVA lakes, and sprinkled in are Alabama Spots in just about every major body of water.  

[TnRiver46]

8 minutes ago, TN bassmaster said:

First smallie of the year! Windy day on Pickwick 

Nice! Crazy windy today 

[TN bassmaster]

A two pounder and a 3 finished in 12th place with 5.30 lbs caught a bunch of shorts! 

[Cbump]

My buddy and I fished a benefit tournament today. There was about 50 boats. Not sure where we ended up but I think 20th or so. I usually just fish my club which is no where near the level of fisherman I saw today. Some of the best in our area fished. 
We ended up at 16lbs which we were super excited about. Winning bag was 30.5! Lol 

Big bass for the tournament was 9.78 and the guy won $1440 for It. 
 

Here we are. Got free lunch and I made out like a bandit on door prizes too. Great day. 
 

 

[Bankbeater]

This morning I made the drive to the same lake I fished last week.  Bass are still going after spinnerbaits and they're still in the eel grass.

[TN bassmaster]

31 minutes ago, Cbump said:

My buddy and I fished a benefit tournament today. There was about 50 boats. Not sure where we ended up but I think 20th or so. I usually just fish my club which is no where near the level of fisherman I saw today. Some of the best in our area fished. 
We ended up at 16lbs which we were super excited about. Winning bag was 30.5! Lol 

Big bass for the tournament was 9.78 and the guy won $1440 for It. 
 

Here we are. Got free lunch and I made out like a bandit on door prizes too. Great day. 
 

 

That would have won my junior tournament on Pickwick lol

[AlabamaSpothunter]

21 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

This morning I made the drive to the same lake I fished last week.  Bass are still going after spinnerbaits and they're still in the eel grass.

Nice fat toad, I'm finally starting to throw spinner widgets after my winter A-Rigging.  

[PhishLI]

I really wanted to play with a few of my new shallow cranks today, but the bass didn't. Spinner baits were kaput too. Lost a solid heartbreaker on the TRD BugZ, but got a small on it as a consolation prize before an insane thunderstorm chased me out. The good news is that pads have finally broken the surface in a few patches, so it's game on now!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

51 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

I really wanted to play with a few of my new shallow cranks today, but the bass didn't. Spinner baits were kaput too. Lost a solid heartbreaker on the TRD BugZ, but got a small on it as a consolation prize before an insane thunderstorm chased me out. The good news is that pads have finally broken the surface in a few patches, so it's game on now!

 

 

Nice healthy fish, sorry about the lost one.   

[TN bassmaster]

55 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

I really wanted to play with a few of my new shallow cranks today, but the bass didn't. Spinner baits were kaput too. Lost a solid heartbreaker on the TRD BugZ, but got a small on it as a consolation prize before an insane thunderstorm chased me out. The good news is that pads have finally broken the surface in a few patches, so it's game on now!

 

 

what did you catch it on?

 

[PhishLI]

18 minutes ago, TN bassmaster said:

what did you catch it on?

TRD BugZ

 

P.S. It's Sprayed Grass, not Black/Blue

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@PhishLI, how big was the one you lost? And I can't believe you have a few pads already. You are so far in front of us. 

[PhishLI]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

@PhishLI, how big was the one you lost?

Not huge. Easy 5+ though, which would've made me happy enough right now in 44* water. Big head. Big body. Big shake. Oh well.

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

I can't believe you have a few pads already. You are so far in front of us. 

Woke up to 31* degrees and ripping winds all day on Thursday, which always drags the temps back down, but the pads, while a bit later than usual, don't care. There were none showing on Wednesday when I drove by, but just like that...

 

The spawning flats have pad sprouts on the bottom everywhere like little cabbages. Bumping squarebills off of them can be the ticket with a little ripple on the water. There was a troop of cormorants working the zone, and huge ospreys hunted overhead suspended by strong southern winds. All the tells that things are going to get hot any minute now.

[Swamp Girl]

6 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

Easy 5+ though, which would've made me happy enough right now in 44* water. Big head. Big body. Big shake.

 

Dang it! I can tell you the circumstances of EVERY big fish I lost in 2022. I could also show you where I lost them.

 

6 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

The spawning flats have pad sprouts on the bottom everywhere like little cabbages.

 

Man, you're a good writer.

 

7 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

There was a troop or cormorants working the zone, and huge ospreys hunted overhead suspended by strong southern winds.

 

When I fished muskies, one of the things that I loved about it was the other musky fishers. It's hard to catch a musky unless your name is @T-Billy, so you have to be ultra-observant to increase the odds, which musky fishers are. Then, to be of service to your musky fishing buds, you have to convey what you saw, which they do and they do it with elan, like you do, PhishLI. 

[T-Billy]

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

It's hard to catch a musky unless your name is @T-Billy,

It's been tough for him lately too. Hoping to change that tomorrow.

[Swamp Girl]

40 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

It's been tough for him lately too. Hoping to change that tomorrow.

 

 

I'm thinking of going fishing. I know a few, small, shallow ponds that have thawed. I don't even know if they hold bass. The water is still in the thirties, if they do. Still, it would be good to simply cast from the shore. My fishing report might be about me smelling like this guy:

 

[Eric 26]

32 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

 

I'm thinking of going fishing. I know a few, small, shallow ponds that have thawed. I don't even know if they hold bass. The water is still in the thirties, if they do. Still, it would be good to simply cast from the shore. My fishing report might be about me smelling like this guy:

 

You’ll never know until you try? and no shame in getting skunked in my opinion. 

[Woody B]

I caught more today that yesterday but I fished quite a bit longer.  I caught 12.  10 spots and 2 LM.  I also caught a white perch and a flathead cat.  The biggest bass was 4 poundish.  I didn't weigh, measure or picture it.  I got a treble in my hand lipping it.   I ended up holding it with one hand, while the treble was in the other.   I worked the hook loose from the bass quicker than I got it worked loose from me.  I just put in back in the water, then released myself.   It wasn't a big deal.  Hook was buried halfway over the barb.  I was working to keep it from getting all the way.   The other largemouth looked almost like a spot I caught yesterday.  It had a bigger mouth, not tooth patch on it's tongue and a LM dorsal, instead of a spot dorsal.   I didn't measure or weight the cat.  I'd guess 3 pounds or so.  I figure I don't need to weigh a fish I can boat flip.   The white perch was the biggest one I've ever caught.   It was 12 1/2 inches long.  I didn't weigh it.  State record is 2 lbs 5 oz.  It didn't feel that heavy.   Most of the bass, as well as the cat and perch came on a OG4.   A couple were on a shakey head.   I kept getting the tail yanked off the worm.   They were tearing up a bladed jig yesterday.  I couldn't get any interest in one today.  It's funny how things change.  

 

 

Edit:  Just to correct myself most of the bass, the cat and the perch came on a bandit 200.  One bass came on a OG4.  

[Functional]

New PB! Decided to try a lake I've only been to once today.  Got up early and was on the water by about 730. Mini chatterbait pulled in a 7lb 01oz and a swim jig (which I never fish)  pulled in a 4lb and 3lb 6oz and a cat fish. 7lb 1oz is my new PB and I can say I can see the addiction to hunting for big bass. Need a DD now. For about 3/4 of the fish she did nothing but strip drag that was set at 3lb like it was nothing. 

 

7lber

 

4lber

 

 

[GaryH]

1 hour ago, Functional said:

New PB! Decided to try a lake I've only been to once today.  Got up early and was on the water by about 730. Mini chatterbait pulled in a 7lb 01oz and a swim jig (which I never fish)  pulled in a 4lb and 3lb 6oz and a cat fish. 7lb 1oz is my new PB and I can say I can see the addiction to hunting for big bass. Need a DD now. For about 3/4 of the fish she did nothing but strip drag that was set at 3lb like it was nothing. 

 

7lber

 

4lber

 

 

Congrats on your PB….?