Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Blue Raider Bob]

15 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

If I may answer this one as well? I have to use a colorant dye in my pond due to algae growth. My pond gets gin clear in the winter, and before the water warms enough to produce an algae bloom, the filamentous, and Chara, totally dominate. The combination of algaecide (which is toxic to zooplankton and invertebrates), and pond dye do a decent job of algae control, but is not the silver bullet pond management companies would lead you to believe.  Algae survives, but is further restrained  by the spring plankton blooms. The pond is treated in sections so there will be invertebrate and zooplankton survival.

     As far as fishing conditions, after treatment I have not noticed any reluctance on the part of the pond fish to behave any different than before treatment. I will say that after treatment, it is much harder to view the fish, which If my sight penetration is diminished, then the fish must experience a similar effect.

I put this question to the test yesterday because your question really got me thinking, (also my other choice was farm work).

I went to a local farm pond I fish often but the water is only two feet deep at its deepest. It is used to water cattle with no thoughts of fishing use. The wind was gusting but I used top water anyway (Thanks Alex). I had a couple of blowups and one small bass. Left there and tried my pond with the blue dye. Had about twenty strikes on a small Whopper Plopper in an hour. The bass had no trouble at all finding my offerings. My hook up rate was abysmal ( 1 in 10), but that a whole new topic.

[Bluebasser86]

Went out this past Sunday in search of smallmouth on my favorite smallmouth lake. It's probably 70/30 smallmouth to largemouth there but it sure didn't seem like it, I couldn't hardly find a brown fish, and none with any size.

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

11 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice catches, I think that’s a Warmouth 

Looks like a Rock Bass to me.

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Looks like a Rock Bass to me.

Not quite but close! 

[Bluebasser86]

10 hours ago, thediscochef said:

I only know maybe three species of sunfish positively, and they're all called "bass" by most people. I was struck by the size of the mouth and the black dots where a bass stripe would be. Probably a warmouth, cool experience for sure. Fought hard for such a tiny little thing.

That's a warmouth for sure, my favorite sunfish to catch. They can be very colorful during the spawn and always very aggressive. 

[killobet]

Last monday fish.

Keitech fat 2.8 is a very very bad boy!

[T-Billy]

Those Warmouth are mean little buggers. They'll choke my 3.5" Sweet Craw with a 4/0 flippin hook in it. Then they go flying past me at 100mph. ? Beautiful little fish with an attitude that makes a SM seem mellow. If they grew to 5#, they'd be all we fished for.

[Swamp Girl]

@killobet Well done!

 

I visited two ponds yesterday. One was 75% ice. The other was 5% ice. Next week, we'll have a stretch of five days, from 60-71 degrees. Guess who's going fishing? I'll wait until the third day to let the water warm a little. I'm going to lead with a chatterbait, a jerkbait, and a lipless crankbait. 

[thediscochef]

5 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Those Warmouth are mean little buggers. They'll choke my 3.5" Sweet Craw with a 4/0 flippin hook in it. Then they go flying past me at 100mph. ? Beautiful little fish with an attitude that makes a SM seem mellow. If they grew to 5#, they'd be all we fished for.

They didn't want the Puke today though, gonna try something else in the morning lol

[12poundbass]

5 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Those Warmouth are mean little buggers. They'll choke my 3.5" Sweet Craw with a 4/0 flippin hook in it. Then they go flying past me at 100mph. ? Beautiful little fish with an attitude that makes a SM seem mellow. If they grew to 5#, they'd be all we fished for.

If they crew to 5# we’d need to fish them on Musky gear! 

[LrgmouthShad]

13 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Guess who's going fishing?

They finally fixed the heater up there?

 

Alright, it’s that time. Everyone rally around @ol'crickety for her bog fishing adventures 

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

They finally fixed the heater up there?

 

Alright, it’s that time. Everyone rally around @ol'crickety for her bog fishing adventures 

 

A call to rally might be premature. I have yet to catch a single fish. I've scouted about half a dozen times and I look forward to casting where I couldn't in 2022, i.e. where the weeds were. 

[galyonj]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

 

A call to rally might be premature. I have yet to catch a single fish. I've scouted about half a dozen times and I look forward to casting where I couldn't in 2022, i.e. where the weeds were. 

 

If the rally's rescheduled, we can simply pregame until the rally's on.

[TnRiver46]

8 minutes ago, galyonj said:

 

If the rally's rescheduled, we can simply pregame until the rally's on.

Lord knows we throw a good tailgate party. @galyonj is bringing ribs 

[galyonj]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

Lord knows we throw a good tailgate party. @galyonj is bringing ribs 

 

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[TnRiver46]

5 minutes ago, galyonj said:

 

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[galyonj]

Pitter patter, @ol'crickety. Gotta know if I need to start a new batch of rub.

[killobet]

I went back to my spot again for a little bit.. This time it was crowded and lots of paddle boat rentals? But my 4 inch senko doesn't care!!

[Swamp Girl]

@killobet, the bass you catch are perfect. Perfect color and size. Big too! 

[Pat Brown]

The Stunna has made me a jerkbait fiend.  I can't get enough of this bite y'all. 

 

Look at where a heron/snapping turtle got this buck bass on the cheek.  He's still munching so I reckon he's gonna make it.

 

Couple where my son and I doubled up on sunfish and bass at the pond after work before storm hit.  Hoping to get on em' this weekend on account of my son's spring break!!!

 

Tight lines BR fam!

 

[FishTank]

I've been catching several 2-3lb largemouth so far this year but when I hooked this 22 inches of fun, I had to share. It was on BFS gear as well. 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

2 minutes ago, FishTank said:

I've been catching several 2-3lb largemouth so far this year but when I hooked this 22 inches of fun, I had to share. It was on BFS gear as well. 

 

Oh my. That’s a tank. A FishTank

[AlabamaSpothunter]

29 minutes ago, FishTank said:

I've been catching several 2-3lb largemouth so far this year but when I hooked this 22 inches of fun, I had to share. It was on BFS gear as well. 

 

Has me smiling ear to ear, man I love that belly.   Congrats on the piggie 

34 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

The Stunna has made me a jerkbait fiend.  I can't get enough of this bite y'all. 

 

Look at where a heron/snapping turtle got this buck bass on the cheek.  He's still munching so I reckon he's gonna make it.

 

Couple where my son and I doubled up on sunfish and bass at the pond after work before storm hit.  Hoping to get on em' this weekend on account of my son's spring break!!!

 

Tight lines BR fam!

 

Love it Pat, and that last Bluegill your son is holding is truly exceptional!    Pic quality jumps out too, nice job.

 

A hot jerkbait bite is something every Basshead should experience.  

[Swamp Girl]

I love Pat's son's bluegill too. Gorgeous color and big too!

 

You are well-named, @FishTank, since you catch fish like that.

[TnRiver46]

Dink ? alert

 

 

the real miracle was that I got to fish this evening, haven’t been since the classic and I was starting to have serious withdrawal symptoms. Shakes, night sweats, nightmares, crabbiness, irritability, etc. I can’t remember the last time I missed a whole week or more like that . 
 

So if you’re gonna post dinks might as well make an interesting story out of it. I went to launch the little tiny kayak and noticed 3-4 buffalo spawning underneath the dock. I snagged one briefly and it took off and pulled the hook. So I then paddle along casting a crappie jig and some kind of loud noise is echoing all throughout the cove. We are near a marina so I just figured it was somebody running some power tools working on a boat. Well the noise won’t stop , sounded like a bunch of people beating pontoon boats and floating docks with a baseball bat . I paddled into the marina and the splashing and noise was deafening. Buffalo were spawning and splashing and jumping all over, it was wild. I caught 6-8 of them, fun stuff on light tackle. They had some tubercules or something like it all over them, easy to hand land in the kayak like gripping sandpaper. 6 lb tatsu is tough, I was ripping them up over dock cables with a spinning rod haha. Some guy that lives on a house boat in there came out to chat, he said he can’t hardly sleep when the buffalo are beating the boat like that 

 

also got another little largemouth, a green sunfish, and a yellow bass