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[JediAmoeba]

12 lbs 1 oz of Bass - spent about 30 minutes fishing to catch them before work. Eastern PA

[Swamp Girl]

26 minutes ago, JediAmoeba said:

12 lbs 1 oz of Bass - spent about 30 minutes fishing to catch them before work. Eastern PA

 

You fish little and catch lots!

[Jar11591]

33 minutes ago, JediAmoeba said:

12 lbs 1 oz of Bass - spent about 30 minutes fishing to catch them before work. Eastern PA

Couple hawgs!

[Pat Brown]

Y'all thought I'd gone and left didn't ya?

 

Not a chance ???

 

 

let's start with big fish and story time!

 

This past week was Jake's spring break and a lot of cold rainy weather broke and gave way to some big long stretches of 75°+ days with 50°+ nights.

 

I knew they were gonna be pushing up shallow and reckoned we better commence to flipping and that's just what we did.  

 

Lake was packed to the gills today.  All my gold spots were loaded with boats.

 

Improvised and hit a channel swing bank that was sitting in the wind.  Hit the first horseshoe shell bed and anchored and started flipping the heavy stuff.

 

Caught a 3 on my second cast.  Jumped off a 2 on the way in.

 

Slowed my heart down and had a snack.  Put a Zoom mag UV speed craw in sapphire blue (my previous plastic got destroyed by the 2 lber) on my hook and flipped under a green over hanging tree that stuck out as odd.

 

BOOM.

 

The line was GROANING.  She pulled me under the boat and I thought she was 10 when I first saw her breech.

 

If she'd been 5 inches longer she WOULD have been 10!

 

One of the best catches of my life and I got to share it with my family!

 

More fish pictures from the past week to come.  They weren't all dinks!

 

-Pat

[thediscochef]

Had a late night last night driving to DFW airport, so I only really worked in a drive-by today. Made one cast with a c rigged fluke and decided I didn't feel like fighting 25-30mph winds and a park near capacity for very long. Thankfully there was this tiny bass attached to it when I started reeling so I decided that was good enough. Tomorrow should have some nicer weather

[GreenPig]

1 hour ago, JediAmoeba said:

12 lbs 1 oz of Bass - spent about 30 minutes fishing to catch them before work. Eastern PA

Quickie with a happy ending.?

[AlabamaSpothunter]

35 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Y'all thought I'd gone and left didn't ya?

 

Not a chance ???

 

 

let's start with big fish and story time!

 

This past week was Jake's spring break and a lot of cold rainy weather broke and gave way to some big long stretches of 75°+ days with 50°+ nights.

 

I knew they were gonna be pushing up shallow and reckoned we better commence to flipping and that's just what we did.  

 

Lake was packed to the gills today.  All my gold spots were loaded with boats.

 

Improvised and hit a channel swing bank that was sitting in the wind.  Hit the first horseshoe shell bed and anchored and started flipping the heavy stuff.

 

Caught a 3 on my second cast.  Jumped off a 2 on the way in.

 

Slowed my heart down and had a snack.  Put a Zoom mag UV speed craw in sapphire blue (my previous plastic got destroyed by the 2 lber) on my hook and flipped under a green over hanging tree that stuck out as odd.

 

BOOM.

 

The line was GROANING.  She pulled me under the boat and I thought she was 10 when I first saw her breech.

 

If she'd been 5 inches longer she WOULD have been 10!

 

One of the best catches of my life and I got to share it with my family!

 

More fish pictures from the past week to come.  They weren't all dinks!

 

-Pat

That's awesome Pat, congrats!   

[TnRiver46]

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

Man, that's what heaven must look like behind you.......not a single man made thing for as far as I can see. 

 

Great pics, and beautiful fish as always!

[TnRiver46]

Just now, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Man, that's what heaven must look like behind you.......not a single man made thing for as far as I can see. 

 

Great pics, and beautiful fish as always!

The wife of course took that pic……..  most of that is wildlife management area and/or the Cherokee national forest so it will always look like that. Luckily that’s the view just outside the creek from our house! When we pulled out of the creek as kids my mom always pointed to the mtns and said “postcard view”

[herder]

Well, friend of mine called me up and said ya wanna to try a lake near him up in NY?
 He said he saw some guys come off the lake in kayaks and he went over to talk to them, they showed him some pics of really nice bass they caught that day.
 Went up on Wednesday, which was my first fishing day this year.
Temps were up to 90 and wind was outa the NW, we moved around for a while before I got bit.
First fish of the year was the biggest smallie I’ve had in years, then had pretty good action for the rest of the day.
 Wind really picked up and white caps on the lake, caught all the fish up to that time on jerk baits.
 We moved back to a cove on the south end and there we caught just largemouths, I switched over to wacky worms off the docks.
 I wound up with 10 landed and about 5 hooked but got off.
4 smallies and 6 largemouths, all were good size fish.                                        
 Went back on Thursday, pretty much same weather with high hopes of a repeat.
Well that was not to be, fished for 5 hrs for just 1 good largemouth.
 Had to get off the water as we were beat, hot and tired after paddling around for hrs.
Big thanks to BR enlightening me to using a jerk bait early in the season, my buddy was impressed with the action I had on it, I had landed 6 fish before he hooked 1.

 

[TnRiver46]

1 minute ago, herder said:

Well, friend of mine called me up and said ya wanna to try a lake near him up in NY?
 He said he saw some guys come off the lake in kayaks and he went over to talk to them, they showed him some pics of really nice bass they caught that day.
 Went up on Wednesday, which was my first fishing day this year.
Temps were up to 90 and wind was outa the NW, we moved around for a while before I got bit.
First fish of the year was the biggest smallie I’ve had in years, then had pretty good action for the rest of the day.
 Wind really picked up and white caps on the lake, caught all the fish up to that time on jerk baits.
 We moved back to a cove on the south end and there we caught just largemouths, I switched over to wacky worms off the docks.
 I wound up with 10 landed and about 5 hooked but got off.
4 smallies and 6 largemouths, all were good size fish.                                        
 Went back on Thursday, pretty much same weather with high hopes of a repeat.
Well that was not to be, fished for 5 hrs for just 1 good largemouth.
 Had to get off the water as we were beat, hot and tired after paddling around for hrs.
Big thanks to BR enlightening me to using a jerk bait early in the season, my buddy was impressed with the action I had on it, I had landed 6 fish before he hooked 1.

 

 

 

 

Nice ones!!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

3 minutes ago, herder said:

Well, friend of mine called me up and said ya wanna to try a lake near him up in NY?
 He said he saw some guys come off the lake in kayaks and he went over to talk to them, they showed him some pics of really nice bass they caught that day.
 Went up on Wednesday, which was my first fishing day this year.
Temps were up to 90 and wind was outa the NW, we moved around for a while before I got bit.
First fish of the year was the biggest smallie I’ve had in years, then had pretty good action for the rest of the day.
 Wind really picked up and white caps on the lake, caught all the fish up to that time on jerk baits.
 We moved back to a cove on the south end and there we caught just largemouths, I switched over to wacky worms off the docks.
 I wound up with 10 landed and about 5 hooked but got off.
4 smallies and 6 largemouths, all were good size fish.                                        
 Went back on Thursday, pretty much same weather with high hopes of a repeat.
Well that was not to be, fished for 5 hrs for just 1 good largemouth.
 Had to get off the water as we were beat, hot and tired after paddling around for hrs.
Big thanks to BR enlightening me to using a jerk bait early in the season, my buddy was impressed with the action I had on it, I had landed 6 fish before he hooked 1.

 

 

 

 

Impressive fishing!    That last LGM is my favorite, look at the belly on that girl 

[Swamp Girl]

Fishing is hot right now! You guys are going to sprain my jaw at the rate you keep dropping it. 

 

[Jmurphy87]

I finally got to go out for a longer session for me today, with everything that’s going on in my life. I decided to go fishing at my one pond that I have done ok at in the past few years, my daughter caught her pb at the pond. I had to replace some hooks on a crank bait before I went and decided what I was going to throw. I settled on a 1/2 jackhammer and full size zako trailer, the next bait I used was a magnum zoom lizard in black grape on a owner jig rig hook.

 

the first fish was the only one that I caught on the jackhammer, first fish took 10 minutes or less. I saw small ones just cruising the banks. I casted parallel to the bank and brought it back to me with a straight retrieve until I got to the brush in the water in front of me, that’s when I switched to a yo yo retrieve to work it through the wood. A tiny one came out of nowhere and just hammered it. I then tried a few more spots and got it hung up on a branch underwater and walked out to get it back. The water was probably 5.5 feet deep. Got that back and tried some more spots where the bigger ones are but no takers, tried multiple retrievals. Got hung up again. Made my way down the bank slowly to get it back and spotted the best bass that I saw all day under a sunken tree, it spotted me and swam off slowly. Got my jackhammer unhung and tried a few more places but nothing. 
 

I switched lures, now I was onto the zoom magnum lizard in black grape on the owner jig rig hook. I caught my second small fish of the day within five minutes of swapping lures. I then moved on to all the different spots and got some taps here and there but it was either bluegills or more smaller bass, I would swing and there was nothing there. I was getting ready to leave and get my tackle bag packed up when I saw another small bass hanging out near the bank casted past him a ways and worked it back and he appears out of nowhere and crushes it. 
 

I was out for three hours having fun, quantity wise was up quality was down. I will say that a dink a day keeps the skunk away though. I had taken tubes with me and if I would have used those I probably would have caught more numbers, although I was trying to target bigger fish and cut out the smaller ones. Either way I finally used the owner jig rig hooks that I bought and caught something on them so that is a plus. I really liked getting out there and having fun. I think that some of the fish get out every year when it floods over, it really flooded last week. But all in all it was a good day.

[Swamp Girl]

8 hours ago, JediAmoeba said:

12 lbs 1 oz of Bass - spent about 30 minutes fishing to catch them before work. Eastern PA

 

I woke up this morning thinking about these two fish. I have never in my fishing life caught two fish so big in mere minutes on the way to something else. It's 4:27 here and my canoe is atop my car and I'll be literally turning left in 15 minutes at the abandoned chicken barn and bouncing down an old logging cut to launch my boat in near darkness. It's also raining. If I caught ONE four-pounder this morning, I'd be thrilled. I often reflect too on A-Jay's trip to Mexico where he didn't even COUNT bass under seven pounds. Some of you guys fish beyond my ken. 

[Jar11591]

Not enough time to take the boat out today, too much stuff on my honey-do list. But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t walk the bank for an hour before she wakes up! 
 

Ive never fished this lake before despite living 15 minutes from it. It gave me a warm welcome when I stuck a very fat

4-7 right off the bat. 
 

Got a couple more decent bass and the first accidental crappie in a long time. 

 

Man I wish I could take the boat out today because I have a feeling I’d be slaying them. But oh well, at least I got a couple good ones. The itch has been scratched! Until tomorrow at least. 

[Swamp Girl]

Back from this morning's trip. Saw one fox and one car on my way to the pond. 1/1 is a good fox to folks ratio. If I were to see more folks than foxes, I might just have to move farther north.

 

The logging road approach was challenging with a surprising amount of ice. It was also muddy and soft. I did some slipping. At one point, I got lost and had to stop the car and explore with a flashlight.

 

I launched in the dark and it was noisy: loons, three waterfalls, woodpeckers, beavers slapping their tails, kingfishers, ducks, and mourning doves. Also saw a bald eagle and a couple times, there was a critter in the brush that I couldn't see. Just heard the rustling. 

 

It was a foggy, cool, wet morning. I caught one bass. I didn't even get a second hit that I missed. I fished shallow, deep, and in-between with eight different lures. The bass bested me, but I still loved being on a lonesome lake. 

[T-Billy]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I launched in the dark and it was noisy: loons, three waterfalls, woodpeckers, beavers slapping their tails, kingfishers, ducks, and mourning doves. Also saw a bald eagle and a couple times, there was a critter in the brush that I couldn't see. Just heard the rustling.

You had an interesting adventure before you even wet a line. ? 

[Jmurphy87]

Well I got out for 30 minutes again today, it was raining by the time I got to my spot. My first cast felt multiple taps and set the hook, felt the weight and then nothing. I knew that I had a pike just bite me off well time to re rig and use some of the new 4.5 flipping tubes that I just bought before I went fishing. I wanted some larger bodied tubes for my owner phantom tube hooks that are 5/0.

I got re tied and put a black and blue flipping tube on, which is more fitting for the dirty pond. Around 5 cast later close to the bank I felt a little weight. I didn’t set the hook too hard, saw that it was a bass and kept tension on the fish and got it onto the Bank quickly because I knew that I didn’t get a very good hook set. A decent little bass.

 

 I kept fishing a little longer and felt another bite and set the hook and got it in and it was a pike this time. Bait of the day was a 5/0 owner phantom tube hook 3/16 weight with a strike king 4.5 flipping tube in black and blue. Not too bad for 30 minutes if I say so.

[Swamp Girl]

48 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

You had an interesting adventure before you even wet a line. ? 

 

It was pretty rough driving down the logging road to the pond, but all morning, I kept telling myself, "It will be better driving out because you'll have the light."

 

Well, the light made it worse. I could fully see the condition of the road with the morning's light. Luckily, I didn't have a chance to fret because momentum is everything in the mud.

 

I'll return, but not until that road dries out. Meanwhile, I'll continue to read about guys tossing lures out their car windows on the way to a 7-11 and catching 6-pound bass. 

 

Good job, Murph!

 

 

[BrianMDTX]

Too windy for my inflatable this morning, so I fished the bank. Nothing on a frog. Caught one on a Neko Macho TR, one on a spinnerbait, one on a jig-n-craw and two on a Rage Tail Craw TR. The one on the jig was a true dink. But as I rarely catch bass on jigs, I was happy with the catch. Same with the spinnerbait! The last bass on the Rage Craw TR smashed it as soon as it hit the water. 

 

[Woody B]

I've lost the big Mamas.   I caught 7 small buck bass today.  I could have caught more, I abandoned the spawning pockets and went searching for bigger bass.   I also caught 1 white perch.   Either the big mamas are resting or they're just hiding from me.  I've got to work all week.  Hopefully I can find them next weekend.   However, small buck bass are better than no bass.  The biggest one "might" have been 15 inches if I stretched it a little.  LOL

I saw a fire department boat going down the lake wide open with it's lights on.  I haven't heard any bad news.  Hopefully they were just airing it out.   

 

 

Edit:  By "lost the big Mamas" I never found them.  I didn't hook any big fish today.  

[Swamp Girl]

@Woody B, given your consistency, if you can't get it done, it couldn't be done. Not today at the lake you fished. 

[Woody B]

9 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

@Woody B, given your consistency, if you can't get it done, it couldn't be done. Not today at the lake you fished. 

I've always "misplaced" the big ones right after the spawn.  They'll be back for the Shad spawn, the Bluegill spawn, and the Mayfly hatch.