Latest Catch Pics Thread

[NorcalBassin]

Tough postfrontal, windy day but still came across a few. Weather is looking good over the next week, so hopefully that combined with the upcoming full moon will bring some of the big ladies up shallow.

 

Not sure if I like the new tactical underspin or the og coolbaits better. At the moment I'm leaning towards coolbaits with 2.8's and tactical with 3.3's, but I'll need some more reps before making the call.

 

Hadn't thrown a brush hog in a long time. Figured why not and it delivered.

 

[thediscochef]

Toledo Bend might be the prettiest shoreline I've ever fished around, absolutely beautiful. The lake is massive. Saw some gators which was  cool. Fishing wasn't great for me but my buddy had a solid numbers day, I'll take it though. Weather became a challenge. Our guide was actually a member here once upon a time, great dude and I'll surely be back out with him again. Man knows his sonar and that's how we managed to land bass.

[Swamp Girl]

@Pat Brown, guys like you (and Alex, Phish, and many others) who catch so many fine fish are utterly persuasive when you say that you hooked and lost a behemoth. You'll hook another beast one day and your upgrades might land it. And if you do, we'll be so happy with you.

[Dwight Hottle]

@Pat Brown I had a similar experience fishing a steep banked pond with a Hudd 68. It was definitely a DD but too heavy to flip up the bank. All I could do was to drag her up but while positioning to get her moving I must have given her the slightest amount of slack because sure enough the single hook popped loose as I got her head out of the water. Heartbreaking for sure. At least you know she is there for a second try. My sympathies. 

[Jmurphy87]

I got out for a while today, also got a new pb smallmouth. 
 

I got to the first lake and got rigged up and ready to go, it’s easy with one rod and 4 spares in the tackle bag lol. I have only caught one fish here ever, and lost plenty of jigs to a group of logs. I was feeling confident, that didn’t last very long. This place has very small casting windows here and there, started with a owner jig rig and a scornbug in black and blue. I made it 20 minutes or less and got my line wrapped around a piece of dead bark on a tree about 9ft off the ground, my reel is now blown up.
 

I start trying to get my line untangled from the dead tree, first thing I do is check to see if it supports my weight. I push against it and it wiggles, so it’s a no go on the climb technique. I strip my shoes and socks off and roll up my pants and find a long stick. I set my rod and blown up reel on my tackle bag and get to it. I am trying to get it off the dead bark with a long stick and am like why is there tension on the rod side so I look over and my rod is dunking the whole handle almost to the reel. I didn’t have enough slack line to free it, I put more slack in my line just to get it down and hung up under water where it dropped. I get it unhooked from some underwater branch just to make two cast or less to sacrifice it to the group of logs that has claimed at least 5 jigs from me. That’s my sign time to leave and go get the meds for the dogs.

 

 I am very angry at this point and feel like nothing more can go wrong and am contemplating just going home. I stopped by the pharmacy and got my son’s prescription also and decided to go fishing at the river and pond. I did get my reel that was blown up all sorted out and kept using it, just to blow it up again at the river catching a branch on my back cast, I fixed that and figured that it was probably a carp that I saw jumping and not a bass.

 

 I head directly to the spot that I caught the on last Sunday. I made a few cast and pitched towards a cluster of stumps and felt the tick and saw my line running. I set the hook and get it onto the bank and noticed that it was fairly long but really skinny. I weighed it anyway because my old pb was 2.12lbs. This one went 2.16lb and was 17.25 long. I was happy that I caught a decent fish with the day I was having. I then started my adventure down the river bank with the ticks and geese, ducks. I tried a couple different spots and finally got to a water discharge point where I have wanted to fish the past 2 years, I caught a couple more tiny ones and had fun.

 

The moral of the story is don’t give up, just change gears and try to stay positive. I figured out that the smallmouth in the stretch of river hold directly on the edge of cover as you would expect. I also found that the paca craws are really durable and hold up great. The Berkley max scent tubes are very soft and don’t work good with owner phantom tube hooks. I got more experience clearing a reel that goes boom due to my own stupidity lol. The pb was not a substantial difference, but with the day I was having it felt like I was on top of the world.

[Woody B]

I went today from 6 until shortly after 10.   I caught 12 Bass, a handful of White Perch and 2 Channel Cats.  One cat was tiny, the other was 9.84 pounds.  The biggest bass was a 4 poundish Largemouth.  I didn't take a picture of it.  When I was unhooking it a guy in a Kayak came up and asked if he could have it for a picture.  I just unhooked and released it.  I told him if he wanted a picture he'd need to catch it.  It's my belief he was wanting to cheat in a Kayak tournament.  I HAVE NO USE FOR CHEATERS.  

 

[TnRiver46]

30 minutes ago, Woody B said:

I went today from 6 until shortly after 10.   I caught 12 Bass, a handful of White Perch and 2 Channel Cats.  One cat was tiny, the other was 9.84 pounds.  The biggest bass was a 4 poundish Largemouth.  I didn't take a picture of it.  When I was unhooking it a guy in a Kayak came up and asked if he could have it for a picture.  I just unhooked and released it.  I told him if he wanted a picture he'd need to catch it.  It's my belief he was wanting to cheat in a Kayak tournament.  I HAVE NO USE FOR CHEATERS.  

 

Wow. What a scumbag in the kayak. Nice spot and kitty tho 

[Eric 26]

I second both @TnRiver46 and your sentiments @Woody B . Scumbag and no use for cheaters.

[DitchPanda]

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

I went today from 6 until shortly after 10.   I caught 12 Bass, a handful of White Perch and 2 Channel Cats.  One cat was tiny, the other was 9.84 pounds.  The biggest bass was a 4 poundish Largemouth.  I didn't take a picture of it.  When I was unhooking it a guy in a Kayak came up and asked if he could have it for a picture.  I just unhooked and released it.  I told him if he wanted a picture he'd need to catch it.  It's my belief he was wanting to cheat in a Kayak tournament.  I HAVE NO USE FOR CHEATERS.  

 

Good on you man. Shoulda asked the guy if you can't catch bass why did you enter a bass tourney? Cheater= pathetic

[Cbump]

My sons baseball game got canceled so I decided to take quick trip to the lake. I wanted to throw some baits I never use.  specifically wanted to spend some time pitching yamatanukis around. Got carried away and bought like 8 bags and hadnt tried them yet (other than in the pool and Admittedly they looked terrible). 
Well I can now confirm, I hate them. I spent 3 hours in prime fish areas and nothing. Watched a few fish come look at It and swim off. Finally got a taker in about 10’ of water on a submerged tree. Reeled down, set the hook hard, and had It coming to the boat. Solid 3 lber. As she surfaces she just opens her mouth and spits the bait. WTH?! 
Checked It out and ZERO hook penetration. 
That was It for that bait for me. I’m sure they are great for someone, but not me. 
 

Picked up my bread and butter, a Weightless senko and caught this 4. 
 

 

I then decided to spend the last hour throwing a magdraft freestyle, another i never use. I’ve never caught a MD fish. Shortly later near the boat I watched a 2lb bass come out of no where and hit the magdraft from the side and knock It off path. Then disappear lol. Didn’t even have his mouth open when he hit It. 
 

I then pitched It passed a submerged tree top I could barely see about  10’ from the boat. As I swam It back over the top of the tree the bait just stopped. 100% felt like I stuck on a limb. So I put slack In the line and started trolling motoring over to the tree top just in time to see that It was actually about a 6lb bass that had inhaled the bait. Literally on slack line I watched It just cough the bait out and haul butt deeper. Ugh! 
That was the weirdest bite I’ve ever felt. I didn’t even think to swing on It. 
So now I’m going to stick to the treble hook magdraft version. I think the treble would have stuck her. 
And that was that. Headed home now. 
Here’s a few more pictures. 
 

[gim]

1 hour ago, Cbump said:

Got carried away and bought like 8 bags

I know that feeling when I got sucked into buying whopper ploppers. Instead of one useless lure, I now have 3 Christmas tree ornaments. It’s the bait monkey.

[Swamp Girl]

Way to go, Murph!

 

I'm glad your Scumbag-O-Meter was working, Woody.

 

Beauty, Cbump.

 

@gimruis, you haven't yet achieved critical mas-s-s-s-s with Whopper Ploppers-s-s-s-s. You need to buy at leas-s-s-s-st ten before they work. Maybe twenty. Trus-s-s-s-s-t me!

 

S-s-s-s-s-sincerely,

 

[Cbump]

44lbs caught in a tournament today on a lake 40 minutes away from me. I caught my pb 7.34 on this lake. 
 

 

So basically they averaged bigger than my pb. Lol. Wow

[LrgmouthShad]

8 minutes ago, Cbump said:

44lbs caught in a tournament today on a lake 40 minutes away from me. I caught my pb 7.34 on this lake. 
 

 

So basically they averaged bigger than my pb. Lol. Wow

Holy moly that's awesome. One heck of a bag. Thanks for sharing!

 

I'm gonna try to put together a stringer of white bass on Somerville tomorrow for some food. I may mix in some largemouth fishing but won't bring a lot of gear. Sure hope the weather holds up

[FishTank]

No good pics but I crushed it today on a Megabass Karashi. I caught 6 large mouth,  2 walleye in 3-4lb range, a 6lb carp, 3 crappie, and 1 bluegill just on this bait. I also caught 5 other large mouth on various other baits. The fun surprise was the carp. He hit that bait like a ton bricks and almost swallowed the Karashi whole. I have never had a carp hit a bait like that. If anything, I sometimes will snag one on accident. It was just a fun day on the water.

[TnRiver46]

Gotta work at noon, fished 7:30 to 9 and got 7 LM and lost at least 4. All dinks , I think guarding fry but not sure. Could also see some swimming around 

[throttleplate]

17 hours ago, gimruis said:

I know that feeling when I got sucked into buying whopper ploppers. Instead of one useless lure, I now have 3 Christmas tree ornaments. It’s the bait monkey.

Same with me, had to have 3 ploppers. One for the wife and 2 for me. I did catch bass and pike with them and then after a dry spell i put them away and stole the hooks from 2 of them.

[gim]

18 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

Same with me, had to have 3 ploppers

Dicks had one of those buy two get one free thing on them. That’s how they got me.

[Swamp Girl]

 

Whopper Plopper bass this year. There will be hundreds more in 2023. 

[throttleplate]

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Whopper Plopper bass this year. There will be hundreds more in 2023. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

It's not confusing. I'll explain:

 

Do cast a Whopper Plopper in Maine. So smart.

 

Don't cast a Whopper Plopper in Minnesota. So dumb.

 

 

[Woody B]

I've been catching good number but not many quality fish lately.  I decided to change my strategy today.   I left the landing around 5:45 an went up the river.  (I've been fishing down the lake)  I caught 8.  My smallest of the day was a 16 inch Spot.  I caught it on my second cast.   It's the out of focus picture.  My phone camera uses a long exposure when it's dark.  I guess I was moving some.  I need to work on my photography skills.   I caught 3 Largemouth.   2 were 18 inches long.  The largest LM was 20 1/2 inches long and weighed 4.45 pounds.  The rest of the spots were between 16 and 18 inches.  They were feisty.   I also saw a HUGE Bowfin splashing on the surface.   

[T-Billy]

2 hours ago, Woody B said:

I've been catching good number but not many quality fish lately.  I decided to change my strategy today.   I left the landing around 5:45 an went up the river.  (I've been fishing down the lake)  I caught 8.  My smallest of the day was a 16 inch Spot.  I caught it on my second cast.   It's the out of focus picture.  My phone camera uses a long exposure when it's dark.  I guess I was moving some.  I need to work on my photography skills.   I caught 3 Largemouth.   2 were 18 inches long.  The largest LM was 20 1/2 inches long and weighed 4.45 pounds.  The rest of the spots were between 16 and 18 inches.  They were feisty.   I also saw a HUGE Bowfin splashing on the surface.   

Woody, you need to get yourself a cheap phone tripod. Your pics will be MUCH better. I got one and use the 10 second timer. Works great. Last year I also dicovered the selfie illumination feature on my cell cam. Works great for low light pics.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Whopper Plopper bass this year. There will be hundreds more in 2023. 

In my best Milliken voice "Daygum Stud right there, OOOOOOOOOink OOOOOOOOink, just rooting around in that mud" ?

[gim]

1 hour ago, T-Billy said:

Woody, you need to get yourself a cheap phone tripod. Your pics will be MUCH better

I’m glad you said that, not me. He looks like he’s high in just about every selfie lol

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

in Minnesota

Or basically anywhere else that bass have seen pressure. Virgin Maine bass are the exception in this case.