Latest Catch Pics Thread

[T-Billy]

Good luck tomorrow @Cbump.

[Woody B]

I used a sick day today.  ( 4 day weekend!!!!!)  I fished from 6 until 12.  I caught 15.  I got "caught" too.   My oldest Grandson sent me a text asking if I laid out of work today.    Then he sent me a picture he took from the construction site he was working at.  I didn't know they were working at the lake.  The other picture is one of four 3 pounders.  

 

 

[BrianMDTX]

Boy, this morning was kinda frustrating. I started with a Whopper Plopper but no takers. Switched to a X Zone Adrenaline Craw Texas rig and caught a dink, who somehow shredded the bait. Went to a chatterbait and caught a bass, then shortly afterwards I hooked a decent bass that threw the hook. These are two of four bass I’ve caught in the past few days on a chatterbait (after getting skunked untold times). Maybe I’m getting the hang of it. 3 of these bass were hooked and the bite took me by surprise. For a moving bait the bite is very subtle. I went back to the WP and got a bite but it threw the hook. I put on a Mann’s blackberry Jelly Worm and got three bites quickly, but lost them all. They never took the hook, only but the tail. Thinking the worm was too long for today I put on a tube and caught a small bass, then I put on a blue/black laminate Senko and caught two back-to-back. Losing 5 bass is not great!

 

[Cbump]

My son just caught this off the bank with the hellraizer

 

 

[BrianMDTX]

Nice bass!

[gim]

5 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Here's the first floater of the year @gimruis.

It was only a matter of time. Back to the night shift huh

[LrgmouthShad]

Couple dinks on a new lake my first time fishing it. Think I figured out something. We’ll see what happens tomorrow 

[thediscochef]

Just call me Josh Jones 

[BigAngus752]

2 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Couple dinks on a new lake my first time fishing it. Think I figured out something. We’ll see what happens tomorrow 

Hey now, you Texas yay-hoos can't be calling fish like that "dinks" or you'll have every bass fishermen in the middle states gettin' het up. 

[ATA]

15 minutes ago, BigAngus752 said:

Hey now, you Texas yay-hoos

Today I paid for some Taxes, It was brutal, so I start read that "Hey now, you Taxes yay-hoos"  ?

I am still dizzy and disoriented. LOL

[IcatchDinks]

On 5/25/2023 at 8:06 PM, ScottW said:

Broke my PB this evening
 

Congrats on the new PB!

[NorcalBassin]

My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long...

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long...

Congrats! 7-8 lbs?

[ATA]

13 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long...

Congrats on new PB

[NorcalBassin]

14 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Congrats! 7-8 lbs?

Ended up going just a little over 5 lbs. She just knows how to pose with a fish to make it look even more impressive. ? 

[T-Billy]

7 hours ago, gimruis said:

It was only a matter of time. Back to the night shift huh

LOL. I will be, starting next week. Last night was a recon mission. It's about to be on, when the bass come off the beds.

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Ended up going just a little over 5 lbs. She just knows how to pose with a fish to make it look even more impressive. ? 

 

4 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long...

 

Whoa! Atta girl!

[Jeff Zurawski]

Had the pleasure of river trippin with @Jessco87 yesterday. 

 

He figured out the big fish equation under difficult high pressure, ultra low crystal clear water, bluebird sky conditions after a slow start and tying on a homemade little black jig which he pitched into micro eddies behind rocks in shallow riffle water. 

 

20" post-spawn beauty

[12poundbass]

9 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Ended up going just a little over 5 lbs. She just knows how to pose with a fish to make it look even more impressive. ? 

Picture says 7-8lbs….your scale is out of calibration. Tell her to go with 7lb 15oz. ?

 

Dang nice fish!

[Swamp Girl]

34 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Picture says 7-8lbs….your scale is out of calibration. Tell her to go with 7lb 15oz. ?

 

Dang nice fish!

 

Ah, I've come to understand your screen name now. ?

 

Jeff, your friend's beauty is still thick for post-spawn. Heck, she's thick for pre-spawn. 

[ScottW]

10 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long...

Congrats on her new PB!

[Swamp Girl]

I was off the water by 9:15 this morning. I caught 22 fish: 2 pickerels, 10 smallmouth, and 10 largemouth. Seven of the smallmouth were at the back of a windblown bay. They were fun. My biggest lmb was 18.5" and she's at the bottom of the photos. I'm going fishing again tomorrow morning! I saw an osprey dive on a fish that was so big that the osprey was struggling to fly with it. I caught them on a bone-colored Whopper Plopper, a Yo-Zuri popper, a Golden shiner-colored lipless crankbait, and a shad-colored paddletail. I took nightcrawlers with me in case I saw the bass smacking the surface again that I couldn't catch, but they were gone, so I never used them. The 18.5-incher wasn't thick, but she didn't look unhealthy.

 

[Jeff Zurawski]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Jeff, your friend's beauty is still thick for post-spawn. Heck, she's thick for pre-spawn. 

 

Yes ma'am! They been eating good!

[Pat Brown]

7 hours ago, T-Billy said:

LOL. I will be, starting next week. Last night was a recon mission. It's about to be on, when the bass come off the beds.

 

 

We have one more cold front and then the full moon in a week.  I can't wait.  I feel like this time last year we were already way more into the summer/post spawn.

 

I saw bass making beds last night at the pond so it's all out of whack.

 

The water is still in the low to mid 70s though so it makes sense to me...just wild how long the spawn cycle has gone this year here in NC.

[T-Billy]

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

just wild how long the spawn cycle has gone this year here in NC.

Same deal here in OH. They've moved up only to be pushed back out by cold fronts several times. 

 What a difference a day makes. I took a skunking today. Same conditions, totally different fish behavior. Only saw two quality fish up shallow, and not nearly as many bucks cruising. I fished from 15"-15', grass, wood, rock, clay, moving baits, bottom contact...... Couldn't buy a bite other than a couple redears. Couldn't believe it after what I saw yesterday.