Latest Catch Pics Thread

[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. 

[BrianMDTX]

It’s been a heck of a weekend so far! Back up to Monday. Dropped my truck off at a local shop (first time) as I had a P0455 large EVAP leak CEL and my left exhaust manifold gasket gave up the ghost after 177K and 18 years of use. Picked it up Thursday. Said they wouldn’t try the manifold as it was too rusty, and they smoke checked the EVAP system and found a leak at the top of the tank, but once again, passed on the repair due to “too rusty”.  I fished yesterday morning and called a shop I stopped at on the way home Thursday. He said it may take longer due to possible snapped bolts so if not, I would not have my truck until Tuesday at best. All the bolts snapped. Needed a new manifold as well. He was finished at 4:30 and 1/2 the cost quoted at the other shop. Came home and reset some hoses on the charcoal canister and cleared the code. No new code after 60 miles of driving!

 

So…having a truck, I decided to fish Lake Raven. Now, 203 acres is not huge, but it’s way bigger than the 2-5 acre ponds I fish 99% of the time. Only fished there once before and got skunked. I am not used to fishing deeper water, and having loads of hydrilla. It’s a learning process. I started on top with a Whopper Plopper, then worked the lily pads with a Texas rig. No strikes. Then I started casting a chatterbait, which lately has been producing. After 10 minutes or so I thought I had a strike and set the hook. I felt it pull and then…boom. Dead stop. I thought it threw the hook and I snagged a log. I kept pulling and still felt a fish. I’m thinking “what is this? A DD?” It was. Almost 3 lbs. of bass wrapped in 8 lbs. of hydrilla lol. I switched to a jig (another bait I rarely use in ponds) and caught another nice bass. Plus I hooked a 20” gar but it threw the hook at the boat. Probably a good thing. 
 

So, only two bass but both were good. I have to fish this reservoir more and learn how to fish it. 
 

[Woody B]

1 hour ago, BrianMDTX said:

Almost 3 lbs. of bass wrapped in 8 lbs. of hydrilla lol.

3+8= 11lbs.  Technically that is a DD.  

 

I've got some kind of stomach bug today.  I managed to catch 4 in between finding places to take a dump.   3 dink Spots and one barely not a dink Largemouth.   

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Might as well post up my trip during the hour paddle back to the ramp

 

Hey, first, please excuse my sunscreen face and gas station sunglasses. 
 

But today was real interesting. I caught two more dinks in precisely the same location as yesterday. Had a lot of little fish try to eat my worm there, but only caught those two. I’d been fishing in the same fashion for the whole morning so I basically decided that I was playing a little fish game and should try something else.
 

Heres where it gets interesting. Yesterday I graphed something real interesting. It was an isolated hard spot in 19ft of water with some intermittent hydrilla. I fished it twice yesterday and no luck. Then I graphed over it today, didn’t see much too too much except for one very large solid mark. After I was done fishing some new areas, I came back to that spot, but this time I did not graph it. I merely dropped anchor about 40ft away, and went to casting. Third cast got the 4.5. I wonder if the mark I saw on my graph was this fish. 
 

Bait wise, the zoom mag II is once again asserting that it is king of summertime. Plum color variations are good. 
 

I like this lake! But it fishes a little weird. I’m finding that I have to look for the oddball stuff.

[Cbump]

Son and I had a great tournament today. Unfortunately my bass club is not teams so we were competition.
Three fish Limit club.
 

I won heavy stringer with 10.59 and big bass with 5.18. My son brought in 5.5 lb stringer!

 Second place had 10.56 and weighed in last. Close call!!

[gim]

I did some more damage on the brown bass today. These things are shaped like footballs. Thanks to @GreenPig I can now take some action photos by myself using a timer on my camera phone.