Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Team9nine]

A baker’s dozen today tossing a slightly larger and heavier swimbait today at a couple more stained ponds. Lots of Chara at these two locations, which came up in recent threads. You’ll notice it in both pictures. About the only thing that has survived treatment in these ponds other than the water primrose. 
 

 

[DitchPanda]

6 hours ago, gimruis said:

Did you get a haircut yet?

Don't do it @TnRiver46...we can be shaggy brothers in arms. Team longhairdontcare.

[Eric 26]

33 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

Don't do it @TnRiver46...we can be shaggy brothers in arms. Team longhairdontcare.

Man I wish I found this site when I was in my prime and had dang near a lions mane for hair. Man I miss my youth ? I may have to start a thread called the “hair club” in the everything else section ?

[Dominat0r]

Dink of the day......really hot out today, was 95F and feels like 105F. Then, like fine Florida fashion, rain....

 

I'm GOING STREAKING!!!

 

 

 

[BigAngus752]

12 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I mean, I don’t consider feet picture worthy but some people do

That is the PERFECT analogy.  Drum are the "feet" of the fish world.  And catfish are the unshaven, no showers, hasn't washed her hair in a year hippie girl of the fish world.  Bleh. 

[gim]

1 hour ago, Eric 26 said:

I may have to start a thread called the “hair club” in the everything else section

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

One for @ol'crickety. How's that for fattening up? It weighed 2.19#. At least .19 was the bluegill in it's gut. The whole tail was sticking out it's gullet, and the little glutton still choked my sweet craw.

 

I got tired of fighting the legs on my little cell tripod, so I snapped 'em off this morning. Now all I have to do is drop it into a seat pedestal, and it's ready to take pics. Much easier, and faster. 

 

That's beyond a butterball. That's a turkey stuffed with a barbell.

[IcatchDinks]

My application for the #teamlonghair club. 

 

Caught three tonight. I've used almost nothing but topwater for the past month. Blowups are addicting. 

[thediscochef]

They were eating the Texas rig for a couple hours tonight...had this one close to 4, the little guy, and a sandwich size drum. Lost two that were probably solid fish, one of which I got a look at. Probably close to 5. No PBs or giants or anything but a couple of nice fish. I'd been on a nice streak of landing all my bites but there's always that day...today. regardless...they still like what I've been throwin em. 106 in the shade at my place today...car said 91 as I left the ramp at midnight

[Dominat0r]

The streak goes on and on......thurs 6/29 fish. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@IcatchDinks: Beautiful photos and fish. You look so happy in that last photo. 

 

@thediscochef, I know how those streaks go and they go both ways. I've been landing my big fish this year too, but in three consecutive casts last year, I lost three four-pound bass. All three jumped. I worked all three to the canoe. And all three came unpinned right there. I think that's a lifetime three and done for me, that I'll never hook such three fine fish on consecutive casts again. Anyway, I'm just happy you've caught such big fish this year. I remember how your year started, BUT YOU DIDN'T QUIT.

 

That would make a fine epitaph for all of us if we'd earned it: (S)He didn't quit.

 

@Dominat0r, that grass looks plastic in that first photo, which makes me wonder about the bass too. Say, have you been spending the summer sitting on one of those Florida lanais, sipping Mai-Tais and photographing plastic bass on plastic grass once a day? ?

[Blue Raider Bob]

I'm also guilty of the fish pictures that are not of bass.....but.....this big girl sure put a stretch in my 8lb mono! Slow bite and hot day on the river. Caught twenty but only two over 3lb. and this one big river monster.

[IcatchDinks]

@ol'crickety I'm grinning because the person holding the camera is my wife, and everything is just better when she's involved. 

[Dominat0r]

45 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

 

@Dominat0r, that grass looks plastic in that first photo, which makes me wonder about the bass too. Say, have you been spending the summer sitting on one of those Florida lanais, sipping Mai-Tais and photographing plastic bass on plastic grass once a day? ?

ROFL, it was pouring all night, had to go out in the rain to get my fish for the day. Battling the rain is part of the streak!!

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

What a great day, @Blue Raider Bob! 

 

@IcatchDinks: You da hubby!

[Blue Raider Bob]

10 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

What a great day, @Blue Raider Bob! 

 

@IcatchDinks: You da hubby!

Katie, that big blue cat was bigger by far than all the twenty bass combined. She gently bit the Ned Jig and got really angry when it bit back. I though I'd hung a ski-boat! When the drag finally quit screaming it turned into a war of wills. I'd gain some and she'd gain some as I floated down the river.  Got her up and got her lipped and over the side. Only kept her long enough for a picture and back she went. Glenda said, "It only looks big 'cause your holding it out to the camera!" I said "BS"! I ain't strong enough to hold that fish out! It's straight up and down!

17 hours ago, T-Billy said:

One for @ol'crickety. How's that for fattening up? It weighed 2.19#. At least .19 was the bluegill in it's gut. The whole tail was sticking out it's gullet, and the little glutton still choked my sweet craw.

 

I got tired of fighting the legs on my little cell tripod, so I snapped 'em off this morning. Now all I have to do is drop it into a seat pedestal, and it's ready to take pics. Much easier, and faster. 

Durn Tim! That bass looks like it ate a boat seat!

[Swamp Girl]

3 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

She gently bit the Ned Jig and got really angry when it bit back.

 

^Great line!^ 

 

I love when fishers write like poets. They then remind me of the samurai who were also poets. 

 

4 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Glenda said, "It only looks big 'cause your holding it out to the camera!" I said "BS"! I ain't strong enough to hold that fish out! It's straight up and down!

 

^Funny!^

[IcatchDinks]

@Blue Raider Bob I had a similar experience hooking into a big old carp last year while fishing for panfish. I don't generally like catching carp. But WOW was that a ride. 

[GreenPig]

Fished Sinclair last night from 10p - 1a last and caught 5. 

[Blue Raider Bob]

2 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

@Blue Raider Bob I had a similar experience hooking into a big old carp last year while fishing for panfish. I don't generally like catching carp. But WOW was that a ride. 

You mean one of these! This river monster tested my reel warranty! This was a wild ride as well. I can relate to your experience!

[IcatchDinks]

2 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

You mean one of these! This river monster tested my reel warranty! This was a wild ride as well. I can relate to your experience!

Yep. One of those.

On a Ned rig

Not that big,

But I was using an ultralite rig.

 

( @ol'crickety, is this the kind of poetry you were talking about?)

 

 

28 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Fished Sinclair last night from 10p - 1a last and caught 5. 

Oh, right. This is BASS thread isn't it? Nice fish. 

[Blue Raider Bob]

9 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

Yep. One of those.

On a Ned rig

Not that big,

But I was using an ultralite rig.

 

( @ol'crickety, is this the kind of poetry you were talking about?)

 

 

Oh, right. This is BASS thread isn't it? Nice fish. 

Yep....Ned rig on medium light spinning gear. 8lb mono while bass fishing. I'll never see a 23lb bass but I saw a 23lb Carp up close!

Katie will commend your poetry!

[FryDog62]

Friend of mine and I went to South Dakota to catch smallmouth and walleyes... and fortunately we did!  Biggest walleye was mine at just under 27 inches, and his smallmouth at 21.5 inches. Great trip, great memories?

[IcatchDinks]

2 minutes ago, FryDog62 said:

Friend of mine and I went to South Dakota to catch smallmouth and walleyes... and fortunately we did!  Biggest walleye was mine at just under 27 inches, and his smallmouth at 21.5 inches. Great trip, great memories?

Holy-moly!!! nice fish!! That bass is a hog! 

[thediscochef]

9 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@IcatchDinks: Beautiful photos and fish. You look so happy in that last photo. 

 

@thediscochef, I know how those streaks go and they go both ways. I've been landing my big fish this year too, but in three consecutive casts last year, I lost three four-pound bass. All three jumped. I worked all three to the canoe. And all three came unpinned right there. I think that's a lifetime three and done for me, that I'll never hook such three fine fish on consecutive casts again. Anyway, I'm just happy you've caught such big fish this year. I remember how your year started, BUT YOU DIDN'T QUIT.

 

That would make a fine epitaph for all of us if we'd earned it: (S)He didn't quit.

 

@Dominat0r, that grass looks plastic in that first photo, which makes me wonder about the bass too. Say, have you been spending the summer sitting on one of those Florida lanais, sipping Mai-Tais and photographing plastic bass on plastic grass once a day? ?

Thanks! It was a grind to start the year but I learned a lot. I've prided myself on having a generally high hookup ratio, but my losses usually come in bunches. Personal record is 8 lost in one day, so many swear words. Last night wasn't so bad, it just makes me want to go back out there. I will be doing this until there is no more fish or no more tackle