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Went with the family last night for a couple hours locally and did well.  A stunning 75 degree evening with a light breeze and minimal other watercraft made for an enjoyable outing.  I just happened to catch the biggest largemouth of the season too - a 20 1/4 incher (definitely post spawn).  Even my 4.5 year old boy got in on the action netting and catching fish.  Honestly I was satisfied just sitting there with a cold beer in my hand.  I could have not caught a single fish and still enjoyed it.

[Swamp Girl]

@gimruis: That is a beauty bass! Beautiful family too. 

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23 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

That is a beauty bass

It was definitely on the skinny side though.  Musta been a post spawn.  I don't catch many 20 inch bass during a season.  This is number 3.  My average is about 2 per season (last year I only caught 1 that big).  As you know fish that size in the north are rare.

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, gimruis said:

It was definitely on the skinny side though.  Musta been a post spawn.  I don't catch many 20 inch bass during a season.  This is number 3.  My average is about 2 per season (last year I only caught 1 that big).  As you know fish that size in the north are rare.

 

Heck, yeah, those 20-inchers are rare at our latitude. Congrats on landing three already this season. I'm always thrilled when I catch one. I average about SEVEN 19-inch-+ class bass for every 20-incher-+.  

 

That bass in front of your son sure is a chunk! Here's a video in honor of that bass:

 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

@gimruis yup, well done man. In NY, my benchmark for lunker status was >=4lbs

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18 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

That bass in front of your son sure is a chunk

Ya the smaller ones were chubbier than the big one.  Caught about a dozen of those 14-16 inchers.  Presumably all males.

[Jar11591]

@gimruis awesome dude. Doesn’t get better than that. 

[casts_by_fly]

Had an hour or so while my wife was out and the sun was behind a cloud so went to a local pond. Tiny place- 1/2 acre, 3’ deep. I’ve never seen or caught a fish bigger than 12” there before but it’s 3 minutes away and has a bunch of 6-10” fish. Grabbed the bfs rod. And because someone on an other thread got me fired up about them, a Zara pooch, the tiniest spook ever made which hasn’t been made for 20 years now. Three casts in a get a little birds nest and as I pick it a little bass comes up for the spook but doesn’t eat it. Fourth cast I put it right on the little log he came from and am immediately snagged in an inaccessible place. I considered wading for it then realized I had another choice. I still bad my gear in the truck so grabbed a flipping stick with 50lb braid and pitched it right past the spook. One twitch later and I had it- my spook firmly caught in the braid. A quick pop and it was free. Best catch of the day. First cast with the jig. 
 

I managed three little bass and a bluegill on trout magnets before I called it. 

[TnRiver46]

Those little Zara’s are awesome 

[Dominat0r]

Dom's Dink of the day! The worm was just an inch shorter haha....already got one today, but the streak goes on! 33 days!

 

[Team9nine]

Hot and sunny, mid to upper 80s, and light winds. Ended the afternoon with 15 bass; 8 on swimbaits and 7 on finesse worm. Bass weren’t overly active, but the catfish sure were for some reason - maybe spawning or post-spawn feeding. Both ate finesse worms but saw several others cruising I couldn’t get to bite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dominat0r]

Streak continues for Sat 7/8/. Rain let up for a bit and again, the mosquitoes were out for BLOOD! Sounded like little helicopters flying around. 

 

Dinks again, but the bigger one did put up a fight....first 2 were on Carolina rig and the 3rd was on a speed worm. 

 

 

 

[Jmurphy87]

It’s been a while since I pulled a night session, I got up for work at 5am Friday morning and went to work. I got the urge to go fishing around 10:30pm Friday night, so I went. Started around 11:30pm with plastics and a glass bead and brass clacker with a 1/8oz tungsten bullet weight. I tried 3 different spots and not as much as a sniff, decided to throw top water. That was the right decision, I caught 2 small ones on a whopper plopper 110 in blue blood color. Then it went dead, decided to throw a pop max and had a few miss it. I finally caught a decent one around 2:20 am that went for 3.20lbs, not huge but still a decent fish for Michigan and where I was fishing. I called it a night after that one. It 3:14am now and I am getting ready to go to bed. Saturday is off to a good start, sorry for the bad picture quality but my phone has duck tape on the back of it so I don’t have a flash so I used my headlamp.

[treble hook]

A couple of hours on the lake this morning…

[IcatchDinks]

Got up early this morning to try a pond I never fish. There was a light drizzle coming down, but I figured, what the heck, it wasn't bad. I got to the pond around 7:30 and as soon as I walked to the water it started dumping buckets. It continued that way for about five minutes. Then it stopped raining. Then it would just turn into a torrential rainfall for a couple minutes. Then it would let up again. It went like that for the entire two hours I was out. I caught three fish total. Nothing big. But I figure that's not too bad for a pond I don't know. The mist rolling off the lake in the dry intervals was pretty beautiful too. Unfortunately my phone camera couldn't quite capture it. By the time I went home, I was soaked and cold from the light breeze that's been blowing all morning. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I like the two bottom photos, @IcatchDinks, i.e. the fat-bellied bass and the beautiful pond. Fish on, my bass brother!

[Woody B]

I caught 8 today (and a small Perch I didn't waste pixels on).   Got to the landing at 5.  I caught 5 before 7 on a Devils Horse.   The topwater bite died....and most of the other bite for me too.  I caught 3 more before leaving around 11.   One was just over 18".  2 were dinks (under 14")  1 of the dinks was tiny.   On a side note.  "They" (the State?) have been working on a "day use" near the landing I use.  It features a swim beach, fishing trails and several fishing piers.   It opened yesterday.  "They" said police would be there today for crowd control.  When I left today, around 11 the only people there were the crowd control police.   I figure it will be popular, I just think no one knows it's open yet.  

[Bluebasser86]

Caught my biggest of the year this morning 

Also caught about a 15lb grass carp on a Berkley Surge Shad.

 

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Since I’m the dedicated haircut police now.

 

@IcatchDinks you need to trim up the mop.

 

@Woody B is looking good with the recent trim.

[Swamp Girl]

@Bluebasser86

 

Here's some footage of your blimp swimming right before you caught it:

 

 

 

[gim]

Best outing of the season for largies this morning. A friend and I caught 24 bass and 2 pike in about 5 hours. There was a decent spinnerbait bite early with a low cloud deck, and as the sun came out the dock bite really took off with plastics.  I followed up my skinny 20 incher on Thursday with a beefy one (last photo).

[Swamp Girl]

@gimruis: That is a walrus! Well done. 

[hokiehunter373]

Hadn’t been out in far too long, probably about a month. Finally changed that last night with an hour and a half long outing. Wasn’t expecting much as the weather has been awful and all over the place lately.  Glad I still went. Started with the s-waver as it was already tied on and worked it along a grass line. Got to watch this football of a 2.5 pounder t-bone it. That was fun. 
 

 

Worked that some more with no luck and then switched to the buzzbait. My favorite lure on hot summer days. Walked over to the little shaded pocket and made a few casts. On my 3rd or 4th one I got crushed. She dove down under the grass and was not happy at all about the dude pulling on the other end of the line. Hardest bass fight I’ve felt and I thought for sure I had my PB. Finally winched her out and got her on dry ground and she was starting to shrink as I pulled the grass off her. I still don’t understand how she didn’t break my PB. Longest fish I’ve caught at nearly 21” but sure as heck didn’t look like @Bluebasser86 fish (congrats btw!). She was tall but just not beefed up.  Pics don’t do her justice. Really bummed when I put her on the scale and got 4.4 but it was a lot of fun and I couldn’t have asked for more when I debated even going out. 
 

 

 

 

Beau approved. 
 

Very next cast I threw that buzzbait into a tree never to be seen again. Ahhh the roller coaster ride that is fishing lol. Caught a couple more on the wacky rig as the sun set before I called it an evening. 
 

[Jmurphy87]

Well I got out today and wanted to fish a worm. There was a little wind today. I was fishing a 1/8oz tungsten with a red glass bead and brass clacker, worm was a 5 inch crème worm black blue laminate. Took me a minute, water was warm but there’s a small creek that runs into the lake from a natural spring pond. That means cooler water and a nice 4 foot deep channel in a normal 2 foot deep flat. I casted out it landed and I felt nothing, kept working it back to me and then I felt tension and noticed my line running off to the left. I had a fish and never felt it hit, I was happy that I caught something. I brought it up to unhook it and seen the worm was deep in its mouth. The fish engulfed the worm and 4/0 hook, I got the hook out but noticed that it sustained a tiny cut from the hook on its stomach. It was bleeding when I got the hook out and gave it some water and observed it. The fish seemed spunky and lethargic all at the same time. I knew that it was not going to make it.

 

the bleeding stopped but it wasn’t quite normal so I decided to bring it home to cook up for the wife. I didn’t have a bucket so I cut my trip short and headed home to fillet the fish. I felt bad because I normally don’t take fish home. First one in 4 years, I know it happens but I still feel bad. I don’t let food go to waste or just discard the carcass and pretend that the fish didn’t mean anything to me. I enjoy bass fishing and like to keep them healthy, happy as can be for getting a hook stuck in there mouth and growing.

[Swamp Girl]

You did the right thing, Murph.

 

What an evening, @hokiehunter373!