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[IcatchDinks]

@treble hook that is wild. Lol. Nice catch. 

[Woody B]

I caught a couple spots this morning in a shortened trip.   My Nieces husband had open heart surgery late Thursday.  He was having trouble this morning early.  My Niece was at the hospital alone.  On the lake I was 30 minutes closer than anyone else, and already up and dressed.  I loaded my boat and rushed to the hospital to comfort her.  She was freaking out, and happy to see a familiar face.   He's in a different hospital now, doing much better.   I'm going to sleep right now, for a few hours and going back to the lake tonight around midnight or so.  

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I have written @Woody B's epitaph, which he is free to use one day: He was a fine fisherman, a loving uncle, and a guy who wore a transmission tower for a hat. 

[IcatchDinks]

"Go to the river" they said. "Small mouth are fun," they said. Nobody mentioned the rock bass...

And then one fat bluegill to finish the day. (Don't come after me, @gimruis. Rock bass are bass. ?) 

 

Also, I think the entire town today was out on the river. There were three or four groups of tubers, all with no less then ten people per group. I saw five kayakers, two canoes, and countless kids and parents wading and splashing around. Plus one extremely gregarious but very nice old gentleman that wanted to tell me every single detail of the one time he went backpacking in the Sierra Nevadas in the 60's, and his buddy who knew the neighbor of the guitarist for the grateful dead and about some hiking gear company he thought was cool, and how he ran track in highschool and how he was a physical science teacher for 30+ years, and on and on and on. But he seemed so glad to have someone to talk to I didn't want to dash his feelings and tell him I didn't want to talk to him. I also had three hikers trying to tell me how to fish. I think from now on, I'm gonna stay away from the river and stick to my ponds. 

 

Oh, and I fell and scraped my leg up on the rocks pretty good. What a day. ?

[galyonj]

Go when it's raining. Cuts down on the riff raff. 

[IcatchDinks]

@galyonj funny thing: It started raining right as I started driving home. 

[gim]

12 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

Don't come after me, @gimruis. Rock bass are bass.

Rock bass are indeed a bass, but they’re like that ugly loser cousin that no one in the family really wants to associate with.

[MN Fisher]

26 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Rock bass are indeed a bass, but they’re like that ugly loser cousin that no one in the family really wants to associate with.

If you squint - they are a part of the Centrarchidae family, which includes Sunfish, Crappie, Rock Bass, and the other Bass genus/species (LM, SM, Spot, etc)...but the body type is more typical of Sunfish or Crappie.

 

I suppose if we allow 'Rock Bass' in here - the Crappie guys are gonna want to barge in too.

[IcatchDinks]

Unless we call them Crappie Bass, I think we'll be safe. 

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, IcatchDinks said:

Unless we call them Crappie Bass, I think we'll be safe. 

 

Now ^that's^ funny!

 

Up at 3:30 in the morning to fish. I have to paddle a couple miles to a sweet spot I discovered last time I fished. 

 

[throttleplate]

Wife and I hit the dam in Lisbon N.D today. Bought a scoop of fatheads to do some bobber jig fishin for smallies and walleye. I had a very fun day full of some great fighting fish.

I caught this Buffalo head fish and it was a nice battle, I played him so as to not break off and he oblidged. Then i caught some white bass and they were scrappy fellas and some wallaye thrown in to take home.

I then hooked into this welterweight fighter, this catfish i tell ya they really have some muscle. I hooked 3 of them this size today on a bobber, jig, minnow, they get hooked nicely in the very corner of the mouth and though not huge cats when ya get them close to shore they turn and roll and take off for another run, great fighting fish. We arrived home at 12:30 am.

 

[galyonj]

12 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

@galyonj funny thing: It started raining right as I started driving home. 

 

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

Got an 18" and nice 4# 20" 

For the 4# used my Core50mg7 on Quantum Smoke7' M/F rod 14# fireline attached to Fat Ika.

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I fished a bog that I've come to love. Last year, I fished it and caught quantity, but not quality. This year, I caught a six-plus pounder and two four-and-a-half-pounders last Friday. This morning, I hooked a bass that cracked my rod and straightened my hook. I wish I could fish from a boat where I could stand. I think that would help a lot. However, I couldn't launch that boat in this bog. 

 

I also hooked myself, the second time in three days. Sigh. Both times, I struggled to punch the hook through my skin so I could cut the hook under the barb. Both times, I pushed the hook up with one hand and push my skin down with the other. 

 

I caught 36 Butterballs and here are some of them. I think Maine's short, fat bass are funny. I also caught a 19-incher and hooked her seven feet from a huge lay-down in deep water.

 

"I've every advantage," I thought.

 

Then she pulled me into the tree and I couldn't even use my rod. I had to hand-line her to the canoe, amazed that she didn't catch on a sunken limb.

 

She's the first fish in the column of pics. I know she's just a tad under 19", but since I call my 19.25", 19.5", and 19.75" bass all 19-inchers, I'm calling her a 19-incher too. She's certainly got the build of a 19-incher.

 

 

@throttleplate: I would really enjoy fishing below that dam. I'd love hooking a fish and not knowing what it was. 

[Jmurphy87]

10 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I fished a bog that I've come to love. Last year, I fished it and caught quantity, but not quality. This year, I caught a six-plus pounder and two four-and-a-half-pounders last Friday. This morning, I hooked a bass that cracked my rod and straightened my hook. I wish I could fish from a boat where I could stand. I think that would help a lot. However, I couldn't launch that boat in this bog. 

 

I also hooked myself, the second time in three days. Sigh. Both times, I struggled to punch the hook through my skin so I could cut the hook under the barb. Both times, I pushed the hook up with one hand and push my skin down with the other. 

 

I caught 36 Butterballs and here are some of them. I think Maine's short, fat bass are funny. I also caught a 19-incher and hooked her seven feet from a huge lay-down in deep water.

 

"I've every advantage," I thought.

 

Then she pulled me into the tree and I couldn't even use my rod. I had to hand-line her to the canoe, amazed that she didn't catch on a sunken limb.

 

She's the first fish in the column of pics. I know she's just a tad under 19", but since I call my 19.25", 19.5", and 19.75" bass all 19-inchers, I'm calling her a 19-incher too. She's certainly got the build of a 19-incher.

 

 

@throttleplate: I would really enjoy fishing below that dam. I'd love hooking a fish and not knowing what it was. 

That looks like a fun morning for sure, getting hooked is not so much fun. But it’s a risk we take to pursue our passion, I am glad that you got it out and that you are doing good ?

[LrgmouthShad]

I may not like the heat but right now the fish are telling me that I should go in it. Still really slow fishing though. I got nothing while it was still dark and then got two fish while punching. First one I photo'd went a little over 3lbs, not bad. Second fish I photo'd is a dink but he is still appreciated. 

 

Next weekend I will switch it up and change where I launch and then try to commit to punching if the fish are willing to cooperate again. Punching is quite possibly my favorite thing to do out of enjoyment. The fish might just be setting up for me to do it effectively ?

 

That's 65lb braid to a 1.5oz tungsten sinker pegged. Owner jungle flipping hook engulfed by a gambler burner craw in green pumpkin black swirl. 

[gim]

@throttleplate passes the haircut police initiative. Confirmed.

[Woody B]

My night fishing didn't work out as planned.   I fished from 1:30 until 6:30.  I caught a couple Perch,  1 decent Largemouth, and a 205 pound 69 inch long sucker.  I caught the bass on a DT6.  When I lipped it and pulled it into the boat it flipped.  I dropped it but ended up with the bass on one hook, with my thumb and index finger on the other.   I cut the hook off the lure to get me loose from the bass.  I got it loose from my thumb but the hook was buried all the way up to the shank in my right index finger.   It was buried too deep to work it on through.   I ended up going to an Urgent Care to get it cut out.  I've got a couple pictures of the hook in my finger, but I don't want to look at it so I figure no one else does either.   I cropped it out of the Bass picture.   

 

[throttleplate]

40 minutes ago, gimruis said:

@throttleplate passes the haircut police initiative. Confirmed.

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[Jar11591]

Hot, muggy and somewhat smoky morning on the lake. The wildfires are still hazing up the place. Was all about the spinnerbait today. No lunkers but lots of chunkers. Fish were all very fat and healthy. Lost the would-be best fish of the day that was over 4 pounds. The lake got extremely crowded by mid morning and I was out of there by noon. 



 

This lake has really thick milfoil and hydrilla mats, spent hours punching and frogging them to no avail. Fish were only found in sparse to moderately thick curly-leaf pond weed and elodea. This lake is an enigma, but it gives up fish readily and I know it’s a potential PB location so I’ll continue to try to pick it apart. 

[LrgmouthShad]

34 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

This lake has really thick milfoil and hydrilla mats

Ditto. Photos from Cedar Gap Park boat ramp on Stillhouse

 

All hydrilla though. Almost looks nasty here doesn’t it?

[Jar11591]

@LrgmouthShad that’s the easiest way for me to tell hydrilla and Eurasian milfoil apart. When the hydrilla mats up it gets that nasty cheese/slop on top where the milfoil is just a mat of vegetation. I prefer to fish milfoil, and prefer to not have punch at all if I can help it. 

[Dominat0r]

I didn't get a chance last night to fish, was really late when I came home and haven't been sleeping with all going on. 

 

However, the streak must continue....fish for 7/23 (Day 48) off the new rod. Really like the Victory line of St Croix, very sensitive for the money. 

 

Both fish off the Rat-L-Trap, as you can see. 

 

 

 

 

 

[PhishLI]

It felt like I was being broiled midday yesterday, but by the time I hit an eastern lake with my brother at 11:00pm the temps dropped to 61 and it felt like we were freezing. It was a dry cold though...

 

Not a lick of wind was swirling, and not one pop was heard in the pads or weeds. It was really tough to find anything biting, so after humping a Jon boat 300 feet down a beaten path we were questioning ourselves for fishing a brand new cold front. Finally nabbed some wading a super shallow shoreline then jumped back on das boot for one last shot and got a few more. The lake holds golden shiners and good thing I brought a Berkeley Grass Pig in Swamp Gas because they wouldn't touch anything else. 

The toll for crashing on my brother's couch is levied by Sammy the cat. He's very pushy and won't let me sleep unless I agree to be his pillow. It was 5:00 am by the time we drove home and unloaded, so I was too exhausted to negotiate with him.

[Swamp Girl]

29 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

It was a dry cold though...

 

And the veal is very good this evening!

 

That last bass is a beee-uuuu-teee!