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[Dominat0r]

Hit headwaters yesterday, was a good day...got about 30 fish total, mostly 1-2lbs. Biggest was 4lbs off a bass pro boss glide bait. The others were on a magnum speed worm, junebug red. I missed a couple on a kietech swimbait, but it was getting bit towards the end. Wasn't super super hot either, around 90F, which is actually kind of cool for us. 

 

[Swamp Girl]

4 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Fluke is 365 day a year bait IMHO

 

Well, then, it's FLUKE ON!

[diehardbassfishing]

I've been away from BR and fishing for awhile. This is my first "Scorable Bass" for 2023!

A medical issue that got my attention! Gents, keep up with your PSA testing! Sure glad I did...

 

 

[Woody B]

I didn't take a picture of my lone bass today.  I usually always take a picture of the first one.  This one was 10" or less.  It came unhooked when I boat flipped it.  It was flopping around on the deck,  I just took my toes and pushed it back into the water.  It was in my first dozen casts or so.  I figured I'd catch more.  I went to a different lake.  (Lake Rhodhiss, Valdese NC)  It's an hour North and in the mountains.  I figured the water would be cooler.  It was a couple degrees cooler.   The lake is full of laydowns.  The laydowns were full of bass, or at least fish that looked like bass on sonar, but they didn't want to move.   The water was quite a bit cooler on the upper end of the lake but the entire upper end was lifeless at least on sonar.   I also caught a 9 inch Crappie.   I won't be able to go next Saturday morning due to family commitments.   I'll probably go back to Lake Wylie Saturday night around 10 or so.  

 

@Pat Brown  I've always had trouble getting hook ups on buzz baits.   Can you use a treble hook where you're getting strikes or are the weeds too thick?  Owner makes some treble hooks with a big enough eye to use as a trailer.    

[Swamp Girl]

4 hours ago, Dominat0r said:

Hit headwaters yesterday, was a good day...got about 30 fish total, mostly 1-2lbs. Biggest was 4lbs off a bass pro boss glide bait. The others were on a magnum speed worm, junebug red. I missed a couple on a kietech swimbait, but it was getting bit towards the end. Wasn't super super hot either, around 90F, which is actually kind of cool for us. 

 

 

Hey, you caught a month's worth of bass using the DomMeter!

[bp_fowler]

5 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Jerkbait is one of those techniques I can catch a cold on a sunny day with.  It's just deadly.

 

Fluke I'm okay with but I know it works.

 

I would say I have the opposite problem.  I can’t catch diddly squat on a hard jerkbait but I do pretty good, including 2/3 my biggest fish this year, (the lone outlier was with a swim jig)on a fluke.

[Pat Brown]

I don't know what clicked with the Jerkbait this past spring but I had multiple 20+ fish days in NC with it and that just doesn't happen often with any baits I learn.  Seems like when they're in the mood for that presentation, they really have a hard time resisting it.

 

Thing is I KNOW the fluke is the same.  I have done really well with it late in the fall on really calm days up shallow.  I just haven't put the time in to see what else it's good for.

 

@Woody B thing is, I have NOT had issues hooking up on the buzzbait in general, it's just been this past couple days on this one lake.

 

I think honestly, looking back on it/analyzing each bite/hookset, I'm fairly certain, even though I thought I was giving them enough time, you really gotta let em have it a second.  I find spinnerbait is the same way for me.

 

Also trailer hook is out of the question.  Snot grass around the pads is so thick you have to immidiately get that thing planing or you're gonna be totally covered in snot but they CRUSH that little guy burned back over tops of those pads above the snot.

 

Tried the buzz toad today and it just didn't get the blow ups my Buzzbaits got.  Still missed all 4 bites at the lake on the buzzbait.  Oh well.  I'm gonna really slow that hookset down tomorrow morning and see what happens (if I get bit before work)

[Swamp Girl]

@Pat Brown: I'm trying a buzzbait tomorrow morning for the first time for bass because of this conversation. I've caught muskies on buzzbaits, but never a bass. 

[Team9nine]

E/NE breeze today under mostly sunny skies as a ridge of high pressure sat over us. Temps have finally come down to something reasonable, too. Made a pass on the largest pond today and managed 8 bass, most all cookie cutter fish +/- an inch of the 13” mark. There were 5 other anglers there when I arrived, so the pressure might have played a part in the slower bite. Still felt good to swing on a few though after the heatwave kept ne off the water for a few days.

 

[Team9nine]

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

I think honestly, looking back on it/analyzing each bite/hookset, I'm fairly certain, even though I thought I was giving them enough time, you really gotta let em have it a second.  I find spinnerbait is the same way for me.

 

Also trailer hook is out of the question.  Snot grass around the pads is so thick you have to immidiately get that thing planing or you're gonna be totally covered in snot but they CRUSH that little guy burned back over tops of those pads above the snot.

IMO, you need to slow your setup down just a bit in this situation, not your reaction time…or try this little trailer hook trick. It’s small enough it will pretty much come through whatever the main hook will, but is just enough added length to make a real difference (could even go smaller to a No. 2 or No. 4 limerick).

 

 

 

[Pat Brown]

 

Well, I went back to the old pond this morning because it was raining all last night and fished the inflow at the lower pond and on my second cast a little out from the point on the corner of the inflow mouth she crushed it.  I gave her a solid second where I really took a breath and just waited a second and then reeled up and pounded it and there she was!

 

5 lb on the dot ???

[TnRiver46]

19 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I hate flukes. Hate em. Can’t catch crap on them or jerkbaits, but I stink with both. Lol

Oh no but you must………

 

I was fishing fontana once, it’s by far the clearest water around here. We were camping where a creek ran into the lake, steep mountains. There were big white bass and spotted bass back in the creek, spring time. I couldn’t make them bite anything, then I found a fluke in my boat. That side to side slow dart and suspension turned the fish from running away from lures to attacking and inhaling them. There is a magical power inside of a fluke that can make an inactive bass trigger into a reaction striking bass 

[LrgmouthShad]

24 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Oh no but you must………

 

I was fishing fontana once, it’s by far the clearest water around here. We were camping where a creek ran into the lake, steep mountains. There were big white bass and spotted bass back in the creek, spring time. I couldn’t make them bite anything, then I found a fluke in my boat. That side to side slow dart and suspension turned the fish from running away from lures to attacking and inhaling them. There is a magical power inside of a fluke that can make an inactive bass trigger into a reaction striking bass 

A fluke may have been a good option when I was out, for sure

 

Y’all, IT RAINED LIKE CRAZY LAST NIGHT. I am very excited to see what happens to the lake. A cold front finally broke the heat dome we’ve been experiencing for like 2 months. We’re experiencing lower temperatures this week

[Turtle Angler]

New PB (6 lb) yesterday on a Teckel Sprinkler Frog

[thediscochef]

11 minutes ago, Turtle Angler said:

New PB (6 lb) yesterday on a Teckel Sprinkler Frog

Nice fish! Congrats on the new PB

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

A fluke may have been a good option when I was out, for sure

 

Y’all, IT RAINED LIKE CRAZY LAST NIGHT. I am very excited to see what happens to the lake. A cold front finally broke the heat dome we’ve been experiencing for like 2 months. We’re experiencing lower temperatures this week

It wasn't even 80 when I left the lake this morning. It was absolutely heaven. Made for a decent numbers morning. 2 on a dawn topwater bite, 4 landed 2 lost on a red eye, and the bigger fish on a black grape ol monster from deep. That is without a doubt the fattest 5lb I have ever caught. Length of a 3 but thick as heck. Scale froze on 5lb 8oz. Pulled harder than any of the 7s I've caught this year. I believe I felt the barb pull out about midway through fight. I did not feel the strike, I picked the lure up and felt it start running. Beautiful fish, great numbers morning - first bite 6:25 last bite 8:05. 

[Swamp Girl]

Beautiful bass, @Pat Brown, @Turtle Angler, and @thediscochef!

 

I launched in the dark as I typically do. It was foggy too (First pic). I tried two Ploppers, one Popper, and a buzzbait, but couldn't get a single bite. I did catch some bitsy bass (Second pic) with a paddletail and spinnerbait. Then, when the Sun rose and the surface fishing should have been at its worst, I tried a white 130 Whopper Plopper and caught two 18.5-inchers (Third and fourth pics). I ended the morning with 11 bass and the last one was the best at 19.5 inches (Last pic). I turned 67 today and am launching again tomorrow morning in the dark, thus my hashtag:

 

#IwillnotgogentleintothatgoodnightIragerageagainstthedyingofthelight.

 

[bp_fowler]

Happy birthday! @ol'crickety

 

[thediscochef]

17 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Beautiful bass, @Pat Brown, @Turtle Angler, and @thediscochef!

 

I launched in the dark as I typically do. It was foggy too (First pic). I tried two Ploppers, one Popper, and a buzzbait, but couldn't get a single bite. I did catch some bitsy bass (Second pic) with a paddletail and spinnerbait. Then, when the Sun rose and the surface fishing should have been at its worst, I tried a white 130 Whopper Plopper and caught two 18.5-inchers (Third and fourth pics). I ended the morning with 11 bass and the last one was the best at 19.5 inches (Last pic). I turned 67 today and am launching again tomorrow morning in the dark, thus my hashtag:

 

#IwillnotgogentleintothatgoodnightIragerageagainstthedyingofthelight.

 

 

Those are some pretty bass, in some pretty grass ?
Happy Birthday!! ??

[Swamp Girl]

Thanks, guys!

 

My birthday gifts arrive today too: a Shimano 2500 Vanford and a Diawa 2500 Ballistic

[thediscochef]

2 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Thanks, guys!

 

My birthday gifts arrive today too: a Shimano 2500 Vanford and a Diawa 2500 Ballistic

that's super exciting! those are two very nice reels 

[Pat Brown]

Happy birthday @ol'crickety !

 

I have been noticing the 'bite in the dark before sunrise' is steadily shifting more to 'bite as the sun is rising'. This past couple weeks.  Seems I always catch the bass at the pond right as the daylight breaks.

[Blue Raider Bob]

4 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Thanks, guys!

 

My birthday gifts arrive today too: a Shimano 2500 Vanford and a Diawa 2500 Ballistic

Somebody robbed a bank! Either that or you are seriously much loved!!!!!

Happy Birthday!

[Swamp Girl]

3 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

that's super exciting! those are two very nice reels 

 

I have been tracking them all the way from Minnesota, which tells you how exciting they are for me.

 

@Pat Brown, I'm thinking of NOT rising at 3:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. No earlier than 4:00 and maybe even 4:15. The water is noticeably cooler. Our highs are low to mid seventies and our lows are low to high fifties. I think the bass are too chill to bite in the early mornings. 

 

2 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

10 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Somebody robbed a bank! Either that or you are seriously much loved!!!!!

 

Ha! Bob, it might seem hard to believe, but the reels I use are 30 to 40 years old and have caught thousands of fish. That snapping I heard that I first thought was a rod and then thought was the stem of the reel was actually the teeth of one of my Stradic's gears snapping off. That reel actually caught my three biggest bass this morning with more teeth snapping off as I applied too much pressure. Crazy, huh?

[Blue Raider Bob]

32 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Beautiful bass, @Pat Brown, @Turtle Angler, and @thediscochef!

 

I launched in the dark as I typically do. It was foggy too (First pic). I tried two Ploppers, one Popper, and a buzzbait, but couldn't get a single bite. I did catch some bitsy bass (Second pic) with a paddletail and spinnerbait. Then, when the Sun rose and the surface fishing should have been at its worst, I tried a white 130 Whopper Plopper and caught two 18.5-inchers (Third and fourth pics). I ended the morning with 11 bass and the last one was the best at 19.5 inches (Last pic). I turned 67 today and am launching again tomorrow morning in the dark, thus my hashtag:

 

#IwillnotgogentleintothatgoodnightIragerageagainstthedyingofthelight.

 

 

     Katie, that beast could eat all 58 bass I caught yesterday....actually it may have. She is huge!

It looks so peaceful in that grass. When you laid her back in the water, did you take a moment to absorb and enjoy your blessings? What a paradise on earth!

 

12 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Happy birthday @ol'crickety !

 

I have been noticing the 'bite in the dark before sunrise' is steadily shifting more to 'bite as the sun is rising'. This past couple weeks.  Seems I always catch the bass at the pond right as the daylight breaks.

Pat that is interesting and let me share a pond observation from yesterday. I am usually in the house before dark, but I went fishing yesterday, got home late for supper, did some farm work, then went to the pond as it was getting dark. One thing I noticed was the bass became MUCH more active after the sun set. I could see several blow-ups in the algae after the dock lights came on, where as while it was still daylight, the LM were quite. Wanted to stay longer but the skeeters became active as well!