Latest Catch Pics Thread

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34 minutes ago, Dominat0r said:

Ok, I know its not a bass

Wrong thread, says the photo police.  You've been warned.

[MIbassyaker]

15 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Wrong thread, says the photo police.  You've been warned.

 

I would contest that ticket in court, @Dominat0r -- title says Latest Catch Pics Thread, and the catfish is your latest catch.  Letter of the law is on your side.

[LrgmouthShad]

I was about to walk away with one tiny dink today. Was getting my butt kicked. Not been enjoying September; didn’t fish yesterday. But then I decided to hit two more places with a spinnerbait in the wind and on the second one, got a good un. Went 4.27lbs

[thediscochef]

1 minute ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I was about to walk away with one tiny dink today. Was getting my butt kicked. Not been enjoying September. But then I decided to hit two more places with a spinnerbait in the wind and on the second one, got a good un. Went 4.27lbs

That's a pretty fish! Nice

[LrgmouthShad]

The Megabass SV-3 with upsized back blade to #5 Hildebrandt is starting to amass a respectable list of catches.

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

48 minutes ago, Dominat0r said:

 

I am going to get a full on bass boat.

 

Cool!

 

@LrgmouthShad: I love those four pounders!

[Dominat0r]

1 hour ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

I would contest that ticket in court, @Dominat0r -- title says Latest Catch Pics Thread, and the catfish is your latest catch.  Letter of the law is on your side.

 

You're hired Crick, our office can be my new boat when I get it. Any legal issues can be brought up to my attorney. 

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Photo Police has been defunded.

[Woody B]

I caught 9 today, all spots no big ones.  8 were between 14 and 15 inches.  1 was tiny.   The one pictured was 14 1/2"  I wish the Sun would have been out.  Look at the color and markings on it.  It's marking would have really popped in the Sun.  6 were on a t-rig, but after rolling on a buzz bait. The other 3, including the little one were on a buzz bait.    The calendar has changed to September so all the people that were throwing buzz baits are now throwing jerkbaits.    Like yesterday all of the buzz bait fish were hooked on the trailer.  I've included a picture of the trailer hook.  It doesn't hang up.  I can snake it right through a lay down without snagging.  I can't do that with a Devils Horse or SB105(my go to top water baits)   I don't know how it would do in weeds.   I put a hat on for the picture of the trophy I caught today so the haircut police doesn't disqualify it.  

 

[Dominat0r]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

Photo Police has been defunded.

Best statement ever!

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33 minutes ago, Woody B said:

I put a hat on for the picture of the trophy I caught today so the haircut police doesn't disqualify it.  

You can run, you can hide.  But the haircut police knows there's a rapidly expanding birds nest under that cap.

[Swamp Girl]

Uh-oh, @Woody B. That spot has markings so strong that it looks like its mother was a python. I heard they were moving north, but I didn't think they'd mate with spots. Flee, Woody, flee. 

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

Photo Police has been defunded.

[galyonj]

6 hours ago, Dominat0r said:

Ok, I know its not a bass.....but tell me, how many of you get catfish on a texas rig?

 

Never caught one on a Texas rig, but I caught my PB catfish on a 1/16 oz ned rig. 

 

@TnRiver46, Bobby and I gotta split the catch 3 ways because it was a group effort, so we tripled up on identical 6lb channel cats, for record keeping purposes. ?

[NorcalBassin]

Beautiful morning

 

Sadly, nothing but GIANTS this time out! ?

 

[LrgmouthShad]

3 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

Beautiful morning

 

 

Sadly, nothing but GIANTS this time out! ?

That right there. That blade has got to go. 
 

Im insane about the bigger blade, lol. Watch I never catch anything else on it for the rest of my life ?. 

[Bluebasser86]

Alright, this is gonna be windy.

 

Had a tournament this weekend on Mined Wildlife Area in Southeast Kansas. If you do a Google search, it sounds amazing, a fishing haven that every person should want to fish where 10 pounders live in each one of the around 1,000 strip pits. Anyone who has actually fished them knows they're a giant headache, filled with weeds, dinks, and frustration. They don't fish or pattern like a lake for the most part, you just go fishing and hope to catch bigger than average sized fish. I've fished them a few times and have a couple pits I like, but if they're not on, I'm lost. 

 

I started prefishing early Thursday morning at my favorite pit. Right away, I caught a nice one on one of my blue bladed jigs.

Maybe 10 minutes later, another nice one on a 10" worm in a laydown.

Awesome, things are going to work out great!

I spent over 12 hours on the water, fished multiple pits, ended up catching maybe 20 bass all day and most looked like this.

Friday, I started on a huge pit that starts deep and clear, and ends shallow and muddy. I'd hoped I could find big ones in the weeds in the back. I found lots of fish, but they were all small and all very skinny.

I did find some huge bluegills and redear sunfish, which were more fun than the bass I was catching.

Also found a spicy pinata.

And I hope old boy wasn't in his stand when the tree decided to blow up.

It was another 12 hour day. My biggest bass of the day by 5PM was 15.75". I was exhausted, had just fished a pit with 1 bite and wanted to just quit, but I decided to fish 1 more. Smaller pit, stained water, lots of laydowns. I swapped out my flipping bait to my trusty black and blue Big Bite Baits craw tube, and one of the first laydowns I flipped to, produced a nice fish.

A big beaver dam gave up a big bite that pulled me back into the brush and broke me off. At the back of the pit, I stuck another good one.

That was it, I was coming back here tomorrow.

 

Saturday, I got to the pit really early, hoping to play defense. I could hear cars driving all around, one pulled up and looked, then turned around. I ended up being all alone. One of my first cast of the morning, scored a big crappie on the bladed jig.

Maybe 10 minutes later, I skipped a wacky rig up to a laydown. The fish barely moved until I set the hook, then she was on the top immediately, wallowing around. She shot towards me, flared her mouth open, and my bait came out. Easy 18+ inch fish, not how I wanted to start the day. 30 minutes later, I was flipping a big tree with the craw tube and got a super light bite. Fish was really heavy on the hookset, burned out deeper, ripped drag, just a super strong fish. After a brief but intense fight, I had slid the net under a 19.50" right as the hook fell out.

I fished over halfway around the pit before I got my second bite, a 15" fish on the tube.

Then I went on a dink streak, catching a 12, 12.25, and 12.5 to fill out my limit in the next 30 minutes. Then I got a decent cull with a 14.25, everything the rest of the day, was on the craw tube.

A few minutes later, culled out the 12.25" with a 15.75" fish. 

Right before I finished my lap around the pit, I culled the 12.50" with a 15.25" fish.

So it was around 9AM and I had 79.75". My goal started out for the day was 75" because prefishing had been so bad, but in the back of my mind, I really wanted to reach 80". With the way things were going, that seemed like a sure thing. We were fishing until 3PM, and when 1:30 rolled around, I'd made 3 more laps around the pit and only managed to jump off 1 fish that would have probably helped, the rest were really small. I was going to just stick it out, but then, just like the year before, and otter showed up. This one was circling me and making all kinds of noise, swimming through my brushpiles. I knew what little chances I had at this pit, were gone. 

 

So with a little less than 1.5 hours to go, I loaded everything up and drove. I didn't know for sure where I was going, but I had 1 little pit in mind. I'd never fished it, but when I got there, it looked similar to the one I had been fishing, right down to the big beaver dam. I threw minimal gear in my kayak, and shoved it down the mud bank. No depthfinder, no camera, a few rods, and 50 minutes left. I went straight to the beaver dam, and caught 5 dinks in a row. They didn't help, but it felt good to be catching again. I thought maybe there was only dinks here, but there had to be 1 big pond boss. I was flying down the bank, fishing any cover I could. I hooked one with my blue bladed jig as soon as it touched down that pulled really hard, and just came off. There was a big swirl and heartbreak left, but I kept going. I found another, smaller beaver dam to flip. I caught a small one, and then next flip, a 14.50"! I finally hit 80" with just about 20 minutes left.

I was so happy, I pitched back into the beaver dam, thought it was stuck, but realized it was moving so slightly. It was so heavy when I slammed the rod back, I thought it was buried in the brush, then it jumped, instant heart in my throat moment, I had found the pond boss. She dug deep, turning my kayak, I was begging and pleading with the fish, reaching with the net, and I know everyone around heard my war cry when that fish hit the net. Less than 20 minutes, I put a 21.25" fish on the board.

I fished the last few minutes with a pounding heart and shaky hands, but caught no more fish. 

 

I couldn't see the scoreboard all day, so I had no idea how I'd done, but I was happy no matter what. I heard one guy smashed them, so I didn't think I had probably won, but with my track record on the pits, I didn't expect to even place. So I was really surprised to hear my name called for the 3rd place plaque with my 86.75" total. I was not so surprised to find out I had won big bass.

First place was an amazing 94". He said he didn't have a keeper until 10, then for an hour, he caught a fish every 10 minutes, and they were all big, then it stopped and he didn't catch anything else. 

 

It was an exhausting weekend, physically and mentally. I was very satisfied to have it come to the conclusion that it did. Last tournament of the season is the last weekend of this month. 

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Your kayak tournaments are fascinating reads @Bluebasser86.  I feel like I'm there watching you lol

 

Nice work on the big bass award.

[Swamp Girl]

I fished a quality pond today, but managed okay quantity with 29. I caught two 19-inchers. I am so glad I landed the first one because if it had escaped, I would be telling you I lost an eight-pounder. That's how strong that bass was. I have a MH rod and it parked under the canoe, drowning my rod tip. The first photo is that 19-incher, an utterly ordinary looking bass with extraordinary strength. Then a healthy pickerel and some other healthy bass. Then two pics of the second 19-incher and finally, a photo of the pond. I saw a deer swim across it and a bald eagle.

 

I also included a photo of my primary lure, a 12", blue, ribbon-tail worm with a 5/0 hook. See the weeds beside that worm? What are they?

 

Good day!

 

Congrats Bluebasser!

 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

5 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I fished a quality pond today, but managed okay quantity with 29. I caught two 19-inchers. I am so glad I landed the first one because if it had escaped, I would be telling you I lost an eight-pounder. That's how strong that bass was. I have a MH rod and it parked under the canoe, drowning my rod tip. The The first photo is that 19-incher, an utterly ordinary looking bass with extraordinary strength. Then a healthy pickerel and some other healthy bass. Then two pics of the second 19-incher and finally, a photo of the pond. I saw a deer swim across it and a bald eagle.

 

I also included a photo of my primary lure, a 12", blue, ribbon-tail worm with a 5/0 hook. See the weeds beside that worm? What are they?

 

Good day!

 

Congrats Bluebasser!

 

 

Good grief. Is that a zoom magnum ol monster?

 

Great fishing by the way ?

[Swamp Girl]

20 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Good grief. Is that a zoom magnum ol monster?

 

Great fishing by the way ?

 

Yeah, I think that's what it is. I often throw big lures, like the biggest Senkos and size 130 Whopper Ploppers. What length worm do you use?

 

FWIW, I like the photo of the pond. So many times, what I see is prettier than what the camera captures. This time the camera saw what I saw. I also like the shoulders of the second 19-incher. She's a Brunhilda! 

[LrgmouthShad]

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Yeah, I think that's what it is. I often throw big lures, like the biggest Senkos and size 130 Whopper Ploppers. What length worm do you use?

Good for you on using the huge worms. They work, I just was surprised is all. 
 

Uh, really kinda depends on the rig. My favorite ribbontail is a zoom mag 2 which is two sizes underneath magnum ol monster. It is 9” long and very very thin. I will use ol monsters sometimes and I’ve used the magnums in the past with some success. 
 

I like gambler burner worms 6” and 7” which weirdly have completely stopped working recently. It actually boggles my mind.
 

I like zoom finesse worms on shaky heads

I like zoom trick worms generally

 

[casts_by_fly]

Still here in Pa at my in-laws for another day or two. Unfortunately my MIL passed last Monday. The week was full of arrangements, logistics, and tears.  When most of the family came into town I was able to sneak away for a morning with my dad on the same lake we fished together a couple weeks ago and then that I fished last Sunday on my own. 
 

 

It did not disappoint.

 

he’d been doing well there all summer catching near on 200 bass in 6 weeks mostly throwing chatterbaits in 4-12’ of water on the flats. I tried that Sunday but never touched a fish doing it. This trip through we fished the shallows until a bit after sunup.  They were short striking me on a frog and not hitting his buzz bait. I picked a couple but not what I expected. After the short strikes, I decided a walking bait with trebles would at least keep them pinned and that was right. Almost every tree top in open water had a fish. The best of them was 16” and none were particularly aggressive in eating. About that time the sun was high and the surface bite stopped completely. 
 

we moved down the lake to the flats.  He picked up his trusty chatter bait and I went to a wobble head with a rage bug. I figured we could work moving baits until we found them and slow down from there. The wobble head wasn’t the right tool for the job. The head was catching grass and the muddy bottom meant it was more of a drag. But it caught a few and was enough to learn what the fish were doing. The chatter bait was getting a little nip here or there but not a bite to the boat. Putting the puzzle together, the fish were there and were holding tight to the grass. They weren’t chasing anything but if you put it on their nose they would eat. Long casts tight to the grass would get bit on the drop. Longer casts into the grass and ripped out would get bit on the drop after the rip. 
 

He persisted with a chatter bait, mostly out of stubbornness. I swapped to a Texas rig to get through the grass better. He had two flop off at the boat, but that was it. I would use his ‘nips’ at the bait as locators and play cleanup.  After a while I put all of my rods away except two and I had two Texas rigs (small/light and big/heavy) I was fishing through. The bass didn’t mind which plastic as we caught them on a bunch of different things (he swapped to a worm eventually and got one on the first cast) but I mostly stuck with a rage bug and a boar hogz. 
 

all in we got 22 (17 for me).  Biggest fish was 3.92#. My best 5 were all over 3.5#. I think I had 7 that were between 3.5 and 4 lb. Only two under 12”. It was a pretty good day for sure. 
 

 

[TnRiver46]

Sorry to hear about your MIL @casts_by_fly

 

nice LM 

[casts_by_fly]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Sorry to hear about your MIL @casts_by_fly

 

nice LM 

thanks.

 

i also forgot the obligatory thumb picture.