Latest Catch Pics Thread

[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. 
 

 

[MIbassyaker]

16 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

She's a Brunhilda! 

 

[TnRiver46]

@ol'crickety+ junebug worm= a force that should be outlawed in several states 

[Swamp Girl]

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

@ol'crickety+ junebug worm= a force that should be outlawed in several states 

 

Ha! I'm ordering some of those Zoom Trick Worms today too. 

 

Say, Mr. River, I missed three fish in a row at the end of my fishing session with my Magnum worm. With one, I set the hook at first feel and nada. So, I figured the worm was so long that it took two secs to reach the hook. So, I waited on the next two. I was using a Shimano Bait Runner, disengaged the drag, and both bass whizzed off line and then I cranked down until I felt their weight, set the hook, and nada again. Any suggestions? 

[TnRiver46]

Well if you tried both schools of thought, there’s not much else I could suggest haha. Sometimes they just don’t hook up, lot of plastic to booger up the hook point 

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

lot of plastic to booger up the hook point 

 

[keagbassr]

Got out today about 7:30 to 12, caught 14 bass, 1 on a buzzbait, 2 on a frog and 11 on a double wide beaver with 5 of  those being decent ones weighing 4-3, 4-2, 3-9, 3-7and 3-1.

I don't know how many times I can go back to the well before It runs dry but so long as the fish are buried up.in those weeds I'm gonna keep.trying to clonk'em on the noggin.

[LrgmouthShad]

Let's see who remembers this one....

 

Man, @keagbassr really gave those bass a shavin today ?

[bp_fowler]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Ha! I'm ordering some of those Zoom Trick Worms today too. 

Black and/or Bubblegum ?

[Swamp Girl]

13 minutes ago, bp_fowler said:

Black and/or Bubblegum ?

 

I ordered black, watermelon, junebug, and green pumpkin. I would have ordered bubblegum too if I'd read your post before placing the order.

 

FWIW, I'm paddling up that little stream again this evening. We got 1.75" of rainfall last night, so I'm looking forward to experiencing and fishing the uptick in current. It was already pretty swift a couple days ago, so it should be gurgling this evening. That little stream makes me so happy. Then, before dusk, I'll paddle to the bog at the end of the stream and hope to catch a big girl, a Brunhilda. Here's why: 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

black

good

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

junebug

good

 

Crush em ?

[Swamp Girl]

I missed @keagbassr's post. Man, oh, man, that man sure can cowboy, i.e. if cowboys actually wrangled bass. 

[Swamp Girl]

40 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

good

good

 

Crush em ?

 

I'll have to wait for the ordered worms to arrive, but for this evening, I did find a black worm and a smaller blue one, so I'll be fishing those within two hours!

 

@rodscrossed!

[casts_by_fly]

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Ha! I'm ordering some of those Zoom Trick Worms today too. 

 

Say, Mr. River, I missed three fish in a row at the end of my fishing session with my Magnum worm. With one, I set the hook at first feel and nada. So, I figured the worm was so long that it took two secs to reach the hook. So, I waited on the next two. I was using a Shimano Bait Runner, disengaged the drag, and both bass whizzed off line and then I cranked down until I felt their weight, set the hook, and nada again. Any suggestions? 

 

could be bluegills or small (< 8") bass that are just grabbing the tail and running off.  I get that a lot with big worms.  If its a bass, its going to get all of the worm almost all of the time to the point that I don't wait to set the hook.  Just reel down tight quickly and set it.

[The Baron]

@LrgmouthShad @ol'crickety A 10” T-rigged Power Worm in either Tequila Sunrise or Junebug is one of my favourite ways to catch ‘em.  Drag that along a deep weed edge real slow. ?

[Swamp Girl]

Big bass, @The Baron!

 

I fished for 2.5 hours tonight. I caught a dozen bass in that little river and another eight in the bog below it. Back in June, @AlabamaSpothunter and @PhishLI urged me to focus on fewer bodies of water than I fished last year and I've done that, focusing primarily on four bodies of water. The payoff has been 51 bass over four pounds and seven between six and seven pounds. I didn't add to that total tonight, but I sure caught some beauties, twenty in all, up to 18 inches. The last girl was bleeding a bit and I don't know why, but she sure was feisty when I released her. It's usually me bleeding, not the bass.

 

 

[TnRiver46]

Had to hide under a bridge for at least 30 minutes from a bad storm. Thought the evening was ruined until…… My buddy got a lunker! Another over 20”. I thought it was a two footer when it cleared the water, it was flying. Quite a battle in 15,000 cubic feet per second 

I got some smaller varieties and a blue cat for dinner 

[Swamp Girl]

Right now is the time to fish with @TnRiver46 if you want to see or catch a 20"+ smallie. That first pic is awesome. Your buddy should print it, frame it, and hang it. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

14 minutes ago, ol&#x27;crickety said:

Big bass, @The Baron!

 

I fished for 2.5 hours tonight. I caught a dozen bass in that little river and another eight in the bog below it. Back in June, @AlabamaSpothunter and @PhishLI urged me to focus on fewer bodies of water than I fished last year and I've done that, focusing primarily on four bodies of water. The payoff has been 51 bass over four pounds and seven between six and seven pounds. I didn't add to that total tonight, but I sure caught some beauties, twenty in all, up to 18 inches. The last girl was bleeding a bit and I don't know why, but she sure was feisty when I released her. It's usually me bleeding, not the bass.

 

 

Great job this season Katie on the big ones, and you still have the Fall to go!    

[Swamp Girl]

32 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Great job this season Katie on the big ones, and you still have the Fall to go!    

 

I hope I do better than I did last fall. I caught bass and a few big girls last fall, but expected more from the season, given the way people rave about it.

 

I credit PhishLI and you for much of my success. You guys gave me great advice. 

[TnRiver46]

Thanks Katie! Our 20” probably weigh the same as your 17”fish, they are long and lean 

[Swamp Girl]

28 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Thanks Katie! Our 20” probably weigh the same as your 17”fish, they are long and lean 

 

Nah, that 20" is solid.

 

I'm just hoping I also catch a 20" too simply by chatting with you, that your mojo travels through the Intertubes.