Latest Catch Pics Thread

[ATA]

Couple nights ago got this one, Had broken back, but doing well and very healthy ?

[Swamp Girl]

44 minutes ago, Woody B said:

Bad things happen when a stranger cuts your hair.  Ray Stevens has a song about it.   I'm considering 

1. Throwing myself at the mercy of the court.

2. Bribing the Judge

3. Bribing the hair cut Police.

 

Don't worry, Woody. Every time you catch more than ten bass, you get a "Get of Jail" card. So, you have hundreds of those cards. Go heavy metal long hair if you want. 

[Dominat0r]

Hit Headwaters today, had a great day as always. Really nice day, till about 12 or so, then it was SUPER hot. 

 

[gim]

1 minute ago, Dominat0r said:

Hit Headwaters today, had a great day as always

That first bass looks big.

[Dominat0r]

Little late night carolina riggin.....

 

[T-Billy]

Brothers from other mothers? ? ? My wife showed my grandkids a pic of me from my high school  yearbook, now they want me to grow a mullet again. ? ZERO chance of that happening.

[Swamp Girl]

6 hours ago, gimruis said:

That first bass looks big.

 

Heck, yeah, it is. So is that last bass! Wow, Dom! That's two giants in one trip. 

[TnRiver46]

Spent the weekend floating/camping 20 miles of the headwaters of the Cumberland river. Caught lots of smallies, couple walleye, got rained on, ate lots of fish and steak, listened to poor excuse for football on a battery radio, Jumped off some rocks, ran some rapids, tons of fun 

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

     Looks and sounds like a terrific trip. I was many miles down the Cumberland and only caught three dinks. No current at all, actually the wind was blowing me upriver! You didn't miss much football on your radio. It would have been better not to listen at all! The upper reaches  of the Cumberland are beautiful beyond words. Thank for sharing!

[Swamp Girl]

@TnRiver46 really knows how to live, but I'm angry at him. He ate walleye and didn't offer me any. I LOVE WALLEYE!!! 

 

12 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

I was many miles down the Cumberland and only caught three dinks.

 

^That's^ because TNRiver46 was hoggin' walleye upriver.

 

Say, I just returned from this morning's fishing and had one of the best fishing trips of my life. I'm going to write a stand-alone trip report. Right now, I'm just tired and happy. So tired. So happy. 

 

[thediscochef]

Tough morning, snapped off more tungsten than I'd like and also a very nice looking football jig. Nested two reels bad bad. Flubbed two of the three bites I got, but that's just fishing sometimes. I'm not in a bad mood about it...it was 58 degrees outside this morning. There wasn't much that was gonna spoil my mood.

[Swamp Girl]

7 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

it was 58 degrees outside this morning.

 

Whoa! That was my fishing temp in Maine. That's crazy cool for you. I'm guessing it felt like paradise. No wonder lost tungsten and a lost jig and lost bass couldn't spoil your mood. 

[LrgmouthShad]

32 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Whoa! That was my fishing temp in Maine. That's crazy cool for you. I'm guessing it felt like paradise. No wonder lost tungsten and a lost jig and lost bass couldn't spoil your mood. 

I lost no fewer than 5 jigs fishing with him. Can’t make this stuff up. The rocks there are crazy

[Swamp Girl]

12 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I lost no fewer than 5 jigs fishing with him. Can’t make this stuff up. The rocks there are crazy

 

And I haven't lost a single lure to a rock in two years of fishing in Maine. I have, however, removed about an aggregate two tons of weeds from lures. 

 

P. S. - Thanks, @TnRiver46, for all those photos. Other than eating walleye, your photo-essay took us along with ya!

[TnRiver46]

Anytime, it’s a trip we try to do yearly, right up your alley 

 

we ate bass too but I keep those pics to myself so PETA doesn’t come after me haha

[LrgmouthShad]

6 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

we ate bass too but I keep those pics to myself so PETA doesn’t come after me haha

I saw them. I saw them all ?

 

Do largemouth or smallmouth taste better?

[TnRiver46]

18 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I saw them. I saw them all ?

 

Do largemouth or smallmouth taste better?

Samesies

[king fisher]

Bass caught on spinnerbaits taste best.

[TnRiver46]

^starvation 

[GreenPig]

3.88 on my new Scorpion/SLX and Chad Shad. The 7.9 gear is perfect to me for chopping a glide.

[Fishlegs]

I got to fish for the first time in almost a month on Friday. We were pretty pumped because this time of year has given us some pretty fantastic days. We hit the lake excited about topwater blowups, and catching fish cast after cast. We spent the first three hours of the day going to all of our favorite fall spots without seeing a single shad feeding frenzy, a single school of fish, or getting a single bite. My buddy turned around and asked, "What do we do now?" I thought for a minute, and told him that we should explore new water since our favorite spots were not producing. That's what we did.

 

We only saw one shad feeding frenzy all day, which turned out to be white bass...sigh. But then a stroke of luck turned the day around. My friend was quickly reeling in at the end of a cast, and a fish hit his lure. Then on his next cast he tried cranking the reel as fast as he could turn the handle, and caught another one. It was on then! Turns out that we were fishing too slow. In spots neither of us had ever fished before we ended up catching 10. Eight of the ten were caught on a lipless crank burned as fast as we could move them. I caught one spotted bass, and the rest were cookie cutter largemouth. Nothing big, but the adjustments turned a frustrating morning into a decent afternoon.

 

 

The picture below shows a cove we found where the path of a storm passed through back in the spring. Obviously that's not an easy spot for a lipless so we switched to soft plastics. We had no luck until I remembered that everything we were catching them on earlier in the day was using very fast moving bait. I decided to try the heaviest worm weight I had in my bag and boom! I picked up a couple more in the laydowns due to the faster fall rate. I had never heard of fall rate, and the difference it can make until I joined BassResource so thanks to y'all for that tip!

 

[thediscochef]

5 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I lost no fewer than 5 jigs fishing with him. Can’t make this stuff up. The rocks there are crazy

the reason I've never caught a jig fish is because I don't keep the jigs long enough ? 

 

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I have, however, removed about an aggregate two tons of weeds from lures. 

my favorite spot to fish gets choked up with invasive milfoil on top of the rocks, I wish so dearly that it could be hydrilla. the milfoil clings to everything and makes punching a real task. As long as it's not filamentous algae I'm good with it though. It was a beautiful morning

[Swamp Girl]

9 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

It was a beautiful morning

 

Gosh, I love your attitude. I once fished with a pretty famous female fisher. We took a drift boat down one river and the boys took a drift boat down another. We caught 10" smallies and the boys caught 20" smallies. They kept texting us photos of their beasts and I pined to be in their boat, as I hooked another 10-incher.

 

Then this woman said, "They're all good."

 

And she was right. I'll never forget that day, for it was my first time rowing a drift boat, and listening to her stories, and rounding a corner to see five bald eagles atop rocks in the river, our fellow fishers.

 

It was a beautiful day.

[FishTax]

I can't figure out how to shrink photos enough to put more than one, so enjoy this one ?

 

Great day for me today. Beautiful weather, fall like for NC. Found the bass roaming shallow coves and flats. Caught them on shaky head, jigs, but mostly on a large paddle tail worm from z man on a jig head which was new to me. They'd only hit it if I burned as fast as possible. I had several get off, realized I need a larger hook than what I was using but am excited to try again with some tweaks soon.

Finally the bait monkey paid off, I bought these from Seibert on a sale along with some jigs I'm quickly burning through. If losing jigs in timber were a sport I'd get a gold medal. 

So far fake fall in NC is treating me way better than the entire summer did. Fits my fishing strengths way better!

Thanks again for all the great info on here, I learn so much reading everyone's comments and have definitely improved from participating on this forum!

[TnRiver46]

Triple crown of black bass and a nice sunset. I watched the smallie eat my fluke, he inhaled it!!!