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[A-Jay]

As much as Love to say "OH Yea",

that's just not in the cards.

At least for now.

A-Jay

[LrgmouthShad]

We have to take care of stuff when stuff comes around. Y'all stay well and enjoy the time with Lynn and the dogs 

[TnRiver46]

@A-Jay nice one to end on. Already seeing icebergs ?

[A-Jay]

Thanks ~

No icebergs yet, just completely miserable fishing weather.

I must be getting old & weak.

A-Jay

[BigAngus752]

Well, it's on like Donkey Kong now.  The LM aren't in the creeks yet but they are piling up together getting ready to go.  The stripers are in the middle of coves following the wind from bank to bank.  12 LMs and lost track of the stripers...18?19?  All fish on a lipless crank.  A bank fisherman had an angry, 3 pound striper break off his little crappie jig so I got it back for him.  LOL  The stripers are insane.  Like an underwater Tasmanian Devil.  Very fun. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MIbassyaker]

Last trip of the season for me today too. 

 

Went to my favorite lake, the closest thing I have to a "Crickety Bog". It's the quietest, least-pressured place I know how access. 

 

You paddle in from a creek:

 

 

 

The creek opens to an irregularly-shaped lake basin of about 3 dozen acres:

 

I haven't been here in October before, and didn't know what I would find, but I was expecting some tough, slow fishing.  Our daytime temps have just dropped 10 degrees after three days of rain.  Air temp was 46 degrees when I launched at noon. Surface water temps in the lake were 52', though there was still a lot of green vegetation, both shallow and deep.

 

In 3 1/2 hours I caught three -- one 12" on my second cast at the creek mouth with a chatterbait.  Two more fishing more vertically in the central basin, about 10' down along the drop from a 3' to 20' -- a 16.5" on a t-rigged space monkey, and another 12" on a 4" power worm:

 

Not exactly lights out fishing, but could have been worse!  Probably my last bass of 2023.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

If I could fish a place like that, catching would be secondary!  Katie type bog is right. 

 

Congrats on ending the season on a high note.   

[Swamp Girl]

I love ^this^ little river and pond. I'm actually (I brace for the teasing here.) going to fish again this week. It's suddenly warm again in Maine, up to the high sixties and low seventies by day and the high fifties by night. Come Sunday or Monday, it'll be back to the high forties by day and the low thirties by night, so I'm going out one or two more times. 

[LrgmouthShad]

HA! HAHAHAHAHA

 

Oh man that’s funny 😂

 

Have fun 😃. Throw a spinnerbait I think bass like those

 

[TnRiver46]

One or two or six or eight more times, we know the drill! 

[LrgmouthShad]

I think the rumblings are that I may get out for a couple or few trips soon too, before I may vanish? 
 

Moral of the story is: Never trust a BR member when they say they are done fishing for any length of time

[TnRiver46]

@LrgmouthShad, I will stop fishing when they lower me 6 feet down in a pine box. You heard it here first 

[Swamp Girl]

What if I put a fishing rod and reel and some bass in that pine box?

[gim]

This is like Tom Brady fake retiring.  Again.

 

I can 100% say I am done fishing this season though.  Not every BR member is created equal here.  I am a man of my word.  My next outing will be in April.  I am pretty sure @A-Jay is done too.  He communicated that earlier.

[LrgmouthShad]

It’s duly noted that we must be better men (and women) of our word. I actually say that with some sincerity. In the mean time thanks for the laugh.

[gim]

You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop believing you.  Because then the big bad wolf shows up and you are on your own.

 

Of course, guys like @T-Billy just slays the wolf instead and makes a fur hat.  But for the rest of us, its best to just stick to our word.

[LrgmouthShad]

Hey man, not disagreeing with you a bit. I thought to myself earlier this year that I can do better to do exactly what I say. 
 

If today is the day I get corrected by someone on the internet for fishing when I said I wouldn’t fish, no problem with it and no hard feelings

[MIbassyaker]

I will not be physically on the water anywhere until April at the earliest, although I may not be done fishing. I'll probably do a brief shore excursion here and there, as conditions and my schedule permit. Not always for bass, though. 

[TnRiver46]

39 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

What if I put a fishing rod and reel and some bass in that pine box?

I’d give em a whirl! 
 

8 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

I will not be physically on the water anywhere until April at the earliest, although I may not be done fishing. I'll probably do a brief shore excursion here and there, as conditions and my schedule permit. Not always for bass, though. 

salmon/steelhead? 

[Swamp Girl]

22 minutes ago, gimruis said:

You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop believing you.  Because then the big bad wolf shows up and you are on your own.

 

Of course, guys like @T-Billy just slays the wolf instead and makes a fur hat.  But for the rest of us, its best to just stick to our word.

 

Well, when the boy cried wolf, the townspeople came running. When I said I was done fishing, I didn't inconvenience any townsfolk. As far as being on my own, I pretty much am when it comes to actual fishing, but @AlabamaSpothunter, @T-Billy, @PhishLI, @thediscochef, and others have coached.

 

I can't imagine any of them saying, "Crick, you are too bass addicted to advise further. If you only loved bassin' a little less, I might coach you a little more, but...."

[MIbassyaker]

38 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

salmon/steelhead? 

 

Yeah, if I can get away from the crowds, which isn't easy.

[MontclairDave]

Went out to local pond, wind honking at 25-30 mph, big drop in water temp the night before, figured a skunk for sure is coming. Lo and behold got 10 fish on my new fav Senko color #901, watermelon white laminate. 4” size is killer on small ponds, wacky rigged with my fav hook: VMC Weedless Neko 1/0 size. Most were dinks but this one was about a 2 lber. 
 

Definitely not ready to hang it up yet for the season; not with the 75 degree weather coming in next few days around here. I sense a kayak outing in my future….

 

[thediscochef]

Can't help but fish in the rain when there's no risk of lightning. Three more walking bait bass before I had to go watch the Rangers lay the beat down on those cheating Astros. 

Missed another good one on the pompadour but I've steadily seen more results with it. Soon enough I'll maybe catch a biggun on it. All the walking bait success has restored much of the confidence lost on Friday. My buddy decided he wanted better momentum going into his birthday trip to Lake Fork, so we're going to a nuclear power plant lake that closes half the year on 12/1. It's known for not having much size, but is known for catch rates and naive fish. Hoping for a good trip and an equal number of limbs when I get back 😅😅

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

 @AlabamaSpothunter, @T-Billy, @PhishLI, @thediscochef

I'm a loudmouthed beginner in the same sentence as three excellent fisherpersons, thank you

I have this level of imposter syndrome about it:

[AlabamaSpothunter]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Well, when the boy cried wolf, the townspeople came running. When I said I was done fishing, I didn't inconvenience any townsfolk. As far as being on my own, I pretty much am when it comes to actual fishing, but @AlabamaSpothunter, @T-Billy, @PhishLI, @thediscochef, and others have coached.

 

I can't imagine any of them saying, "Crick, you are too bass addicted to advise further. If you only loved bassin' a little less, I might coach you a little more, but...."

I have complete confidence in your ability to make the right judgement when it's time, and while our words our always our best intentions, each day I get older seemingly, the more I realize tomorrow or the ability to fish it is most certainly not promised.     When we stop pushing ourselves, our abilities, and our curiosities, are we still really even living at that point?

 

After the recent ER visit it recharged that mantra, if you can go fish, and if you love to fish, THEN GO FISHING!   Results may come, but one day we'll all have to say that's the end of our season forever.....until then fish like Katie, let the joy and addiction take you for a ride.   

 

Sure seem to be getting awfully philosophical at middle age lol....then again a Kidney Stone will make you seek that higher power faster than chugging a handle of Jimmy Beam 🤣