Latest Catch Pics Thread

[PaulVE64]

Near #3

[Swamp Girl]

@PaulVE64: Smallmouth fishing in Ontario in mid-November? You make this guy seem wimpy:

 

[N Florida Mike]

Got this one on the Big Bites craw in green pumpkin. Stop and go retrieve. Got another smaller one that hit it on the fall…

[NorcalBassin]

Took my daughter and her bf out for a quick afternoon trip and finally came across some decent spots.

 

 

Underspins were the ticket around the big bait balls deep in creek channels.

 

 

[Pat Brown]

My very first bass on an underspin out of the cold in the dark tonight!

 

 

My 8 millionth bass this fall on the buzzbait and a nice one at that 🙂🎣

 

 

Solid 45 minute trip after work on the way to the store.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

@NorcalBassin  Bunch of slaunch donkey Spots, very nice!   

 

Been catching them on the Underspin the last week as well, three post in a row......very un-sexy, sneaky effective bait.  

[Swamp Girl]

The underspin is one of my three favorite lures.

 

Those are FAT spots, @NorcalBassin!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

If I caught as many topwater fish as you Katie, I'm not sure I could fish stuff like underspins lol.    

 

I feel I'm always "forced" to fish an underspin, usually tying one on out of frustration after trying 6-10 other baits for open water schooling fall and winter Bass.   When they won't eat my Jerkbait, everything else stinks in my head.  

 

I've noticed though that they get the better quality bite over my other sneaky/finessy presentations.    

 

Milliken has really opened my eyes to using sneaky little minnows in open water for big fish.   Be it an underspin with paddletail swimbait, hover rig, or now what I saw last night in the video, those Drift Frys and he rigs them on a 1/8 ball jighead.   Will be buying those very soon.   Wish he taught like TacticalBassin, but if you read between the lines he's the best teacher I've found.  

 

[MIbassyaker]

42 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@NorcalBassin  Bunch of slaunch donkey Spots, very nice!   

 

Been catching them on the Underspin the last week as well, three post in a row......very un-sexy, sneaky effective bait.  

 

au contraire! Anything effective ---expecially sneaky effective-- is quite sexy indeed.

[Pat Brown]

Underspin is something I felt weird throwing being a 6'4 250 lb guy from NC that caught his first 6 lber on a spinnerbait 🤣

 

But I felt a lot less weird getting about 7 bites on it yesterday!

 

It's the juice for sure.  Excited to toss it throughout the cold months.

[Swamp Girl]

12 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I feel I'm always "forced" to fish an underspin, usually tying one on out of frustration after trying 6-10 other baits for open water schooling fall and winter Bass. 

 

I use my underspins with paddletails mostly in the thickest cover. Heck, I've even used them as surface lures, i.e. a frog, casting them onto a lawn of lily pads so thick that that the underspin scooted atop them until there was an opening...and I've had bass bust through the pads to clobber them before they ever reached an opening. But my bread and butter tactic with underspins is casting into or on the edge of reeds, lily pads, and grasses. I also cast them at shorelines like a surface lure and they've worked in a foot of water many times for me. 

 

There's nothing dainty about the underspins I throw, for I saddle them with five-inchish paddletails. They're big lures that I can chuck beyond yonder. 

 

Alex, I enjoy fishing with them because I can cast them everywhere and because a paddletail has terrific action and the flash of the underspin's blade is a siren's call for bass. They're my mid-column lure, along with inline spinners, squarebills, and jerkbaits, but my underspins catch more bass than my other three mid-column lures combined. If I'm casting to open water, I'll let them sink sometimes before retrieving, counting to five and then six on the next cast and so on until I find the fish.

 

I like the Owner underspins:

 

4 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Excited to toss it throughout the cold months.

 

Last spring when the water was cold, the underspin was the lure that caught 'em. However, it's a warm water lure too. 

 

#theoldkatlovestoplaywithunderspins

[Peacedivision]

Targeting striper on Sunday but still picked up a couple green bass on the A-rig.

[TnRiver46]

7 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Underspin is something I felt weird throwing being a 6'4 250 lb guy from NC that caught his first 6 lber on a spinnerbait 🤣

 

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

I use my underspins with paddletails mostly in the thickest cover. Heck, I've even used them as surface lures, i.e. a frog, casting them onto a lawn of lily pads so thick that that the underspin scooted atop them until there was an opening...and I've had bass bust through the pads to clobber them before they ever reached an opening. But my bread and butter tactic with underspins is casting into or on the edge of reeds, lily pads, and grasses. I also cast them at shorelines like a surface lure and they've worked in a foot of water many times for me. 

 

There's nothing dainty about the underspins I throw, for I saddle them with five-inchish paddletails. They're big lures that I can chuck beyond yonder. 

 

Alex, I enjoy fishing with them because I can cast them everywhere and because a paddletail has terrific action and the flash of the underspin's blade is a siren's call for bass. They're my mid-column lure, along with inline spinners, squarebills, and jerkbaits, but my underspins catch more bass than my other three mid-column lures combined. If I'm casting to open water, I'll let them sink sometimes before retrieving, counting to five and then six on the next cast and so on until I find the fish.

 

I like the Owner underspins:

 

 

Last spring when the water was cold, the underspin was the lure that caught 'em. However, it's a warm water lure too. 

 

#theoldkatlovestoplaywithunderspins

Katie, you just let the Tackle Monkey back in my house! Now I'm ordering spinner baits and underspins!

[Pat Brown]

1 hour ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Katie, you just let the Tackle Monkey back in my house! Now I'm ordering spinner baits and underspins!

 

 

The 4.5" Storm Largo Shad and the bigger size Owner Flashy Swimmer are *chefs kiss* 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

[RipzLipz]

Only had 4 bites all day but this 6-12 glutton crushed a 1/2oz white/chartreuse Colorado Booyah Blade spinnerbait near some laydowns yesterday. My PB for fall/winter timeframe. Lake seems to be settling down after turnover. Built like a tank, I don’t believe I could put my fist in her mouth. Pics don’t do her gut justice - she was feeding hard & didn’t have any problem stripping line off my baitcaster. Felt like I set the hook into a log. Released to fight another day & have some babies in the next 6 months or so.

 

 

Sorry for the markups - public lake that gets hit hard for its size.

 

Tight lines!

[Pat Brown]

 

The evening buzzbait madness continues.  Guess they wanted black and white Buzzbaits equally.

[Swamp Girl]

Great catch, @RipzLipz! Big belly on that big girl.

[RipzLipz]

@ol'crickety Thanks Katie! Have been waiting on a fat gal like this one since this past late winter/early spring - late February or early March. Lost one I’d estimate close to this size back then while fishing jig & craws with my son. Hopefully not the last for this year (going back tomorrow) but if it is, I couldn’t think of a better way to end it!

 

I think I could fish days for one bite from one 5lbs or better, I’m that addicted to the bite, hookset & head shake from larger fish. Much larger fish swim in that place - potentially a double digit or close to it from a pic I saw on another angler’s phone who I’ve seen fishing at night many times this summer. Dude said he didn’t have scales & estimated it to be 7-8lbs - looked quite a bit bigger to me but pics can at times be deceiving as many of us here know & some of the larger fish from this place have small head/mouths & short bodies but are just fat slobs/butterballs. Upping my fluoro on jig rod from 15lb to 17lb test this off-season - I should have never looked at that pic! 

[Swamp Girl]

@RipzLipz: Fingers crossed for you to land another, Tim! Those fat bass are so rare. I caught two over 22" in 2023, but the ones I treasure are the big-bellied ones like yours. They're the apex bass, at the peak of their power, whereas the long, skinny ones are the grand ol' dames, great for sure, but past their predatory prime. 

 

You know, Tim, that I photograph a lot of my bigger bass on my bump board and looking back at them through the long New England winter, I smile widest when I see that they're sloped, built like mountains. So, I for sure noticed that your girl had recently swallowed what appears to be a softball!

[Pat Brown]

6 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

@RipzLipz: Fingers crossed for you to land another, Tim! Those fat bass are so rare. I caught two over 22" in 2023, but the ones I treasure are the big-bellied ones like yours. They're the apex bass, at the peak of their power, whereas the long, skinny ones are the grand ol' dames, great for sure, but past their predatory prime. 

 

You know, Tim, that I photograph a lot of my bigger bass on my bump board and looking back at them through the long New England winter, I smile widest when I see that they're sloped, built like mountains. So, I for sure noticed that your girl had recently swallowed what appears to be a softball!

I caught one fish three different times and she was  9-1 the first time 8-12 the second time and 7-12 the third time.  I now believe that bass fluctuate in size a lot annually!  I think this is why down south you really got to get on them in the pre-spawn if you want a gutted out football fish.  I think some years fish have better luck feeding themselves than other years just like we do and that accounts for the occasional late season lunker!

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

I caught one fish three different times and she was  9-1 the first time 8-12 the second time and 7-12 the third time. 

 

I love when you tell this account and look forward to the next telling. Seriously. It's an amazing story and the best stories should be told again and again. 

 

When pythons swallow a deer, they chill for a month or two, but not the big bass like Tim's. She had clearly recently fed, again and again, and yet she wanted more...like Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. 

[Blue Raider Bob]

12 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

 

The evening buzzbait madness continues.  Guess they wanted black and white Buzzbaits equally.

Let me guess.......you were supposed to go to the grocery store but you ended up at the lake instead!

[galyonj]

I mean…who here hasn't taken a wrong turn on the way to where they were supposed to be, only to find themselves fishing?

[Swamp Girl]

19 minutes ago, galyonj said:

I mean…who here hasn't taken a wrong turn on the way to where they were supposed to be, only to find themselves fishing?

 

Gosh, I wish!