Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Swamp Girl]

Dang it, Woody! I once was paddling across a lake and trailing my lure off my stern. A bass grabbed it and pulled the rod and reel overboard. I still worry that the bass couldn't free itself from my outfit.

[Pat Brown]

With the frequency with which those bass remove themselves from my hooks after I have deliberately driven said hooks into their heads....I am sure that fish is okay.😂😂😂

[Woody B]

I wonder how robust Blue Cats are.  It's not uncommon to see big ones floating dead.   I suppose they don't get that big by being "fragile" though.    Mrs. B caught a 27 pound Blue a couple years ago.  I thought it had fought until it died, like some Striped Bass do.  After I got it in the boat it "came back to life" and started thrashing around.  I ended up with the spine from it's pectoral fin stuck in my foot.  I've been careful with Blues since then.   Someone may find a floating Blue with a Dobyns rod, Shimano Curado MGL reel and Bizz Baits Big Thump attached to it.   

[ATA]

Worked very hard to catch this one.

[Creek Pirate]

8 hours ago, Team9nine said:

What strikes me as most interesting with these reports is the apparent polar opposites in the fisheries between guys like @Pat Brown or likely @PhishLI vs., say,@AlabamaSpothunter, due to fishing pressure from what they’ve written about and I can tell. The effort and ‘trickery’ the former two have to go through to even get bit at times is crazy, yet they still produce fish, and big fish fairly regularly, for that effort. @WRB and Casitas/Castaic was probably similar back in the day. In comparison, along the lines of what Katie mentioned, “TWO sevens and it's just another day for you!” down Alex’s way. @Zcoker ‘s Everglades fishery, as well as @ol'crickety ‘s Maine bog ponds might fit in this category as well.
 

It’s an interesting perspective on the effects of fishing pressure and how it correlates with bass behavior, IMO. Most of us probably fish in a world somewhere “in-between” these guys on the scale most days, and correspondingly have to adjust our tactics accordingly, taking snippets of their baits, tactics and presentations as they might fit our situations.

I have caught alot of fish directly related to this thread.I may be a new member but I have read this thread for a few years and there has been several times I've been fishing and remembered someone's post.Yesterday I was fishing in the pouring rain.I throwed a spinnerbait across a winter hole in my creek.Not a bite.I sat thinking what to do next.I remembered Pat Browns recent post about catching on a buzzbait.I throwed my spinnerbait  as far as I could and burned the indiana blade to the surface making it thump.I seen a golden flash through the rain in the clear water.I was hooked up.If he hadn't made that post I don't know if I would have this fish.Turned out to be the biggest of the day.

3.1 lbs

 

[Fishlegs]

On 2/11/2024 at 8:05 AM, ol'crickety said:

I've never seen your face. You're so young!

Am I the only one that's let down because he's human? I always pictured him as a monster fish catching cat with yellow sunglasses like his avatar! Just kidding, man! 🤣

 

Awesome fish...as usual.

[Carolina Pines]

First trip of 2024 was this past Saturday 2/10, I took y'all's advice and brought my dad this time.  Great weather, mid 70s but very breezy.  Guess what, the old man has still got it!! 

 

The morning started out kind of slow, then in the afternoon the bite really turned on and we were catching them on all kinds of stuff... spinnerbaits, crankbaits, lipless cranks, and jerkbaits.  Probably 50 fish in, I was thinking it was going to be a numbers day.  I had caught a few in the 3 pound range, then dad nails a 7.5 fish on a 6th sense crankbait!  

 

It was a great day, doubled up many times, and caught lots of fish on back to back casts.  Once we found them it was lights out.  Perfect way to break in my new spinnerbait setup.  I'm loving my new JDM Zillion, it performed very well with my new 13 rod.  Made some great memories with my dad, and he's just a few days away from retiring!!  

 

[A-Jay]

3 minutes ago, Carolina Pines said:

First trip of 2024 was this past Saturday 2/10, I took y'all's advice and brought my dad this time.  Great weather, mid 70s but very breezy.  Guess what, the old man has still got it!! 

 

The morning started out kind of slow, then in the afternoon the bite really turned on and we were catching them on all kinds of stuff... spinnerbaits, crankbaits, lipless cranks, and jerkbaits.  Probably 50 fish in, I was thinking it was going to be a numbers day.  I had caught a few in the 3 pound range, then dad nails a 7.5 fish on a 6th sense crankbait!  

 

It was a great day, doubled up many times, and caught lots of fish on back to back casts.  Once we found them it was lights out.  Perfect way to break in my new spinnerbait setup.  I'm loving my new JDM Zillion, it performed very well with my new 13 rod.  Made some great memories with my dad, and he's just a few days away from retiring!!  

 

Awesone !

Once Dad pushes those sleeves up on that hoodie, you know he means business. 

Great bass and smiles all around.

Congrats 

A-Jay

 

[Swamp Girl]

@Carolina Pines: Man, I'm happy for you. Your day had it all: quantity, quality, mid-seventies, and your father.

[TnRiver46]

Awesome job, congrats Dad!!!

[N Florida Mike]

Finally got a decent fish on a grape shad culprit worm.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Best thread on the fishing internet, always so enjoyable to come back after a day or two away and see all the great information, stories, and catch reports!    Really appreciate the kind words, and the great discussion related to my last post.   

 

@Carolina Pines  Dude what a banger of a day, and to do it with your dad.....absolutely priceless!    Beautiful fish, glad you guys made a memory for life. 

 

@N Florida Mike  Let's Goooo Mike, glad the toads are showing up for you!   

 

@Woody B   Really hate to hear that buddy, but I honestly believe that for a true grinder and real one like yourself, the fishing Gods will swing that luck deal back your way in the near future.     I had my nicest spinning rod and a Drift Fry hanging over the boat barely in the water on Saturday and I had a 2lb fish eat the bait and by some miracle I caught the rod before it went over board......kind of washes out the fish stealing my KGB TSG a week ago.   

 

@Creek Pirate  100% agree and awesome SM brother!

 

@ATA  Heck of impressive fish sir, the harder you grind for it, the more you got my respect.   

 

@Pat Brown  Continuing to show why he's the king of lipless cranks!  

[AlabamaSpothunter]

On 2/11/2024 at 8:05 AM, ol'crickety said:

 

 

Gosh, I miss fishing. I'd just like to be on the water again. I would seriously be happy with a skunk just to be there once more.

 

 

 Half the treat of a great day is a Katie reply 😁

 

Katie I can honestly speak for this entire thread, WE'RE ALL READY FOR KATIE SEASON 😎

 

The part about the one bait and daunting......my exact thoughts, and I wonder what my winter season would have been like without the Drift Fry.

 

The Drift Fry has made the lake appear that it's never seen a Bass angler, but it's actually a very pressured lake......there's no lake sadly in Alabama that isn't pressured heavily.      

[Swamp Girl]

12 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

 

Katie I can honestly speak for this entire thread, WE'RE ALL READY FOR KATIE SEASON 😎

 

Ha! Me too!

 

12 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

 

The Drift Fry has made the lake appear that it's never seen a Bass angler, but it's actually a very pressured lake.

 

I've long inferred that your lake is "very pressured." Heck, there's a dock every ten or twenty yards. And the developed shorelines will also, as I recently wrote, reduce water quality, which is another kind of pressure on the bass. Plus, when you hook your seven-pounders, you don't do it in a secret cove. I'm sure people see your great success and people talk. Like @Pat Brown and @PhishLI and @Woody B and others, you fish in a fish bowl, making all of your successes even more praise-worthy. 

[TnRiver46]

We all reduce water quality when we flush the toilet , most lakeside homes don’t just go dumping stuff into the water. The EPA will pretty much bury people for that nowadays, water quality has gone WAY up since the 1970s 

[thediscochef]

First roberts bass of the year yesterday.

Had about a 20mph north wind but it was sunny so I took to the rocks

Water temps are in the high 40s

[Bluebasser86]

Haven't felt very good for about a week now. Really felt bad Saturday but felt a little better Sunday. Got up enough energy to go out for a couple hours before the Superb Owl. 

 

Thought I was going to have the first cast curse, but ended up catching one on my last cast as I was just getting back to the ramp. Both were ugly fish but better than a skunk.

 

[Team9nine]

Coming off two inches of rain, a fast rising barometer, clear blue skies, and winds 10-12 out of the north gusting 20+. Then I lost a couple hours dealing with a dead battery. But finally made it out, squeezing in just over 2 hours. Water was high and a bit more stained than usual, but fishable. Caught about a dozen crappie and two bass. Best bass almost 4 lbs.; best crappie was 2.31 lbs.

 

 

[Pat Brown]

45 minute session at a pond at the community college next to where my son has basketball practice yielded a limit on the buzzbait this evening.

 

[Swamp Girl]

Pat, you know those puddles in the street after a downpour? I think you could catch bass in those. 

[Pat Brown]

And I do it using monofilament line!  😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

 

Lucky I guess. 🥹😂🎣

 

Thanks for the kind words @ol'crickety

[Blue Raider Bob]

12 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Pat, you know those puddles in the street after a downpour? I think you could catch bass in those. 

     I agree Katie, I think Pat could catch fish on morning dew!

I could see Alex hanging a hog out of my goat trough!      Me?   Well.....I catch my lunkers vicariously through my BR friends! I can catch the newborns all by myself!

[Pat Brown]

Jerkin and spinnin' em up outta the pond this morning before work.  Decent one on the Jerkbait and a big crappie and a big sunfish.  Multi species Jerkbait bonanza!

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

2 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Jerkin and spinnin' em up outta the pond this morning before work.  Decent one on the Jerkbait and a big crappie and a big sunfish.  Multi species Jerkbait bonanza!

 

What kind of sunfish is that? Ear lobe too long to be a BG.  Not a greenie. Is it a Red-breast? Or some hybrid?

[Pat Brown]

I reckon that's a green sunfish but fairly pale on account of winter time. It could be a green sunfish bluegill hybrid or a green sunfish red ear hybrid.  Definitely got green sunfish in it.  It has the tropical facial stuff going on.