Latest Catch Pics Thread

[bp_fowler]

19 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Heck, yeah! The new dog, Jake, is teaching the old dogs a new trick.

 Older age wise perhaps.  Experience wise maybe not so much.  😂

[Big Rick]

On 3/13/2024 at 5:11 PM, ol'crickety said:

that bass looks too deep to be just 3.14 lbs. Do check your scale.

 

Look closer. That 14 OUNCES (2 ounces shy of 4 lb) , not 14 one hundredths of a pound. Looks like a 4 pounder to me. 

[Swamp Girl]

35 minutes ago, Big Rick said:

 

Look closer. That 14 OUNCES (2 ounces shy of 4 lb) , not 14 one hundredths of a pound. Looks like a 4 pounder to me. 

 

Agreed. I also thought it was a four-pounder, but just didn't understand the numbers. 

[T-Billy]

Ain't much of one, but it's one. Lol. First bass of the year. Ended up catching three. First was the smallest, but the biggest was only about 1.5#. Muskie are still being contrary, so I took the flippin stick along today. After months of muskie fishing, a 7'6" XH flippin stick feels like a fairy wand. 

I did manage to get a mid 30's muskie to eat a Llungen 4" lipless today, but it came unbuttoned. It's a step in the right direction I reckon. I hadn't had a bite the previous four trips.

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Great to see Tim and his magical trapper hat posting a Bass, I'm afraid one of these days we're going to lose him to the dark side.....the Muskie side 😁

[treble hook]

Another evening catching some small ones. But it was fun…

 

I caught about 8, all about this size. Nice evening on the lake.

[Bluebasser86]

Took the boys out to drown some worms and spend some time since I won't see them all week. We had a good hour at the pond and burned through a bunch of worms.

 

[T-Billy]

6 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Great to see Tim and his magical trapper hat posting a Bass, I'm afraid one of these days we're going to lose him to the dark side.....the Muskie side 😁

😂 Oh, I'm gone, no doubt about it. Lol. I'll still be bass fishing some, but only part time.  I'm looking forward to the post spawn night bite, and pitching grass, but I'm tore up with the muskie fishing . They're so much more challenging and exciting than bass. Their tendency to come out of nowhere and smash baits at boat side is awesome. Add in their size, power, speed, teeth... just tons of slimy fun.

[N Florida Mike]

Got this one in one of my church ponds on a june bug magnum speed worm.

[Swamp Girl]

6 hours ago, T-Billy said:

They're so much more challenging and exciting than bass. Their tendency to come out of nowhere and smash baits at boat side is awesome.

 

Agreed. I'd still be fishing them if:

 

1. The lures didn't hurt to cast.

 

2. I could catch ten a day everyday. I do like a busy boat. 

 

Pics of kids with fish are the best photos posted at Bass Resource. 

[The Baron]

Another busy work week behind, but I’m catching up on my vicarious living.

 

Good luck at the tournament @Bluebasser86!  Bring us back lots of big bass photos - it’s all I got right now! 🙃

[OHBuckets]

Took some patience, but got two pretty ones - one on a D-shad and one on a JDM finesse crank. They had a lot more fight in them than last weekend - good sign

[Woody B]

I fished just under 4 hours this morning and caught 5.  Not Alex or Katie numbers but enough to make me happy.  (I think I figured out why I've been struggling, more on that later)The good news about the 5?   2 were over 5 pounds.   The smallest was a 14 inch Spot.  The 2 Largemouth were 6.51 pounds 21 3/4" long and 5.88 pounds 21 1/4" long.   Around here Bass get special above 6 pounds.  This one was no exception.   I was fishing a lay down, and a boat cut in front of me to the next lay down.  (maybe 40 feet, I didn't say anything but I wouldn't crowd anyone like that)  Both people in that boat burned buzz baits around the lay down, then they left.   I eased up there nice and quite and pitched a shaky head right into the middle of it.   The Bass hit it on the way down....just a gently tick, like most big Bass.   When I set the hook (luckily for me and my 12 pound test) she came straight up.   When she breached I snatched my rod and surfboarded her away from the lay down while moving the boat further away too.  (I broke off a huge bass once after surfboarding it to the boat.  I think it was able to break off due to being so close, with no line stretch)  She "got traction" and went back down, then pulled like a big catfish headed toward deeper water.  She walked on her tail a few more times before she finally got tired enough to land.  The 5.88 pounder basically didn't fight.   She hit a spinner bait so hard it almost jerked the rod out of my hands, then just felt like a 12 incher.   I wasn't paying much attention and just jerked her out of the water, breaking my rod when I boat flipped her.  I'd like to have a picture of my face when I saw her size.   Nothing about her seemed like a big Bass.     I haven't broken a rod since November, so that's pretty good for me.   

 

So, why have I been struggling?   Forward Facing Sonar.   I've noticed lately my screen looks like I'm turning the gain up and down, when I'm not.  Today I saw some surface activity, but nothing on my sonar.  It would take a week to run my battery down so I don't have the voltage displayed on any of my graphs.   Anyway, the fuse block feeding all my electronics has developed a bunch of resistance.  I was losing almost 3 volts through it.   Lately I've been not casting until I see some activity.   After seeing the problem early today I just turned all of it off.   We'll see how it does tomorrow after I repair the voltage problem.  

[LrgmouthShad]

2 minutes ago, Woody B said:

Largemouth were 6.51 pounds 21 3/4" long and 5.88 pounds 21 1/4" long

YESSIR

3 minutes ago, Woody B said:

pitched a shaky head

Who said a shaky head doesn't catch the right ones?

[Swamp Girl]

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The 2 Largemouth were 6.51 pounds 21 3/4" long and 5.88 pounds 21 1/4" long.

 

Woody!!!

 

Woody, you also did a good job describing the fight. Like @The Baron said, it's all we northern anglers have right now. I considered fishing today, but when the water's cold, I often sit on the floor of my canoe to increase my stability and when you do that, there are mere millimeters of Kevlar between you and a winter's worth of accumulated cold.

 

So, I thought about fishing, shivered, and said, "Not today, Jose." 

 

32 minutes ago, Woody B said:

I wasn't paying much attention and just jerked her out of the water, breaking my rod when I boat flipped her.  I'd like to have a picture of my face when I saw her size. 

 

We'd all like to see that picture, Woody! 😉

 

[A-Jay]

2 hours ago, Woody B said:

  I'd like to have a picture of my face when I saw her size.   

 

Nice Bass ~ Congrats !

A-Jay

 

[treble hook]

Back at it this morning with The Mrs.

[TnRiver46]

Had from 8-12 to fish this morning , got down to the dock and the water was yohoo chocolate drink . Paddled out to the main river channel and it was blue, pretty cool contrast 

 

tossed around a Texas rig with 2/0 gamakatsu nano alpha hook on spinning rod with 6 lb tatsu while waiting on my cutbait to get hit (never had a nibble on the cutbait). Got 4 smaller bass, LM SM and meanmouth. The new hooks penetrated the fish mouths nicely. 3 bald eagles were flying around chirping at me , when they flew low over the water loons would call out a warning. Also saw some wood ducks and mallards and an Osprey, fun morning

 

also had a bass boat pull right in front of me and start fishing but similar to @Woody B they left in less that 5-10 minutes 

[LrgmouthShad]

@TnRiver46 some really nice photos in there

[Swamp Girl]

Fun morning, @TnRiver46. I wish I'd been there.

[TnRiver46]

Thanks @AlabamaSpothunter and @ol'crickety. The bass boat traffic doesn’t seem to bother the birds, I guess they are all used to it by now. The gulls even follow the propwash like it’s the ocean 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

My gosh @Woody B you're having an epic year so far!    Awesome fish!   What do you attribute the most for your incredible uptick in fish size?   

 

Love seeing @TnRiver46 beautiful pics as always.   

 

Awesome catch @treble hook......the fish are nice as well 😁

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

 

Awesome catch @treble hook......the fish are nice as well 😁

 

So sweet!

[Pat Brown]

We went out today on the boat at around 1:30 pm and wanted to catch a couple to test out my new home made live well and to see if we could get one that would beat my leading 8-15 from last week to secure my win for March's Big Bass Battle for my local lakes.

 

We worked our way up to a main lake point not 10 minutes after leaving the marina and I'm pitching a Strike King Scounbug in Bama craw on a pegged 7/16 oz t rig into the heaviest cover on the point I can find.

 

I feel a nice supple thump way down in the junk and set the hook hard and feel my line take off into the tree!

 

I play see saw with 20 lb big game in an underwater bramble forest and some how she works her way out into open water and peels some more drag and then I get her up...for a second I thought I HAD beat last weeks big fish!

 

 

Landed this gorgeous 8 lb 4 oz behemoth!

 

We released her since she didn't beat my leading fish but holy COW I love spring time y'all!

 

Just epic epic stuff.  One of the prettiest fattest fish I ever caught.

 

We tooled around and caught a couple dinks and some sunfish and then as the sun was getting low Jake stuck a nice 2.5 lber and I boated a nice 4.5 lber on a swim jig out of some lily pads!

 

All in all a completely sublime day of bass fishing for the books and my 3rd 8+ lber of 2024 on the books!

 

🎣🎣🎣⚡⚡⚡🌊🌊🌊

[LrgmouthShad]

Phenomenal job @Pat Brown!! Keep ‘em coming!!