Latest Catch Pics Thread

[TnRiver46]

They are adjacent 

[MIbassyaker]

15 hours ago, FishTax said:

Finally got one worth taking a photo of! Not huge but a good start. 3 lb 3oz, my first chatterbait fish, and on the big blade orange chatterbait I've been waiting for the right opportunity to throw. She bit at the end of a long point in about 4' of water. Forgot to take the donkey leash off for the photo. 

 

I caught 2 more today but both got off, I'm struggling with hooksets sitting down on my kayak. I think I'm going to reconfigure a bit so I have more space to really put it on them. 

 

Nice fish -- I have found in the kayak I need to pay extra attention how my I'm holding the rod, and how my body is turned, in order to have enough room to swing.  And It always takes me a couple outings in the Spring before the hookset is fully dialed back in.  

 

 

[Bazoo]

 

 

 

All on Zoom Fat Albert Grubs, Texas Rigged. I also had 2 solid strikes during the day but didn't hook up.

[N Florida Mike]

Had a good morning on the lake. Much better average size today. All caught on the fluke and speed worms…

[Swamp Girl]

Nice ones, Mike!

 

Bazoo, I am always happy when you post because I love LOVE LOVE your screen name. It makes me laugh.

 

@MIbassyaker made some good points about setting a hook in a kayak. 

[Woody B]

I'm off work for 10 days.  Myself and Mrs B are at a campground now.  It doesn't have wifi and my mobile hot spot data is limited.  Reports will be limited but I'll do a big one at the end of the week when we're back home.  I brought the boat this morning and fished for an hour,  then went home and got the camper.  I was able to fish another hour this afternoon.  It's still daylight but I'm tired.  I caught 6 cookie cutter Spots and one really small Wiper/Striper, White Bass hybrid.  The campground is near the Dam so that's where I fished today. I'll go back upstream tomorrow.   Picture is the last one,  but all were similar.   

 

[TnRiver46]

How many spots can you keep per day where you live @Woody B?? Golly day id be busy cooking those things all day, they don’t have a limit here but we also don’t have very many. They were supposed to take over all the water, if they do I’ll be ready with yellow cornmeal 

[Woody B]

There's no limit on Spots here.   The lake, and basically the entire Catawba river chain is full of heavy metals, PCB's and coal ash.  I'm not much of a sea food/fish eater anyway.  I take a livewell full of small ones to my Sister in Law (that lives on the lake) occasionally.   The fish in this pictures is a little Wiper isn't it?   I thought it was a White Perch at first, but haven't seen stripes like that.   My Son in Law is a Striper fisherman.  He says Wylie isn't cold enough for them.  I suppose the State (NC or SC?) thinks Wipers will survive.  I've caught a few little ones but never one over 10 inches long.  

 

[TnRiver46]

@Woody B, ive never seen a white perch in person but if I caught the above fish in my waters I would call it a yellow bass . That could just be the light glowing on it, if not a yellow bass than a white bass 

[VolFan]

@Woody B - that’s  just a marked up white perch. I caught a few wipers in Mtn Island last week (they’re not stocked there, they wash in from Lake Norman.) There was a group of them at the entrance of Gar Creek. And I’ve caught very nice stripers/hybrids below the Lake Wylie dam, but never any in Wylie itself. I guess they’re there kind of like yellow perch. Present but very tough to target.

[Choporoz]

Good day yesterday.   Wind and rain much of the morning; surface temps 55*.  Got some in backs of small coves on twin buzzbait and lizard early, then a few 3-4's on 5" paddletail/underspin fished tight to secondary points and main lake pockets,   Got this 5 on a Rage Bug off wood in the back of a pocket.  Around 1, the sun came out and spinnerbait killed it on windy flats.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Awesome fish @Choporoz!  

 

Getting on that killer prespawn bite would have me burning a stogey as well 😎

[Swamp Girl]

@Choporoz, that's a heckuva day. Now, if someone starts wearing @T-Billy's musky-hunting fur cap while smoking your cigar while fishing @king fisher's barbed wire lakes with @Zcoker's gators, he'll be the Chuck Norris of Bass Resource.

 

 

 

 

[Aaron_H]

Got rained out, managed to last about 90 minutes before I called it, but I did get 6 bass and culled 2 tilapia. Biggest bass went 5lb 4oz, on a Shadow Rap Shad. I was picking apart a cove where the wind was blowing pretty hard and corralling bait up towards the banks. Bass weren't feeding super hard but they were biting. Was really nice to get into a sizeable bass, they've been stingy lately and it made dealing with the crappy weather worth it. She nipped the back of the bait on a long pause right as I was hovering over a sandy point during a brief respite from the rain and before it got much worse.

 

She never came up, stayed down and dogged me the whole fight. Which was a relief because I barely had her hooked. I've had guys ask me why I spent so much time/money tinkering with this setup (still very much a budget setup though), and this is why. If I was still throwing these on braid-to-leader or a stouter rod like when I first started out with the technique, 100% I'd have lost this fish.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Let's go @Aaron_H, awesome to see you catching hogs again!   

[Swamp Girl]

Heck, yeah, Alex! The world ain't right if Aaron ain't dancing with the big girls!

[Swamp Girl]

The view out my front window this morning. Take a wild guess as to why I'm not catching bass. I do, however, hope to fish on Thursday, if the ice melts:

 

 

[thediscochef]

With a storm front a few hours away I decided to jump out to my little whopper plopper honey hole on Ray Roberts. All the people camping in that area had packed out already so I had free access to the tree I've been casting next to. It's windy, but it's a south wind which has been the determining factor in the success of this particular spot. 

Third cast, biggest topwater bass I've ever caught, and tied for the biggest bass I've ever landed on the bank. 7lb 5oz.

About two cranks in, there's a good size splash on my lure, and I give it a second before setting the hook. The new airdx/tournament pro combo handled greatly. This fish jumped four times before I got it to the bank. The first jump made it clear that it was a nice fish. I lipped it at the bank, and of course had to document, it was clearly one of my better catches. There was only one barb in the fish. The whole fight lasted maybe 25 seconds, but it felt like forever. Got her released and she swam off strongly. Missed two smaller strikes, a gar, then pinned a smaller bass with a black choppo 75.

Sun set, weather started picking up so I called it a night. I think I fished for about an hour.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Let's GOOOOOOOOO @thediscochef!

 

Love seeing the grind pay off, magnificent fish!

[gim]

That's a good one @thediscochef.

[MIbassyaker]

17 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

With a storm front a few hours away I decided to jump out to my little whopper plopper honey hole on Ray Roberts. All the people camping in that area had packed out already so I had free access to the tree I've been casting next to. It's windy, but it's a south wind which has been the determining factor in the success of this particular spot. 

Third cast, biggest topwater bass I've ever caught, and tied for the biggest bass I've ever landed on the bank. 7lb 5oz.

About two cranks in, there's a good size splash on my lure, and I give it a second before setting the hook. The new airdx/tournament pro combo handled greatly. This fish jumped four times before I got it to the bank. The first jump made it clear that it was a nice fish. I lipped it at the bank, and of course had to document, it was clearly one of my better catches. There was only one barb in the fish. The whole fight lasted maybe 25 seconds, but it felt like forever. Got her released and she swam off strongly. Missed two smaller strikes, a gar, then pinned a smaller bass with a black choppo 75.

Sun set, weather started picking up so I called it a night. I think I fished for about an hour.

 

[Swamp Girl]

Four jumps?

 

Here's the recipe for your big girl: Half frog. Half hog. Half beast. All bass.

 

#mathdon'tlie 

[N Florida Mike]

Got this one with a watermelon seed fluke jr. I was working from home and suddenly thought of the fluke jr, which I haven’t fished with much lately, even though I got a 6 1/2 on one once.

I put one on my third combo, went out back, missed one , then got this one .

Not sure why the pic wasn’t clear.

[T-Billy]

Got out this morning for the first time since last Tues. Surface temp had dropped 5-6 degrees. I only had about four hours to fish today. I spent the first couple fruitlessly chasing muskie, then picked up the flippin stick for the last couple hours.

 I figured I'd find some LM in deep treetops, but much to my surprise they were shallow. All were caught from sun baked wood in 2'-5'. No bigs, but I caught four of these, and one about 2.5#. 

I get to fish a full day tomorrow. I'll split time between muskie and bass again. Well... I'll split time again if the muskie aren't chewing. 😉

[DitchPanda]

20 hours ago, thediscochef said:

With a storm front a few hours away I decided to jump out to my little whopper plopper honey hole on Ray Roberts. All the people camping in that area had packed out already so I had free access to the tree I've been casting next to. It's windy, but it's a south wind which has been the determining factor in the success of this particular spot. 

Third cast, biggest topwater bass I've ever caught, and tied for the biggest bass I've ever landed on the bank. 7lb 5oz.

About two cranks in, there's a good size splash on my lure, and I give it a second before setting the hook. The new airdx/tournament pro combo handled greatly. This fish jumped four times before I got it to the bank. The first jump made it clear that it was a nice fish. I lipped it at the bank, and of course had to document, it was clearly one of my better catches. There was only one barb in the fish. The whole fight lasted maybe 25 seconds, but it felt like forever. Got her released and she swam off strongly. Missed two smaller strikes, a gar, then pinned a smaller bass with a black choppo 75.

Sun set, weather started picking up so I called it a night. I think I fished for about an hour.

Heck of a fish man. Almost as cool, that flannel is rad.