Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Swamp Girl]

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[LrgmouthShad]

MOM! 

[Swamp Girl]

@TnRiver46 is not going to be happy to hear that he's now my mom.

[bp_fowler]

22 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

(Go Blue!) @bp_fowler

🤮🤮🤮

 

15 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Dang, that's... that's really terrible. So sorry for your loss. 

Here, this may help

 

https://mgoblue.com/news/2009/6/29/Michigan_Fight_Song

 🤮🤮🤮

[Woody B]

2 hours ago, bp_fowler said:

 I’m open to suggestions.

 

While I don't ever accept missing hook ups short strikes are common around spawning time.   There's also other species shallow, perhaps protecting beds.   It's my belief that many fish (including Bass) will simply try to knock whatever is getting nears it's bed out of the way.  Last year, about this time I was getting a bunch to "taps" but no hookups on cranks.  I put a smaller hook on the rear and ended up catching a fairly small White Perch.   

[Bluebasser86]

4 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I feel I don’t understand the tournament scene very much at all, because I would never even consider tossing a big Ned rig, much less a regular ned rig. @Bluebasser86 you are in another league, man

The angry grumbles when the Tournament Director asks me what I caught them on and I said "A Ned Rig", were pretty comical. Wasn't what I wanted to be fishing, but it was what the fish wanted to be eating, so that's what I was fishing. 

[FishTax]

I've been wanting to get a weedless ned but am still in recovery from bait monkey damage. That needs to be in my next order though because I want to throw them from the bank around some wood at some new water I've found in VA mountains. 

[T-Billy]

So, Piedmont finally came down enough to launch, and with today being post frontal, with high sun and light winds, I figgered I'd make the drive down and catch me a wheel barrow full of brown bass. 😎

 Things started out just like I'd thought they might with a steady bite on a 3" tube, fishing shallow rock in spawning pockets. It was a dink fest, but they were biting. Mixed bag of SM, LM, and saugeye. I was stoked, thinking the bite would keep improving as the day went on, and the shallows warmed after a 30 degree night. WRONG!!! 😂 

 It steadily faded as the day wore on, with the last fish coming at about 1 o'clock. I called it at four. It was a fun morning, with a steady parade of dinks keeping me busy. Best fish pictured below. About 2# give or take a crawdad or two. 

Didn't find any of the big egg laden sows I was looking for, but I'm thankful for the beautiful day on the water. 

[PourMyOwn]

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

I'm also a Cheesehead, since I lived in Wisconsin for more than 30 years. I'm a cheesy, frosty Buckeye.

I've spent a little time in Wisconsin,  great people and fishing there. Really wish we had walleyes in NH...however, I'm headed out for some crappies and largemouth tomorrow.  I've got a few new homemade lures to try!

 

Go Bucks!

[LrgmouthShad]

54 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The angry grumbles when the Tournament Director asks me what I caught them on and I said "A Ned Rig", were pretty comical. Wasn't what I wanted to be fishing, but it was what the fish wanted to be eating, so that's what I was fishing. 

You said you only brought two spinning rods though? Why?

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, FishTax said:

I've been wanting to get a weedless ned but am still in recovery from bait monkey damage. That needs to be in my next order though because I want to throw them from the bank around some wood at some new water I've found in VA mountains. 

I pour my own. 

 

17 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

You said you only brought two spinning rods though? Why?

Tons of standing timber and the bite I was on, really didn't think it was going to be necessary. 

[NorcalBassin]

Absolutely jinxed it. Heading into our 3rd and last day on the trip to Clear Lake I said I was shocked we hadn't hooked a big catfish or carp since that's the only lake that always seems to happen. Well, it was a day of dink bass not pic worthy and giants we weren't chasing.

 

Big cat on a wacky senko. Always disappointing when you go from thinking you have a giant bass to realizing that's no stinking bass.

 

The wrong type of PB. Never seen a carp with this type of girth and length. Caught it on a finesse tube with 6# sniper, and that Certate was screaming as it ran at least a couple hundred feet and under a couple docks that fortunately didn't have ropes running under them. Had to put the trolling motor all the way up to 10 to catch up before she could spool me. Heck of a fight.

 

Around 36" and full of eggs I'm guessing she had to be at least 25-30lbs.

[Swamp Girl]

Huge fish, Norcal. The Lindners sure respected carp and anyone who's hooked one is forced to respect them too. 

[Pat Brown]

I mean I don't care what anyone says, that's a cool looking fish, carp or not!  Nice one @NorcalBassin!

[T-Billy]

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

The Lindners sure respected carp and anyone who's hooked one is forced to respect them

Ya hear that @TnRiver46?  You need to respect ol rubber lips. @roadwarrior needs to start showing some respect to the mighty drum too. 😜

[TnRiver46]

 Bugle mouthed pile of uselessness 

 

that catfish tho ❤️ 

[Alex from GA]

Fished a lake that I hadn't fished in a few years with a buddy.  We caught 13 bass in a few hours and this was the largest.  Not real big but fun with 8 lb line and lots of stumps.  The picture wasn't sideways when I got it.

 

[Fried Lemons]

Went to the lake this morning to tune a friend’s bait and couldn’t keep the fish away from it. Got four in total with these two being the better ones, 4-8 and 4-0. Not big but they were angry. I’d be too if my lake looked like that.

 

 

[Jmurphy87]

A couple from a 30 minute trip to the river. 

[Bazoo]

He had a lots of pretty blue spots and bright orange fringe. Hungry little guy.

[Swamp Girl]

Nice pike, Murph! I bet she pulled hard in that current. That doesn't look like an Owner underspin? Is it?

[Jmurphy87]

54 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Nice pike, Murph! I bet she pulled hard in that current. That doesn't look like an Owner underspin? Is it?

Yeah she definitely pulled good and hard in the current, but she was no match for my megabass tequila baccarat rod. The underspin is a mustad tactical bass infiltrator blade weighted swim bait hook. Local shops don’t have much in the way of owner flashy swimmer only 6/0 with a 3/8 weight. I thought that these ones had more throat to them to clear the hunk of plastic better.

[Swamp Girl]

@Jmurphy87: I like the look of your Mustad. I'm going to buy some. 

[Fried Lemons]

Carrying on with the theme last time I found them even hotter on the same pattern. Got a couple dinks and was getting swiped and slapped at every 5th cast. I’ll only bore you with one of here.

 

Reached a spot with immediate access to the deepest water in the lake and had another small fish miss on two consecutive casts. On the third I felt the bite and swung. Imagine my shock to find two fish on! The small one that had been missing and a much bigger one! They had a combined weight of 9lbs which is more bass than I’ve ever gotten in a cast.

 

[Swamp Girl]

@Fried Lemons: You catch huge fish! Are you always fishing the same lake? If not, how many lakes do you fish and why are they so full of big fish? I would think that water that grows bass so big would be pounded.

 

P. S. - Looking at fish pics doesn't bore me, whatever their size.