Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, hokiehunter373 said:

Carp spawn?

 

No carp in that pond, but there are white suckers. With alewives running and maybe white suckers shallow, no wonder it felt like an outdoor aviary and maybe that's the reason I couldn't catch bigger bass. The old, wise gals might have hunkered in the deep waiting for the dinosaurs to leave. I did see one raptor dive and arise with a fish in its talons.

 

Here are a couple of the boys. All were caught tight to emerging weeds. Sorry about the photo quality. It was raining off and on and the lens was wet:

[T-Billy]

I got myself into a dinkfest again today. I don't keep count on days like this, but I had a pile of 23 torn up Sweet Craws when I got done, and I caught another dozen and a half or so on a tube. The little 3" Venom stubby tube caught the best of the day 3.89# pictured below. It was the only one over 2#. Dunno where the girls went, but the shallow wood and chunk rock are loaded with bucks. Surface temp was 62 this morning before the sun came up, and we're headed toward the new moon. I imagine the gals should be showing up soon. 

[Swamp Girl]

Sounds a lot like my day, Tim. Boys, boys, boys. However, you did get to dance with one fine gal. 

[TnRiver46]

I can show you an actual dink fest if you’d ever like to see one @T-Billy

[A-Jay]

17 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I can show you an actual dink fest if you’d ever like to see one @T-Billy

Hey now,

This is not the time nor the place for any of that type of shenanigans. 

😃

A-Jay

[bp_fowler]

Went out to the public pond today to take my new spinning set up for a little test drive.

Managed to catch one little guy, but the rod felt and performed well.

After that my mission accomplished I was about to head home but before I did I made one more cast and to my surprise caught a rainbow trout.

  
Which was pretty cool because I then got to give my new fillet knives a test drive as well.

[Team9nine]

Half a dozen green ones to hand today on a pretty nice post front day, along with about 60 crappie. Lots of swinging given the conditions.

 

[FishTax]

46 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Half a dozen green ones to hand today on a pretty nice post front day, along with about 60 crappie. Lots of swinging given the conditions.

 

And a new hole starting to form in the jeans. Definitely correlation with quantity of fish caught!

[Swamp Girl]

After seeing @bp_fowler's trout, I fixed myself a snack of smoked salmon on crackers. It was delish. Thanks, bp!

[LrgmouthShad]

@ol'crickety

smoked salmon is smoking great

[Team9nine]

40 minutes ago, FishTax said:

And a new hole starting to form in the jeans. Definitely correlation with quantity of fish caught!

A little birdie told me the site police will be more lax with enforcement going forward, so I figured I could get away without having to photoshop the pic this time 😉

[TnRiver46]

11 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Hey now,

This is not the time nor the place for any of that type of shenanigans. 

😃

A-Jay

[Jmurphy87]

Well I went to Austin lake in portage again today, I stopped at the local tackle store before I went and decided what to throw. My choices were good apparently, I caught 4 fish in 30 minutes. This park gets pounded a lot so catching anything is a win, no big fish for sure. But catching fish were people usually don’t is a win in my book. Baits of the day a super fluke and dolive beaver. I just enjoy fishing and have fun trying out new rods. My phenix m1 vortex ml casting rod got broken in and blown over by the wind at least five times, oh well it’s gear and I can’t control the wind.

[Pat Brown]

Just a quick one on the buzzbait before work but it was on a buzzbait before work 😍😍😍🎣🎣🎣

 

[CastingClinic]

Beautiful day!  A few pickerel, a perch, a gorgeous little pumpkinseed and this guy coming in a bit over two and a half pounds.

 

Spinnerbait still the move!

[Bluebasser86]

Had a busy weekend but an even busier week so just now getting around to posting the weekend report. 

 

Saturday I took the boys out to crappie fish to try and catch a few for a guy from work. "We", were successful in going through 2 dozen minnows, of which I used none of. Tons of shorts, but we did get him a dozen to eat. We also got a few donus bass.

And I had Finn pose with my drum because I'd hate for @roadwarrior not to see it.

Sunday I got out for a few hours on a local lake in some weird weather that changed rapidly in the few hours I was there. We've had a ton of rain the last couple weeks and it's still coming so the water was up and dirty. I figured that would mean aggressive fish eating moving baits. So of course they'd only eat a Ned rig. I caught a bunch like this.

Then ended the day on the ramp with big fish of the day.

 

Say it with me now "Ned rigs only catch little fish" 😂

I took Monday off for my birthday and tried to go to one of my favorite lakes 1.5 hours west to fish some docks. What is normally a clear lake full of docks was a chocolate milk lake full of docks and floating trash. I opted not to pay the $30 to fish for the day and drove 45 more minutes north to a lake I hadn't fished in several years but I fished a ton as a kid. It's not a great bass lake but I caught a couple dozen smallmouth like this one.

A couple decent largemouth. 

 

and the main reason I went, a whole bunch of these guys.

 

Just gobs of 1-3 pound wipers up shallow. Lots of fun and a change of pace.

 

Wednesday I jumped in with my buddy Jon for a local weeknight boat tournament. I was a terrific back seater, netting all of his fish for him and not catching any of my own. I did get the big disappointment of the night in the very back of a muddy, weedy cove.

Thankfully it was a team tournament and Jon's 3 keepers were enough for 1st. FWIW, they were all caught on baits I made for him 🤷

 

[throttleplate]

Wife and I went to the dam in Lisbon ND on wed with 2 scoops of minnows and some plastic grubs and mimic minnow paddletails, I cought walleye on the mimic minnows and the grub by casting and very slowly reeling the mimic or grub which was on a 1/8 oz ballhead jig and feeling it hit over the rocks and gravel, also floated the grub on a float which also worked but i always had a minnow piggybacking both presentations hooked through the snout.

No smallies liked the plastics even with piggybacked minnow, all were caught on minnows only, floating the minnow on an 1/8 oz ballhead jig infront of and over a wide path of submerged big rocks 3 feet deep in the middle of the river with a smooth nice non whitewater flow of water over them.

Then around 4pm something unreel took place, i put on a 1/8 oz ballhead jig with a orange plastic grub along with a piggy backed minnow using a bobber, #20 832 braid and #20 abrazix leader, cherrywood rod 7ft with plueger presXT reel and tossed it out into 3 feet of water.

Sittin in my chair next to our stringer of walleye and i see this big swirl of a fish next to the stringer but didnt see exactly what it was and a few moments later wham, I have a fish and its not small.

It takes off into the current, I loosen the drag knowing whatever it is can easilly break me off, a few moments later my wife sees its a muskie and i am trying to turn its head from pointing downstream but everytime it get her to turn She peels off again.

I seen where i had her hooked in the very back left side corner of the mouth and seeing that the line can easilly get sawed off if it gets into her mouth I give her all the freedom to run hoping to tire her out so i can pick up some line.

I want this fish bad, I am hopeing the leader and small jig holds or I will be bummed, this to me is the fish of my lifetime and the battle playing her I just dont want to lose.

Finally after many minutes with me now standing back 15 feet from the shoreline fighting the fish she tires out and wife grabs our littlle net trying to assist her onto shore and she actually gets the tail in the net and helps drag it in.

I yell out in victory and get thumbs up from people watching, I felt like I won a marathon, i was so excited catching my biggest fish ever on such light tackle. I had to revive her by moving her gills back and forth untill she perked up, she hung out in front of us for a while in 2 feet of water and she then swam off to hopefully fight another day.

 

[Swamp Girl]

47 degrees, foggy, and raining when I launched in the late afternoon and raining for much of my fishing, as you can see in the photos. Yet again, I found bass in a different place, this time in a 2' to 5' deep bay. The only constant this spring is catching them with my Keitech and Owner underspin. They were hitting when I left, shortly after sunset, but at that point, being cold and having to move the canoe through the woods and across a field, I quit. I had scores of swallows swirling around me and blackbirds following me, moving from dead tree to dead tree to watch me fish. The peepers were so loud they hurt my ears. The bigger bass are below, as well as a pic of the pond. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Man I love Katie fishing season!

 

Your brand of fishing maxes out the wonderment factor, it's the stuff that made me fall in love with fishing.    The great unknown and true mystery to it all.    I feel like I lose more of that the more I fish and is a big reason why I'm pondering my next move in this sport.    

 

Your 4th pic captivated me, sums up my point quite nicely.   

[Fishlegs]

Congrats on that Muskie @throttleplate! Awesome fish!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Happy Birthday @Bluebasser86!   That's a ton of action for the birthday, can't ask for more than that 🙂

 

@throttleplate  if you weren't on land I'd hit you with the famous "you're gonna need a bigger boat" line 😎

 

It's my belief that dams hold many of the biggest fish in any said body of water.   I was diving once below xyz dam.......🤣

[throttleplate]

3 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Congrats on that Muskie @throttleplate! Awesome fish!

 

Thanks fishlegs, after i caught her I had to stop fishing for a bit and take a stroll down the river to collect my thoughts and thanked the man upstairs and the fishing gods for watching over me.

[throttleplate]

5 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

It's my belief that dams hold many of the biggest fish in any said body of water.   I was diving once below xyz dam.......🤣

 

That muskie was probably hanging around for the walleye spawn fattening herself on the abuntant small male walleye hangin in the shallows. For the 2 years I have been fishin at this dam nobody i have met there fishes for or has caught a muskie, some small pike thats it. It would be so kool in seeing what is actually lurking in the lisbon dam.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

That's awesome, reminds me of very fond memories fishing below dams, and then on piers for saltwater species.   

 

Piers have that similar "I could catch anything here" vibe as dams do.   

[MIbassyaker]

1 hour ago, throttleplate said:

Wife and I went to the dam in Lisbon ND on wed with 2 scoops of minnows and some plastic grubs and mimic minnow paddletails, I cought walleye on the mimic minnows and the grub by casting and very slowly reeling the mimic or grub which was on a 1/8 oz ballhead jig and feeling it hit over the rocks and gravel, also floated the grub on a float which also worked but i always had a minnow piggybacking both presentations hooked through the snout.

No smallies liked the plastics even with piggybacked minnow, all were caught on minnows only, floating the minnow on an 1/8 oz ballhead jig infront of and over a wide path of submerged big rocks 3 feet deep in the middle of the river with a smooth nice non whitewater flow of water over them.

Then around 4pm something unreel took place, i put on a 1/8 oz ballhead jig with a orange plastic grub along with a piggy backed minnow using a bobber, #20 832 braid and #20 abrazix leader, cherrywood rod 7ft with plueger presXT reel and tossed it out into 3 feet of water.

Sittin in my chair next to our stringer of walleye and i see this big swirl of a fish next to the stringer but didnt see exactly what it was and a few moments later wham, I have a fish and its not small.

It takes off into the current, I loosen the drag knowing whatever it is can easilly break me off, a few moments later my wife sees its a muskie and i am trying to turn its head from pointing downstream but everytime it get her to turn She peels off again.

I seen where i had her hooked in the very back left side corner of the mouth and seeing that the line can easilly get sawed off if it gets into her mouth I give her all the freedom to run hoping to tire her out so i can pick up some line.

I want this fish bad, I am hopeing the leader and small jig holds or I will be bummed, this to me is the fish of my lifetime and the battle playing her I just dont want to lose.

Finally after many minutes with me now standing back 15 feet from the shoreline fighting the fish she tires out and wife grabs our littlle net trying to assist her onto shore and she actually gets the tail in the net and helps drag it in.

I yell out in victory and get thumbs up from people watching, I felt like I won a marathon, i was so excited catching my biggest fish ever on such light tackle. I had to revive her by moving her gills back and forth untill she perked up, she hung out in front of us for a while in 2 feet of water and she then swam off to hopefully fight another day.

 

 

Holy smokes, what an epic catch!  Congrats!