Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Swamp Girl]

@softwateronly: You're catching footballs like Jerry Rice!

[T-Billy]

Ok, I'll fall on the sword and follow @softwateronly. Good grief!!! You got on quite a roll there brother. Congrats!!!

First bass of the year. Ended up catching six pitching laydowns this afternoon, on the backside of today's monsoon. Only took a pic of the first. No bigs. Best was a couple shad shy of 3# I'd guess. 

 

 

[IcatchDinks]

15 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

No bigs. Best was a couple shad shy of 3# I'd guess. 

 

 

I know it might be small potatoes for you, but I'd be pretty darn stoked if I could catch a 3-lber and call it "no bigs." 😆 Nice fish! 

 

@softwateronly, those are some beautiful brown bass!! 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Does my heart well seeing you post Bass pics @T-Billy, I'm afraid I'm going to wake up one morning and you'll be lost to the Muskie darkside forever 😆

 

Congrats on getting on the board for 2025, this is the year of the 7lber for you if those dang Dinosaur fish don't get in the way. 

[softwateronly]

Thanks for the kind words @Swamp Girl @T-Billy and @IcatchDinks !! I just had access to my lucky rock and free time at the right time.  Lots of bass makes the cold and rain much easier to deal with.

 

scott

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, softwateronly said:

I just had access to my lucky rock and free time at the right time.

 

Please share the exact latitude and longitude of your lucky rock in a PM. Don't share it with any others! They can find their own lucky rocks.

[softwateronly]

11 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Please share the exact latitude and longitude of your lucky rock in a PM. Don't share it with any others! They can find their own lucky rocks.

Sent.  No sharing!!!!!

[Swamp Girl]

9 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

Sent.  No sharing!!!!!

 

No sharing...understood...other than @T-Billy and @AlabamaSpothunter and @IcatchDinks and @Pat Brown, of course. I hope the rock is big enough for all of us.

[IcatchDinks]

3 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

No sharing...understood...other than @T-Billy and @AlabamaSpothunter and @IcatchDinks and @Pat Brown, of course. I hope the rock is big enough for all of us.

 

I'm honored to be included in this act of betrayal. 

[Pat Brown]

10 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

 

I'm honored to be included in this act of betrayal. 

 

 

You need to come back down to NC this summer and we can betray together some more and maybe we can betray you and NC 5+ lber 👍🏼🙂

[IcatchDinks]

31 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

 

 

You need to come back down to NC this summer and we can betray together some more and maybe we can betray you and NC 5+ lber 👍🏼🙂

A NC trip is currently being discussed. 👀 Not sure when or how long, but we're talking about it. 

[Swamp Girl]

3 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

A NC trip is currently being discussed.

 

You misabbreviated Maine. It's ME, not NC. 

[Dwight Hottle]

@softwateronly I have got brown bass envy after reading your report. 

Headwaters girl from today.
 

[T-Billy]

Atta boy Dwight!!! You've been haulin some hawgs lately. Congrats brother!!!

[softwateronly]

16 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

@softwateronly I have got brown bass envy after reading your report. 

Headwaters girl. 
 

 

Is that the 9.5lb release from the other day?  She's a gorgeous FLM, I can only imagine the headshakes!  Congrats, and I'm down to trade spots, though my billy goat city spot only hits 4-5 weeks a year so I'll help you time it.

 

Here's a handful of chunks from this am to sweeten the pot....

 

scott

 

[Fishlegs]

@softwateronly, if you keep catching and posting fish like that we may end up in a bidding war to see how much it takes to get those coordinates from @Swamp Girl. 😂 

 

Congrats, again!

[softwateronly]

3 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

@softwateronly, if you keep catching and posting fish like that we may end up in a bidding war to see how much it takes to get those coordinates from @Swamp Girl. 😂 

 

Congrats, again!

Whoa whoa whoa!!!  Work has been awful recently, we don't need a middleman in this transaction.  She has her own bog,

 

scott

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

35 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

She has her own bog,

 

Yeah, I'm staying put. I like my little life on the coast. 

 

Congrats on more bronze footballs!

 

Congrats to @Dwight Hottle too for another beast. 

 

I'm going to return to my pond to cast for ten minutes. I'll probably get skunked again, but I will get to walk through my woods with my pooch and watch the water.

[IcatchDinks]

I managed to get out to the river and the ponds today. The river is too high, too cold, and too fast, so I moved on after a while. Hit up a pond I don't usually fish anymore and hooked into something really big. Think I must have snagged a carp. I thought I hit a log at first, and then the log ripped drag and was gone before I could think twice.

 

I nabbed one little bass after about another hour of fruitless casting, so the day wasn't a total loss. It's just good to be back out in the sunshine and "warm" weather. 

 

[FishTax]

I'm finally on the board with a decent fish after a tough winter and the challenges of tax season. Shout out to @Pat Brown for encouraging me to throw a heavy jig with paddle tail, @Siebert Outdoors  for creating the jig (3/4 oz MATA brush in black and blue), and @A-Jay for the reel (first fish on it). 

 

This fish was in a shallow wind protected cove and smoked the jig as I was working it slow around the bottom. It was about 5lb but wouldn't be still enough for a good reading. Photo isn't great because my phone was tied to yak, I need to change my photo setup somehow. I was a little surprised by the catch because I had just launched and wasn't really prepared. Couldn't be happier though! 

[Eric 26]

@FishTax I think you’re worried for no reason as your photos look great. Congratulations on getting on the board 👍🏻

[IcatchDinks]

Beautiful fish, @FishTax!!! Congrats! 

[Pat Brown]

Heavy jigs for the win!  That fish makes me smile from ear to ear dude!  Can't wait to fish with you!

[Dwight Hottle]

@softwateronly Sweet.

[TnRiver46]

I had a weekend filled with fish in the canoe!!!!!

 

Saturday I launched somewhere I had never laid eyes on, way up a river in the boonies about 1.5 hours south of my house. The wind was 15-18 mph and I knew I shouldn’t have brought the canoe but it’s a lot lighter than my wife’s kayak. Well I should have brought the kayak 😂. I got slammed into the shore by strong gusts a few times but there was always timber or something for me to grab onto when I hit. I decided against my better judgment and the judgement of a guy at the ramp, to start fishing downstream and paddle my way back up. Turned out it was a good decision because I could paddle back upstream against the current somewhat easily. I started off slow but eventually got 4-5 little LM on a purple jig worm with the st croix mojo bass trigon.

I made my way down to and island that I decided would be my turn around spot and there was some fairly shallow water flats littered with logs I thought maybe some LM would be thinking about nesting in. Well I looked around and there were white bass rocketing thru the flats. I put on a paddle tail and started slaying them while I worked my way back upstream. I thought I had a ways to paddle back up to the ramp but it wasn’t nearly as far as i expected and I started having back spasms. I decided to get out and stretch my legs and cast a while from the mud. From my elevated position i could white bass swiping at my lure so I switched up to a tiny fluke on jig head and working it aggressively. This was the ticket. Once I unlocked that I stood there and caught a whole bunch . You can see my trying to shake out the back spasms in the video 😂 

I hopped back in the boat and slowly made my way back to the ramp, catching white bass (and a couple yellow bass) non stop after I started working the bait more aggressively. Even got a white bass with the purple worm while reeling it back in to cast 

 

 

 

Today it rained all day so I ran errands and piddled around the house. By 5:45 it cleared off and I still had the canoe on my car so I hit the river at 6. I paddled around a huge island to a set of shoals I’ve been fishing for 2 weeks with zero bites. Well the fish finally arrived. I caught about 10 white bass shaking a zoom tiny fluke just under the surface. Then I  put an original fluke on a nose hook on the mojo bass and it was bonkers. They were slamming it on the surface, I could watch them chase and eat it . Just teasing them with the bait, when it darted to the side they would flash and attack. Even got a bonus baby smallie. Off the water by 8, not a bad two hours with 20-25 fish. I did get soaked by another few rain storms but nothing crazy