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[Fairtax4me]

Didn't know there were pike in that lake!  

 

Heck of a day! 

[lonnie g]

8 hours ago, deep said:

Tule Dipping:

 

 

Found a lot of decent bass today hanging out under matted grass in one corner of a small cove. It's a good spot most of the time once the water warms up a bit, but today was ridiculous.

 

Caught a couple and lost one in three casts pitching a plastic on a jighead. So I beached the yak, and decided to do a little tule dipping from the banks. You know, stealthier, and all that. Plus I needed to stretch a little anyway.

 

It seemed like half the bass in the whole reservoir were congregated in that 20 ft X 40 ft space, and they had never seen a bait in their lives. Find a hole, drop the bait in, and if a fish didn't eat in on the fall, another would pick it up off the bottom.

 

Think I caught about 10 in as many dips/ flips/ pitches, most of them solid 2-3 lb class fish and a couple estimated 4#. I kinda stopped taking pics after the first few and was laughing uncontrollably. Even started checking their mouths for holes from hooks because I wasn't convinced that I wasn't catching the same few fish over and over again. It was that crazy.

 

Two guys were hiking the trails and stopped by to give me some company. Well I put on a show for them too, and caught 8 or 10 more.

 

One of them remarked that he didn't know "fishing was so easy". I didn't tell him that I wasn't aware of that either!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I picked up half a dozen more decent ones from here and there. They were biting really good. Admittedly, I didn't weigh most of the fish (measured some of them); I know I caught a 15# plus limit, probably over 17#. By far the best day I've ever had here.

 

 

Called it a day an hour or two early, and as luck would have it, 5 minutes after I reach the ramp, the wind picks up and there are whitecaps all over. 10 minutes after that it starts raining hard.

 

Hope that bass thumb is contagious, nice day! ?

[Black Bill Dance]

1st topwater bass of 2018!!! Using a Rebel Pop-R at sunrise  in small subdivision pond and this 5lb, 21 inch football slammed it in about 1 & half feet of water. Some good ol RVA Bass Fishing!!!

 

 

 

[Catt]

Made a run to Lacassine again this morning, in the boat this time. Me, my youngest son Scotty, & his friend Wesley. We caught 20 tighteyes with maybe 5-6 around 1-1/2 to 2#.

 

Not a single picture!

 

We all 3 powered our phones off thinking the other would take pictures!

[hawgenvy]

Bank fishing last night in the cool light rain before sunset.  Six 3 to 4 pounders just like this one, a bite on every cast, over ten minutes, all from the same shallow spot in a little cove -- the most exciting ten minutes of bassing I've had this year. A passer-by stopped to watch and I was glad for a witness, even an anonymous one. Watermelon red Magnum U-vibe Speed Worm was the ticket.

 

[Graham]

5 hours ago, Black Bill Dance said:

1st topwater bass of 2018!!! Using a Rebel Pop-R at sunrise  in small subdivision pond and this 5lb, 21 inch football slammed it in about 1 & half feet of water. Some good ol RVA Bass Fishing!!!

 

 

 

What a stud! Where was this?

[WDE]

Found a Whopper Plopper 90 the other day and promptly lost it in some brush an hour later. However, I loved the action and bit the bullet and bought one yesterday(I’m rather frugal when it comes to lures). Took it for a test drive this morning and it didn’t disappoint. 6 in a few hours. Wasn’t the size I was looking for, but the topwater strike is fun regardless. 

 

[MichaelCopeland]

Yesterday I went out to my sister from another mister's trailer in Bethany, La. where I used to live a few years ago. Got to fish for a few hours in the ponds by her trailer. They are the trailer parks ponds. They're not that big, but there's bass in them. Been fishing about 2 and a half hours before I found out she had a little john boat. Wish I'd known it was hers from the get go. I'd have probably caught more than just this one. Been out in the boat about 30 minutes casting chatterbaits, spinnerbaits and plastics with nothing happening. Tied on a 1/2oz green pumpkin Dirty Jigs swim jig with a Power Team Lures(guess that's the name brand) black and blue craw type trailer(one of the packs of baits that @A-Jay sent me, thanks again my friend). First cast with it was to the bank and I thought it had been hammered as soon as it hit, set the hook it was just moss or something. So I just started swimming it back to me and out of nowhere about 5ft from the boat this 1lb 6oz beauty did acrobats under the water and slammed it. I could literally see this happen. I set the hook hard, couple turns on my reel and it was in the boat. Not sure what the red reflection is in that one pic. My tackle bag is red, so I'm guessing it was a reflection of it in the glistening tail. It wasn't bleeding. Took my pics and set it free to go get bigger. Heard there's a 6+ and a 7+ lber out there. I'll definitely be back out there again soon. Next time I'll be in the boat the whole time...lol! ?

[NYWayfarer]

The Bass are starting to bed in my area. For the last few days I have seen shallow bass over the telltale circular patterns.

 

First day was easy I was able to cast a floating crankbait past the bed and retrieve it through to get a Bass to swipe at it.

 

Second day not so easy. Crank didn't work, Wacky rigged Dinger didn't work, weightless Fluke didn't work. Last thing I tried was a Berkley powerbait Pogy Swimbait firetiger color. When I swam that past the bed the Bass would grab the tail then spit it out. There is an exposed hook near the head of the bait but the Bass wasn't choking it. I stayed at it, casting and retrieving over that bed for an hour with swipes but no hookups. Finally I changed my angle and casting from the side rather than straight out and the Bass choked it! all in all I worked this fish for about 1 and a half hours with different baits before landing it.

 

[MIbassyaker]

I haven't seen any actual beds, but they're definitely shallow here. After failing to convince anybody to chase a chatterbait, I took a hint and switched up to a a plasmatail worm on a shakyhead. Found this one chillin' under a dock:

 

 

 

[jbmaine]

Nothing too big, but had a rare day where we could do no wrong. Caught fish all day. Here's a couple of them.

[TnRiver46]

[NYWayfarer]

 

First Jerkbait Bass of the season. The frugal fisherman strikes again. Bought a Lunkerhunt perch pattern jerkbait for less than $3 from Field and Stream this week. Tied it on for the first time last night.

 

Patience and persistence pays off when Jerkbait fishing. Spent an hour walking the banks casting and retrieving with a jerk, jerk, pause, jerk pause method. This beauty hit it less than 5 feet from shore.

[lo n slo]

dodging tropical downpours here in the southeast but the fishing has been great here on Lake Norman. we caught 24 spots yesterday in the jon boat, and then 29 this morning in the Javelin. everything i have is waterlogged.

 

[A-Jay]

Best two from today's adventure ~

A 5-10 & a Fat 6-0 !

A-Jay

 

[WDE]

T rigged black/blue and Junebug Yum Dinger getting it done on a private neighborhood pond this afternoon. Largest went for 2.5. 

 

Lost my Whopper Plopper that was working so well. Buzzbait was getting slammed, but no hookups in the late afternoon. I can’t help but feel like if I had that WP, all those strikes would’ve been landed. Oh well. 

 

[Dirtyeggroll]

Caught my first Florida strain at Diamond Valley in Hemet, CA today. Not the size I came out here for but I guess that’s why they call it fishing and not catching. A 4.34 and a 3.0.

 

[MichaelCopeland]

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Best two from today's adventure ~

A 5-10 & a Fat 6-0 !

A-Jay

 

Definitely picking up where you left off at ice out. Wowzers! Congrats my friend on some chunky brown footballs!

[Ktho]

Caught my first smallmouth and striper out at Havasu and got into some largemouth as well! Night fishing with a jerkbait worked really well. 

 

[lo n slo]

me and my cousin hit the water around 7 this morning in the little johnny. skies were mostly cloudy and an easy SW breeze made for perfect conditions. we caught 39 spots and 2 largemouth.

 

 

[Team9nine]

Back to bank beating some bass now that I got my fill of bluegill bedders. This was the best of nearly 3 dozen yesterday. Finesse Worm

 

[long island basser]

Out on the bass hunter today. Boated 19 bass, shallow cranks (bps the egg, h20 wake), 110 whopper plopper, Jackal Kaera frog doing the damage.

 

[frosty]

I couldn’t catch anything on the plopper today. Only thing I could catch them on was the ned rig, and that was pretty spotty!

[A-Jay]

 

Personal Best Brown Trout Today ~ 

A-Jay

[Team9nine]

Finally figured out why I hadn't seen any spawners yet - they hadn't actually started. Bluegill beat them to the bank which was a surprise. Saw quite a few today though. Picked up 30 or so, and I'd guess half were sight fish (bedders/cruisers). A lot of fun, and much better than I expected given the weather conditions.