Dorado Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 On 5/23/2018 at 7:32 PM, hawgenvy said: Decided to bank fish a residential pond after dinner tonight. I don't take for granted that I can drive to spots within 3 miles of home and have a phenomenal hour of fishing, even after putting in a full day at the office. Caught 20 fish between 7:19 and 8:19 PM, all on the U-vibe. These were some of the best fish. Are you fishing that U-Vibe weightless? Quote
Fairtax4me Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 6 hours ago, Dorado said: Are you fishing that U-Vibe weightless? I fish them weightless just like that. With a heavy EWG hook they track perfect and it's just enough weight to get the tail moving when it's on the fall. Or you can swim them sub surface, or run on top and the tail flaps like a buzz bait. Bass crush them. Over weeds, through cover, wood, brush piles. It's one of my favorite worms. As you can see, it catches some hawgs! 1 Quote
stubinater Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 17 hours ago, lo n slo said: well done brother! 11 hours ago, lonnie g said: nice fish stubinater Thanks Guy's! both were just over 5lbs 1 Quote
Hook2Jaw Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 Tossing and bumping the Booyah Bankroll Jig with the YUM Craw Chunk in craw again, I slam another stud. Lots of folks guessed 7ish, but I think it was a pound and a half bigger. Next year this picture will escalate to a 12 when I tell the story. 17 1 Quote
All about da bass Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 Mine is no where near as big as the rest, fishing around my parts has been tough without any rain. This fish is the first fish I have caught since I have stocked a pond of mine in September of last year. Very VERY lively fish and swam away healthy. She post spawn of coarse. 15 Quote
EGbassing Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 On 5/20/2018 at 5:09 PM, A-Jay said: Personal Best Brown Trout Today ~ A-Jay How... Quote
Russ E Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 my biggest bass of 2018 21.5 inches 5lb. 7oz. on a swimjig 12 Quote
Russ E Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 On 5/23/2018 at 1:25 AM, Bluebasser86 said: Mama decided that this is the year that Lake is old enough to go with me on day long fishing trips and Monday was set to be the first one. I was torn between going to a lake with lots of fish so he'd have the constant action that is so important for young ones, and one of my favorites that I've heard has been fishing good and kicking out big ones left and right. My brain told me go for the numbers, but my gut told me that he'd really be pumped up if we could get a big one or two in the boat. It was the right call, and we put the hammer on them from beginning to end, literally as we caught the biggest one of the day 10 minutes before we had to leave. We crossed paths with several boats, none reported any success. We finished up with our best 5 going 22.80, and lost at 3 more keepers, 2 of them would have been big culls that would have bumped us up over 25 pounds. Lake did a great job casting and really stuck with fishing his own bait a lot more throughout the day than I expected, unfortunately, he only got 1 shot a fish on his rod and it didn't stay stuck. We worked as a tag team all day though with me hooking them and handing the rod over to him to do the rest. First big one of the morning smashed a Repo man in 90* corner of the riprap and went nuts trying to get under the boat, in the trolling motor, pull Lake in, whatever it could do to get away, but he got her guided into the net. Little slider action. Lost a much bigger fish, then caught this one the next cast. Lake got her to tailwalk right into the net for me. Another slider fish. I had just said we needed to move and turned to look to see if there was any boats where I wanted to go when my bait just disappeared. A few cranks of the handle found it swimming down the bank with this little chunk. We'd just crossed paths with another boat that said they were having no luck when we got this one right behind them. Jerkbaits only work in cold water He wouldn't lip this one because it bit when he tried to do it the first time. This fish bit a small plastic on a slider head and jumped almost immediately. Having it on 8lb test, I had a split second I wasn't sure about handing the rod over but I had the drag set well and Lake was right there ready to go and did a great job fighting it. Thought it might go over 7 when I netted it. He even got to meet up with my buddy, Mr. "Fathead" as he was calling him. I was trying one of my wiper spots and thought from the bite that I'd hooked a white bass and handed him the rod. When it got to the boat it just stopped coming up. Took a considerable amount of grunting before Lake got it moved off the bottom put he did a great job fighting it. Nice bag of fish. looks like he was having fun. I was going to fish that lake today, but there was a chance of thunderstorms, so I decided to stay close to home. 1 Quote
hawgenvy Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 16 hours ago, Dorado said: Are you fishing that U-Vibe weightless? 1/4 oz bullet sinker (unpegged). 1 Quote
Dorado Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 Thanks! Those fish were nice and you caught them in such a short window. I’m going to try those worms out next week Quote
hawgenvy Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 Great. I hadn't tried the U-vibe worms until this spring but so far they've proven miraculous in the post spawn. They are very versatile -- you can fish them several ways. I love the watermelon red color. 2 Quote
Super User N Florida Mike Posted May 26, 2018 Super User Posted May 26, 2018 Went out for a couple hours this evening. Very windy. The fish have been as active as can be all month. Today I lost a 4 pounder by the 4th cast or so to a jump.Caught a dink and 2 pound size fish. One on a fluke, one on a senko , and one on a pit boss. Just not biting good. So with a little daylight left, I put on a black grape 10 inch Mr Twister worm, threw it up against a pontoon boat, and the pictured fish nailed it when it hit the water. Another 5 pound 11 oz. Fish. Pic. Turned out grainy for some reason. 19 Quote
Hook2Jaw Posted May 26, 2018 Posted May 26, 2018 The picture doesn't do this girl justice. She had a lower jawbone like a porkchop. Actually went 9 pounds, 6 ounces on the scale. I think my scale is broken. Gonna test it later. 23 Quote
MichaelCopeland Posted May 26, 2018 Posted May 26, 2018 2 minutes ago, Hook2Jaw said: The picture doesn't do this girl justice. She had a lower jawbone like a porkchop. Actually went 9 pounds, 6 ounces on the scale. I think my scale is broken. Gonna test it later. I need to be fishing where you are. Nice bass! ? 1 Quote
Bigbruce Posted May 26, 2018 Posted May 26, 2018 Went out yesterday evening and tried some new spots. Game wardens were in full effect as they talked to me at the first pond I went to. Nice guy and told me about some areas I hadn’t been to. The first pond had about 15 people already fishing at it and I caught nothing as I couldn’t hardly fish any of it. The second spot I hit was almost at dark and another game warden found me. As he was talking to me I started to see the bass hitting the top. Threw out the whopper plopper and caught the bass in the picture. Think I may of found a nice morning and late evening spot. 18 Quote
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted May 27, 2018 Global Moderator Posted May 27, 2018 I finally caught a couple decent largemouth the last two days. Sad to say but these are the only largemouth I can recall catching that were over 1lb since almost New Years (and they werent much over 1lb). I usually catch smallmouth white bass and drum, probably more because of how far upstream I typically fish. I also had another breakthrough in my learning curve this morning, I caught a fish with a spinnerbait. Luckily the fish hit the crap out of it so there was no guesswork, a skinny beat up smallmouth that fought like the devil. Followed him up with a deeeeeep Texas Rig largemouth, I love setting the hook with a worm down deep 22 Quote
Global Moderator 12poundbass Posted May 27, 2018 Global Moderator Posted May 27, 2018 Our nephew never gets to go fishing unless we take him, so we decided to take him and my son bridge fishing. Well it was a good night. Until last night a bluegill was it for him. He caught a 1-14, 2-4 and this 3-1. My son got a 2-5 and surprisingly enough a 3-1. Thankfully they were both exactly the same weight so there was no pouty or gloating boys, just one who was on cloud 9 and another who was pretty geeked too. 25 Quote
Super User NYWayfarer Posted May 27, 2018 Super User Posted May 27, 2018 First Smallmouth of the year! 2.14lbs from shore on a wacky rigged Dinger in Bama Bug color 20 Quote
Hook2Jaw Posted May 27, 2018 Posted May 27, 2018 @12poundbass those are some gorgeous smallies! So dark! 1 1 Quote
Global Moderator 12poundbass Posted May 27, 2018 Global Moderator Posted May 27, 2018 On 5/27/2018 at 9:06 AM, Hook2Jaw said: @12poundbass those are some gorgeous smallies! So dark! Thanks! All the ones we pull out of that river are really dark. Quote
EGbassing Posted May 27, 2018 Posted May 27, 2018 Caught this one on a zoom lizard this morning. 22 Quote
Super User NYWayfarer Posted May 27, 2018 Super User Posted May 27, 2018 39 minutes ago, JustJames said: @NYWayfarer are you in the trend that post with invisible Bass I don’t know what was going on this morning. I tried posting before coffee. I hope you see it now. Here is another pic of it. 16 Quote
Will Wetline Posted May 27, 2018 Posted May 27, 2018 Details about this catch and others in "Flakes in the Sun and the Wind." 24 Quote
EGbassing Posted May 27, 2018 Posted May 27, 2018 Just now, Will Wetline said: Details about this catch and others in "Flakes in the Sun and the Wind." That should be captioned and posted in the "fishing memes" topic. ? Nice fish by the way! Quote
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