Latest Catch Pics Thread

[A-Jay]

8 minutes ago, Will Wetline said:

 

Admiring a resident of Boston's water supply.

Like the 'Orvis Casual' look ~ 

Nice Smallies too . . .

A-Jay

 

[WolfyBrandon]

On 6/3/2018 at 9:00 PM, WolfyBrandon said:

[June 03, 2018]

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[LonnieP]

Caught this bass today on a Cavitron buzzbait. As soon as it hit the water and before I could start the retrieve she was on. I don’t know what it weighs, my scale wouldn’t power on.

[UPSmallie]

[shimmy]

Managed to go out last month to Minnesota with my brother for a few days. Our best double was this pic with his 5 and my 6. Always fun when both people in the boat have a 5+. 

 

After my wife had our 4th and FINAL kid a couple weeks ago, I was able to break away with my oldest for 2 evenings of fishing in here Fond du Lac, WI. First pic is her holding a 5 (small head but long body) and a 4. She is so precious and tough as nails. 

 

The other day, we were able to get out prior to walleye weekend and fish a local lake here. Was able to catch this 4+ and 6+ pound fish. Gave an awesome fight.

 

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, shimmy said:

Managed to go out last month to Minnesota with my brother for a few days. Our best double was this pic with his 5 and my 6. Always fun when both people in the boat have a 5+. 

 

After my wife had our 4th and FINAL kid a couple weeks ago, I was able to break away with my oldest for 2 evenings of fishing in here Fond du Lac, WI. First pic is her holding a 5 (small head but long body) and a 4. She is so precious and tough as nails. 

 

The other day, we were able to get out prior to walleye weekend and fish a local lake here. Was able to catch this 4+ and 6+ pound fish. Gave an awesome fight.

 

 @shimmy Great Bass my friend - 

So tell me, were any of your fish caught on a jig by chance ?

A-Jay

 

 

[MichaelCopeland]

Went to a family reunion today down in Saline, La. on Mill Creek Reservoir where my family has a camp. Got some bass fishing in. Haven't fished there since I was a kid. Had 4 bites. 2 didn't commit, 1 shook the bait at the pier and landed a 1lb 12oz beauty on my trusty ole 1/2oz breaking bream Project Z chatterbait with a green pumpkin Rage Swimmer trailer. Waded out to an area that I couldn't reach from the bank or the pier and this girl smacked it. Was great being there with family and reliving some youthful days. Can't wait to go back! ?

 

Threw in a few pics of the lake from the foot of the pier that's in one of the photos.

[shimmy]

10 hours ago, A-Jay said:

 @shimmy Great Bass my friend - 

So tell me, were any of your fish caught on a jig by chance ?

A-Jay

 

 

Ha, get out of my head A-Jay! I could have been using anything! But, I did want a better guarantee to catch a bass over 6 pounds so, yes, I did have a jig tied on! Swimjig was good as well, but everything was under 4 pounds, so I put it down.

 

For some reason, the bigger fish this day wanted the jig to be sitting still on the bottom for 5-10 seconds. 

 

Oh, and FYI, this guy might be heading back to Zion, big bass land, this winter. If anyone wants to meet up (hint hint hint cough cough), they should join!!!

[A-Jay]

7 hours ago, shimmy said:

Ha, get out of my head A-Jay! I could have been using anything! But, I did want a better guarantee to catch a bass over 6 pounds so, yes, I did have a jig tied on! Swimjig was good as well, but everything was under 4 pounds, so I put it down.

 

For some reason, the bigger fish this day wanted the jig to be sitting still on the bottom for 5-10 seconds. 

 

Oh, and FYI, this guy might be heading back to Zion, big bass land, this winter. If anyone wants to meet up (hint hint hint cough cough), they should join!!!

 

We're Booked for October ~  

A-Jay

[Looking for the big one]

Went out last night with topwater bass being the goal. Had on a weightless Zoom O’l Monster in June bug. Got a bite with it but switched to a plopper for a little more noise and a better chance at short strikers and within a couple of minutes got a nice little 2-2.5 (forgot the scale, kicked myself as we were leaving in the car but figured I probably wouldn’t need it... I was wrong)

 

Kept working around the pond just casting parallel to the bank. Very little cover in the pond and LOADS of critters. Probably 75 geese and 7 beavers in two acres of water. Came to a nice creek arm and cast deep in there and this big girl wanted the plopper.

 

Measured 22 inches putting her around 6 lbs. Could be my new PB, But I don’t really care about that so much, just glad to have caught her. ?

 

[JustJames]

Take a little break from my Jig fishing (so far only 7 caught). Went out early morning and water look good for some whopper plopper, so I tied on and caught two. After awhile with no bite, it seemed the fish want something slower, so I switched to my faithful Zoom Magnum fluke. Caught either 3 or 4 on this one.

 

 

 

Video add***

 

[Team9nine]

Pre-storm finesse fishing after work. Got run off in under an hour by the storms, but managed 18 fish in one pass before that happened. Fish were up a little shallower than expected. Fun stuff.

 

 

 

 

[The Bassman]

3 hours ago, JustJames said:

It is smooth, super smooth both reeling in or fighting fish. I don't feel any gearly at all as I usually feel with all Shimanos(don't remember the K since I only fish it once and caught only two fish before I sold it)

It is small, but sit way higher than 50 and 70 reels. It is pretty heavy, I can really feel an ounce more. As of now I loaded up with 0.14 diameter (big game #12) and got plenty of line. The casting is good but definitely need some bearing flushing, gonna need new tool to remove that silence bearing same as met MGL(I checked and a bunch of grease on bearing). I have to set brake 2 on 2 off dial to 2 to get some distance. I'm gonna replace with clean bearing and do ultimate test with 1/4 oz lure (jerkbait).

Here's a trick for that spool bearing.  Take a magic marker or Sharpie cap and fill it with mineral spirits.  Don't use anything stronger because there's an o-ring on the bearing that will get damaged.  Immerse the shaft in the pen cap and move it around.  Spin the bearing and do it again.    Let it dry and re-oil. I do it with my Ald 50 all the time.

[Jar11591]

Great day on the water. All quality fish. Poppers, frogs, spinnerbaits and jigs caught them today. Caught them deep and caught them shallow.

 

2nd cast of the day, the MegaBass Pop Max yielded a 4-0.

 

Got some more decent fish on frogs and spinnerbaits.

 

PB Rock Bass slammed a jig in a laydown.

 

And I stuck a 5 right at the end, courtesy of a @Siebert Outdoors jig and Paca Chunk trailer.

 

 

[WDE]

23 hours ago, MichaelCopeland said:

Went to a family reunion today down in Saline, La. on Mill Creek Reservoir where my family has a camp. Got some bass fishing in. Haven't fished there since I was a kid. Had 4 bites. 2 didn't commit, 1 shook the bait at the pier and landed a 1lb 12oz beauty on my trusty ole 1/2oz breaking bream Project Z chatterbait with a green pumpkin Rage Swimmer trailer. Waded out to an area that I couldn't reach from the bank or the pier and this girl smacked it. Was great being there with family and reliving some youthful days. Can't wait to go back! ?

 

Threw in a few pics of the lake from the foot of the pier that's in one of the photos.

I too, spend my (wife’s)family reunions fishing on their private farm pond. “Are we eating yet? When are we eating? We’re done eating? See you in a couple hours!”.

[long island basser]

Had a decent day on Saturday 6/9. Managed 23 bass in the boat.

The best three were in the 4’s lbs coming on three different lures.

A 110 whopper plopper, a shallow crank, and 5” soft stick bait.

Couple pics of the better fish.

 

[UPSmallie]

That rockbass is a toad!

5 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

[MichaelCopeland]

4 hours ago, WDE said:

I too, spend my (wife’s)family reunions fishing on their private farm pond. “Are we eating yet? When are we eating? We’re done eating? See you in a couple hours!”.

Right on! We got there a little after 9am. I said my hellos and began fishing within 30 mins of being there. Fished til we ate around noon, ate and then fished til about time to leave around 4pm or so. I did visit with them as well, but mostly fished. It had been too long since I've fished there. ?

[everythingthatswims]

My spot that was producing nice smallmouth (and a few largemouth) on a swimbait when the water was in the 40s and 50s is now home to many largemouth. Catching them in 20-30' on a drop shot, Carolina rig, football jig, and a 6xd! I don't have a boat with me right now, so I am floating around fishing blind from my kayak. I have spent enough time there that I don't really need electronics anyway . Let me tell ya, longlining a 6xd from a kayak is an interesting procedure.

[lonnie g]

went out for a bit this evening caught a dozen, they were all a little deeper, caught 10 of them on a boot tail shad. the two best were 3 and 4 lb. they were really eating it !

[JustJames]

On 6/11/2018 at 8:48 PM, OCdockskipper said:

 

Hey, I think I caught that fish's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother!!

 

If you catch a bass with a yellow tag with my name on it sticking out of its back fin, be careful with it.  That fish would be over 40 years old!!

 

Congrats, great fish.

I'm telling ya, you come fish with me, show all your secret spots and I'll hunt those big mama down for ya.

[boostr]

Figured Friday was a nice day... so I let my boy play hooky from school, and we took the boat out, then he decided to school me... 

 

[OCdockskipper]

13 hours ago, JustJames said:

I'm telling ya, you come fish with me, show all your secret spots and I'll hunt those big mama down for ya.

I may just take you up on that offer, but I doubt if the Christmas tree I sunk off my dock in 1978 is still there! ?

 

There weren't any topographical maps available for that lake back in the 70's, so I used a flasher and made one for about 1/2 of the lake (teenagers with spare time).  I don't think I still have it, I will check some of my old tackle boxes.

[kens]

5DX KVD Sexxy Shad. 

[Bluebasser86]

17 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Cool Pic ~ Daffy didn't stand a chance.

And I usually 'learn' something usefull when I have video of me losing fish.

I used to say "well, there's not much I could have done different" - but the video almost always tells a different story -

Of course, topwater's a separate deal.

I'm looking forward to checking it out - 

A-Jay

This one was back in a little hole in the water willows and when the line popped off the willows, it just came off. I like to think it was just one of those fish that I did everything right and still lost, but I'm sure I could have done something different. 

 

I agree 100% about learning from watching myself though. I've cured some bad habits I didn't even know I had from watching myself fish on my videos and also been able to go back and break down the patterns I was on without even realizing I was on them. 

 

Right after the 2:00 mark is where I missed the good one on the Fruck. I did make up for it by catching a pretty decent one on it about 30 minutes later.