Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread

[12poundbass]

17 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Thanks ~ Once or twice a season I'll take 2 or 3 home for a hot fat bath.

They are very tasty so it's always very tempting.

A-Jay

I'm not much of a fish eater except for walleye and bluegill. 

[UPSmallie]

The fishing has been great lately.  95% of all the pike I've been catching out of the local bay have been 23 inches or less, but still a fish is a fish.  Never get tired of the fight  

 

Quick story on how I got my PB from this bay a few days ago.  Not overall PB, just from this bay.

 

I pull up to my first way-point and the water is glass.  This is just screaming for me to throw a topwater.  I pitch out a Heddon One Knocker Spook in bone color.  First cast and a big pike rolls right next to it, but won't commit.  I throw a weightless super fluke as a follow-up bait and he smacks it but doesn't get hooked.  I decide that it's time to get serious.  If this pike is this aggressive I think I should be able to get him.  I throw out an olive X-Rap on a steel leader and jerk it back to me.  I start to wonder if he's going to hit it first cast or not.  Oh there he is!  Just dead-weight on the end.  I crank him into the net with little problem.  Alright not bad!  Came out at 28 inches and 4.25 lbs.

 

 

Then last night I wanted to try something new so I went out to the shoreline with a headlamp and netted around 6 sculpin minnows to use as bait for this morning.  I threw them out on a 1/8 oz firetiger jighead and almost immediately was met with success.  Ended up 4/5 on the jig and sculpins and the one I didn't land snapped me off.  Felt good

 

[kenmitch]

I caught my 1st and only carp 5.93lbs on May 30th while bass fishing. I was using a lipless crankbait fishing across the top of a submerged brushline when it hit. It slammed the lure pretty hard and dove deep while zigzagging back and forth fought it for a couple of minutes while it pulled my kayak around. i really thought it was going to be my new PB Bass until I got a really good look at it....Guess in the end it's still  a PB just the wrong species. 

 

[Jar11591]

PB Rock Bass. This thing inhaled the jig that I pitched into a laydown.

[NYWayfarer]

 

Big ole Perch I caught while kayaking this Sunday.

 

First time fishing a Ned rig on straight 20# braided line this weekend as I was too lazy to tie a leader. I felt every tick, bump and nibble. I was getting a lot of bites but came up short on the hooksets. Not at all like a Smallmouth Bass which was what I was targeting. It wasn't until I landed this big guy that I realized it was Perch that were messing around with my rig. Most were small and unable to take the bait in fully to get them hooked.

[J Francho]

Absolutely slayed the google-eyes at the City Dump this weekend.  Bass, not so much.

[Capt.Bob]

Gill's moved off the beds now, but still had a good day to start my grandsons summer vacation, he's primed for the summer now. 

 

Supper over a campfire after hammering out a limit of big O'le gill's has em always want'n to go back to fish camp with grampa,, I love spoil'n em,,,, 

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

St Croix Avid 8' ML/MOD rod, Daiwa RG-AB 2000 spinning reel, 8# Nanofil line, 2.8" Keitech fat paddle tail.

 

[Jar11591]

Learning to fly-cast, and this little guy became my first ever fish on the fly. Hit a bluegill popper.

[NHBull]

Got more of these in traditional SM areas than ever before!

[A-Jay]

This lake has a healthy Pike population.

And judging by the 'teeth marks' on the side of this guy (facing me),

At least one mutant pike that tried to EAT this one - 

Mental note to self ~ No swimming.

A-Jay

[Jar11591]

Got a nicely colored rainbow this morning. First rainbow in years. Normally mostly browns in this river, but occasionally it will give up a ‘bow or a brookie. 

[Way north bass guy]

Went out for a troll on Georgian Bay this morning with the family, slow start, didn’t get fishing till 11:00 and only fished an hour before the heat drove us off the water, but we did alright. My son fought this one in all by himself. 10lbs even on my light rainbow gear, almost spooled him twice! Looks like we’re bbqing salmon for dinner tonight ??

[TnRiver46]

Toothy creatures. Sauger was 1/2 inch short (I think...) but The walleye was a keeper! 

[NYWayfarer]

 

Took a quick morning fishing trip on Father's Day. Smallmouth Bass were gone at my local shore spots but the Bluegill were bedding. I used a Leland Trout Slayer jig dragged onto their beds to get them going. When they picked up the jig to remove it from the bed I set the hook and reeled them in.

[YoTone]

[TnRiver46]

10 hours ago, YoTone said:

Whoa. Look at that thing. “Just take a look at it” - ed bassmaster 

[kenmitch]

This one saved me from the skunk today. Luckily for me I planned ahead and picked up some crawlers yesterday as my day off sadly landed on the 1st clear blue sky day of our next heatwave. Sadly no luck with the bass today.

 

Guess I should have weighed it and measured it. The hook was stuck in the roof of it's mouth and took longer than anticipated to get out and I wanted to get it back into the water. Figure it was around a pound or so. Never fish for them so I guess it would be a PB of unknown weight.

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

The river by my house is low, which means the gar are thick. They're fun to fight, so I go target them with rope lures and cut bait. This is an average one about 3' 

This crazy channel cat exploded on a piece of cut bluegill as soon as it touched the water, I thought for sure it was going to be a big wiper.

[gim]

Accidental tiger muskie when I was bass fishing yesterday morning.  Smoked a buzz bait in 8 feet of water.  I initially thought it was a pike.  Measured 33 inches, and released fully alive.

[UPSmallie]

Had some more success on the stream after work this past Friday.  Here's a quick snipnet.

 

I get to the spot where I last caught a brook trout.  It's really shallow and I wonder how on earth I caught a fish from here.  I pitch out my spinner a few times and nothing hits.  Alright time to move a little further downstream.

I round a bend and my eyes light up like it's Christmas.

Right in front of me is about a 25 foot long cleared off stretch of stream that is perfect for casting into and the stream runs tight across an undercut bank with a tree bulging out of the water.  It looks like the deeper portion will be at least 4.5-5 feet deep.  This should house a couple big brook trout.

I wade into a position where I can cast from and wait for the mud clouds to settle.

After a little bit, I fire off a cast and watch as a big brook trout comes up from under the bank, slaps my spinner and darts back under the bank!

I throw the spinner right back and then something truly remarkable happens.  I got it all on GoPro so I'm hoping the footage turns out.

The big brook trout comes up to the spinner and slams it but somehow is barely hooked so he pops off right away and as he pops off he jumps out of the water and lunges for the spinner!

He misses it so I reel it back in and know what cast number three will yield

FISH ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the brute!!!!

He's going crazy and is barely lip hooked!

I get him in close and flip him onto the bank.  Yes!  My new Personal Best Brook Trout at 12.5 inches long (at the time haha)  Alright!!  That undercut turned out to have 5 brook trout stacked under it.  Craziness!

 

[NYWayfarer]

I caught my eighth species for the year this weekend. A Fallfish. Fought like a demon on a light action rod.

 

[Gundog]

10 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

I caught my eighth species for the year this weekend. A Fallfish. Fought like a demon on a light action rod.

 

 

The first time I caught a fallfish I thought I caught a shiner until I heard it grunt. Dead giveaway right there. Also the fact that there were no shiners in the river I was fishing at. 

[Arcs&sparks]

On 6/26/2018 at 11:09 AM, NYWayfarer said:

I caught my eighth species for the year this weekend. A Fallfish. Fought like a demon on a light action rod.

 

I have a secret love for those.  Ever seen one in spawning colors?

[Bluebasser86]

On 6/26/2018 at 10:09 AM, NYWayfarer said:

I caught my eighth species for the year this weekend. A Fallfish. Fought like a demon on a light action rod.

 

Those look like they would be awesome flathead bait, like a huge creek chub.