Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread

[bulldog1935]

8 minutes ago, desmobob said:

This summer, it seems I've caught more catfish acting like largemouth than ever.

 

I was tossing an unweighted 3" Pit Boss along the edges of some big riprap with a BFS outfit and caught this one yesterday.  They sure are great fighters... I thought this one was twice its size until I got a look at it.

 

 

My two biggest fish of the the day were both cats; this one, and one caught next to a big root ball.

This is a fact on rising water levels.  

Especially channel cats graze the new wet bank for insects, etc. the same way redfish graze the rising tide for crustaceans 

[HHill22]

First fish I ever caught on a topwater. Must say, quite exciting

[RealtreeByGod]

PB blue cat, my scale/lipper said 42lbs. It's still not really a big blue cat, but I landed it and netted it by myself with a medium rod, 30lb braid mainline, and a 20lb mono leader.

 

 

[RealtreeByGod]

On 7/12/2021 at 5:49 PM, N Florida Mike said:

Wow. A real man lippin’ a catfish…

I mainly use my lipper because I have big hands and it gives me much more room to work with when de-hooking.

 

 

This one was a hair under 30

[Bluebasser86]

3 hours ago, RealtreeByGod said:

I mainly use my lipper because I have big hands and it gives me much more room to work with when de-hooking.

 

 

This one was a hair under 30

42lbs is plenty big. Those are some of the hardest fighters, they're still athletes at that size. I 100% use grippers too. Nothing to do with hand size, blues have extremely strong jaws and they like to use them. A big one can remove a lot of skin in a hurry. 

[Jigfishn10]

Great day yesterday. Couldn’t even guess how many fish we caught but cod, pollock, cunner and mackerel were all willing to bite a bucktail.

Not huge but a lot of fun.

[N Florida Mike]

Caught a bunch of copperheads in the church pond today.

[NYWayfarer]

I caught some nice Yellow Perch and Redbreast Sunfish big enough to take a Ned EWG hook and a 4” Wacky rigged Senko.

 

[N Florida Mike]

13 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Great day yesterday. Couldn’t even guess how many fish we caught but cod, pollock, cunner and mackerel were all willing to bite a bucktail.

Not huge but a lot of fun.

I thought that was a catfish at first glance…

[Jigfishn10]

Little Cunner he thought he was 5lbs.

We had a wave come in and rocked us when I took the pic…little lumpy out there today.

 

Dillon got big fish of the day. I had gotten a nice one earlier in the day. Later in the day I added a little Megastrike to his bucktail which caught the attention of a beauty cod. 
 

So glad to have this time with him. It’s going to change real soon as he gets older. I just hope that he has the relationship my father I have later in life. 
 

Ok, you can put on Harry Chapins “Cat’s in the Cradle” song. LOL!

[gim]

A friend and I each caught a 37 inch tiger muskie this morning in the rain, 10 minutes apart.

[roadwarrior]

 

              

[Jigfishn10]

Big fish for the day.

 

[bulldog1935]

yee-haw

[NYWayfarer]

I caught my PB Chain Pickerel today. It hammered a Texas rigged Z-Man TicklerZ on a 1/0 Worm hook. 12# Berkley Big Game Mono held up landing it.

 

[desmobob]

13 minutes ago, NYWayfarer said:

I caught my PB Chain Pickerel today. It hammered a Texas rigged Z-Man TicklerZ on a 1/0 Worm hook. 12# Berkley Big Game Mono held up landing it.

 

I waited a while, but your photos here and from 01AUG wouldn't load.  Are they huge?  (I mean the photo file sizes, not the fish!  )

 

Anyway, congratulations!  

 

I've been have a lot of fun throwing the Z-Man TicklerZ on a ShroomZ head, T-rigged, or on an Owner Ultrahead Finesse ball head this summer.  Great bait!

[NYWayfarer]

23 hours ago, desmobob said:

I waited a while, but your photos here and from 01AUG wouldn't load.  Are they huge?  (I mean the photo file sizes, not the fish!  )

 

Anyway, congratulations!  

 

I've been have a lot of fun throwing the Z-Man TicklerZ on a ShroomZ head, T-rigged, or on an Owner Ultrahead Finesse ball head this summer.  Great bait!

Hope you can see them now. Some days my pics don’t load for some reason. I see the Aug 1st pics and the ones from yesterday now.

[Bankbeater]

This channel hit a 4" senko on a split shot rig. I was fishing parallel to the bank.

[HaydenS]

4 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

This channel hit a 4" senko on a split shot rig. I was fishing parallel to the bank.

[bulldog1935]

only showing this little bluegill

 

because this nice bass followed it to my boat

 

[ATA]

Got that in marina, dont know the name, My other friend took it and set it ?

[bulldog1935]

12 minutes ago, ATA said:

Got that in marina, dont know the name, My other friend took it and set it ?

 

looks like a wrasse, family Labridae, built to graze coral.  

[TheBasslayer]

This is my PB bowfin of 2021! He fought hard on the kayak and pulled me around! I’m so glad I brought my net! 

[N Florida Mike]

Caught this while bass fishing in one of my work route ponds… It has the mouth of a warmouth but otherwise looks like a copperhead bluegill. The tail isnt small like a warmouth. 

[Bluebasser86]

6 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Caught this while bass fishing in one of my work route ponds… It has the mouth of a warmouth but otherwise looks like a copperhead bluegill. The tail isnt small like a warmouth. 

Appears to have the 3 anal spines like a warmouth and mouth is too big to be a coppernose. It has the faint "war paint", on the gill plates like a warmouth also. Maybe just an odd shaped one? The sunfishes are one of the few that can naturally hybridize, so there's always that potential.