Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, CrankFate said:

That’s funny or not ? because we literally lost close to a buck fifty worth of flies. There are a few places to fly fish not too far away. We’ll try them this fall.

I’ve been a fly fishing instructor for about 15 years. I hate it haha

[CrankFate]

21 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve been a fly fishing instructor for about 15 years. I hate it haha

It was something that never appealed to me before, but since that’s the way they do it for trout, we tried. Since we have the gear now, we’re going to try a few more times closer than home. It’s one of those things, where you want to do it more because you can’t do it right.

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, CrankFate said:

It was something that never appealed to me before, but since that’s the way they do it for trout, we tried. Since we have the gear now, we’re going to try a few more times closer than home. It’s one of those things, where you want to do it more because you can’t do it right.

When trout are eating bugs, that’s the one time I enjoy it somewhat. I just suffer from burnout when it comes to the fly scene. Some of my guide buddies won’t use regular gear, i tried that for a while and it’s not for me. I love spinning and baitcasting 

[CrankFate]

51 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

When trout are eating bugs, that’s the one time I enjoy it somewhat. I just suffer from burnout when it comes to the fly scene. Some of my guide buddies won’t use regular gear, i tried that for a while and it’s not for me. I love spinning and baitcasting 

I could see that. I literally could see the water flowing by whenever I closed my eyes for about 2 days afterwards.

[Bluebasser86]

Prefishing for my kayak clubs championship this past Friday. Had a rough stretch for a while catching everything except bass. Sunfish, bluegill, crappie, a truckload of white bass, drum, channel cats, sauger, even managed to snag a pair of smallmouth buffalo on back to back cast with a grub off the same rocky point. Didn't land the first one, but the second was hooked in the soft area right by the mouth.

 

[BASS302]

On 9/13/2021 at 11:13 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

 

Catfish on a popper?  Wow.

[Bluebasser86]

25 minutes ago, BASS302 said:

Catfish on a popper?  Wow.

It's not real uncommon here. I actually had another explode on it a few cast before I caught that one. I've caught them on buzzbaits, crawlers, spooks, even frogs in thick grass. 

 

[Team9nine]

Zman project over in the most unexpected way   Decided to drown my sorrow in some big crappies - it only helped a little - lol. Time to start composing a long write-up for posting.

 

 

 

[Way north bass guy]

I had a small job to do today on an island, and was done a bit early so I figured I might as well make a few casts on the way back to the ramp. Hit a few spots with a drop shot and got some smallmouth, then I was playing around with a crankbait and got this nice little tiger musky. This particular lake has quite a few tigers in it, all natural fish too ( lots of pike and musky in there to make hybrids). I’ve caught around 20 or so over the years, up to 42” long in there, but it’s been a few years since I’ve got one, mostly cause I haven’t targeted muskie in a while. 

[gim]

39 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

This particular lake has quite a few tigers in it, all natural fish too ( lots of pike and musky in there to make hybrids).

I’ve only ever caught one naturally produced one. I have caught a fair number of them in recent years on lakes where they are stocked and they are an awesome fish. I caught 4 in August, and they were all big: 37, 38, 39, and 40 inchers. Anything 40+ is trophy category, as they don’t grow nearly as big as a pure strain muskie.

[A-Jay]

53 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Zman project over in the most unexpected way   Decided to drown my sorrow in some big crappies - it only helped a little - lol. Time to start composing a long write-up for posting.

 

 

 

Sorry - Congrats and I'm looking forward to that one.

A-Jay

[Bluebasser86]

One of many bycatches I had during my kayak tournament this past weekend was this blacknose crappie. I think this is the 3rd or 4th one I've ever caught.

[VolFan]

Fun teacher workday trip for me and the kid:

 

[Bluebasser86]

Took my boys to a creek off the river Saturday for a few hours. Water was really low, barely could get through the first rocks by the ramp (barely got the boat in the water really). Couldn't even get close to our normal spot but we parked the boat on the bank and walked up. Still plenty of water in the hole we like to fish and big schools of shad. Inline spinners were quickly getting assaulted by by healthy white bass and wiper. Right before we left. I got the smallest but one of the rarest fish I've caught in Kansas, a naturally spawned sauger from the river.

[NYWayfarer]

I have come to the conclusion that catching Pickerel in a sit in kayak is no fun when they flop off inside of the cockpit.

 

[thediscochef]

This is the last fish I caught...three days and four trips ago. I wish I'd had my buddy with me cause we could have had it certified as a water body record for Blue Catfish.

Since then...I've been skunked the last two days...had 17 fish spit my hook. 17!!! 

One of which was a Gar I managed to get half onto the bank before it snapped me off. I feel like I'm never going to catch anything again, makes me want to pull the remaining bits of hair I have left

[Bluegillslayer]

On 9/25/2021 at 12:59 PM, thediscochef said:

This is the last fish I caught...three days and four trips ago. I wish I'd had my buddy with me cause we could have had it certified as a water body record for Blue Catfish.

Since then...I've been skunked the last two days...had 17 fish spit my hook. 17!!! 

One of which was a Gar I managed to get half onto the bank before it snapped me off. I feel like I'm never going to catch anything again, makes me want to pull the remaining bits of hair I have left

Nice catch! But the blurred out face makes you kind of look like a spooky ghoul or something. Lol

[thediscochef]

17 hours ago, Bluegillslayer said:

Nice catch! But the blurred out face makes you kind of look like a spooky ghoul or something. Lol

I am a spooky ghoul, LOL!

[Skunkmaster-k]

On 9/25/2021 at 2:59 PM, thediscochef said:

This is the last fish I caught...three days and four trips ago. I wish I'd had my buddy with me cause we could have had it certified as a water body record for Blue Catfish.

Since then...I've been skunked the last two days...had 17 fish spit my hook. 17!!! 

One of which was a Gar I managed to get half onto the bank before it snapped me off. I feel like I'm never going to catch anything again, makes me want to pull the remaining bits of hair I have left

Did you fillet that tasty beast ?

[thediscochef]

On 9/27/2021 at 1:19 PM, Skunkmaster-k said:

Did you fillet that tasty beast ?

So I caught this on the last cast of the day - I needed to leave for an appointment so I took pictures and tossed her back. I didn't have an ice chest or a safe manner of transport either. Coulda fed my whole group with that thing...

[Skunkmaster-k]

11 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

So I caught this on the last cast of the day - I needed to leave for an appointment so I took pictures and tossed her back. I didn't have an ice chest or a safe manner of transport either. Coulda fed my whole group with that thing...

You’re a stronger person than I am. I would have wrapped him in my rain slicker and stuffed him in the back seat of the car , with my wife screaming at me the whole time about stinking up her ride. Man, I love mustard fried catfish. (That story really happened by the way) 

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

You’re a stronger person than I am. I would have wrapped him in my rain slicker and stuffed him in the back seat of the car , with my wife screaming at me the whole time about stinking up her ride. Man, I love mustard fried catfish. (That story really happened by the way) 

Honestly a lesser appointment would have been moved but this was important and involved money.
It was also like 90 degrees here that day and it would have been an absolute disaster in the back of my Civic. ? I catch 5-10 pounders out at that spot pretty regularly during five day spans that have a full or new moon in the middle, so we eat good size cats pretty regularly
I am also generally catch and release 99% of the time, I'm mostly here for the rush of catching and handling
 

oh on a positive note though, I did finally catch some largemouths yesterday. I had to lose one fish for every pound of that catfish before I did though. Hopefully my karmic debt is paid ?

[NYWayfarer]

It’s the time of year around here for catching huge Fallfish on Bass lures. This one hit a swimbait.

 

[onenutinthewater]

Big fish from a small river

[A-Jay]

Caught a nice limit of fish sandwiches this afternoon ~ cue the hot fat.

A-Jay