Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread

[Bluebasser86]

8 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

Dang , what was the weight?

51.5 pounds

[TnRiver46]

Got 4-5 of these after work. And watched two pros drive by (practice days)

[Fishlegs]

4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Got 4-5 of these after work. And watched two pros drive by (practice days)

That should be enough for a few of those good looking fish tacos. 

[TheBasslayer]

Finally the sub-zero Michigan temperatures have warmed to the low 40s and the Brown Trout have started to bite again!

[galyonj]

On 2/22/2021 at 7:30 PM, TnRiver46 said:

And watched two pros drive by (practice days)

 

I saw a couple boats yesterday morning blasting up and down the main channel when I was out at the creek mouth. I thought they were the same category of poser one would see riding around on road bikes with logos all over them, but it makes sense now.

[Team9nine]

Ice came off the lakes late over the weekend, and I got the first trip out on the water to test everything out yesterday (Jan. 21 was last open water trip before evrything froze solid for 5 weeks). Dodged a couple ice sheets still randomly floating around the lake, but managed 68 crappie fishing stained, 39 degree water. Lots of places are muddy and flooded due to the 1.6" of rain we got over the weekend, but this lake only got about 3/4 inch, so it was still fishable compared to some others.

 

[MN Fisher]

2 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Dodged a couple ice sheets still randomly floating around the lake, but managed 68 crappie fishing stained, 39 degree water.

Dinner is served. Nice day, man.

 

Still waiting on open water here.

[roadwarrior]

[bassh8er]

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

Ice came off the lakes late over the weekend, and I got the first trip out on the water to test everything out yesterday (Jan. 21 was last open water trip before evrything froze solid for 5 weeks). Dodged a couple ice sheets still randomly floating around the lake, but managed 68 crappie fishing stained, 39 degree water. Lots of places are muddy and flooded due to the 1.6" of rain we got over the weekend, but this lake only got about 3/4 inch, so it was still fishable compared to some others.

 

Thats an amazing job.

 

if I can ask, what water temps were you seeing and what depths and techniques did you use to catch so many slabs?

 

totally jealous over here.

[Team9nine]

1 hour ago, bassh8er said:

Thats an amazing job.

 

if I can ask, what water temps were you seeing and what depths and techniques did you use to catch so many slabs?

 

totally jealous over here.

 

Surface temps were 38.5-39.0 most everywhere I went on the lake. Ice still in the backs of coves, and some floating sheets on main lake. Fishing in a 35 ft. river channel that has some large washed in trees. Caught fish from as shallow as 7 feet to as deep as 22 feet using 3/32 oz. small crappie plastics fished very slow - more vertical than horizontal.

[TnRiver46]

22 hours ago, Team9nine said:

 

Surface temps were 38.5-39.0 most everywhere I went on the lake. Ice still in the backs of coves, and some floating sheets on main lake. Fishing in a 35 ft. river channel that has some large washed in trees. Caught fish from as shallow as 7 feet to as deep as 22 feet using 3/32 oz. small crappie plastics fished very slow - more vertical than horizontal.

Washed in trees??? Sounds like the entire TN river..... interesting........ thanks for that 

[gim]

On 3/4/2021 at 7:19 PM, bassh8er said:

if I can ask, what water temps were you seeing and what depths and techniques did you use to catch so many slabs?

Crappies can easily be caught in the spring time in massive numbers here.  They migrate to the shallows looking for warmer water temps and stack in there by the dozens.  I can recall a few days last season when I caught well over 70 of them in a few hours.  Most of them are about palm size but its endless action.

[Bluebasser86]

I hate the crappie spawn here. The time of year when everyone is a "Pro", because they can catch a limit of suicidal crappie ? The busiest the lakes get all year and a lot of very uneducated anglers.

[TheBasslayer]

From my fishing expedition today!

[BigAngus752]

Help me identify please.  I was catching smallmouth under a bridge in a river about 1/2 a mile from my house after work today and this extremely angry little fellow with huge glowing red eyes choked my Ned rig like he hated it.  This is a rock bass?  

 

[MN Fisher]

29 minutes ago, BigAngus752 said:

Help me identify please.  I was catching smallmouth under a bridge in a river about 1/2 a mile from my house after work today and this extremely angry little fellow with huge glowing red eyes choked my Ned rig like he hated it.  This is a rock bass?  

Looks like a warmouth to me.

https://gallery.nanfa.org/v/members/Olaf/sunfishesbass/9403935932_7a84e743a3_o.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2

[BigAngus752]

43 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Looks like a warmouth to me.

https://gallery.nanfa.org/v/members/Olaf/sunfishesbass/9403935932_7a84e743a3_o.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2

Yes it sure does.  Thanks much. 

[J Francho]

Not a warmouth, it's a rock bass. Warmouth only have three spines on their anal fin. 

[BASS302]

I agree with J Francho

Warmouth have three spines in the anal fin, rock bass have five to six spines in the anal fin.

 

[Bluebasser86]

4 hours ago, J Francho said:

Not a warmouth, it's a rock bass. Warmouth only have three spines on their anal fin. 

Yep, that's a rock bass for sure. I can tell because of the way it is.

 

This is a warmouth. Always a cool little bonus catch.

[galyonj]

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Yep, that's a rock bass for sure. I can tell because of the way it is.

 

 

They don't think it be like it is, but it do. -- Abraham Lincoln

[TnRiver46]

We only had about an hour of daylight to fish in the rain but the big white bass were angry and I scored dinner. I only kept the smallest ones we caught, and ironically the biggest one I kept was a male. Blackened fish with old bay and butter mmmmmmm

Also it was 60 degrees and I wore flip flops..........

[TnRiver46]

Since white bass were biting I figured I would try some different lures. I have never caught anything with an Umbrella rig (hadn’t tried much) and hadn’t caught anything with my KVD deep jerkbait. Got several with each, then found some on a drop off on my way back to the ramp that would pin a spoon against the bottom , pretty fun 

 

The xzone swimbait hooked probably 12 or 13 out of 15 fish I caught with the umbrella rig, i put it on the longest arm. We can only have 3 hooks on it and I felt a lot of fish slam it and not hook up, I guess they hit the curly tail dummy baits 

 

[TnRiver46]

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Them swimbaits are getting more realistic all the time!