Cass Can Catch, The Cats Came Back, & A Rare Bronze Bass. *Bonus Vid*

[Kid Catch]

Cass Can Catch:

Cassandra and I fished a family member's lake in Flemington over the weekend and had a lot of fun. She's only been fishing for a short time now so a good numbers day was much needed. And a good numbers day we had.

We fished from 2:00- 9:30 pm and she hooked 14 fish. All on a 3 3/4" Salty Shad by Case, in smoke/silver. Nose hooked, twitched erratically after the bait's fallen a bit, and paused. Most fish ate it on the pause with the exception of a few that chased it down and bit right at the banks toward evening.  I had her on a very lightweight 6'6 spinning set up, 10 lb suffix braid/8lb fluoro leader. 

 

The Cats Came Back:

Encountered another, and much smaller catfish this time on a black/blue tube, while fishing flats in Bucks County.

 

A Rare Bronze Bass:

Had a great Raritan night on Monday. Floated from about 6 - 9:30 and we had a blast catching mid sized smallies on soft jerkbaits (salty shad) and topwater (walking baits). The fish in the Raritan are downright mean. I've never met a smallmouth that didnt fight like crazy, but Raritan smallmouth are something else man... And I for one, have got a whole lot left to learn about that river. 

Some footage I've been chopping together recently. Some of it (a lot of it actually) shot on an ipad, some with better optics. Just a heads up, the audio came out a bit wonky in the first draft so I suggest dialing the volume down a bit and adjusting accordingly. Enjoy

 

***UPDATED***

I've since corrected the speaker-crushing nature of the audio, and finished the cut of the video. I've yet to do any color grading or retouch on any footage, most of which, was captured on an Ipad that I'd mount to a gorrila-pod. The iPad footage while - prettttty impressive (seriously, use it, it might impress you), is in fact less forgiving in editing software than the boat footage which was captured with a better camera system. The whole thing still has to be tightened up a bit I think, and will be color graded. I'll see what can be done with the ipad footage to enchance it and bring out shadow a little cleaner than it captured it. 

 

[roadwarrior]

Nice fish, great pics!

 

[Kid Catch]

4 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

Nice fish, great pics!

 

Thanks much. Been a fun past few days. 

[A-Jay]

Very Nice ~

Cool Pictures again too.

You're setting a high standard for your pics right out of the gate . . .

Congrats

A-Jay

[buzzed bait]

nice fish and nice pics!

[Kid Catch]

7 minutes ago, buzzed bait said:

nice fish and nice pics!

 

21 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Very Nice ~

Cool Pictures again too.

You're setting a high standard for your pics right out of the gate . . .

Congrats

A-Jay

Thank you guys, I plan to step the photos up quite a bit actually and begin incorporating off camera flash mounted somewhere ahead of time, a nearby tree I suppose. Don't want to complicate the process and make releasing the fish take any longer than it absolutely has to, but I'm able to fire the camera using my phone as a remote, so if properly rigged I think it would produce pretty striking results. We'll see. Thanks again!

[chubaka]

I really like the quality of your pictures! Keep it up.

[Kid Catch]

2 minutes ago, chubaka said:

I really like the quality of your pictures! Keep it up.

Thank you very much man. I appreciate you saying that. Always loved fishing and photography and am enjoying combining them in work and leisure.