A couple of wierd or odd things I saw on the water...

[Bubba 460]

 

 

So as I sit home this weekend waiting for all the holiday nit-wits (had to change the wording, *ahem*) to clear out of the lakes and vacate the boat ramps, I thought I'd entertain myself (and hopefully you) with a couple of short stories.

 

I saw the weirdest thing one day... I was at a reservoir known for schooling bass busting shad on the surface. I had caught many bass there while they were rippin' into shad over the years. The schooling fish ran between two to six pounds (caught three 6 pounders schooling one day) and seemed to school in their own weight class. Anyway, it was a calm day and  there had been some surface action here and there but pretty slow. Then all of a sudden, like someone had thrown a light switch, bass started busting on shad by the hundreds all across the lake. At any time there were literally a hundred bass breaking everywhere you could see, big splashes! Had to have been thousands more under water. Never seen anything like it. It went on for about 15 to 20 seconds then it was over. I was like, "Whoa... what just happened, that was really weird." Anyone ever see something like that?

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I was fishing on a small lake when I see a guy putting a boat in at the gravel ramp.  It's a 14 foot jon boat with the bow sticking 3 feet in the air, higher than the guys head (I think he must of had a complete set of Charles Atlas weights in the back,everything else was!). His trolling motor mounted next to his 9.9 outboard was raised so high he looked like a biker hanging from "ape hanger" handlebars as he maneuvered the contraption around the lake. he had to leaned out over the side to see where he was going.  He had about two inches of free-board left in the stern . He went directly to a stump infested place in the middle of the lake and commenced to whip the area into a bubbling white forth using what I thought was a big Pop-R. He was really yanking on the thing, making a splash each pull equivalent to jerking a 5 gallon bucket through the water. Sounded like depth charges going off!  l was headed in anyway so as I made my way by him  he said he had caught two, 5 pounders there yesterday on a poppin' frog (that's what he was making all the racket with) But Hey, who am I to argue with success.

[scaleface]

I have never seen bass act like that . Would have been something to see .

 

As far as the guy working a popper super aggressively , uh  , I have done that a lot.     Learned it from a couple of fellows fishing a pond . I thought they were crazy but they were catching fish . I do it during the hottest time of year . Middle of the day . Sun bearing down . I dont do it much anymore because I'm not out there it that type of weather but if I was ...

[Smokinal]

The guy in the weighted down john boat, was his name Scott Peterson??

[Bubba 460]

26 minutes ago, Smokinal said:

The guy in the weighted down john boat, was his name Scott Peterson??

I don't know his name.

37 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I have never seen bass act like that . Would have been something to see .

 

As far as the guy working a popper super aggressively , uh  , I have done that a lot.     Learned it from a couple of fellows fishing a pond . I thought they were crazy but they were catching fish . I do it during the hottest time of year . Middle of the day . Sun bearing down . I dont do it much anymore because I'm not out there it that type of weather but if I was ...

Interesting~ Thanks

[GreenPig]

I've experienced the first scene a few times. It's like somebody rang a dinner bell. 

[the reel ess]

I've done that thing with the Pop R when bass or even fish were busting shad.

[Bubba 460]

20 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

I've experienced the first scene a few times. It's like somebody rang a dinner bell. 

 

Exactly ~ crazy

18 minutes ago, the reel ess said:

I've done that thing with the Pop R when bass or even fish were busting shad.

 

I've done it kind of hard if it seemed like aggression was needed but not just RIPPIN' it like a golf swing.

[mrpao]

I was fishing for bluegills and redbreast in my local lake. A normal float, splitshot and hook rig on #4 line.

I hooked into a catfish about 2lbs. As i fought it, it got  twisted around my line and got slime all over it. Got it to the boat and i tried to grab the leader to pull it in. Well my line broke right at the knot.

I was looking at my line to clean the slim off and retie another hook on. Strangely, some how my splitshot ended up above my float in the battle.

I dont know how this is even physically possible. It defies any logical explanation.

In the picture, that slime ball above my float is my splitshot.

[Big Hands]

On 7/4/2021 at 2:45 PM, Bubba 460 said:

I saw the weirdest thing one day... I was at a reservoir known for schooling bass busting shad on the surface. I had caught many bass there while they were rippin' into shad over the years. The schooling fish ran between two to six pounds (caught three 6 pounders schooling one day) and seemed to school in their own weight class. Anyway, it was a calm day and  there had been some surface action here and there but pretty slow. Then all of a sudden, like someone had thrown a light switch, bass started busting on shad by the hundreds all across the lake. At any time there were literally a hundred bass breaking everywhere you could see, big splashes! Had to have been thousands more under water. Never seen anything like it. It went on for about 15 to 20 seconds then it was over. I was like, "Whoa... what just happened, that was really weird." Anyone ever see something like that?

The day I caught my PB, all around the cove and at about 9:30 in the morning in the middle of December, it was HUGE bass boiling. They were somewhat spread out, and not really like they had a bait ball pushed, but more like something just triggered them to start munching on the surface. I have seen countless boils/frenzies from schooling bass, but I have never seen so many big bass feeding on the surface. 

 

We were fishing plastic worms when the boils started. I had a Poe plug tied on with ten pound mono and cast across a point where I had seen one of the monster boils. Took less than ten cranks on the handle and it stopped dead in it's tracks. I thought maybe I had hit a tree, then the tree began moving and shaking. It seemed like we battled a long time, but it was likely between five and eight minutes. The fish weighed 12 lbs - 13 ounces. 

 

I have never seen big bass do that before nor since.

[Bubba 460]

31 minutes ago, Big Hands said:

The day I caught my PB, all around the cove and at about 9:30 in the morning in the middle of December, it was HUGE bass boiling. They were somewhat spread out, and not really like they had a bait ball pushed, but more like something just triggered them to start munching on the surface. I have seen countless boils/frenzies from schooling bass, but I have never seen so many big bass feeding on the surface. 

 

We were fishing plastic worms when the boils started. I had a Poe plug tied on with ten pound mono and cast across a point where I had seen one of the monster boils. Took less than ten cranks on the handle and it stopped dead in it's tracks. I thought maybe I had hit a tree, then the tree began moving and shaking. It seemed like we battled a long time, but it was likely between five and eight minutes. The fish weighed 12 lbs - 13 ounces. 

 

I have never seen big bass do that before nor since.

 

That's a nice one and great story.

[PressuredFishing]

On 7/4/2021 at 2:45 PM, Bubba 460 said:

 

 

So as I sit home this weekend waiting for all the holiday nit-wits (had to change the wording, *ahem*) to clear out of the lakes and vacate the boat ramps, I thought I'd entertain myself (and hopefully you) with a couple of short stories.

 

I saw the weirdest thing one day... I was at a reservoir known for schooling bass busting shad on the surface. I had caught many bass there while they were rippin' into shad over the years. The schooling fish ran between two to six pounds (caught three 6 pounders schooling one day) and seemed to school in their own weight class. Anyway, it was a calm day and  there had been some surface action here and there but pretty slow. Then all of a sudden, like someone had thrown a light switch, bass started busting on shad by the hundreds all across the lake. At any time there were literally a hundred bass breaking everywhere you could see, big splashes! Had to have been thousands more under water. Never seen anything like it. It went on for about 15 to 20 seconds then it was over. I was like, "Whoa... what just happened, that was really weird." Anyone ever see something like that?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

I was fishing on a small lake when I see a guy putting a boat in at the gravel ramp.  It's a 14 foot jon boat with the bow sticking 3 feet in the air, higher than the guys head (I think he must of had a complete set of Charles Atlas weights in the back,everything else was!). His trolling motor mounted next to his 9.9 outboard was raised so high he looked like a biker hanging from "ape hanger" handlebars as he maneuvered the contraption around the lake. he had to leaned out over the side to see where he was going.  He had about two inches of free-board left in the stern . He went directly to a stump infested place in the middle of the lake and commenced to whip the area into a bubbling white forth using what I thought was a big Pop-R. He was really yanking on the thing, making a splash each pull equivalent to jerking a 5 gallon bucket through the water. Sounded like depth charges going off!  l was headed in anyway so as I made my way by him  he said he had caught two, 5 pounders there yesterday on a poppin' frog (that's what he was making all the racket with) But Hey, who am I to argue with success.

yeah I saw the same thing on a slightly smaller scale but wrote a fourm post about it and jerkbaits, basicially there where two main schools, one on a point with maybe a smaller amount (but much bigger) 40-60, then there was another school on a grass flat with at least 80, but they where smaller. interestingly enough the baitfish the smaller fish where chasing where smaller and the baitfish the bigger fish where chasing where bigger mixed in with some shellcracker and bluegill getting into the brawl. most interesting thing is that it was a one time thing, yknow and the fact that two school around 500 feet apart just go apes at the same time still has me scratching my head. I am not too sure what to think of fishing anymore, sometimes I think I understand how fishing works, then the fish just tell me that "im dreaming pal" lmao.