First Bass of 2022! Let's See Yours!

[schplurg]

She may be small but she's beautiful to me! After 6 skunky trips (from the bank) I finally got one.

 

First of 2022

First Winter bass ever (maybe two months earlier than previous date)

First jerk bait bass ever

First fish from this pond

Bonus: First crappie ever (Ya I've only been fishing 3-4 years)

 

I did a lot of walking and hiking man - 6 trips with nothing - driving, hiking, looking for legal parking, cold. Most were bigger lakes too. It's a tough area for bass, at least for me.

 

You don't have to suffer through watching that though, The video should start at the cast and catch.

 

And ya I get a little excited sometimes. Every year it takes me many trips to catch my first and I always worry after awhile that I never will. I went to this pond thinking that after many sunny days in a row the water must have warmed some and maybe they'd be more active. Plus the pond is small. If there are fish here they will see my bait.

 

Caught another here a few days later. I won't fish here very much, it's small. Saw lots of small fish though so that made me feel good.

 

Let's see your first catch of the year, vid, photo! Thought it was a snag at first.

 

 

 

[DitchPanda]

Congrats...I'd say give me a month to 6 weeks..by then I should have my first bass of 2022

[MIbassyaker]

Yeah, my first bass is probably at least a month away.  More likely it will happen in April.

[MN Fisher]

40 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

Yeah, my first bass is probably at least a month away.  More likely it will happen in April.

Mine is almost 3 months away - bass season closes in 5 days and we still have hard-water. Opens again the middle of May. So my first fish of 2022 will probably be a sunny or crappie.

[schplurg]

No new fish? Geez, way to support my thread guys!!! LOL

 

And I thought I was starting this thread too late! I don't know if I can catch a fish anywhere else around here, but I'm going in a few days. Maybe tomorrow, got nothing else to do.

[Deleted account]

I got mine on New Years, I've been doing "Last bass, first bass" for a while, where I go out on the 31st and the first, no matter the weather and catch at least one. Some years it's easy, some miserable. This year it was good until the first week of January, then went down hill fast.

[Bird]

It's the same thing every year for me. 

I've yet to catch a fish with water temps in the 30's.

Went yesterday in hopes of 1st fish in 2022 but apon turning the graph on, I see water temp at 39* so rode around marking waypoints. Lol

 

[Bassbum1016]

Jealous….haven’t been on the water since New Year’s Eve 

 

well done 

[BassHRL119]

Not the worst first fish of the year. Took me 2 skunkings to build up to this one LOL.

 

Jerkbait. 51 degree water temp. Weight: 3.78lb.

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

1st Largie of the year caught on RC Crawler. Nickajack Lake

1st Spot of the Year 14-3/4" 2 lb 3 oz caught on Mepps Dressed Aglia Tennessee River.

Been slow so far. Four trips and five bass. Six hours on the river and two bites. This spot and an 8lb drum. Threw everything in the tackle box and broke out old reliable....the Mepps Aglia to whoop the skunk!

[Blue Raider Bob]

Yes I know this isn't a bass but when you hook something like this drifting down river in current tossing a ned rig it still makes for an accelerated heartbeat! 8lb 13 oz and durn they can pull. These guys head straight for the bottom and have to be drug to the boat. I'll claim anything that swims to get the skunk out the boat!

[TnRiver46]

Tuesday January 4 (I was out of town on a non fishing vacation the 1st-3rd) 

[J._Bricker]

Here’s a photo of my second bass of 2022 cause I didn’t get a picture of the first of the year. A sea lion was eating a bass about 75 feet down the channel from the boat so I knew I was around fish when this bass hit my bladed jig…

[Bluebasser86]

Might have been this one? If it wasn't, this was one of the first ones of the year. Caught on a Berkley Stunna 112+1 from Lake Taneycomo, MO.

[PotatoLake]

Here’s my first bass of 22, a little dink from our neighborhood pond. Not sure of the water temps but I’d guess low 40/ high 30s. Got him on a green pumpkin colored chatterbait/ hog farmer trailer. I caught three in a row! Then poof. Nothing more. They were positioned along a mud line on a super windy day.

[PhishLI]

Yesterday 2/23 at 1:50 AM. Not many chances to get out there with this winter's frigid cold and ice. A whisper under 3 lbs in 38* water. Bucca Baby Bull Shad in pearl bone. My gloves smell like bass again. Ahhhh.

[TnRiver46]

24 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

Yesterday 2/23 at 1:50 AM. Not many chances to get out there with this winter's frigid cold and ice. A whisper under 3 lbs in 38* water. Bucca Baby Bull Shad in pearl bone. My gloves smell like bass again. Ahhhh.

1:50 AM……… in Feb……… in NY? You win

[PhishLI]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

1:50 AM……… in Feb……… in NY? You win

Amazingly it was 53 degrees, but not this morning. It got up to 66 yesterday afternoon, but temps dropped like a rock, and when I left the lake this morning at 1AM is was 33 and my hands were on fire. 10 mph north winds. Brrrr. It's about to snow any minute.

[schplurg]

6 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

1:50 AM……… in Feb……… in NY? You win

Fish to other fish: "Don't worry, no way are those guys out in this weather in the middle of the night. We're perfectly safe."

[Deleted account]

39 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

1:50 AM……… in Feb……… in NY? You win

 

It's LI, like NY light...  

I want to hate the Bucca Baby  Bull Shad and Baby Bull Gill, but the dumb things get bit.

[softwateronly]

I cheated and went to Texas, but it's my first nonetheless, 2/8/22.  1/2oz jackhammer w/ a swimmon.  Water was 49.  She was a pig and a pb till later in the week.

 

scott

 

 

[PhishLI]

2 hours ago, Deleted account said:

It's LI, like NY light

Yeah, it's nothing like the means streets of Mary Land.

[Deleted account]

8 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Yeah, it's nothing like the means streets of Mary Land.

LOL.

I always sat with my back to the wall in the Hampton restaurants,  

I'm in decent area, but I will say that growing up on the border of Brownsville and East New York was good training for parts of Baltimore, and "Southern Maryland" is a euphemism for Mississippi...

 

[PhishLI]

7 hours ago, Deleted account said:

LOL.

I always sat with my back to the wall in the Hampton restaurants

I'm way closer to Roosevelt than the Hamptons. You really don't want to get a flat there at night, ya know.

7 hours ago, Deleted account said:

I will say that growing up on the border of Brownsville and East New York was good training

C.I.-Brentwood-Bayshore. Ever roll through there in the late 60s-early to late 70s? I had no choice. Good times. I'm glad we're both still here to play ping-pong.

 

 

 

[Deleted account]

10 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

I'm way closer to Roosevelt than the Hamptons. You really don't want to get a flat there at night, ya know.

C.I.-Brentwood-Bayshore. Ever roll through there in the late 60s-early to late 70s? I had no choice. Good times. I'm glad we're both still here to play ping-pong.

 

Oh man, I'm surprised we didn't bump into each other, we used to spend a lot of time in Gilgo, the sore thumb and that general area. Getting chased out of Connetquot was almost a weekly thing, and the bass fishing, well....