Bass fishing, but caught (blank) and what lure?

[rboat]

I always find it interesting on catching something else when you were bass fishing, I asked before what you caught besides bass, but thought it may be interesting to follow up and see what lure triggered these other species.

1. musky on a chartruese/white spinnerbait 

2. crappie on a chrome/black rattletrap.

3. eastern chain pickerel on a (junebug trick worm) (a chartruese/black squarebill), (electric shad kietech) (white spinnerbait)- more pickerel than I wanted.😒

4. mudfish/bowfin on a white spinnerbait.

5. channel catfish on a yellow roostertail.

6. big bluegill on a shad color pop r.

7. gar on white spinnerbait.

 

What you got?

[islandbass]

I caught a large trout with a home made crank bait while targeting bass. It smashed the living dickens out of fought hard and I knew it wasn’t a bass. 
 

Not too much variety of other species like down south. So when bass fishing you might catch a trout, blue gill, perch or pumpkin seed. Rarely a small catfish on the western side of WA State. 

[papajoe222]

Catfish on a ChugBug

Muskie on a lipless crank

Dogfish on a RocketShad

Crappie on a FatFree Shad

Northern pike on a french fry worm

Walleye on a buzzbait

[Bazoo]

When I was a young adult, I was fishing a farm pond, and I caught a 6 1/2 pound channel cat on a jointed Rapala Minnow. It didn't put up too much of a fight. I weighed it on a de-liar, and released him. I continued to fish the same spot, and in a minute, caught another catfish of the same size. This one put up a tremendous fight, ripping the wire out of the back half of the lure, and the loop out of the nose about 1/2". I weighed that one, and it weighed 6 1/4 pounds. I always wondered if it was the same fish, or a different one.

 

I often catch other species.

 

Warmouth on a 6" Zoom Lizard

 

Pretty little sunfish on a Fat Albert Grub

 

Some kind of sunfish on a 1/4 H20X Mini Squarebill crankbait

 

Pretty energetic critters to go after the Rebel Pop-r

 

Very nice Crappie on the same H20X crankbait

 

Crappie on a Beetle Spin

 

34" Gar on an H20X squarebill in American Shad color

 

Catch a mess of goggleeyes on various soft plastics, this one on a Zoom Finess worm

 

They also hit crankbaits, like this Ozark Trails

 

This is about the healthiest one I've ever seen.

[BuffaloRaven]

Catfish and a Musky on a Booyah Spinnerbait....

[Bird]

Was dragging a spinnerbait through Lilly pads in 2 feet of water and thought I had a 10lb largemouth.

[LrgmouthShad]

Carp on popmax

Catfish on a crankbait sitting on top of the water

Catfish on many spinnerbaits

Catfish on plastic worm

Catfish on jig

Catfish on crankbaits

White bass and wiper on crankbaits and spinnerbaits

Pike on everything

Pickerel on everything

Crappie on everything

Perch on spinnerbait

Trout on Rapala Shad Rap

Flounder on a grub and jighead

Sunfish on lots of stuff

Drum on jigging spoons

Rock bass… actually let’s just forget about those

 

Some of this stuff is very common. Some of it might make you scratch your head

 

 

 

 

[casts_by_fly]

NJ doesn’t have the best bass fishing however for fish variety it’s amazing how much is packed in a small area. Just one of the lakes around has four types of bass (small, large, hybrid, rock), musky, walleye, pickerel, two perch, both crappie, trout, all of the pan fish, and of course carp and cats. Might even be bowfin but I haven’t heard of much. That’s just one lake. And in one day a couple seasons back I caught most of those all in a day. Within 30 minutes of the house in the lakes I normally fish you can add northerns, landlocked Atlantic salmon, lake trout, and plenty of other oddities. Sometimes you never know what’s going to eat your lure and it doesn’t matter what lure. Some of the more notable ones for me:

 

musky on a rage bug.  It bit me off in the end but I’d have never thought that one

walleye on a choppo (two in fact) and another on a spinnerbait.  All 24” fish

crappie on a 5” dshad. Only a 12” crappie but he inhaled it

northern on a jig head minnow- not because he ate it but because I landed it 

8# hybrid on a spinnerbait- not because he ate it but because I wasn’t expecting it

 

 

[Texas Flood]

Caught a nice size channel cat last weekend using a tokyo rig with a beaver on. That thing stunk!

[softwateronly]

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

 

Drum on jigging spoons

 

 

Some of this stuff is very common. Some of it might make you scratch your head

 

 

I caught my first drum ever about 8 weeks ago.  Probably caught a dozen more since, and 12/13 came on ripping a jigging spoon off the bottom.  But one hit a shallow running jerkbait.  I know basically nothing about drum other than for the first few moments after hitting a spoon, I think I have a big smallie on the other end, and then I realize I've been fooled again.  So is the jerkbait drum a bigger a**hole than the regular a**hole drums, or can I expect all drum to be equal a**holes?  I want to plan out my disdain properly.

 

scott

[ThatFishingGuy]

I've caught trout on a 1/4oz bitsy bug jig.

Snakehead on a shakyhead

Numerous catfish on cranks

[Woody B]

Flathead Cat on a DT6

[Team9nine]

Flathead on a Shad Rap…

 

 

Hybrid striper on an A-rig…

 

[gim]

4 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Pike on everything

Ain’t that the truth

[detroit1]

I can't count it, but i had a 40"+ musky on a 1" twister tail with 4# line early one spring.  Had her on for what seemed like 10 minutes, but in reality probabaly only 4. I don't keep a net in the boat, so when i finally got her close i tried to "collar"it but she was so thick i couldn't get my hand around her. At least my wife got a couple pics when i got ot close/on the surface. It didn't count because i didn't get it in the boat. I do catch pike up to 30" on a dropshot.

Gimruis, Bazoo needs a talk about his hair haha. Just kiddin' Bazoo..

[LrgmouthShad]

@gimruis TX much better. Just let the gods of heat, sun, and fire know how you would like to be cooked, though. If you would like to be slow roasted, fried, baked, grilled, thrown into a crock pot, etc. 

[Bass Rutten]

My 42 inch pb muskie was caught on this, a 3" berkley pintail minnow on a 3/32oz og mushroom head.

[gim]

1 hour ago, detroit1 said:

so when i finally got her close i tried to "collar"it but she was so thick i couldn't get my hand around her.

Ya once they’re about 30 or so inchers or bigger they’re tough to grab that way.

[pdxfisher]

In NC I caught a 20ish pound carp twitching a Rapala at dusk. My buddy and I both thought I had a new state record on for a bit.

 

In PA my buddy caught a 10lb channel cat on a jitterbug night fishing. Once again we were think 10lb bass. I waded out in the pitch black to land the crazy thing. Used to catch a lot of cats at night on spinnerbaits.

 

Out here I catch quite a few channel cats on Ned rigs but my best catch was a 8+lb steelhead on 4lb test while panfishing one day. That was a shocker.

[Swamp Girl]

I caught this big girl on 6 lb. test with an F13 Rapala while fishing for smallmouth. Over the decades, I caught a few her size, but always unhooked them in the water for my safety and theirs. This time, I had a big enough net to bring one aboard. I wish you could see her full length, but she wrapped around my arm like a python. 

 

 

I love the belly on your hybrid, @Team9nine.

 

The weirdest thing I caught while bass fishing was a Mirror carp, as ugly a freshwater fish that swims. I was fishing smallmouth again on the Mississippi and I think I was using four-pound test. It took about twenty minutes to land her. They look like this:

 

 

 

[volzfan59]

Turtle on a pig and jig

Drum on a pig and jig

Catfish on a spinnerbait

Crappie on a 3/4 oz Rattletrap 

Four Muskie's on a small Shad Rap. The fifth one still has my Shad Rap. That was five Muskie's in six casts.

[Bankbeater]

Crappie - crankbait, stickbait, Texas rig, jig and craw, Pop-R, Zara Spook.

Bluegill-  crankbait, Pop-R, plastic worm, Texas rig, stickbait.

Catfish-   lipless crankbait, crankbait, jig and craw, plastic worm, Texas rig, stickbait, spinnerbait.

Green sunfish- crankbait, stickbait, Texas rig, jig and craw, plastic worm, spinnerbait.

Muskie-   crankbait, lipless crankbait, jig and craw, Texas rig, Zara Spook.

Warmouth- bladed jig, crankbait, jig and craw, Texas rig, plastic worm, Zara Spook, tube.

     

[Catt]

Aiden caught it on a frog.

 

[Spankey]

What kind of frog is that?

[Tackleholic]

Caught a large bullfrog on a 6 inch worm;  he leaped and grabbed it 3 feet in the air on a long cast.