They call me Swampy.

[Swamp Girl]

I fished for walleyes, smallies, and muskies for decades, but a couple years ago, I started fishing for largemouth. As a kid, I'd caught largemouth in farm ponds, so fingers crossed I can catch them again in 2025. I fish from a canoe and like to fish early. I bought a lure called a Whopper Plopper. Fingers crossed it'll catch some bass! I also plan to cast a Popper. If there were lures called a Dropper, Schmopper Flopper, and a Clopper, I'd buy those too.

 

They call me Swampy. Try to guess why!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P. S. - If this post is too goofy for Bass Resource, feel free to delete it. I'll understand.

[Dwight Hottle]

It's been a really long winter in Maine. 😀

[Swamp Girl]

2 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

It's been a really long winter in Maine. 😀

 

I know!!!!!! And I look out the window and still see ice. Help, Dwight, help! Set up some fans in Florida and aim them north. I beg ya!

 

[T-Billy]

I can't tell ya what they call me, at least not here on this PG forum. 😂 I really need to get some new friends. 🤦‍♂️😂

[GRiver]

Swampy seems appropriate, being you mostly fish the bogs and swamp. 

 

[Skunkmaster-k]

I don’t know about the rest of the country, but down South when someone says that they are swampy it means their butt crack is nasty. 

[Swamp Girl]

5 minutes ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

I don’t know about the rest of the country, but down South when someone says that they are swampy it means their butt crack is nasty. 

 

 Nothing nasty about swamps:

 

[river-rat]

I spent so much time in the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin and on the Atchafalaya River during my teenage years and early 20's my Mom started calling me a "river rat".

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

6 minutes ago, river-rat said:

my Mom started calling me a "river rat"

 

High praise.

[GRiver]

@GRiver came about from me wade fish  in the Cane River so much, that people said they should change the name to George’s River. I just shorten it for my username.  
Good times for sure. 

[bowhunter63]

My Grandma called me a RiverRat in 1970. Glad to see there is still a lot of us around 

[Glenn]

Waiting for spring....

 

[Swamp Girl]

23 minutes ago, Glenn said:

Waiting for spring....

 

 

You're so right...and I keep waiting and waiting and waiting. I checked a pond yesterday: still frozen.

[LrgmouthShad]

On 3/11/2025 at 9:57 AM, Swamp Girl said:

If this post is too goofy for Bass Resource

You haven’t been on my water park thread have you? 

[Swamp Girl]

21 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

You haven’t been on my water park thread have you? 

 

I just found it and thank you. The water park thread makes me look sane.

[LrgmouthShad]

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

I just found it and thank you. The water park thread makes me look sane.

I got your back 

[CaughtMeABiggun]

Welcome!

 

[Swamp Girl]

On 3/11/2025 at 1:30 PM, Dwight Hottle said:

It's been a really long winter in Maine. 😀

 

Dang it, Dwight, it's still winter here. The wind is howling today and tomorrow brings four inches of snow. Does anyone have a white flag? I am ready to unconditionally surrender.

[Dwight Hottle]

@Swamp Girl I feel your pain. As a PA & NE Ohio resident for many years I experienced the cold & ice lingering for way to long before spring was finally sprung. 

[Swamp Girl]

16 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

@Swamp Girl I feel your pain. As a PA & NE Ohio resident for many years I experienced the cold & ice lingering for way to long before spring was finally sprung. 

 

Cold, snowy winds blow long and hard off those Great Lakes for sure. The BR gang have been posting so many big bass, but anglers like @gim, @The Baron, me, and others are simply this:

 

[Tackleholic]

On 3/12/2025 at 5:14 PM, bowhunter63 said:

My Grandma called me a RiverRat in 1970. Glad to see there is still a lot of us around 

Funny, I was also called that in my teen age years.

[The Baron]

Yeah @Swamp Girl we had a few BEAUTIFUL warm, sunny days last week.  Now it’s back to about 20-25F overnight and struggling to get above freezing as a high.  Windy yesterday, snow in the forecast for Tuesday. It’s a been a grind and we’re not quite done.😕

 

BUT… I’m scheduled to pickup the new boat on April 1st (🫢) then straight into the shop for electronics and trolling motor install.  I spent a few hours yesterday reorganizing baits, and just ordered a few more boxes and bags.  Hopefully things will warm up and I’ll get after some early season Lake Ontario bass before it closes down May 10th.  A short and closing window, but we should get a few tries.🤞🏻 Then it’s just pike fishing until the regular bass season opens on the back lakes June 21st.

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, The Baron said:

I’m scheduled to pickup the new boat in April 1st (🫢)

 

No foolin'? That's great news!

 

1 hour ago, The Baron said:

Hopefully things will warm up and I’ll get after some early season Lake Ontario bass before it closes down May 10th.  A short and closing window, but we should get a few tries.🤞🏻 Then it’s just pike fishing until the regular bass season opens on the back lakes June 21st.

 

I'm surprised that they're so protective of bass, given how sturdy they are, but I kind of like it too.

 

FWIW, I ordered three Canada caps. I'll be wearing them all summer. I have always loved Canada and Canadians. 

 

Got a new boat pic?