Swamp Girl

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I dance at you, BM:

If you fished a Sakamata Shad, keep fishing it. It's a great lure.

@Goby: FAT BASS!!!

I was pretty busy because the wind was hitting the shoreline at an angle, both scooting me down the shoreline, which was good, and pushing me into the bushes, which was bad. Plus, the bass move my canoe too, so it was a fluid moment. I was in the busiest of boats!

Brian, burn that hat! Or give it to your worst enemy.

@bp_fowler: I like where you fish.

You are so kind.

I would love Clayton's powerplant lake for two reasons: He can fish through the winter. It grows the thickest bass I've seen at Bass Resource. As far as my morning, it was real hot and cold. I trolled for nearly two hours without a hit. I was big girl hunting and couldn't find one, even though I went back and forth over the areas where I caught eight last week. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement!

You have to find what works on the bass where you fish...and it sounds like you already have: My two most reliable lures in May are an underspin and spinnerbait. However, this morning, using those two for nearly two hours, I didn't get a single bite. So, we can't be one trick ponies.

Shame, shame on your family name! How can you not love surface fishing? When I fished muskies, I'd gladly catch one on the surface for three underneath.

Years ago, on the hottest fishing day of my life in northwestern Ontario, I caught seven smallmouth in seven casts, a record I figured I'd never break unless I was fishing for desperate dinks in an overcrowded pond. Well, this morning I caught eight bass in eight casts...and they weren't dinks. The conditions were nearly perfect, as a wind was pushing me parallel to the shore, allowing me to draw bass from under these bushes with my black (loon) Whopper Plopper. Here's a section of the shore: I saw some of the bass dart from under the bushes. The action was so fast that I only took a few photos, but they were all similar in size: I took 16 in all from that shoreline in 40 minutes, but then I had to come home to meet the lawnmower guy. I also started the morning fast, catching these three bass in four casts, on a chrome Whopper Plopper. I also had a spurt of catching where the water leaves this pond, catching four from an area about the size of a living room rug with a Junebug wacky worm with a chartreuse tip. Here are three of them: I paddled miles trolling my two best spring lures, a spinnerbait and underspin and didn't get a SINGLE bite. I was trolling the dropoffs, hoping to catch a big girl. Not a sniff. I also caught a few bass with a blue lizard: I caught 42 bass in all, but if I had more time to work that shoreline, I could have caught 60. Next time! I'm now at 244 bass for 2025. I'm hoping @Bluebasser86 can now see me in his rear view mirror! No fishing for a few days, as it's going to cool and rain. Dang it! Here's a smallie I caught when I got to the end of the bushy shoreline and the mud turned to rock:

So speedy! Thanks for protecting the resource, Tim. I also keep my bass in the net until I'm ready with the bump board and camera. More and more, I don't measure my bass. One lip and grip photo and they're back in the water.

Since some of my fishing clothes are forty years old, I look homeless on the water too.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha! I told ya they're small and I've seen your XXXL smallies.

I'd fish surface lures next and the popper is a great place to start. Once it gets hot, bass love poppers when the light is low: rain, fog, early morning, and late evening.

Thanks, guys, and thanks to @bp_fowler for providing the photos of an Ohio farm pond. Mrs. A's pond was a little more manicured than BP's pond, but the size is about the same.

I launched at my pal's pond this morning, unsure if I'd target big bass or many bass. Busy boat or big bass? Busy boat or big bass? Busy boat or big bass? I started working the deep water for big bass, but couldn't convince one to bite, so I went shallow for smaller bass. I still managed to catch some chunky bass, but no 19-inchers. They were caught on a T-Rigged blue lizard, a black Senko wacky-rigged with a chartreuse tip, an underspin, and a Whopper Plopper. The chunks: Lots of average bass: And I know some of you like to see our pretty, little Maine smallmouth: Here's the Whopper Plopper that caught a lot of bass at the end of my trip: I'm fishing again tomorrow morning at my pal's pond and am taking another pal fishing at my pond this evening. I'll guide more than fish this evening. FWIW, I've now caught 202 bass in 2025, putting me about 400 behind @Bluebasser86. Clayton doesn't just win tournaments. He also laps this old bassnut.

Thanks, @Glenn and @jbmaine. I ran out of reactions.

Double cool. Cool that you've reached this class of musky hunter and double cool that you're getting the shorter fish back into the water ASAP. Man, oh, man, Tim, you've become a heck of a musky angler is just a few years. We're all so proud of you!

I'm not surprised. Stealth is my number one tactic.

You're welcome and I'm so glad it resonated with you. I've had some fine fishing moments in my life and I count that skunking with the wormy apples as one of them. I'm thinking a good thought for you as you grieve your father. To Bo's place. To your dad.

Agree. You caught some beauties, PDX. Sorry about your achy shoulder.

Love your pics, @bp_fowler! Tank, @Fishlegs. You're the Energizer Bunny, @Pat Brown.

Say, I was sitting in my chair reading this thread when I suddenly levitated. Yeah, I was floating. I said: Then I got a notice from Bass Resource that I have reached the rank of Double Digit. I said: Now this is me: