Swamp Girl

Yikes! Sorry, Buddy.

I wish I could help. I equate clear water with smallmouth and trout. I fish tannin-stained, lmb water, so I haven't heard this sound.

I've never caught a single spot, but I've seen hundreds of photos of spots and it sure likes like an lmb to me.

Change your screenname to lottaclass. And keep taking that girl fishing!

@Bazoo: Thanks, Buddy!

Joey P. Boots aka JP Little Joe Joe-Joe Rumpusshrimpskin Mr. Wiggles the miniature German Schnapper the Bangor Biter da Boots As regards quality over quantity, I'll do my best and thanks!

Once upon the time, I'd foray for a month or two or three, sometimes traveling thousands of miles, even in the winter, but Time has softened me and a single morning can tire me, HOWEVER personal circumstances have enabled me to plan a three-day mini-trip, big for me at my age, but little for me considering where I've been, thus the "Big, Little Trip" title. I'll drive to the bog the first day, paddle down a tiny river, meeting at least one beaver dam, and camp on an island. Then I'll fish that evening and fish the entire next day. The third and final day, I'll fish in the morning, paddle up that tiny river, and drive home. Here's a photo of where I'm going. It has no cabins or homes and it has a million pounds of weeds, which I'll love. It does have lmb, so I reckon I'll catch a couple. It has various bays, so there'll be structure everywhere with points, saddles, and reefs:

How do you change the depth it runs at, Woody? If I want mine to run deeper, I count to five after it lands instead of one or three before starting my retrieve. I can't go much deeper than five without hitting weeds.

A trailer does create a great, big gob of a lure, for sure.

I had to Google the Zako. It's a great-looking lure.

So far, since discovering spinner baits last week, I've attached crawdads, paddle tails (Mayor and Keitech with chartreuse and white being the best colors), and Rage Tails. For Monday's fishing, I just attached a Geecrack Bellows Gill Creature Bait. It looks weird, but it might work. What all do you guys use?

What a day, PDX! I love your teamwork and your catching bass on seven different lures. I've seen Columbia when airborne windsurfers were skittering across it. That was crazy calm!

Wow! If you'd kept them all, that's a stringer you couldn't have lifted!

Bob, I likely won't take Joey fishing. I did fish with my last Schnauzer, but they are hardwired differently. My last dog was born an old man. Joey, on the other hand, is 152% boy puppy, so full of life and the dickens and spice. He bites everything, chases everything, jumps on everything. When a bass came in the canoe, I can't imagine him doing any other thing than attack. The title was the only thing I liked about this trip report. It was all downhill after that! The wind, lightning, and rain just didn't love me hit my sweet spots. Ha! There are other lakes where I don't meet people...or nearly no one. Yeah, we had a sweltering stretch, for sure. Next time you're in the neighborhood, let me know and we'll fish my pond together.

T-Rigged and Wacky.

This is my concern. As a former musky angler, if you knew a musky was present, you'd try it and then leave it be before trying it again.

@Bankc: Thanks for the summary of Oklahoma.

Me too, Mick, me too.

Cool. My big net Is like giving a shortstop a glove that's three feet wide. Three beautiful pics!

I'm going to rate this trip report on a scale of 1-10: 1 No big bass. No pretty pics. Not even that many bass. This is me yesterday evening:

@BluegillsTightlines: Your lake is beautiful. Nice bass too! @JoshFromBolo: In your front yard? Lucky duck! Keep posting pics, Josh. It's always ducky to have new anglers in this thread.

The pond I fished last night has two developed shorelines with docks, boats, swimming platforms, etc. The other two shorelines were purchased by two, different parties and put into conservation protection. If I fished the weekends, I'd see other boats: powerboats, kayakers, anglers. Fishing a rainy, growling evening pretty much assures it'll be just me because 99.9% of humanity want to be as comfy as can be...and thank goodness they do! My photos don't portray how windy it was at times. When it was windy, I wasn't taking photos. Same when the rain was pounding. Sadly, the threat of lightning kept me from fishing where I wanted. I stayed close to my pal's camp lest I be pinned to the distant shore that I wanted to fish by the storm and forced to paddle back at night through wind and rain as happened to me earlier this summer.

Due to the new pup, I now go fishing when I can, not when the weather is just right. So, I launched with the wind in my face and it swung 180 degrees, meaning it was in my face on the way back. There was heavy rain and distant thunder too. Still, I managed 26 bass. Just no big ones. Here's the new pup checking my new lures! And here are a few of the bass I caught in 2.5 hours of actual fishing with 50 minutes of not fishing while fighting the wind.

@Catt: I love that Zoom Swimmin' Chunk. It'll go on my next order. I am going fishing. The one impediment is gone. So excited!