MasterBasster09

Bro it says "Lucky 7" although my son is not a Michael Vick fan. lol.

My son Will's first fish. Not a bass but a species that we always called a sucker growing up. Caught it at the same creek in the same spot i caught my first fish many many years ago. We had a blast. He played in the dirt most of the time but he definitely wants to go back. Just look at that smile. He even threw it back in.

Great story and pic...I'm taking my son on his first fishing trip tomorrow at a small creek that is loaded with bluegill. Its the same place my dad took me on my first trip when i was a kid. He is 3 and half years old. We are going to dig up our own worms and we will probably spend more time getting unhung than fishing but i have really been looking forward to it and its all he has talked about this whole week. I'll come back here and let you guys know how it went with hopefully some pictures of his first fish. Just remember guys....and gals. Take a kid fishing is not a joke. I'm 42 years old now and its one of the most vivid memories i have as a child of my father(who has been gone for about 10 years now) and me. Congrats to the poster for taking the time to give his stepson a memory he will never forget.

It had been a couple of days since the rain but we had severe flooding down here. Plus we had a cold front come through the night before. Water temps were around 49-51 degrees. Winds got pretty high as the day went on. We had bluebird skies that day and i threw a spinnerbait alot in heavy cover but got nothing on it. My thinking was the flash and vibration might trigger some strikes. We also threw Cranks and traps alot in cover but still ...nothing. We tried fishing out closer to the main river channel but the water was so muddy and full of debris that it made it hard to troll or run the big motor. Everyone i talked to had a tough day down there last weekend. I'm definitely ready to get some clearer water and warmer water temps. We may have caught them saturday but i think we just couldn't find them. If you don't get the lure in front of their face in these kind of conditions then they ain't gonna bite.

Fished for the first time on the big lake this weekend. Tough ..tough conditions but at least the weather was nice. Muddy water from the flooding we have had here this week made for a tough day all around. I'm not sure where the bass are hiding right now but they are hiding good. Wasn't seeing anything much on the fishfinder and i was staying pretty much back in the creeks and coves where the water was starting to clear up. The main river was still raging pretty good. The bite was non existant. We caught 2 white bass on crankbait and that was it. We left after about 4 hours of hard fishing and throwing everything we had at them. The wind got bad(It was supposed to be calm according to the waetherman.) and the fish just had lockjaw. I'm not sure where they were but we could not find them in the creeks and coves. Maybe they were back out in the main river system. I really just had no idea where to look. Tough first trip all around though.

yeah..i'm figuring the river system will still be rough...just wondering about how the coves and creeks will be. I figure they will clear before anything else does. Thinking about putting in at Brushy branch and working my way to Alabama. Cove to cove.

With all the rain and flooding we have had in the area...anybody think it will be fishable by Saturday??? I was planning my first trip but i may stick to some smaller lakes if the water is gonna be to muddy from all the run off. Any of you Weiss lake fisherman with some experience at this have any idea???

I was fishing in a small 2 man boat earlier this year and set the hook on a fish and when i did the handle from the trolling motor knocked my rod right out of my hand and that thing sunk like the Titanic. I'd had that rod for around 11 years and it broke my heart. I threw a deep diving crankbait to see if i could retrieve it but i couldn't get it down far enough. I think it sunk in about 25 feet of water. Good news was i got to go get me a new rod and reel after that because the wife actually felt sorry for me!! ;D

This is sound advice and i would like to add ..don't get hung up on one lure or one type of lure in different colors. What makes a great fisherman is being versatile and adapting to what the fish are telling you.

I'd bet money those fish were caught up river to. I would be willing to say you are exactly right. Another guy weighed in a 17 pound stringer and had one fish alive. They were letting people weigh dead fish that day because of the extreme heat. He told me he caught them all before 10am that day. Didn't tell me what he caught them on though.

well i fished my first tournament a couple of weks ago on Weiss and the conditions were similar. Water temps reached the 90s that day and we didn't have a fish in the boat(yes i was fishing the back) for the first 4 hours. We tried alot of techniques. We finnally started catching a few on a weighted Senko on ledges close to the channel. I brought in the first keeper, and then slammed a nice 3.6 pounder about 4 casts later. My partner caught one keeper and we weighed in 3 fish totaling a little over 6 pounds. I lost another fish on spinnerbait that morning that actually broke me off. This may or may not have been a bass. My point is if i had stuck with spinnerbait all day, i may not have caught anything. I had 4 rods rigged up and ready to go. We never really got on them but we were just proud that we didn't weigh in a goose egg which alot of boats did that day. BTW..19.9 lbs won the tournament and i think a majority of those were caught on crankbait as well.

Congrats on the new PB

Keep your head up my friend. I went 2 years without catching a bass that hit the 3 pound mark. Broke my slump late last fall with a 3.3 and have been on fire this year. It goes in cycles. If you are fishing small waters, senko worms, and spinnerbaits have been good for me this year. One piece of advice though in weather like this. Fish as slow as you can possibly fish. When you get as slow as you think you can go, go slower than that. Whoever said wacky rigging a senko is giving you good sound advice. Try different things and eventually you will hit on the right combination. Most of all....stay after it!! Good luck and don't come back on here until you have a fish story!!! That is all!!

Congrats on the catch and your personal best. There ain't nothing that makes your heart jump more than a topwater bite. 8-) One piece of advice...invest in a decent digital scale. That way you can put a weight with your catch instead of guessing. If i had to guess though, that looks like a solid 3 lbs.

Sounds like you had a fun day. Just remember that the pain you are feeling is good pain. That second photo definitely shows some sort of irregular growth on that fish. He may not be with us much longer. :-/