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@Kyle S, open jig head is good in open water but dragging bottom I do this

Murph en fuego

Your competition paid the catfish to run interference 😂

As much as I love bass fishing, a 30 lb catfish is not something I’m trying to avoid haha. I don’t even try to avoid the 6-8 lb catfish

Coffee. Any food helps but is secondary to the bean water

We have a decent amount of the SMB x spotted bass variety

Nothing here yet but it’s the only time when carp are almost fun to fish for

Had a fun evening on the river, although I still have bugs all in my eyes. Fish were jumping all over , caught 3-4 SMB, lots of skipjack and a couple white bass . Water temp 66-68, even got some video saw eagles, osprey, herons, tons of cormorants, several deer, and a beaver . The Urban wilderness was hopping

@Kyle S, it is I that is a super fan of the dead ringer

According to the hunt for red october, your trolling motor was just performing the crazy Ivan

Good write up and good bass but…… even better catfish!!!

Sounds like early spawning activity to me, usually the only time of year when they just quit biting. It’s quite ironic as everyone is typically always looking forward to the spawn, IME it’s the worst time of year

@ol'crickety, I disassembled some pallets and nailed them back together with the boards touching for a walkway into my shed , works well but they are put together a lot better than I imagined 😂. I was crowbar and hammering for a while

I also like the looks of that tube

Somehow got a catfish double , one was hooked and the other just twisted up into the line a thousand times. They also had a branch interwoven into the mess

Thats what I was thinking, I can’t hardly break that line without a knife . Bowfin ……. So we can sleep tonight

Nice bass from the wife!! people do that all the time , I’ve got similar photos of two geezers with a lifted livescope troll across my bank casts over and over and over back and forth. I walked up and down the rocks trying to escape them but they just kept trolling back and forth a cast off the bank

@ChrisD46, I like it ! Been using it on two of my baitcasters for maybe a year or so. I have 50 lb for catfish/striper fishing with live and cut bait and also use it for large swimbaits and frogs/topwater/tx rig bass fishing. Last night I got it stuck on bottom and couldn’t break it, had to wrap the line around my boat paddle to do it. The boat just kept moving when I tried to break it normally

Beauties. I cannot catch fish on an underspin, regardless of depth 😂 . It’s the whole spin thing that always gets me

Zoom dead ringer is my fav worm, also never stopped throwing them (along with zoom u tails and ole monsters)

Amur Or did you mean the lake ?

Bugle mouthed pile of uselessness that catfish tho ❤️

Never tried myself but I would imagine absolutely NOT😂

Colorful specimens!