Challenge accepted only a few ozs off today ad would have beat it

Alright Clayton your still in the lead for April in the SM category, now with a 4-12.

Curious how does this work if I'm the only one to enter a fish?

Curious how does this work if I'm the only one to enter a fish?

LOL I just thought of this today. You win the month, and no one else enters a fish in that category ...........then I guess you get a pat on the back, and bragging rights for the month. Actually I have to think about a way around this,  we have a little while to go before your safe yet. Lot of April left, and a 4-12 is good, but.....you never know.

If that 4-12 holds for the month, I'll pitch in a sweet prize.  It's the kind of guy I am.    lol

LOL I just thought of this today. You win the month, and no one else enters a fish in that category ...........then I guess you get a pat on the back, and bragging rights for the month. Actually I have to think about a way around this, we have a little while to go before your safe yet. Lot of April left, and a 4-12 is good, but.....you never know.

There is a lot of April left I plan on getting a bigger one anyways got to break Johns 5-1 mark in the kayak. Tuesday most likely.

Ok, I'll take what's sure to be a short lived lead in the April LM category with a 4lb 7oz fish caught on a jerkbait on Honeoye lake 4-13-13. And let this be a free lesson on bottom of the barrel photo taking, but after losing 6 phones over the side in the last two years, and ruining two more from taking pictures in the rain, you'll have to cut me some slack with numb hands in freezing cold, wind driven rain, and semi-rough water. LOL

This will be the "official" leader board post for both category's.

 

April Smallmouth:

 

#1 Clayton86: 4lbs 12oz. 4-9-13

 

#2 Clayton86: 3lbs 6oz. 4-7-13

 

#3............

 

#4...........

 

#5...........

 

April Largemouth:

 

#1 ww2farmer: 5lbs 11oz. 4-28-13

 

#2 ww2farmer: 5lb 2 oz. 4-28-13

 

#3 ww2farmer: 4lbs 14oz. 4-16-13

 

#4 ww2farmer: 4lb 7oz. 4-13-13

 

#5...................

Nice fish WW2Farmer.  I was on Honeoye yesterday, too, but only in my 'yak.  PIcked up a few, but the biggest was only 1.5, so I didn't bother posting. 

Nice fish WW2Farmer.  I was on Honeoye yesterday, too, but only in my 'yak.  PIcked up a few, but the biggest was only 1.5, so I didn't bother posting. 

Thanks, believe it or not, that is my PB for Honeoye. I have 6+'s from both Conesus and Silver, but Honeoye has always been dink city for me.

Oh, I believe it.  I doubt I've ever been over 3.5 there.  But, it usually is good for a bunch, and I rarely get skunked there. 

Well I was happy to not have disaster ensue, like the last two times I was there. Catching fish was a bonus. That lake owed me one after the before mentioned "disasters". One was in a season ending fall tournament where wnybassman and I brought a whopping 5 fish, 5.5 lb limit to the scales, and that wasn't even the disaster. Backing the trailer in to pull the boat out at the end of the day I cut it too close to the dock and dinged the fender on Noels trailer, could have been worse............could have been mine. LMAO. Then the next time, the first time the boat was to see water in the spring I dropped it in, and could barely get above idle speed. Talk about a long ride home. Turns out it was just a gummy carb. problem, the next day at home it fired up and ran like a champ after getting some fresh gas, and a  dose of seafoam  run through it.

I just heard from a birdie some one else stuck a pig also

I just heard from a birdie some one else stuck a pig also

Well in that case I'll take another temporary lead in the largemouth category, bumping my 4-7, with a 4-14. Caught 4-16-13, on Silver Lake on a crankbait.

Ya edged him out bout 2 ozs lol I got the pics earlier but he hasn't posted yet.

Dang it!!!!!!!

 

Oh well, here's the pics from today:

 

 

 

I didn't get the last pic of the craw in its mouth but I knew when I seen the jika rig earlier that a bama craw was on it

Wasn't really that big a fish, maybe 18-19".  Fat, fat, fat, though.

 

 

Wasn't really that big a fish, maybe 18-19".  Fat, fat, fat, though.

 

 

Or as I like to call them the WNY subspecies of LMB. I have caught 20" fish around here that weigh 6lbs. I think it's a trait of bluegill and craw eating fish that don't move more than a 100 yards all year, and when they do feed, they open there mouth and food swims in.

This is definitely a blue gill fed bass. That's all that's in this water, besides bass and crappie.

 

Release shot:

 

I'm gonna search for some green fish tomorrow if I can find some non muddy non flooded water.

Wow, some nice brown and green fish already guys, well done...seems I am late to the party.

 

Hoping to put one on the board this weekend. My county doesnt allow any bass fishing until the 3rd Sat of June, so I am making a trip to a remote Adirondack lake in a different county farther to the Southeast where its legal to C&R. Ice has been out for about a week and a half...water is gonna be real cold, but I am thinking tubes, baby rage craws, hard/soft jerkbaits, and dropshot to start... Supposed to be 80 up there on Friday, so I hope it warms the water some and gets the bass moving around. Would I be crazy to throw a spinnerbait this early?

Would I be crazy to throw a spinnerbait this early?

 

Nope.  Or a chatterbait.  A guy at the pond I was fishing was tossing both, and caught.  Water temps couldn't have been more than high 40s.

All mine have came in a white booyah spinner with gold willow blades water temps were 41*

You told me they all came on pink senkos????