Went out to the canal near my house again (I've been doing it a lot lately) and the bite was absolutely on fire! It stopped raining here at 5pm and I hit the canal at 5:30, fished till 7:30pm, I must have pulled at least 10-15 fish. Strange thing though, half of the bass I pulled were smaller than usual and very aggressive for some reason, I've never had fish fight me so hard as those smaller guys did today; I wonder if I was pulling males off the beds and they were super mad about it :-/ also when I pull a bass out of the water they usually calm down once I lip them, but not those little guys, they wouldn't stop thrusting like mad even as I was taking the hooks out... strange, any ideas?

 

Anyways, see attached pics of the larger catches of the day :-)

I have only been fishing one time in the rain and the fish behaved exactly how you described. Wouldn't stop squirming when I held them, fought hard etc. I don't know if it has to do with it raining before you go but I thought it might have something to do with that.

I went out today in Jax and the fish were aggressive. I think I totaled about 15 fish between morning when I went out and I went out again around 5:30pm. I pulled out 5 that were over 3lbs. The little ones were feisty for some reason when getting the hooks out the big ones barle moved once u lip em.

Dude. Nice fish.

Dude. Nice fish.

 

Thanks :-)

Bass fishing in my area has been very lackluster the last few weeks and I have not been doing it daily.  When I go I've been concentrating on ponds and only fishing a top water popper, nothing else.  It's that time of the year when "other species" have priority, only 1 fish yesterday in 4 hours, it was a tarpon.

Nice fish I would be glad to have them