Did some kayak fishing today. Did pretty well! Between my friend and I we easily landed 75-100 bass, most of them being smallmouth in the 8-13" range, but we caught a few nice largemouth as well. 

 

Biggest fish of the day 3.3lb, one of the prettiest largemouth I have ever caught. Watched him swim out of a laydown and eat my jig!

A little swimbait love too

Brown One

 

Fish were caught on squarebills, texas rigged creatures and worms, wacky rigged trick worms and senkos (wacky jighead), spinnerbaits, and an s-waver.

The bait of the day from around noon til 5 when we left was a stupid little 4" t-rigged senko with a 1/16oz bullet weight. Fished it just like a ned rig. Not the most interesting way to fish but we sure did get a lot of bites.

On 8/29/2015 at 2:03 PM, Jar11591 said:

Had a first for me happen last night. I did some shore fishing from the small pond at my parents camp. I had a popper tied on and during the second cast something sucked it under. I hooked it, and it thrashed on the surface once then started tugging hard. I thought I had a real nice bass on the line just because of the weight and how hard it was tugging. When I banked it, this is what I find:

 

 

 

Never caught two fish on one cast before, especially not on top water. I got 3 bass, all on a Storm chugbug in about 30 minutes of fishing.

I love the Chug Bug

My favorite popper!

On 8/29/2015 at 2:03 PM, Jar11591 said:

Had a first for me happen last night. I did some shore fishing from the small pond at my parents camp. I had a popper tied on and during the second cast something sucked it under. I hooked it, and it thrashed on the surface once then started tugging hard. I thought I had a real nice bass on the line just because of the weight and how hard it was tugging. When I banked it, this is what I find:

 

 

Never caught two fish on one cast before, especially not on top water. I got 3 bass, all on a Storm chugbug in about 30 minutes of fishing.

That's really cool!

I like when that happens Hank, two for one lol BH

Just about knocked the rod out of my hands when he hit it! That's how a southern smallmouth is shaped Dwight 

Nice one but I like the northern shape the best.

Keepers have remained elusive over the last month. So has spare time for fishing. Here's what bit, so here's what I caught, minus the really little guys:

 

2lb 5oz on a mojo-rigged baby brush hog:

 

2lb 0oz on a 3.8 keitech fat swing impact + hornet underspin

 

2lb 0oz, on a biospawn 6.5 plasmatail, weightless t-rigged.

 

Biggest thing I caught was a decent pike a few days ago, about 5-6lb (sadly, no pic: only two hands + teeth + unsecured rod + spinnerbait still hanging in about 20lb of salad + kayak starting to drift = too awkward to dig out my phone).

Labor Day Largie 21" alil over 5 lbs

Got up real early on the holiday expecting to land the large ones early but only hooked the dinks til around 8am when she woke up..

Always nice to wake up on a holiday aside a big gal.

 

Nice Bass & one Serious Rubber Glove.

 

A-Jay

 

Nice Bass & one Serious Rubber Glove.

 

A-Jay

 

Yup I wear big loose oversized one from Harbor Fright so I can slip it on like lightning and grip the gals

Fishing has been great up here in the northeast. Got a couple good ones last Saturday.

 

In the early morning fog

 

 

5 lb 5 oz

 

Later on in the afternoon

 

 

7 lbs 4 oz

 

The Potomac river was a cruel, cruel place today! The wind was so bad that we would just motor up a creek and drift down the banks to fish, if there was a laydown you had one shot at making a presentation. Couple that with a high pressure system and things were just lovely....My first fish came on a texas rigged baby brush hog pitching it at the edge of the grass, the second one came on the edge of the grass with a senko. 

 

Two bass for 5.13lbs was enough to get third place and lock in a shot in the State Championship this spring! Winning weight was 11.8, the only kid who caught a limit. Second place had 3 bass for 6 something. A huge thanks to those on BR who gave me some pointers on fishing the Potomac!

Tore them up Saturday morning! Biggest was 3lb 10oz.

Believe it or not, those three on the top are different bass, all caught with a dropshot rig within 15 minutes of each other. And that big catfish that slammed my H20 swimbait, yeah I though I had a new pb on. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Briery Creek this past Saturday.

What lake you at in the second pic, not the local pond.

What lake you at in the second pic, not the local pond.

 

boostr that is round valley reservoir. Not sure if you have ever been out there? If you have not been and if you ever check it out, look up spruce run reservoir as well. It is right around the corner from round valley. 

Thanks, yeah I know where its located, I've been wanting to make a Kayak fishing trip out there. It's about 45 min from where I'm at.

unfortunately no pics but i was able to find a nice 5lb 1oz largemouth this weekend caught her on a kvd swimjig in bluegill with a castaic jerky j in bluegill. 

 

there were also a lot of smaller ones on a livetarget pumpkin seed squarebill and a couple 2-3 pounders on a strike king buzzbait in sexy shad

Left home at 6. On the water by 7. PB at 9:35. Made it to work by noon.

 

At least I think it's a PB; It's my longest bass and the heaviest I've weighed with an accurate scale.  5lb 2oz, and just short of 21"

 

The pic does not do it justice:

On a 3/8 Cavitron, black on black.

Congrats on the new PB.

The 'ol 3/8 Cavitron sure can catch some fish

Up until this year I had never caught a fish on a buzzbait despite having several and using them off and on for years. I bought some cavitrons on the strength of recommendations on this board, resolved to be a little more persistent than usual and, boom, like magic, they produce. They've been far and away my most productive topwater this year.

Here's a Last Cast Fatty from the other day.

 

A-Jay

 

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