Finally sort of getting the hang of catching fish out of the kayak. Setting the hook has been a difficult thing for me to figure out, but I'm getting there. Made the best of the 2 hours I had at a really tough lake. 

 

WOW! 

been having a good run of big fish lately

this one ran 7-5

On 5/1/2016 at 10:04 AM, lo n slo said:

i've been fishing another, smaller lake, alone on early weekend mornings.

 

Would that be Mtn. Island? 

been keeping my big fish streak alive, 6.4lbs on a 8.5 inch glide bait 

Was able to get 1 nice catch Monday after work at a local pond (5 lbs 2 oz). Picture quality was horrible, sorry.

Joey that is a basketball with fins! 

Nice fish!

 

First trip of the year . Cold temps puts the bass spawn on hold , pulling them into slightly deeper water into the heaviest cover . Texas rigged Jelly worms caught them . 4 over the slot , 2 under .  

 

 

First time back out in a couple weeks early this AM.  It rained, was a bit windy and cold but who cares, I needed it.  Caught a couple dinks and a few panfish that were approaching too-big-for-the-pan sized, but no big bucketfaces today.  

I started out slow, but figured them out pretty good on a tough lake in the last 3 hours of the day.

 

First time out this year on friday morning for a few hours, then a few more this morning today. Water was 52 friday, 54 today. Mostly i was itching to try some new setups, new lures, and make a renewed effort at some lower-confidence presentations (jerkbaits, jigs, dropshot) after a winter of reading up on them. I caught 5 total; not many, but some very satisfying firsts:

-- first bass of the year, on a duo spinbait 80 (also first ever spybait fish)

-- first bass I have ever caught on a drop shot -- forced myself to make it happen, finally!

-- first time catching a bass on a baitcaster. I resolved to learn baitcasting this year, so I have 4 new rods and reels to break in...2 are now officially broken in with successful catches. 

--first time catching a bass on a jig with a skirt of my own making -- a 3/8 siebert brush head with a green pumpkin/watermelon/purple skirt

--first time catching a bass on a bladed jig I assembled myself -- I put together a barlows head, split ring, blade, snap, and tied my own skirt...sort of a "baby bass color", black, whisky-green on back, and translucent white underneath. The biggest fish (3.1) took this one. Botched the only pic I had, sorry. Next time...

[ May 11, 2016 ]

The spawn is approaching, the small male buck bass have taken over the shallows and soon will be creating beds. Caught 5 today, first of which turned out to be the largest (Fish of the Day), and I managed to capture the catch on video...
 

Enjoy,
WolfyBrandon
 

Caught this little lady last weekend skipping a dock with a senko. Caught another of similar size on a 3.8? swing impact on an owner underspin. 

A 4 pounder and a 3.5 from the past week. Got the 3.5 last Thursday after work and the 4 on Saturday. Those NOLA City Park post-spawn bass have been biting really good the past couple weeks

Did some Smallmouth fishing over the last 3 days! There was a lot of fish in shallow and on beds! Super fun fish! - I can't upload the pictures because it says you can only upload them if they are less then 7.1 MB or something like that.

Here is one from 5/17 close to 4 pounds

I did some homework and figured out how to get way upriver on the lake my next tournament is at.  I was getting sick of all the jet boat guys bragging about the awesome smallmouth fishing that us glass boat guys couldn't get to....Nothing gigantic but a lot of decent sized smallies were caught and they are a ton of fun up in that current .  We'll see if I can give them a run for their money this weekend!

Two of six from this morning. Top one went 3.75; bottom one about 2:

This 4lb 10oz LMB was part of my 17lb 8oz bag that helped me secure my first win as a co . I had my limit by 8:30 am on a dropshot bite that stayed hot throughout the entire morning. It was tough to put it down, but I could not cull out a few of my smaller 14 and 15 inch fish with that technique. I picked up a homemade jig sometime around 11 am and made 3 or 4 critical culls including the fish in this photo. It was an awesome Saturday! 

After a week of fishing lake Anna from my boat and catching nothing over 3 lbs, I decided to fish a local pond today. Ended up pulling in this 4 lb 7 oz fish on a drop shot. New personal best! Who needs those big lakes anyways

 

Here's pics of 4 of my 5 best from Saturday that went for 21 lbs. (4.75, 4.5 4.5, 4.2, and 3.5, one of the 4.5's I forgot to get a pic after weighing) 

3.9 & 4.7 in clay colored water from the kayak