Hadn't gotten the boat out in a while, but I finally have my college things at bay and had some free time this afternoon. Water from the river had pushed down into the lake with recent rains, 48 degrees at the ramp! Found some 55 degree water and got to work slow rolling a spinnerbait

On ‎10‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 7:50 PM, NorcalBassin said:

Gotta love the footballs of fall...

 

 

 

 

those are some nice looking fat girls! we are wearing long jons here in Indiana. down to freezing here at night. yuck!!  

13 hours ago, everythingthatswims said:

Hadn't gotten the boat out in a while, but I finally have my college things at bay and had some free time this afternoon. Water from the river had pushed down into the lake with recent rains, 48 degrees at the ramp! Found some 55 degree water and got to work slow rolling a spinnerbait

you boys are always killing them! keep it up great job

Last weekend in Northern NY was incredible.  These were my biggest five of a 70 fish Friday with my dad.  Just under 20lbs and Dad had 18.5.  We fished ABA early bird tournaments Saturday and Sunday which were even better.  I'm at my max for pics so I'll have to make a separate post.

Some solid pre-storm topwater action today...

 

The slow-rolled spinnerbait bite was wide open today! Lost two nice brown fish that shouldn't have come off, not sure what went wrong

 

First striped bass caught Monday!

 

Bonus video of the catch.

 

 

And a dinky largie earlier that morning

 

 

 

Found a quiet corner of a pond that’s never fished. T-rigged worms and wacky Senkos are nailing it. 

 

14 hours ago, everythingthatswims said:

The slow-rolled spinnerbait bite was wide open today! Lost two nice brown fish that shouldn't have come off, not sure what went wrong

The fish and the trees in the background? D*%# I love this time of year! If only my football team wasn't the worst in over a century....

Best Smallmouth Bass I caught in October was this 16" pound and a half girl.

 

 

 

Weather and life issues have kept me off the water since October 22nd. Hope to get one or more fishing trips in before Winter forces me into fishing hibernation.

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

The fish and the trees in the background? D*%# I love this time of year! If only my football team wasn't the worst in over a century....

I don't have time to keep up with any sports besides fishing

 Took a trip to BROWN TOWN today!

 

Oh Lordy look at that. Is that a lake that you fish sometimes on a state line (hint hint)?

I'm at school at WVU, that is on Cheat Lake, which does touch the PA border at the dam. (I love soho too and I'll be there over thanksgiving )

Heckuva bag of smallmouth! you cracked my code of hints with ease! I would think soho would be much better the colder it gets so that will be good timing 

Went tonight to the Horrendous Pads with my brand new flipping stick, a Dobyns Champion XP DC766FLIP that arrived on my doorstep last night. This fish was my only bite but it was a good one. I was impressed with the new rod -- much more sensitive than my other big stick. It was easy to pitch the hefty jig accurately and I was able to control the fight. The fish tried to wrap me around the leaves but I was able to lead her out of the nasty stuff nose first. Also, I think a heavy weed guard on a jig helps get fish out of thick pads.

 

1 hour ago, everythingthatswims said:

 Took a trip to BROWN TOWN today!

 

Nice work and you know that's one of my favorite trips to take 

Congrats on nailing them in Brownsville . . .

A-Jay

Got in a couple hours last evening. Decided to fish the N. end of the lake closer to home. Its shallower overall, and weedier. The middle and south end is deeper and usually holds more quality fish and numbers, so I fish it more.

So the bite was off compared to the last several trips. Could be the high pressure system. Could be partially that the lake was slick calm. Could be it was that part of the lake, although I caught my pb.in that area.

Still caught 7-8. Still biting the 4 inch tequila worm .Nice evening on the water anyway. This was one of the better ones.

Nice boat paddle size bass!

On 11/2/2017 at 10:54 PM, MTPanda said:

 

First striped bass caught Monday!

 

Bonus video of the catch.

 

 

And a dinky largie earlier that morning

 

Nice striped bass man, I have not gone to any striped bass this year. I see you fish on Monday, wanna come explore canyon lake on Monday?

Due to matters that were out of my hands, I had to move back up to Shreveport. That being said, before I made the move yesterday, I spent Thursday and Friday fishing the smaller pond. Only caught one each day, but I had a good time anyways. My son came with me for about an hour and a half on Friday and then yesterday before I left to come up to Shreveport my son and I went back to the pond for an hour. Didn't catch anything still had fun. Never caught the big un that is in there. Almost did Wednesday night. I'll have to make a post about that. The pics below are from Thursday and Friday. Hoping to have some latest catch pics from up here soon to post. I'll actually have an opportunity to get out on a boat occasionally now.

It's almost always an adventure fishing in south Florida, even when the bite sucks, like this morning. My friend and I fished the canal on the Boca Raton/Delray Beach line. The first interesting sight was a great blue heron on a dock trying to swallow an large oscar and practically choking on it. He finally managed to spit it out onto the deck and just stood there looking at it not knowing what to do next. Fishing was a struggle, just three small bass and a miniature peacock. A boat near us, though, landed a clown knifefish, quite an interesting creature. And then I caught on a jig, for the first time, a jaguar guapote, seen in the photo. I thought it was a crappie for a few seconds, then I noticed the cichlid fin pattern and recognized it as a guapote from photos I had seen.

 

 

 

Threw on the wading boots again this morning and landed 6 in a couple hours. Largest were these two 3.8(top) 2.9(bottom). They’re eating up. Nearly every one I caught had a bit of a pudge belly. T-rigged Smartbaits color changing Smart Bomb plastic worm.  

 

 

Quick shots of these 2: 

 

 

 

Had a totally insane day today! My friends and I did a little exploring, and we found a spring creek with a network of beaver ponds, all of which is loaded with bass, who seemed to have never been fished for before! We caught well over 100 fish, triple hookups were common, the water was clear and the bass were gorgeous. The creek never gets wider than 20' across, and no deeper than 5'. All the damage was done with a ned rig but I'm sure they would have eaten anything. Biggest bass was the 4-13 that I am holding, and our best 5 were somewhere in the neighborhood of 17-18lbs.

On 4/26/2017 at 12:25 AM, cport0519 said:

Went to my favorite little pond in gainesville after work to try out my new wacky tackle. Conditions were tough! Really windy, and there is a lot of slime weed in the pond, so I gave up the wacky.
There are only three good access spots on this pond, and the first two that I usually fish had no protection from the wind, so I went to the last spot I go to. It usually had a lot of pond scum blown in there from the prevailing winds, but this time it was clear enough to fish. Tied on a 5 inch baby bass fluke, started tossing it out there. On my 12th or so cast, I was bringing it in twitch twitch pause. After a pause, I twitched it so that it almost came to the surface, when about 25ft out, this fish came out of the water and crushed it! My pulse quickened, but I stayed calm and waited a beat til I felt him, and set the hook. Man it felt heavy! Drag started coming off my shimano solstace 2500FI, and it was on.  He jumped 3 times, and each time pucker factor went up exponentially. Played it for about 5 minutes on 8# pline mono, finally lipped him. 19.5 inches and 3.97 on my scale, I don't care, I'm calling him 4 lbs. This is why we do it!

Beautiful pond fish!  

Hmm, It would seem things are currently pretty tough right now.

I would said it's because it's much colder out, rained a bunch, water level has went up and current is much faster.

However, I could be wrong about all of these and almost all my spots seem dead or show no sign of fish at all.

We couldn't get a single bite no matter what we used, I did however finally get a few but not fish i wanted.

We even went to catch bass and we did get a bunch of taps we just couldn't manage to hook into one, The closest i got was a bass swimming towards me with my senko in his mouth, I was very excited and then as he got closer to me on shore he dropped the hook and senko yeah she wasn't even hooked.

This was when i remembered our rods we had with us were spooled up with four pound test for rainbow trout.

Pretty much just not that great of a day but we did manage to catch a few small fish and even found three new lures for our tackle box so there is that.