Decent largemouth on the Ned Rig earlier in the evening. Took a break and met up with my buddy for a little night action. Got a good smallmouth on a crankbait, but then storms rolled in and we had to call it quits far too early.  That smallmouth ate the crankbait completely. Lodged it in the back of its throat. 

 

 

Broke my PB 5 fish bag weight and my PB big bass on the same day. Heck of a day on the water, didn't catch lots, but obviously what I did catch made it worth the grind!

3 hours ago, WIGuide said:

Broke my PB 5 fish bag weight and my PB big bass on the same day. Heck of a day on the water, didn't catch lots, but obviously what I did catch made it worth the grind!

Bravo. That is a huge bag and that 7 pounder is great.

Nicely Done Sir ~ 

And Congrats on the new personal best.

She's a Fist full . . . .

A-Jay

 

14 hours ago, Gundog said:

Bravo. That is a huge bag and that 7 pounder is great.

Thank you! It was a day I won't soon forget that's for sure. I wish I would have had just a little more time to fish though, I had one fish in my limit that I think could have been culled up at least half a pound without too much trouble...and with the size of fish I was catching, who knows maybe even more! Regardless, it was an incredible day with an incredible kicker by northern WI standards!

13 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Nicely Done Sir ~ 

And Congrats on the new personal best.

She's a Fist full . . . .

A-Jay

 

Thank you much! She definitely was! 

[September 06, 2018]

 

My "Fish Of The Day"

 

 

&

Jeremy's Personal Best Northern Pike!

CONGRATS!

 

15 lb 05 oz, 38 & 1/2"

 

WolfyBrandon

 

Been a grind the last few weeks working hard for a hand full of keepers and dinks with a couple of maybe 3's in the mix. This week was a little better as I stuck a 5-1 Tues. On a weed demon and a3-3 pitching a jig into holes in weeds on thurs.

made a quick stop by my local hole and pulled out this 4.7 lber on my second cast using  a top toad.

 

Got out for about 3 hours yesterday evening/night to Caney Lakes upper lake side. The lower lake side is closed until Memorial Day next year which really sucks, unless you have a boat. There's a boat launch on the other end of that side, but all the bank access is in the park area that's closed. Why? I don't know. Anyways, nothing was doing until about 8:45ishpm and finally got this nonscorable bass on my 1/4oz weighted tequila sunrise 6" Zoom lizard. Then 3 casts later caught another maybe scorable bass(didn't bother to weigh either of them) on the same lizard. My girlfriend wasn't feeling very well so we went on to the house. Wish we coulda stayed a little later, no telling what else I coulda caught, but her wellness is more important and at least I didn't get skunked. ?

Yup family also matter not just fishing. You did well my friend and you did catch some bass at least. There always tomorrow.

@JustJames true that, family comes first and there's always tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow(today actually...lol) I went back to the upper lake side of Caney Lakes again this afternoon for a couple hours. Nothing to brag about, but I didn't get skunked either. I caught this nonscorable bass on the same tequila sunrise lizard today not long before having to leave. I found out why tequila sunrise and plum colors are doing so well. I saw the first crawfish I've ever seen out there and it was practically the same color as those colors. Now I need to find some craw type baits in those colors. Hopefully somebody makes them. ?

My week in photos! 

Starting with the most recent and ending with last weekend. 

 

Lone smallie Thursday. Interesting color pattern on it though! Couple bites that day but they weren't having anything to do with eating. 

 

Wednesday, to' some fish up! Smallmouth were sitting on the edges of the fastest current, and eating anything that came within reach. Gar were doing the same, unfortunately, so I lost about 10 lures to those teeth. Feel the bite, set the hook, get half a lure back. Picked up a nice smallie on the second cast that day, and got that nice chunky 2.5lb largemouth which is the biggest green bass I've caught in this stretch of river. Weirdly enough... Couldn't see the fish, but I knew it was going to be a largemouth before I set the hook just by the way the bite felt, and the way the fish started moving with the lure. 

Caught another dozen or so smallmouth that day, some dinks 

but mostly 12-15" size. 

 

Tuesday had an average day. Different stretch of water, got 6 fish in about 2 hours. They were off in calm pockets out of the current. 

Monday was the same. 

 

Sunday... Sandy river res. Almost needs a whole page for itself. Bait fish EVERYWHERE! No bass on them. And if we found bass near them, they didn't want a lure. My first two of the day were a 3.5lb on a squarebill in 5 FOW. It was apparently sitting on a bed?! 

Second was a 4 and change that came in about 8 FOW on a ribbon tail worm. I caught three dinks the rest of the day. Had a couple better fish hooked but they shook off before they even got to the surface. Probably not as big as my first two. 

My buddy was working on a skunk until he picked up a dink about mid afternoon. His next was a 3lber off bottom in 22fow. Next was a 6.4lb 21.5", from some sort of rock structure in 10Fow. Caught on 1/2oz blade bait. Nice solid fish, but that was all he got for the day. 

 

One lure, one fish. No single lure produced a second fish for either of us, so obviously we were not on the pattern. The baitfish that were everywhere in main lake were shad about 2-3" long, and try as we did, we could not get a pattern going with anything we had that was that size. 

Here comes the rain again ?

Yup and it ain't gonna be nice this time. In my area they are calling for over 30 hrs of rain.

3 hours ago, CrankFate said:

Here comes the rain again ?

 

1 hour ago, Gundog said:

Yup and it ain't gonna be nice this time. In my area they are calling for over 30 hrs of rain.

I think this is the first summer I've ever thought we DONT need more rain! Normally we're in a drought and waiting for some tropical storms to dampen things down a bit. Now watching a growing hurricane that might bring us yet more unneeded multiple days of heavy rain, and probably drown out my vacation plans! 

4 hours ago, Gundog said:

Yup and it ain't gonna be nice this time. In my area they are calling for over 30 hrs of rain.

I’m not too far away and it’s been raining a steady 15-20 hours now.

You guys can send the rain to the southwest, my home lake has dropped over 30+ ft to feed irrigation from New Mexico to Texas.

GoPro had just enough juice to turn on and get a pic...hence the lighting and awkward angle. Also standing in an ant hill. 

 

3.5lb, t rigged junebug Dinger. 

 

A  couple of buzzbait bass caught today.

 

Found a nice flurry of fish after work on a small wind blown point.  Chatterbait with a rage craw ripped out of the grass was the ticket.  

 

Heres the best of the evening.

I decided to get out on the water this morning, and happy I decided not to cancel on myself. Woke up at 0300 and the wind was howling outside, figured it was going to be a repeat of yesterday.  When I finally went downstairs and made a cup of coffee I noticed the wind had stopped, and stepping outside it was dead calm. I’m fishing!

 

I got on the water before first light, last two hours of the incoming tide, water 69 degrees and change. Second stop was a rip-rap bank with sparse tules and some current pushing up on it. I had been successful throwing the Pop Max at my first stop, catching some solid fish up to 2 pounds. So I picked up that rod again. I fired the Pop Max up along the bank and worked the bait towards a small clump of tules. What I believed to be a small fish swirled on the bait, but missed. Instead of retrieving the lure and recasting, I killed it in place. The next twitch I made the water erupted and the fight was on!

 

I could tell right away it was a pretty good fish as it pulled drag and headed into a patch of grass. I was able to get the fish out of the grass and it headed for deep water. The only problem with that was that line was now going towards the other side of the boat between the trolling motor and the bow. For some reason the fish decided to change directions and head for another patch of grass.  I was able to hand line her to the boat a short time later and the battle was over! 

 

Taking pictures while trying to weighing her was another cluster that I won’t bore you with, but she weighed 6.1lbs and was released unharmed...

 

Good Fishing all, JB 

I got home, from inventory in West Monroe, around 2:30am this morning and was at Caney Lakes upper side shortly after 3am. Second cast with my 110 Whopper Plopper I had an enormous blowup on it, felt the tug and I didn't even set the hook that hard and pulled it out of its mouth. Tried the 110 a few more times and nothing. So I tried some of my new Shot Callers from Siebert Outdoors and nothing. Tried the 110 a few more times. Nothing! So I tied on my 1/2oz junebug @Siebert Outdoors fogy with a sapphire blue Z Craw trailer. First cast this 2lb 2oz bass annihilated it. I liked to have never gotten it unhooked. If bass had tonsils, that's where my fogy would have been hooked. Never had a bass eat a chatterbait/fogy that deep before, Wow! Finally got it unhooked from there but the bass was still trying to swallow or something because it got caught in its gill plates. Never had this much trouble unhooking a fish. Unfortunately, as you can see in the first pic, the bass was bleeding pretty good from the gills. Sure did hate that, but it did swim off aggressively. I believe it looked worse than it actually was, hopefully anyways. I was out there til well after sunrise with not even another bite. By then it was starting to get rather hot anyways, so I came on home and took a 4 hour nap. Hope I can get to sleep at a decent time tonight. I gotta be at work at 7am. Even though I only caught 1 bass in roughly 7 hours, I didn't get skunked and it wasn't a nonscorable bass! ?

Been trying all summer for a decent top water bite. The bass just don't want to cooperate this year. 

Past few weeks I've been throwing a frog almost every evening after work. Finally managed to get a half decent fish late last week. 

About 2.5 lbs, which is a pretty solid fish for this pond. 

 

I caught three other smaller bass on the frog that evening. That's probably my most consistent topwater bite all year.  

 

Caught this one today on a fat 8” ragetail. 3.8 pounds not gonna lie there was a little longarming going on. I think he could have waged a bit more earlier I. The season head is huge, nice catch just the same. 

Waged abit more I meant to say. 

Weighed more 

The smallmouth were chasing threadfin and I Got a nice one with topwater today !