I was thinking about heading there Monday. Surprisingly, I did not catch any largemouth in the warmer water.

The two I caught were on rip rap in cold water.

Been a month or two since I last fished. Caught 6 little guys and this not-so-little one today.

 

 

 

 

 

Put a new PB in the boat today!!! My buddy’s been working hard for this fish for a long time!

 

8.5lbs, 24”

 

I had to play net man on this one, and we were both pumped to bring in a Giant first fish of the day! 

Rest of the day was an absolute grind. Only three fish total between us. Can’t complain too much for the first fish out of a new lake! We were also the only boat on the water from sunrise to 3pm. One other boat put in, and then a few brave kayakers hit the water just as the wind picked up to 15-20mph and chopped the place up big time. 

 

43° water and less than 3 foot visibility. They were on the bottom, and we could find an occasional school, but just could not get them to eat. Except the important one! 

Was planning to fish the home lake today after 1. Forecast was rain. Radar seemed to confirm it , and showed some lightning strikes in it. Waited awhile and it still looked immenent , so I decided to fish the cypress pond down the road so I could leave quickly if needed.

First cast got a dink, 2nd cast, one that was about 2 inches longer. Got these off a drain.

Caught 5 more 1-2 pound fish, all out of the cypresses. Caught all the fish on 5 inch yum dingers in alabama bug and pumpkin chartruese tail.

Nice little back up spot. These fish are broader in the tail half of the fish than the head half. Kind of backwards compared to most of the fish I normally catch.

As I write this, is still hasnt rained yet...

The Yum Dinger has become my new go-to worm lure. Tex-posed, Texas rigged, wacky, neko, shakey head, doesn’t matter, it catches fish. Also caught several big bass this year on it. There’s a time and a place for it, but it just flat out works.  

It’s been awful slow here, but I finally, FINALLY figured out these cold water bass. On Wednesday I caught the fella pictured here and I was absolutely over the moon. I’ve only been bass fishing for a few months, so to me any fish above two pounds is something to write home about. I couldn’t wait to catch a few more.

 

On Thursday, family obligations and a cold snap both meant I couldn’t hit the water. But Friday I went back out to the lake, VERY excited...aaaaand the lake was frozen over. Heck and darn.

Caught a mixed bag , including a humpback smallmouth and a crappie with a lamprey on it.  We caught largemouth smallmouth spotted bass bluegill white bass and black crappie , all in the middle of the day 

 

Temps moderated a little here in central IN since Thanksgiving. Just for fun I went back to my warm weather tactics by throwing a weightless Senko. Just fished it deeper and slower. Had real good results with three over 2 lb. and this big one. Sorry about the bad lighting.

On 11/23/2018 at 6:34 PM, N Florida Mike said:

Was planning to fish the home lake today after 1. Forecast was rain. Radar seemed to confirm it , and showed some lightning strikes in it. Waited awhile and it still looked immenent , so I decided to fish the cypress pond down the road so I could leave quickly if needed.

First cast got a dink, 2nd cast, one that was about 2 inches longer. Got these off a drain.

Caught 5 more 1-2 pound fish, all out of the cypresses. Caught all the fish on 5 inch yum dingers in alabama bug and pumpkin chartruese tail.

Nice little back up spot. These fish are broader in the tail half of the fish than the head half. Kind of backwards compared to most of the fish I normally catch.

As I write this, is still hasnt rained yet...

Pretty setting....

Her first bass.

 

 

Caught this girl yesterday, full of eggs. She looked liked she was ready to bed.

Look at those cypress trees . I only fished them once in Florida . It was different and fun .

Holy smokes. Maybe that’s fish had just come from a low country crawfish boil!!!

New personal best. Unfortunately, I left the scale at home, so I'll just have to catch another one to weigh it! Pickwick Dam, TN, 11/28/2018.

 

 

 

Congrats @rv8apilot, I bet that water is raging

I only got one today but it was cool. I was trolling a break line, looking for a key piece of cover on the drop off like @Team9nine @Catt and @WRB are always talking about. I found what I think was a tree with a smallmouth on it! Dropped a spoon straight down and he attacked it immediately. I have never read anything by buck perry but I think he caught me a bass today 

@TnRiver46 

 

Sometimes it's that easy ?

Took my son, visiting from Nashville, out to a local pond today to do a little bank fishing before supper. The 2-4 pounders were aggressive, probably in pre-spawn mode, and we caught a bunch.  The lure du jour was Gambler's "Big EZ," the color "forty-niner."

 

couple more crawfish eaters from the cypress knees. caught same afternoon as one above.

 

Got my first fish off a spinnerbait the other day! Probably one of the last fish of the season for me, the waters gonna be freezing soon and I have the flu ?