Impromptu outing while wife was cooking supper. Water was green with algae bloom so I gave a chatterbait a go and caught six, this one being the best, maybe just shy of 3 lb.

Got on the water later than normal this morning. Sun was already high and hot, but still managed a good one on the first cast. Pitched a 10” Culprit ribbon-tail worm to a submerged tree. She went 4lb: 

The first cast curse was real though, as I only managed a pickerel and a couple more tiny bass the rest of the day. 

Went out this afternoon with the kid for a couple hours. Little lake just behind our house, usually we get out there a few times a year with the tinny. First time this year, and they weren’t really all that hot, but we did get a couple dozen little fellas and the kid got the best of the day, right around 3 lbs that smoked a wacky rig off a tree right beside the boat. 

Went out tonight after 6. HOT !! With a slight breeze every now and then. Big fish huntin’ today. Found a old 10 inch cut off Mann’s jelly worm from the late 70s . Fished the first deep hole down the lake . Suddenly a nice fish blew up on the jelly worm. But I had thrown an 80s paddle tail worm out to the other side of the hole. So I went to reel it in to get it out of the way and there was this fish on it. Turned out to be big fish of the day , just shy of 4 pounds. The fish that blew up on the jelly had let go by the time I got the other fish in.

Stayed with 10 inch+ worms all evening and caught most of the rest of the fish on the zoom ol’ Monster in watermelon seed. Could not get another big one to bite but I did get a 3 or so. Ended up with 16 Total.

Tough day, only managed this guy and a snot rocket. Gave it a little tickle with my pinky so it would raise his dorsal (Always saw Dave Mercer do this... It actually works lol) One thing I've noticed from all the Largmouth I catch from this particular lake,  they all have bronze backs. Must be the tanins in the water I guess... Or sun burn...

Caught 5 smallies yesterday morning. Two of them were hooked outside of the mouth back to back fish. I've never had this happen before.

Florida fishing can be tough in the summer.  Nevertheless, I managed to nail a few good ones tonight using an old favorite, the big, fat 7" Yum Dinger, Texas-rigged weightless and fished slow. Unfortunately, the 7" has been unavailable for 4 or 5 years, discontinued due to poor sales. But it was a darn good bait to entice big sluggish bass in summer.  I managed to save an old bag of the baits in watermelon green, and put two of them to good use tonight. I sure wish Yum would reintroduce these monster stick baits.

 

 

 

Got my second Thursday night win of the year this past week. 

 

7 hours ago, hawgenvy said:

Florida fishing can be tough in the summer.  Nevertheless, I managed to nail a few good ones tonight using an old favorite, the big, fat 7" Yum Dinger, Texas-rigged weightless and fished slow. Unfortunately, the 7" has been unavailable for 4 or 5 years, discontinued due to poor sales. But it was a darn good bait to entice big sluggish bass in summer.  I managed to save an old bag of the baits in watermelon green, and put two of them to good use tonight. I sure wish Yum would reintroduce these monster stick baits.

 

 

 

I was just thinking about that size yesterday. I used most of mine up too. Now I just have a couple bags left but they are colors that don’t work very good.

That size is money in the summer for large Florida bass!!!

BPS Stick-o, Yama Senko, and SK Ocho all have 7" models. Haven't tried those yet, but surely will.

ZOOM Magnum Trick Worms as well

On 7/14/2019 at 10:58 AM, Dangerfield said:

Crushed my PB (5.60lb) earlier on a Nichols Sabre Jig x Z-Man Diezel Minnowz. Man I love bass fishing.

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Saturday night we launch our boat on our lake. I was hitting them good on a Pop-R, the wife her trusty Senko. My son started to get discouraged because he wasn’t catching any. Then his attitude went south, he kept saying I never catch fish (mind you he’s probably caught 50 or more bass than me this year) then he caught a bass. His attitude changed and we all laughed. Lesson learned don’t complain or else.....?

 

 

Took a Disney guided fishing excursion with my son and good friend while on vacation last week.

 

The Captain put us on some nice Bass. I caught 12 during the two hour trip.

 

16 hours ago, hawgenvy said:

Florida fishing can be tough in the summer.  Nevertheless, I managed to nail a few good ones tonight using an old favorite, the big, fat 7" Yum Dinger, Texas-rigged weightless and fished slow. Unfortunately, the 7" has been unavailable for 4 or 5 years, discontinued due to poor sales. But it was a darn good bait to entice big sluggish bass in summer.  I managed to save an old bag of the baits in watermelon green, and put two of them to good use tonight. I sure wish Yum would reintroduce these monster stick baits.

 

 

 

BPS has a 7" Sticko. I've heard other guys say they're not too different from Yamamoto.

Tried out another new-ish reservoir yesterday. Caught a few, including these two within a few feet of each other, about an hour apart though!

 

 

 

Pitching, punching and frogging.

 

Pads everywhere. Need to spend more time learning this lake and finding the fish- I don't have a topo map.

We decided to head down the road a try the bridge. The vampire beaver (his nickname until his teeth come in) pulled the only smallie out of the water and it was a decent one. 

 

So, these stained shallow reservoirs are pretty different from the ones I usually fish. Haven't been catching very many, but the average size has gone way up.

 

Think I could get used to this!

 

 

Also, a double rainbow! Wonder what it means.

 

 

Ontario Bass at its best. 

 

 

Smallies ...

 

 

More smallies lol...

 

 

my grandsons first t rig bass

 

This one fish near my dock really likes purple rats?

Can't keep em off the ned rig on the kayak.

 Once again leaving the house at 0500, air temperature was 69 degrees and I was expecting a repeat of the previous days pattern. So I drop the boat in and decide to try a different bank, but it seemed the fish obviously had different ideas. Even though I caught a couple of decent fish on a popper and chatter bait, it was the primrose/hyacinth mats that looked like fun. 

 So I go to work on the mats, catching a couple of small fish punching above their weight class. I drop back in and my rod loads up and I set the hook on a heavy fish, and then nothing. I reel in to find my bobber stopper was the only thing left on my line. After some excitable utterances over what just transpired, I commence to rerigging my punch set-up. 

 I decided to try another area, and I made a pitch into the mat. My line jumps, my rod loads, and the rumble begins. I gotta say she felt much bigger due to the hook piercing the side of her mouth and promptly imbedding in a primrose vine. After welcoming her aboard, I was surprised she only weighed 2.9lbs and released her to fight another day...

 

Second day in a row..... 5 hours on the lake with limited success, last cast of the day with a ned from the dock, 4.1

Heck, I am doing better from land ?