Just now, galyonj said:

It has been BRUTAL.

man i think every year okay it will be a little better this year, going to try some new stuff its gonna work cant wait to take everyones money. then typically by midweek the first week of august im complaining about there not being any fish in the entire lake. next year i'm going to fish all of my classic qualifiers early so i can take off of august instead of making weekly donations lol

2 minutes ago, Jermination said:

man i think every year okay it will be a little better this year, going to try some new stuff its gonna work cant wait to take everyones money. then typically by midweek the first week of august im complaining about there not being any fish in the entire lake. next year i'm going to fish all of my classic qualifiers early so i can take off of august instead of making weekly donations lol

Good plan. Do it early, then sit in the AC and relax. lol

Headed south on Friday afternoon, went fishing on Saturday. On my very first cast with the new spinning rod I got this 1 and 3/4 lber on a drop shot Super Fluke.

 

About an hour later, caught this 19 incher. I yelled out for my buddy to bring the scale because he had with him but he was too far, so I couldn't get the weight on him. Maybe 3 1/2 lbs? Same deal, but this time on a Super Fluke Jr.

 

Wanted to film the release in slow-mo, but he got antsy as soon as we were near the water so the release part was a little less graceful...

 

As I said last week the bite was good but the quality ones still haven't showed up, well last night they sorta did...landed this hog under the pond fountain slow jigging a war eagle finesse jig black and blue paired with a baby rage menace trailer, based on his fat belly he was probably feeding on shiners which are plentiful in this pond and are big. 

Another solid fish (4.01#) from the local res over the weekend on another of my favorite finesse jigs, the Booyah Baby Boo.

 

First Hud fish..68 Special in Hitch to be exact. This one went 4-2

 

 

Disclaimer: I don’t catch many largemouth so pardon my excitement 

 

Crazy day. So they finally started dropping the lakes upstream of me. That means 2 (two) 30,000 acre lakes have to come down 30 feet for the winter. All that water has to come rushing by my house, and it started in earnest on Monday. I got off work and told my buddy to meet me

at the boat ramp. When I arrived at home, my fiancé’s car is blocking my truck and boat. I can’t find her keys and she’s not answering.......... I start trying to wiggle the boat out but finally she calls me

and tells me where the keys are, my buddy has been at the ramp 30 minutes haha. When I launch the boat, I can tell the current is rolling, I say to my buddy this should push a lot of fish up onto the bank. Sounds like a good plan but we always fish the bank anyway, it’s just a narrow river channel with boat traffic up the middle. Got a dink spotted bass and dink smallmouth with a worm, I decided the skunk is gone so just throw the frog, my new favorite the booyah toad runner. I missed 3 dinks immediately then BLAM!!! Got a largemouth maybe pushing 3 lbs. I was pretty excited about that and my buddy said let’s go fish the barge ties with Texas rigs. The current was so fast I cut the motor about 100 yards upstream of them and starting drifting towards them, why not chuck the frog into a creek mouth on the way down. BLAM! I catch a largemouth a little bigger than the first one. I normally get smallmouth, I found it wild that the big wave of current ignited the largemouth. I’ll take it! 

 

Plopper 110

Jerkbait yesterday morning 

1 hour ago, Bird said:

Plopper 110

 

That one looks *really* surprised he got caught ?

16 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Another solid fish (4.01#) from the local res over the weekend on another of my favorite finesse jigs, the Booyah Baby Boo.

 

Baby boo was the first jig I ever used them I moved on to bigger and "better" things. Caught the crap out of them and put them away. Lately I've been in love with small jigs...mini ball, bass patrol footballs, bitsy bug. Went as far as having Bluebasser make me a bunch of improved bitsy bugs...which are exec btw he did a great job. May have to break the baby boo out again...really like it as a finesse swim jig.

16 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Another solid fish (4.01#) from the local res over the weekend on another of my favorite finesse jigs, the Booyah Baby Boo.

 

Baby boo was the first jig I ever used them I moved on to bigger and "better" things. Caught the crap out of them and put them away. Lately I've been in love with small jigs...mini ball, bass patrol footballs, bitsy bug. Went as far as having Bluebasser make me a bunch of improved bitsy bugs...which are exec btw he did a great job. May have to break the baby boo out again...really like it as a finesse swim jig.

16 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Another solid fish (4.01#) from the local res over the weekend on another of my favorite finesse jigs, the Booyah Baby Boo.

 

Baby boo was the first jig I ever used then I moved on to bigger and "better" things. Caught the crap out of them and put them away. Lately I've been in love with small jigs...mini ball, bass patrol footballs, bitsy bug. Went as far as having Bluebasser make me a bunch of improved bitsy bugs...which are excellent btw he did a great job. May have to break the baby boo out again...really like it as a finesse swim jig. 

Sorry for the triple post..had a little gliche. Maybe I'm just that excited.

The bite was hot yesterday evening. The temps have been cool for a while but I was struggling to catch fish in my last few outings. Seems like the switch finally flipped and the bass are in feeding mode. They’re setting up on the same spots they were in the pre-spawn, which I find interesting. Caught most of em on a ned rig but had a few t-bone my fluke. None of them really got the hook though, it was more of a quick swipe. 

Caught a decent one today at Bon Temp in Marin, CA

 

 

Quick trip this morning was a success.  

A good week highlighted by this 4.2 pounder at Tulloch Res, California, last week from the dock.

 

Smokey skies from the fires, 80 degrees maybe, late afternoon. YUM Dinger, green pumpkin on "top" and white on bottom. Split shot rigged weedless on 4/0 bla bla...

 

My third largest LMB. I also caught my first night fish, on two different nights, a few dinks, and a few 3 pounders. Lotta fun!

 

wow what a few hours on tuesday afternoon! decided to go out for 3 hours after work and put it on em! had a 5.2 smallie and a largemouth just under 5. took my retired neighbor with me and the pic with the little fish is the only one he managed to boat. had to hold it for comparison LOL "you vs the guy she told you not to worry about"

 

 

Couple pics from this week. 1st one is a 3-8 from tues. On a double wide beaver and 2nd a 3-10 on a buzzbait from a quick 20 min. before work bank trip this a.m.

Got 16 today in the rain, including this 4 .6 on a rage tail cut-r.

This guy doesn't look like anything special - lol - but according to my counts, this bass was number 2,000 for the year 

 

 

Front came through yesterday with blue skies and 15-20 mph winds, but today the winds calmed to 5-6 mph. The fish, which really seemed to shut down yesterday, have adjusted and started prowling the deep edge of the weedline or slightly out from it (you can see that edge pretty well in the pic above - at very top). Managed 26 fish in less than 2 hours on Midwest Finesse gear (1/16 oz. mushroom head jig paired with slightly shortened Zman Finesse WormZ). Now sitting on 2,008 bass with some of the better months ahead of us as the water cools, and assuming we don't drop straight into a winter scenario. However, my bass time might start getting conflicted with my crappie time 

 

 

58 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

This guy doesn't look like anything special - lol - but according to my counts, this bass was number 2,000 for the year 

congrats . I'm stuck at 800 . Havent been able to fish in three weeks because of a pinched nerve in the neck  . I was well on my way to 1000 too . Hoping to get out this week and add another 50 to the total .

2 hours ago, scaleface said:

congrats . I'm stuck at 800 . Havent been able to fish in three weeks because of a pinched nerve in the neck  . I was well on my way to 1000 too . Hoping to get out this week and add another 50 to the total .

I was in nearly the same boat as you. Lost ~3 weeks due to being down sick, and just started back fishing the past 7-8 days. Still not 100%, but gained a new appreciation for just how much I've been able to go this year up until that point.