I hit some ponds yesterday.  At one pond the dinks were in full feeding mode.  I picked up 10 small bass in about 2-1/2 hours.  They were in water willows around the deeper part of the pond.  This is the biggest of day.

7 hours ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Not much for me, I will just say it I got skunked ?. We got to the park 45 minutes before closing tonight, so not a whole lot of time to fish. I didn’t even bother throwing the waders on and walking down my normal bank. That probably takes me 20 minutes one way if I don’t cast a whole lot. I took everything out of my pockets and just waded in the empty swimming area. Had one miss my whopper plopper 110. That was all the action I saw. They were going nuts further down in the area I normally fish would have been a great top water night if we had more time ?. My wife got one though on a Smokey shad 4 inch rage menace weightless on a 3/0 owner twist lock light wire hook, my preferred hook brand. Probably a little bit over 17 inches long. I am so proud of her ?, her biggest fish of the year so far I think. Now if only I could get her to quit using her zebco reel, yep that’s going to take a minute.

Maybe you should ask to borrow her zebco!……………..

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Maybe you should ask to borrow her zebco!……………..

Yeah I always could, I passed it down to her it’s the one I used last year. A omega z3 or something. To top it all off I got to go swimming with my clothes on to go grab my whopper ploper 110 in bone when my line snapped on the cast lol. A friend of mine gave me a old pinnacle deadbolt classic bait caster ? they couldn’t quite get it down over the years. I don’t know why but I love old cheaper reels people give me to play with. I have fancier newer reels but the older ones hold a special place in my heart for some odd reason. I think I need to replace the line on it same old crusty line that came on it. I just stripped some off the top that looked old and discolored, found line that still looks good and is still fairly strong. Now I need to check the guides on my lews David fritts perfect crank bait speed stick 9 foot extendable rod after reading some reviews lol.

I caught this 2 pound Bass at the lake that my mom’s friend has a vacation house on! This is my PB kayaking fish so far! (Sorry i haven’t posted much in the last few weeks.)

9 hours ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Not much for me, I will just say it I got skunked ?. We got to the park 45 minutes before closing tonight, so not a whole lot of time to fish. I didn’t even bother throwing the waders on and walking down my normal bank. That probably takes me 20 minutes one way if I don’t cast a whole lot. I took everything out of my pockets and just waded in the empty swimming area. Had one miss my whopper plopper 110. That was all the action I saw. They were going nuts further down in the area I normally fish would have been a great top water night if we had more time ?. My wife got one though on a Smokey shad 4 inch rage menace weightless on a 3/0 owner twist lock light wire hook, my preferred hook brand. Probably a little bit over 17 inches long. I am so proud of her ?, her biggest fish of the year so far I think. Now if only I could get her to quit using her zebco reel, yep that’s going to take a minute.

Good job

3 minutes ago, TheBasslayer said:

I caught this 2 pound Bass at the lake that my mom’s friend has a vacation house on! This is my PB kayaking fish so far! (Sorry i haven’t posted much in the last few weeks.)

Congrats…

Got out this AM before church. Temps were good with mostly cloudy skies and a light breeze. Only scored two bass bites but both were decent.  2.3 and 2.2 lbs both caught on a 7.5 Culprit Fire n Ice ribbon tail on the Tokyo rig. 
 

Tired the Johnson silver minnow for about an hour this morning with no bites. I couldn’t stand it anymore and grabbed a worm. Thump……….

Then I tried the spoon for a while longer to no avail (still no captures on that……..). Then I trolled a shad rap and got 3 smallies around 12” or so. Then I saw a bunch of those toothy critters and I couldn’t resist !!!! Got another 40”, quite the battle on 6 lb mono 

Nothing too special today got out from noon till four pm, got maybe 10 total. Definitely nothing big and the bite was slow for the most part. I had a gut feeling they wanted a moving bait bite, so I started out slow with a 3/16 oz green pumpkin weight along with a rage menace 4 inch in summer craw and caught three on that. The biggest small fish came on that, then I switched out to a max scent creature hawg in green pumpkin same bullet weight and caught at least 6 more. The one fish was not super long but was a little chunky for its length. I did see two decent bass cruise by my in the shallows though, I told them I could do with catching them right about now but they wanted no part of that lol. Heading back out with the wife hear in a hour or so we will see. I am going to go with a top water routine for sure, can’t resist.

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Tired the Johnson silver minnow for about an hour this morning with no bites. I couldn’t stand it anymore and grabbed a worm. Thump……….

Then I tried the spoon for a while longer to no avail (still no captures on that……..). Then I trolled a shad rap and got 3 smallies around 12” or so. Then I saw a bunch of those toothy critters and I couldn’t resist !!!! Got another 40”, quite the battle on 6 lb mono 

40” Gar on 6# mono! 
 

 

Epic!

1 minute ago, NYWayfarer said:

40” Gar on 6# mono! 
 

 

Epic!

Haha! Thanks. And it was with my new reel that my buddy got me with no AR switch so I had to use the dreaded drag. Boy did he take some line! He had it singing out 

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

Haha! Thanks. And it was with my new reel that my buddy got me with no AR switch so I had to use the dreaded drag. Boy did he take some line! He had it singing out 

I caught back to back 1 and a half pound Largemouth and Smallmouth today on the river  fishing a 1” swiimbait on a 1/32 oz jighead and 6# mono. I was puffing my chest out until I saw your post. ?

3 minutes ago, NYWayfarer said:

I caught back to back 1 and a half pound Largemouth and Smallmouth today on the river  fishing a 1” swiimbait on a 1/32 oz jighead and 6# mono. I was puffing my chest out until I saw your post. ?

That eagle claw 6 lb is crazy strong. Probably a terrible diameter but I’ve caught some hogs with it, I got a bigger gar just recently on it 

1 hour ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Nothing too special today got out from noon till four pm, got maybe 10 total. Definitely nothing big and the bite was slow for the most part. I had a gut feeling they wanted a moving bait bite, so I started out slow with a 3/16 oz green pumpkin weight along with a rage menace 4 inch in summer craw and caught three on that. The biggest small fish came on that, then I switched out to a max scent creature hawg in green pumpkin same bullet weight and caught at least 6 more. The one fish was not super long but was a little chunky for its length. I did see two decent bass cruise by my in the shallows though, I told them I could do with catching them right about now but they wanted no part of that lol. Heading back out with the wife hear in a hour or so we will see. I am going to go with a top water routine for sure, can’t resist.

The only water that clear in Kansas is the water we drink, and that isn't even always that clear?...

 

 

Good work!

 

Dickerson lake Montcalm county.  First 3 photos:  came while punching pads with my handmade/home made jig with 6th sense stroker  craw green pumpkin burst  for a trailer.  Fish were 15,15, and 16 inches 

4th picture is my punch jig I make.

 5th photo is my jig next to a dead craw dad that the 3rd fish  ( biggest fish) fish puked up,  match the hatch!!!!

Photos 6 and 7 are fish I caught while dragging the drop offs with a green pumpkin 
 Arkie jig that I make .  Also used a 6th sense striker craw trailer in color green pumpkin burst 

Last photo is a pike I caught while punching the pads
 

punching pads is probably one of my favorite things to do while, bass fishing 

9 minutes ago, HaydenS said:

The only water that clear in Kansas is the water we drink, and that isn't even always that clear?...

 

 

Good work!

 

Yeah that lake doesn’t get much boat traffic really, maybe 10 total boats, that’s probably the clearest part of the lake mostly shallow on that end.

Had a pretty tough weekend around here. Stopped by after work Thursday morning last week to test my new Bass X spinning rod. Got 8 without hardly moving my feet in 30 minutes. Fished an MLF tournament on the same lake later that night, managed 9 in 3.5 hours and missed 1st place by 2 fish.

 

Saturday I had one of the hardest tournaments I've ever fished. On the power plant lake I spend so much time on throughout the year, but we got a ton of rain Friday and it came way up overnight, plus there's a billion young of the year shad in the lake right now, so they're even more fat and lazy than usual. 11 of us on the water, I think there was 9 or 10 bass entered with an 8" minimum. I worked hard all day to squeak out 3 bass that went 40.5". Almost half of that being a 19" fish that inhaled a swimbait in some flooded water willows and was the big bass of the day. Had another big one roll on the same swimbait and miss, a huge blowup on a buzzbait that missed, and a fish break me off on a Ned on a log. Missed first place by 4" ?. I did find out that all I have to do is basically show up to the next tournament and I'll win AOY, so that's pretty cool to accomplish in my first year.

Congrats on the fish you caught and the pending AOY.

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Had a pretty tough weekend around here. Stopped by after work Thursday morning last week to test my new Bass X spinning rod. Got 8 without hardly moving my feet in 30 minutes. Fished an MLF tournament on the same lake later that night, managed 9 in 3.5 hours and missed 1st place by 2 fish.

 

Saturday I had one of the hardest tournaments I've ever fished. On the power plant lake I spend so much time on throughout the year, but we got a ton of rain Friday and it came way up overnight, plus there's a billion young of the year shad in the lake right now, so they're even more fat and lazy than usual. 11 of us on the water, I think there was 9 or 10 bass entered with an 8" minimum. I worked hard all day to squeak out 3 bass that went 40.5". Almost half of that being a 19" fish that inhaled a swimbait in some flooded water willows and was the big bass of the day. Had another big one roll on the same swimbait and miss, a huge blowup on a buzzbait that missed, and a fish break me off on a Ned on a log. Missed first place by 4" ?. I did find out that all I have to do is basically show up to the next tournament and I'll win AOY, so that's pretty cool to accomplish in my first year.

19 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Tired the Johnson silver minnow for about an hour this morning with no bites. I couldn’t stand it anymore and grabbed a worm. Thump……….

I like those worms. I'd guess that I've caught more LMB this summer on one of those than any other lure.

1 hour ago, Fishlegs said:

I like those worms. I'd guess that I've caught more LMB this summer on one of those than any other lure.

I dont catch many LMB but the smallies like them too 

Threw into some heavy green pond scum with a senko and pulled this out.

I got this bass today fishing with my friend! I also got a rock bass and 2 crappies. My friend caught 2 big sunfish.

Got out today from 8-12:30. Got 5 decent 2+ lb'ers punching and 1 lone wolf on a choppo that weighed 4-4. One side note; my last fish came when I was heading in and decided to finally play around with the big bite baits big mamma. I got 3 hits on it finally landing the 3rd after letting it run a bit. It weighed 2-4. Not a pig but gives me some hope that i cant throw it with some confidence.  Anyway the 4-4. 

Definitely nothing from my hour out this evening. I tried my local park was busy, all my normal good spots were covered unfortunately except one. It was a little bit early in the night for there but I tried anyhow. Only got one strike bouncing my x zone craw of some sorts off the bottom of the pads I was fishing. That put me down one appendage, I don’t think it had it enough to even set the hook. Didn’t feel like it to me but I could be wrong, that was my first mistake. Kept trying a couple of vacant spots nothing. It’s getting dark now I am getting frustrated, second mistake. I decided to make a last ditch effort at one of the hardest spots on the lake to fish in the light of day let alone the dark. Tiny narrow gap that allows you to stand back from a drainage pipe and make a pitch in can’t really cast here not enough room. Stand back from the pipe 6-10 feet make the perfect pitch in the dark lands right in the juice. Can’t see now only feel, this is where I make my third and final mistake sealing the deal on the ?. Feels heavy I can’t tell if I am in the bush dead in front of me or if it’s a fish. It was a fish feel the tension increase. By this time it’s too late feel it come off that’s all she wrote for the night ?  Moral of the story keep persevering it’s not over till it is when you get frustrated force yourself to slow down or you might miss your only opportunity for victory. At least I learned that my knowledge of how to get on them at spots other than my preferred ones is still accurate and that’s invaluable ? next time hopefully I can seal the deal, good luck and have a great night.

I caught these 2 bass within the 1st few casts at the stream! I also caught my PB of 2021 bowfin!