Went out for a few hours late morning today, rough go of it but managed a handful of fish. 1 nice crappie, no pic sorry. Caught these guys on a 1/32 oz boot tail. 

I fished an awful lot this weekend. Something like 18 hours. Caught quite a few fish, spinnerbaits were the best today, buzzbaits were the best Saturday. At one point I had them going good on a really large 3/4oz spinner with a #6 blade and a 4" swimbait trailer. Expected anything that bit it to be big, but that was not the case lol. No bigguns but was very fun. Here's a few fish from the weekend including one got on a t-rig. 

Got out for a couple hours this evening. First hour I caught 5 on the june bug magnum zoom lizard. Last hour= nothing. 

Nice evening on the water … Still nothing big. It’s like they’ve totally disappeared the last 8 months.

On 9/30/2021 at 9:14 AM, gimruis said:

So far we have three different parts of the country indicating a different species is "poor man's lobster."

 

Tennessee - walleye/sauger

Minnesota - eelpout/burbot

Kansas - flathead catfish

 

Anyone else want to chime in with their regional poor man's lobster?

Crawdads may be in The deep south. I honestly would rather eat them than real lobster. 

Took a few days off and went south to fish with a buddy of mine. We caught a few, but nothing huge. After beating the bank throwing a frog over the last bits of good vegetation we could find, we hit the dock and tied on the drop shot. This 2-11 was the biggest one we caught over 3 days.

 

Haven't posted here in a awhile. I was going to last Tuesday while I had the day off for my birthday but I got too busy with other stuff and forgot so here we go, so far early fall has been great to me here in New Jersey. Caught some nice size fish including a 4lber (first fish) on my final boat weekend before the lake closed for the season my final lake fish was a cool looking bass that had a weird spine and only one eye! Also caught some chubby dinks at my pond on spinnerbaits. 

11 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Crawdads may be in The deep south. I honestly would rather eat them than real lobster. 

Lobster is one of the most overrated foods out there imo. 

10 hours ago, TriStateBassin106 said:

Haven't posted here in a awhile. I was going to last Tuesday while I had the day off for my birthday but I got too busy with other stuff and forgot so here we go, so far early fall has been great to me here in New Jersey. Caught some nice size fish including a 4lber (first fish) on my final boat weekend before the lake closed for the season my final lake fish was a cool looking bass that had a weird spine and only one eye! Also caught some chubby dinks at my pond on spinnerbaits. 

Nice ?

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Lobster is one of the most overrated foods out there imo. 

I agree. It’s my least favorite seafood- I would much rather have fried fish. 

My wife’s favorite seafood is lobster. 

We are polar opposites about nearly everything.

14 hours ago, TriStateBassin106 said:

Caught some nice size fish including a 4lber

Nice fish!

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

30 minutes ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Congratulations on your win??

47 minutes ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Great Job!

48 minutes ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Good job Jwall.  Congrats ???

This morning I got back out for three and a half hours -- the first time i've been able to do any fishing in more than a month.

 

Went with an old stand-by strategy: "The 1-2 Punch":  (1) spinnerbait the edges and lanes of remaining green vegetation, then (2) move in on the thicker spots and pitch to any holes. The tools of choice today were a Siebert Cosmic Compact double-willow Spinnerbait with a "Pumpkinseed" skirt, and a t-rigged Rage Tail Space Monkey.

 

Hit four with the first punch, and two more with the second.  Four of the six were 14"-15" pound-and-a-halfers:

 

...and two were around 18" that went 3.07lb and 3.34lb, one on each bait:

 

All in all, a fine way to spend a precious few spare hours. I probably won't get to do this more than a couple more times before winter.

1 hour ago, JWall14 said:

First Club Tournament for Purdue. We fished Racoon Lake in central Indiana. It is a really tough fishery due to a 16" size limit. I do not have a partner so I was assigned a boat driver. We fished from 7:20 to 3:30 the day after a big USA Bassin Tournament.

 

How:

Junk fishing- He was getting numbers on a waky rig with a split shot so I played around trying to get some over 16". I played around with a tail spinner, jerkbaits, flukes, drop shots, glide bait, topwater, and underspin.

 

We ended up winning the tournament with 3 fish for 8.2lbs. YES HE ACTUALLY CAUGHT A 4LB BASS ON A 5'9 ULTRALIGHT TWO PIECE ROD! I did not see the win coming at all! There were only 4/11 boats that brought in keepers and we caught three out of the six! Not a bad way to introduce myself to the team! I imagined winning my first tournament but did not really think it would happen due to my lack of knowledge and experience on the lake.

 

*Also fun to note we would have won the USA Bassin event the day before as well!

Congrats! Hopefully the first of many.

53 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Congrats! Hopefully the first of many.

I sure hope so! Thanks everyone!

Spent Sunday on Mille Lacs.  One 16.75" right away in the morning, then nothing until evening when I got 3 more from 17-19" and missed 2.  Spent the day fishing shallow but it doesn't seem like the majority of the smallies have moved up yet.

Back to my normal routine of fishing before work on remote days and weekends. Fall has been decent so far at the river. Wacky, Ned and T-rigs are getting it done.

 

Got out today 8-1. Not my best day, whiffed on a couple ,dropped a couple and had a couple whiff on my baits but managed to boat 5, 1 on a buzzbait, 3 on a Spinnerbait, and 1 on a frog that weighed 4-10.

A couple ‘firsts’ yesterday; my first bass on a spinnerbait in over a decade (I just stopped throwing them), and my first bass on a straight monofilament/nylon/copoly setup in over a decade (usually all fluoro on casters except for one braid outfit). Actually caught  ten total; the 75 is my crappie counter from the same trip (mixed bag).

 

 

2 hours ago, Team9nine said:

A couple ‘firsts’ yesterday; my first bass on a spinnerbait in over a decade (I just stopped throwing them), and my first bass on a straight monofilament/nylon/copoly setup in over a decade (usually all fluoro on casters except for one braid outfit). Actually caught  ten total; the 75 is my crappie counter from the same trip (mixed bag).

 

 

Like those fluted blades ?

Well josh wins lunker of the day award. He got this nice almost 20” fish with a zoom fat albert in pearl color, heckuva battle 

 

I got a 17” throwing a popper out into the middle of the river, it was a cartwheeling strike I won’t soon forget

Then close to dark I got a 15.5” on a worm  that fought really hard as well 

10 hours ago, Team9nine said:

A couple ‘firsts’ yesterday; my first bass on a spinnerbait in over a decade (I just stopped throwing them), and my first bass on a straight monofilament/nylon/copoly setup in over a decade (usually all fluoro on casters except for one braid outfit). Actually caught  ten total; the 75 is my crappie counter from the same trip (mixed bag).

 

 

I checked out the pictures before I read your post and almost swallowed my tongue.