6 hours ago, Melinda M said:

I started fishing a couple of months ago
and got use to the 1, 2, and 3 pounders. I was happy and content with those until last Saturday around 8:00 am. Felt a tug and calmly told my husband to “Get The Net”!  My PB so far. I think i am hooked for life!

It was 5 lbs 3 ounces at 1.7 ft. I don’t know if the picture does the fish any justice…. 

 

This is true. You’re hooked for life! Your pic does not to justice to how impressive your catch is! This is true! Enjoy the best addiction in life! Congrats!

7 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

My Mom hooked a donkey! 5.9 lbs even, her PB. She saw some ripples and called over to me. I told her just leave her bait sitting there. After over maybe half a minute, her line started swimming off. She was excited!

 

Good job to your Mom! Good job coach! 

Ya know being 30 isn't so bad. Caught this on the last cast of the day, not five minutes after realizing I'd been fishing with my drag cranked all day. Two guys landing their bass boat got to watch me land it, which is always fun. What luck.

 

This bass was, uh, "passing" a senko it had taken from a wacky rig. It was far enough along that there obviously wasn't a hook in it, so I very gently got that out of her and set her back on her way. Not sure what the exact weight of this one was, but I'm guessing about 3.5. Biggest mouth on anything (edit: bass) I've caught this year. 

These are five that I've caught over the past two days at Lake Thom-A-Lex. One just shy of 5lbs, one three and a half, and a few around or over 2lbs. I've not been able to get bites deep, only shallow. And if there isn't grass of some sort, forget about it. The best areas seem to be where there's a combination of a rocky bottom and dead grass mats. Laydowns don't hurt either. All fish caught on spinnerbaits shallow. 

 

Hope ya'll are well this holiday season. 

1st on a Megabass Vision 110. 2nd on a Sukoshi Bug.  Both off grass covered humps surrounded by deep water. Had big Spot on that escaped just short of the net. Fished from 10am - 4pm today in steady 15 - 20 mph winds with gust to 40 mph.

 

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

These are five that I've caught over the past two days at Lake Thom-A-Lex. One just shy of 5lbs, one three and a half, and a few around or over 2lbs. I've not been able to get bites deep, only shallow. And if there isn't grass of some sort, forget about it. The best areas seem to be where there's a combination of a rocky bottom and dead grass mats. Laydowns don't hurt either. All fish caught on spinnerbaits shallow. 

 

Hope ya'll are well this holiday season. 

Nice job..?

I haven't posted on this site in ages, but can't resist boasting about last evening's phenomenal bank fishing adventure. I wasn't expecting much at all after the recent cold front and didn't even bring my scale, but I must have landed 50 pounds of bass in just 2 hours, all while being harassed by 2 hungry gators. Every time I hooked a bass the dragons would rush for it, and I had to  manhandle and then flip 5 and 6 pounders on to the bank to avoid disaster. Fortunately, my Dobyns 734 and 17 lb Seaguar fluoro didn't let me down. All the bass were enticed with the Gambler 10 inch ribbon worm in some sort of dark purple. Pictured are a few of last night's glory pigs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

35 minutes ago, hawgenvy said:

I haven't posted on this site in ages, but can't resist boasting about last evening's phenomenal bank fishing adventure. I wasn't expecting much at all after the recent cold front and didn't even bring my scale, but I must have landed 50 pounds of bass in just 2 hours, all while being harassed by 2 hungry gators. Every time I hooked a bass the dragons would rush for it, and I had to  manhandle and then flip 5 and 6 pounders on to the bank to avoid disaster. Fortunately, my Dobyns 734 and 17 lb Seaguar fluoro didn't let me down. All the bass were enticed with the Gambler 10 inch ribbon worm in some sort of dark purple. Pictured are a few of last night's glory pigs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like a great evening of fishing! Good to see you're still around. 

39 minutes ago, hawgenvy said:

I haven't posted on this site in ages, but can't resist boasting about last evening's phenomenal bank fishing adventure. I wasn't expecting much at all after the recent cold front and didn't even bring my scale, but I must have landed 50 pounds of bass in just 2 hours, all while being harassed by 2 hungry gators. Every time I hooked a bass the dragons would rush for it, and I had to  manhandle and then flip 5 and 6 pounders on to the bank to avoid disaster. Fortunately, my Dobyns 734 and 17 lb Seaguar fluoro didn't let me down. All the bass were enticed with the Gambler 10 inch ribbon worm in some sort of dark purple. Pictured are a few of last night's glory pigs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heck Yeah!  Looks like an awesome night!

19 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Looks like a great evening of fishing! Good to see you're still around. 

Thanks, man! Appreciate it.

12 hours ago, hawgenvy said:

I haven't posted on this site in ages, but can't resist boasting about last evening's phenomenal bank fishing adventure. I wasn't expecting much at all after the recent cold front and didn't even bring my scale, but I must have landed 50 pounds of bass in just 2 hours, all while being harassed by 2 hungry gators. Every time I hooked a bass the dragons would rush for it, and I had to  manhandle and then flip 5 and 6 pounders on to the bank to avoid disaster. Fortunately, my Dobyns 734 and 17 lb Seaguar fluoro didn't let me down. All the bass were enticed with the Gambler 10 inch ribbon worm in some sort of dark purple. Pictured are a few of last night's glory pigs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good job.. Maybe gator tail for Christmas dinner ?

The fish were as miserly as Scrooge this AM. Only managed one but at least it was over 2 lbs. left the finesse gear home to try out a jerk bait and Lipless. Was marking fish suspended but couldn’t buy a bite other than the first before the sun came over the trees. Merry Fishmas to all!

4 hours ago, Holetail said:

The fish were as miserly as Scrooge this AM. Only managed one but at least it was over 2 lbs. left the finesse gear home to try out a jerk bait and Lipless. Was marking fish suspended but couldn’t buy a bite other than the first before the sun came over the trees. Merry Fishmas to all!

You did better than me! I fished sunrise to sunset and got skunked. Humbug 

Christmas Eve pond bass on a swing head Ned. Merry Christmas to all our members.

It's a good day to catch my first positively identifiable spotted bass. I have a few others this year that I suspect may have been spotties but the dorsal fins aren't sticking out so I can't see a bridge. But they have the ventrolateral stripes, spots above the lateral line, and smaller mouths. Those, and this one were all caught in the same general 100 yard area.

 

I lost a huge catfish, as well. It and the spottie were the only hard hits I had today.

It was 75, sunny, but gusts to 30. Hope everyone is having a happy holiday

 

It was an awesome Christmas Eve with my son in the Everglades!

Merry Christmas to all the BR family and theirs. Wish you guys all the best. 

Our weather handed me a Christmas present today. Rainfall overnight and a good part of today had storm inlets running which makes for some good fishing.  Seemed more like March than December with temps in the 50's. Caught eight in about two hours on a micro chatterbait with a crappie magnet trailer. Not rapid fire action like some times but I'm not complaining.  We're gonna pay for this weather eventually.

11 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

Our weather handed me a Christmas present today. Rainfall overnight and a good part of today had storm inlets running which makes for some good fishing.  Seemed more like March than December with temps in the 50's. Caught eight in about two hours on a micro chatterbait with a crappie magnet trailer. Not rapid fire action like some times but I'm not complaining.  We're gonna pay for this weather eventually.

Haven’t even got a swipe from a bass on a micro Chatter in the ponds I fish - strange. I’ve given up on them - lol.

2 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Haven’t even got a swipe from a bass on a micro Chatter in the ponds I fish - strange. I’ve given up on them - lol.

I find that it's easier to keep down without a skirt. It's been working good for me this past week.

Glad to see some love for the skirtless microchatter here, it's the main lure I've used all year. All my annual PBs came on that this year. Including that spotted bass yesterday. They fish way better without without skirt, @The Bassman is dead on about that.

On 12/21/2021 at 7:01 AM, LrgmouthShad said:

My Mom hooked a donkey! 5.9 lbs even, her PB. She saw some ripples and called over to me. I told her just leave her bait sitting there. After over maybe half a minute, her line started swimming off. She was excited!

 

Great fish.

 

You might want to get a new scale tho; that thing looks a lot closer to 10 lbs than it does 6.

22 minutes ago, bassh8er said:

Great fish.

 

You might want to get a new scale tho; that thing looks a lot closer to 10 lbs than it does 6.

She will appreciate that. Thanks
 

Perspective though ?. pictures can be tricky. 

 

In seeing the bass in person, looked right around where it weighed. I invested in a higher quality scale and tested it on a half gallon of milk; it is accurate

 

Speaking of micro chatterbaits, I caught a new PB LMB on one tonight. Only fish I got. Black color, skirtless, rigged with a 3" BPS split tail stiko, vertical fins. 

6.8lbs by my scale. It's a Christmas miracle. A very happy holiday to you all!

2 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

Speaking of micro chatterbaits, I caught a new PB LMB on one tonight. Only fish I got. Black color, skirtless, rigged with a 3" BPS split tail stiko, vertical fins. 

6.8lbs by my scale. It's a Christmas miracle. A very happy holiday to you all!

Very nice. Merry Christmas. What a great gift.

30 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

Speaking of micro chatterbaits, I caught a new PB LMB on one tonight. Only fish I got. Black color, skirtless, rigged with a 3" BPS split tail stiko, vertical fins. 

6.8lbs by my scale. It's a Christmas miracle. A very happy holiday to you all!

Congrats!