Congrats @Choporoz! Monster 

Fish #7 between last night and this morning, and the only one with any size to speak of (not much at that!) On a white/shad color spinnerbait from Walmart, turns out they do work, pinned this guy perfectly in the upper lip, he wasn't going anywhere. 

 

Challenging morning.  Got a few dinks on a buzzbait early and then struggled for a couple hours.  Nothing on wood, points, or outside weed lines.  Ended up chasing bait, which I generally find to be a fools errand.  But that was the only thing working.  Most were under two pounds, but I did manage a 6.7 on a deep crank.

Hard to follow up Choporoz! Lol

 

I got a 3.8ish at ol muddy pond along with some smaller fish recently. Fishing has been slower; I discovered that there is an otter family at the pond. Again fish on the mag 2 worm.

Nice @LrgmouthShad!  I always get concerned when I see otters.

1 minute ago, Choporoz said:

Nice @LrgmouthShad!  I always get concerned when I see otters.

Thank ya. First encounter with otters. I am not happy. There are four of them. Compared to last year, size of fish is a little worse this summer and catching more smaller ones. Seems like less bluegill as well. I wonder if otters are the culprit. Not good

I've been doing well lately with a bait usually reserved for the colder months. The vegetation is down in most of the ponds I fish from recent treatments so it lets me put moving baits back into the rotation. @Team9nine got me onto this a few years ago, a small Johnson Thinfisher with upsized hooks. Lots of fun to fish and very effective. I also use the 1/4 oz. version as well.

On 7/2/2022 at 10:32 AM, Choporoz said:

Morning started slow.  Went over an hour without a bite fishing outside weedlines and steep drops.  Got into a big cove with lots of fish suspended at 10-15.  Tossed a deep crank and it was lights out for a half hour or so.  At one point,  I caught 5 on 6 casts.  Probably around 10 or 12, all around 2#.  Moved up lake and worked a rocky point.  Got a couple decent on a Magnum Rage Bug on a swing jig.  Then this one hit and didn't move.  Thought I set the hook on the rocks.  Once she took off it was a good fight.  New PB at 7.5.

What a pig! Nice job  and congratulations man, not too many ways (excluding topwater) to me that are more fun to catch them on than cranking

5 hours ago, Choporoz said:

but I did manage a 6.7 on a deep crank.

Man , your on fire .

24 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Man , your on fire .

This is @Choporoz right now 

Had our lake boat parade tonight , and when it was over I stayed out and they weren’t biting. Thought I was about to get skunked , but got this one last minute on a rage tail cut-r.

8 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Challenging morning.  Got a few dinks on a buzzbait early and then struggled for a couple hours.  Nothing on wood, points, or outside weed lines.  Ended up chasing bait, which I generally find to be a fools errand.  But that was the only thing working.  Most were under two pounds, but I did manage a 6.7 on a deep crank.

Not too shabby! You’re definitely on a roll!

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

This is @Choporoz right now 

Sounds like waylon…

Went out for a quick solo trip. Slick calm early so it was time for a popper.

 

Wind picked up a bit, time to walk...

 

Picked up more, time for a spinnerbait...

 

Warmed up and they moved deeper, time for a deep crank...

 

Great morning!

 

Taking a break from some early morning action. Only two bass so far, but the first one was the right one. Bit under a tree on a Strike King 3/8 oz Banshee Spinnerbait in Bluegill.

 

 

Every time I wear this shirt fishing good things seem to happen. I started wearing it a lot because it's light weight and cool, very breathable. I think it will become THE fishing shirt.

 

Also, this is the first time the new Max X reels have felt like $50. It definitely did not feel sturdy during this short fight, but it got the job done. I'm still impressed. Knowing what it is, you can't complain.

 

Also also, I'm getting fat as hell.

50 minutes ago, ironbjorn said:

I think it will become THE fishing shirt.

 

50 minutes ago, ironbjorn said:

Also also, I'm getting fat as hell.

Pretty soon the shirt ain’t gonna fit you anymore! ?

5 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

Pretty soon the shirt ain’t gonna fit you anymore! ?

Yes police, I'd like to report an assault.

10 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Went out for a quick solo trip. Slick calm early so it was time for a popper.

 

Wind picked up a bit, time to walk...

 

Picked up more, time for a spinnerbait...

 

Warmed up and they moved deeper, time for a deep crank...

 

Great morning!

 

Love your versatility.

Got out a couple times this weekend. Once was at a local lake and second time was a heavily wooded lake down south a little ways. Did a good job avoiding the crowds and caught fish along the way, can't complain. Biggest bass of the weekend was a 5 on a 5" Mister Twister Poc-it Phenom worm.

Saw a couple little spotted fawns when I blew up against the bank at the lake on Sunday.

Sunday I saved a couple hours at the end of the day to catch a couple catfish for my partner at work. I actually had a hard time catching small enough ones to keep. I wanted fish between 2-5 pounds. Caught 3 in the teens, one was pushing 20, all channel cats. This was one of the smaller ones that was still bigger than I wanted to keep for him. Only got one in that optimal range.

Got on the water over the Canada Day weekend - an early morning outing with my son, then a solo evening (son was swimming with friends) and a solo morning (son sleeping like a log and I didn’t want to wake him. lol).  My son was excited to try some Googan baits, so I bought a pack of Trench Hawgs and a pack of Bandito Bugs.  We Texas rigged them and he was able to land a fish on both, although the morning was slow.  I was able to pick one up on a Berkley Digger, just off a dock on a rocky bottom.  My evening outing resulted in only two decent bites on a YoZuri 3DB Pencil - the first was a maybe 2#-ish smallmouth that jumped and got off, then a better largemouth as the evening faded.  My first fish of the next morning was a good one on a weed less wacky-rigged Gary Yamamoto senko.  I caught a few small ones after that, then had to head in as it was my turn to make breakfast for a cottage full of people.  That was about it for fishing - hard to just disappear all weekend when you’re a guest.?

 

Looking back, almost all our fish came off areas with rocky bottom and weeds in 4-8ft. of water.  We tried frogging, flipping shallow weed edges and fishing deeper with dropshot, with almost no luck.  

Another good one this morning, again on a 3/8 oz Strike King Banshee Spinnerbait, but this time in White. Caught along an overhanging bush. This sucker tore the willow blade off.

 

Finally took the boat out on Sunday with the fam. Dialed in all the new electronics, and they worked cause I saw some blips in 20 fow (hoping for large mouths) but came up with this chonk on a Berkley Dredger.

 

 

Rest of the day was just catching dinks, but a good day none the less.

On 7/2/2022 at 12:32 PM, Choporoz said:

New PB at 7.5.

Nice fish! Congrats on the new PB!

Decided to post some pictures from the weekend. 

small bass didn’t weigh it this came on a wacky rig that my wife said was not working lol, first cast I made caught this one. I caught a few Little Rock bass and a small pike and a smaller bass on a Zara puppy. That takes care of Saturday.

 

 I got out Sunday for a hour and a half, decided wacky rig would be the move again. First cast throwing a black senko get a hit was not expecting it set the hook fight it for a second or two and it comes off ☹️ Although I did get to see some of the bigger bass in the area expose themselves, worth it. The senko flopped over the hook upon hook set is why I didn’t catch the first one. I threw the black senko wacky rig back towards one of the larger bass that I saw earlier, took one look and swam off lazily. I know what this means, time to change color of baits, water’s fairly clear.  So I wacky rig a z man zinker in bass color, throw this back towards a bigger one again. The bass looks interested gets closer so I twitch it, wham watch him eat it. Set the hook bring him in, not huge but still decent 2.80lbs, then it’s pandemonium back to back cast and catches one right after another. Fish probably from 12 - 14 inches being conservative. Then as I am getting ready to leave I catch a angry 1.72lb bass that wants to hook me. I am wading in the water with shorts on runs between my legs and I know this is not good feel the fish and the the hook to my ankle yay. I keep the fish under control the best I can get slack in my line and just pull it out. I enjoyed the day of fishing and had fun.

 

 

It started raining so I did the thing only logical to bass fishermen and grabbed a spinnerbait and hit the pond for 45 minutes or so. Caught 4, the best is pictured. There's been something really special about this one 20 yard stretch of bank on this 6 acre pond over the past week.