9 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

I had a devastating day yesterday. Wrote about it in a sperate post in Fishing Reports. Had a better day today. 

Started out with top-water. Only fish I caught on that was a very aggressive bluegill/pumpkinseed hybrid. I mean, look at the size of that lure. What was this guy thinking? 

 

 

Then I caught a dink largie.

 

After about an hour of casting, I couldn't get anymore strikes on the top-water. So I switched to my trusty Rebel Wee-Craw crankbait. (I love those things. The weecraw has saved me from many a skunk. I keep three of them in my tacklebox at all times, and two of their deeper diving older brother.)

 

And that did the trick. The last fish I hauled in for the day was a new PB for me: 2.1 lbs, 16 inches. And unlike yesterday, this hog didn't get away. 

 

All in all, I'd say it was a pretty good day. 

 

I'm so happy you landed today's hog!

4 hours ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Thank you for the recommendation on the backpack, I appreciate it.I have had my bag for 3-4 years now, it’s starting to show signs of wear but it keeps going. I will probably get a backpack in the future. Although I have been downsizing quite a bit, I use to own way too much stuff. The problem is that I like to throw different things than most people, that’s how a collection starts. 

  
 

I checked out that backpack and the bass pro. Bass pro version is on sale right now for $59 and comes with 4 boxes. Check it out. Took it this weekend and it served me well. Time will tell if it holds up. Normally they are $90. The blue one they have for $30 seems much more flimsy. I spent the extra and got the 4 boxes.
 

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/bass-pro-shops-advanced-anglers-ii-backpack

17 minutes ago, Dominat0r said:

  
 

I checked out that backpack and the bass pro. Bass pro version is on sale right now for $59 and comes with 4 boxes. Check it out. Took it this weekend and it served me well. Time will tell if it holds up. Normally they are $90. The blue one they have for $30 seems much more flimsy. I spent the extra and got the 4 boxes.
 

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/bass-pro-shops-advanced-anglers-ii-backpack

I will check that out, I have a spider wire one that I bought my kid for school. He didn’t use it, now it’s full of soft plastics lol. Might just have to unload it and use it. The only problem is that I use 3700 size trays and you need a bag that accepts those with some room to spare.

The good news is I didn't get skunked today.  The bad news is I only caught 2 Bass.  The additional bad news is the one pictured was the BIG one.  Even the Catfish I caught was small.  I didn't catch several White Perch but didn't use any pixels on them.  Shallow flats and points were full of fish yesterday.  None today beyond White Perch.  The 2 Bass I caught today were over 20 feet deep. 

 

5 minutes ago, Woody B said:

The good news is I didn't get skunked today.  The bad news is I only caught 2 Bass.  The additional bad news is the one pictured was the BIG one.  Even the Catfish I caught was small.  I didn't catch several White Perch but didn't use any pixels on them.  Shallow flats and points were full of fish yesterday.  None today beyond White Perch.  The 2 Bass I caught today were over 20 feet deep. 

 

You're a machine brother, you put in some serious time on the water.   

@Woody B: Four times this year, I caught only one bass. Plus, I haven't caught a catfish for years and have never caught a white perch. So, the way I see it, you're twice the bass fisher that I am, many times the catfish fisher I am, and infinity times better at catching white perch than me. Now it is time for me to do this:

 

I’ve been fishing with my 15y/o son before but never specifically for bass.  Started taking him this week and he did great the first time out!  

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Now it is time for me to do this:

Now it's time for you to do this... 59!!! AGAIN!! ?

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

catching white perch

 

We don't call 'em that down here, but I know a guy that can help you get your fix of these. 

Caught a few in the middle of the day at a new pond. Zoom lizard Texas-rigged (Pumpkin-chartreuse tail), and an Old Purple Trick Worm on a drop shot. Fishing, 1996-style!

 

I hear ya buddy...I've been getting my a$% kicked at my local lake. Its by no means a bass factory- but I can usually catch a few. I went out both mornings this weekend and caught a grand total of 2 bass.

I caught a pair of 1.5# LM in 3.5hrs of night fishing, then took a skunking after the lights came on yesterday morning. Brutal.

 We're getting our first rain in a while right now. Nothing heavy, just showers. It's gonna continue through the night, along with 6-10mph winds. I'm gonna get after them about 2am. Hopfully this mild front will jump start 'em.

Good luck. Hope you figure it out.

I returned to this morning's bog where I caught my PB this morning. I fished two hours and landed 13 fish, a mix of pickerel and bass. The first bass weighed 2.57 pounds. The second bass hit a 7" green pumpkin Senko that was T-rigged and weightless. I don't know that I've ever fought a stronger bass. I made a point of keeping her out of the weeds, but man, that wasn't easy. You can see that she's almost 20 inches, but I didn't get a weight because my scale stopped working right when I tried to weigh her. Texas.gov length to weight chart says that she'd weigh 4.68 pounds at her length, but she's so thick, top and bottom, that I'm guessing she weighed five pounds. Now I am tired after fishing this morning (rising at three) and this evening and won't fish for a few days. Whew!

4 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I don't know that I've ever fought a stronger bass. 

Some fish are full of mustard, somehow.

Just now, Drawdown said:

Some fish are full of mustard, somehow.

 

I know. Throughout the fight, I kept thinking I was going to lose. She ran, she jumped, she tried to burrow into weeds. I'm still surprised she ended up in my net. 

8 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I returned to this morning's bog where I caught my PB this morning. I fished two hours and landed 13 fish, a mix of pickerel and bass. The first bass weighed 2.57 pounds. The second bass hit a 7" green pumpkin Senko that was T-rigged and weightless. I don't know that I've ever fought a stronger bass. I made a point of keeping her out of the weeds, but man, that wasn't easy. You can see that she's almost 20 inches, but I didn't get a weight because my scale stopped working right when I tried to weigh her. Texas.gov length to weight chart says that she'd weigh 4.68 pounds at her length, but she's so thick, top and bottom, that I'm guessing she weighed five pounds. Now I am tired after fishing this morning (rising at three) and this evening and won't fish for a few days. Whew!

Great job, and it's important to keep fishing on those rare occasions when the big ones are biting.

 

Again, I'd be focusing heavily on that particular body of water but I understand why you like to bounce around.     That's the beauty of this game, we all have different styles, and goals.    

 

Keep doing you, it's working extremely well ?

2 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

 

Keep doing you, it's working extremely well

Thank you!

 

But I have to take a break. I used to be able to fish all day for a week straight, but those days are long gone.

 

5 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

That's the beauty of this game, we all have different styles, and goals.   

 

Yeah, I love those bonkers days where the bass shred my thumb. Sorry I can't leave a reaction for you. All out!

53 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I returned to this morning's bog where I caught my PB this morning. I fished two hours and landed 13 fish, a mix of pickerel and bass. The first bass weighed 2.57 pounds. The second bass hit a 7" green pumpkin Senko that was T-rigged and weightless. I don't know that I've ever fought a stronger bass. I made a point of keeping her out of the weeds, but man, that wasn't easy. You can see that she's almost 20 inches, but I didn't get a weight because my scale stopped working right when I tried to weigh her. Texas.gov length to weight chart says that she'd weigh 4.68 pounds at her length, but she's so thick, top and bottom, that I'm guessing she weighed five pounds. Now I am tired after fishing this morning (rising at three) and this evening and won't fish for a few days. Whew!

I agree that it is probably 5lbs, has nice thick shoulders and a nice tummy to go with it. Great job today you are on fire like I knew you would be. I am looking forward to hearing about your future trips with anticipation ? have a great night.

I got out twice today, wanted to try my choppo  on mono instead of 14lb fluorocarbon that I normally use on my other reel. I was coming through some sparse weeds and had one roll on it and miss it completely. I think I startled it and it wasn’t going after it to eat it. I then kept fishing in the rain in my hoodie, felt good with the temperatures we had last week. Managed to blow my reel up on a cast and tried to get it out for 8 minutes and decided that I needed to go get some groceries lol. I was there for a hour tops at spring valley fishing. Off to the store I went defeated, the store was crazy busy.

 

 I got home and got the mess out of the reel and salvaged the last half of the spool. I have big game on it and could respool it but I didn’t want to. I was happy and figured that is still plenty of line.

 

 I had to pick my son up in allegan and figured that I might as well put it to the test again and make sure that I had enough line on the reel still. I was still using the choppo and bombing cast and had enough line on the reel. I kept at it a while moved spots and casted and came back through where I caught a pike a little while back. I had a light strike but it didn’t grab it. I kept trying different angles and eventually caught a small smallie about 20 feet off the bank.  The spot was perfectly set up as a ambush point, shallow rocky point leading to a flat with a drop on the outside. It was a good day and fun, I can’t complain.

 

 I find it nuts how camera positions change the size of fish, one pic he looks smaller and the other he looks bigger than he was. I always like trying to make my fish look as small as possible. I catch fish and I don’t want to lie about there size.

10 hours ago, Dominat0r said:

 

I checked out that backpack and the bass pro. Bass pro version is on sale right now for $59 and comes with 4 boxes. Check it out. Took it this weekend and it served me well. Time will tell if it holds up.

 

Price was the primary reason I picked out the Ozarks Trail one. Cheapest I could find. If you can find one for a similar price, I definitely recommend finding a higher quality backpack. Mine has served me pretty well so far, but Ozark Trail is a cheap as you can get. 

Fatty caught off a hooked trout 

A couple more pics of SoCal biggies

Caught a couple tonight, went out for like 45mins before the sprinklers came on haha....

 

8 hours ago, ghost said:

A couple more pics of SoCal biggies

 

Gorgeous fish! You and I had pretty much the same day yesterday, as I caught a 6.5-lber. and a likely 5-lber. You just caught yours in the southwest and I caught mine in the northeast. It's great to see you smiling so wide!