2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

the most ferocious and fearless bass that swims. I pity the angler who hooks that bass in a few years. If they make the mistake of bringing it aboard, it's sure to go for their throats.

Those mean little fish are the ones that grow up to be the beasts we all love.

51 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Those mean little fish are the ones that grow up to be the beasts we all love.

 

Heard we needed some more dinks in here? 
 

Got 3 in a couple hours this evening, all on modified SV-3

4lb 3oz caught on a Texas rigged Yum Dinger bream color , in three foot of water off a laydown .Back end of creek.

A little afternoon Rat-L-Trap action. Going to hit Headwaters on Sunday, so hoping to get some good fishing in and break in the new gear right. 

 

It looks like we’re getting an early fall out west on the delta, mornings right at 60 degrees with a high in the low 90’s and low 70’s for water temps. With the state guys out there spraying the mats like they’ve got an unlimited supply of roundup I targeted the remaining sparse mats to punch. I found this stubborn 4.8lb liked seeing a beaver come through the mat.

Night Dinks by Bob Seger 

Since Jr. went back to school after summer vacation, I've had to do the requisite 'push hard at work' that comes with that relief since I watch him during the summers while running a small business from home....fishing has been less frequent.  But still managed to get out for some killer trips.

 

No Giants (missed more than a couple and that's just how it goes!) but lots of really nice 1-3 lb bass caught on buzzbaits, jigs, beavers and spinnerbaits.

 

An extreme heatwave just came to a conclusion that had fish pulling back off the bank somewhat but some rain last week gave way to some 80° high 57° low days (today is one!) and fish seem to be pushing up shallow again in the ever present ebb and flow of bass seasonal migration.  I think this accounts for the 'difficulty' consistently locating bass during August and September.  September is finally feeling like October and perhaps it will stick this time.

 

Had some fun doing a little night fishing last weekend.  Jake has been finding lots of big juicy black and red crawdads at the pond!  Hoping I can make use of the right bites this weekend ??

 

Tight lines and looking forward to the fall beast parade!

 

3 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

 

Tight lines and looking forward to the fall beast parade!

 

I can't take the pressure! As I already admitted, I didn't catch many beasts last fall and I'm worried that I'm a one trick pony, a dang summer bog basser*. I keep watching fall videos and think about them when I rig my rods, but so far, the suggested lures, like walking baits, spinnerbaits, and jerkbaits, aren't working for me. And the ones they DON'T suggest, like rubber worms, Whopper Ploppers, and paddletails, continue to work for me. When more weeds die back, I am going to use my brass Mepps spinners more, since the guys who make videos say that fall bass like smaller baits. The only thing I don't like about my Mepps is how quickly they tarnish and how I have to keep buffing them with steel wool before using them.

 

I think the two bass below were my ONLY beasts last fall, so if I fail again, I'll just keeping posting these two because they are fall bass.

 

 

@thediscochef: Night Dinks is an overlooked great by Seger.

 

*I did catch a few beasts last spring, but I'm still mostly a summer bog basser. 

 

@J._Bricker and @scaleface, those are beauties. 

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Fishing from the old Jon boat.  

Fall flickers in and out of phase til it's permanent and it's different all over the US (surely later for y'all up north!)

 

I continue to have 'summer days' where ALL they want is a t rigged beaver with unpegged weight flopped in front of them and dragged.

 

But occasionally fall flickers mightily and I catch a few on swim jigs/spinnerbaits/buzzbait/squarebill/lipless.

 

Eventually the summer days cease and the fall days start flickering in a wintery fashion.

 

I'm always one foot in the last season, one foot in the next and two firmly planted in this current moment (yeah I got 4 feet ?)

 

@ol'crickety I think fall is about to come knocking at your door hard and fast when it does!

 

11 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

I'm always one foot in the last season, one foot in the next and two firmly planted in this current moment (yeah I got 4 feet ?)

 

Ha!

 

12 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

I think fall is about to come knocking at your door hard and fast when it does!

 

I'm not going to answer because that will Tropical Storm Lee. ?

 

Seriously, I am hopeful for my alewife pond and here's why: The YouTube video guys say that fall bass move shallow. Articles say the same thing. The problem with my bogs is that there is no deep and shallow. It's all shallow. However, my alewife pond is mostly deep. It's even deep tight to the shorelines, but at the inlet and outlet, it is shallow and the inlet has a wide flat, so I'm hoping they congregate and feed big-time to fatten for the winter. Otherwise, I'll be posting my two bass from Fall 2022, again and again and again. 

 

19 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

But occasionally fall flickers mightily and I catch a few on swim jigs/spinnerbaits/buzzbait/squarebill/lipless.

 

I'll keep trying ^them^ too and hope for a flicker. 

51 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I keep watching fall videos and think about them when I rig my rods, but so far, the suggested lures, like walking baits, spinnerbaits, and jerkbaits, aren't working for me. And the ones they DON'T suggest, like rubber worms, Whopper Ploppers, and paddletails, continue to work for me.

 

It's as if you know the water you fish better than a rando on youtube.

This should be the billboard in front of Katie's home!

9 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

This should be the billboard in front of Katie's home!

 

 

One bass, kinda insignificant size this evening. I launched at the dam to check on that area. Not a lot of wind so I skipped docks at the marina and mixed in some pitching and casting too. Why posting? That was first bass on a jig at Stillhouse this year and first bass caught skipping this year too. 
 

Yes, I skip decent with a baitcaster out of the kayak

Cookie cutter smallmouth this morning ~ 

I like it. 

A-Jay

Breaking in a new setup this morning from the bank of a small river - Tsurinoya Dragon II, 6'6" Light baitcaster, rated for 1/16-3/8oz:

Now, I don't know BFS from IBS.... but I slapped on a silver max 3 I had laying around, and found I could order one of those shallow refit BFS spools for it.  Strung it up with 10lb sufix braid and 4lb xt leader and thought I'd try slinging around a #2 mepps aglia .... amazingly, it works.  Not getting the distance of a spinning rod yet, but pretty good enough.

 

These guys showed up to help me test it out...  green bass and bronze bass, sharing the same small midriver hole in harmony -- why, it warms the heart:

 

 

15 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

green bass and bronze bass, sharing the same small midriver hole in harmony -- why, it warms the heart:

 

Now, ^this^ is @PhishLI-grade wit! 

 

Beauties, @A-Jay! 

I caught 18 largemouth between 14-18 inches and 3 northern pike this morning in about 4.5 hours of fishing.  The great thing about this time of year now is that there are far less anglers and boaters on the water.  I was the first one there at 7:30 and there was only one other boat on the lake all morning. Caught all of the fish in shallow water around weeds and docks on moving lures.  I was also able to visually confirm that dinosaurs have not yet gone extinct.

@gimruis: I am so happy for your season of bounty. You officers of the law deserve some R & R. I like the shape of your second bass. It's shorter, but bigger. 

Out here slayin monsters ?

6 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

Out here slayin monsters ?

That lake looks familiar 

@A-Jay - what a gorgeous pair of smallies!

 

@thediscochef - your hands are absolutely huge.  It must be impossible to find gloves. ?

Wife had to do PR at the Elon University homecoming football game.  Jake and I love football but football while moms working sounded kinda less fun than foregoing the opportunity until she is able to join us.....instead ???.....we found a niiiice little 2 acre HOA style pond with lots of grass and a fountain in the middle smack dab in the middle of student housing on campus and we decided to hit it.

 

It was one of the best days of my life!  I caught over 10 LMB all on a Accent Jacob Wheeler buzzbait in black with a Missile Baits Chunky D in bruiser flash on the back.  I missed more fish than I caught but I sure did catch some nice ones.  Last one of the day EXPLODED right next to the bank and my trailer was long dead but she still hammered it.  Guess ya don't need a trailer.??????

 

Jake got a PB warmouth and a PB longear out of the trip.  Buzzbait has skyrocketed to my #1 confidence topwater presentation in the past month.  I just wanna go back to that pond and walk that bank forever!!!  ????????