I, for one, look forward to mocking whatever iteration of Conformity Police you guys cook up next...

1 minute ago, LrgmouthShad said:

do you have some of those peanuts

@MN Fisher well… those’ll do. Awfully good looking peanuts to pack and send that spoonplug back into the stone age

Well guess count me out, I feel I have perfected crankbait fishing. Pretty much used it specifically for last three years spring summer fall and winter.  Im actually amazed its still working. 
 

Todays mission was testing it with braid.

Jury still out. Scared to throw hard and get it bound up. There has to be good braid for power casting.  I was using suffix 832…not impressed. 
 

David Fritts was right you can feel everything with braid. But at $30 a pop im tired trying braids to try find one i can throw without birds nest.  They seem to come out but dont think my rod likes the last minute zipp when it happens.

Parking lot hoodlums in full effect.

 

My tackle has collectively been a dink or skunk magnet the past couple weeks. You know it's not great when you're catching sunfish on your topwater instead of bass.  😆

 

At least Pops ran across a good one...

Nice one pops.

 

Got this one last week, lost 2 bigger and ran off with two of my custom painted cranks i had done from tennesee. Grrr

 

 

6 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

 

A Spoonplug sighting!

 

I sneak a few pics of them in from time to time 😆 You’ll see them in a couple photos from my Oct 12 report, too. Actually been using them quite a bit here lately…something the fish probably haven’t ever seen, and most people don’t own 😎

This winter I'm gonna be fishing like a man from the 80s.  Spoons and blades and pencil baits and traps and spinners and jigs.  Gonna be downright vintage!

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

[REDACTED] and blades and pencil baits and traps and spinners and jigs.  Gonna be downright vintage!

 

11 hours ago, thediscochef said:

I've had one good bite across three boat trips this year with two different guides. I just get the opportunity so little, I'm honestly pretty upset at how that has gone this year. Been looking forward to this trip for weeks. Guide caught a 7+ and a couple smaller fish. My buddy and I had a single 16" fish between the two of us on an 8 hour trip. I get that nobody controls the bite but I do feel like maybe when you realize your clients haven't caught **** all day, maybe put your own rod down for a little bit and give them first crack at a FFS fish for once 

 

I'm no professional guide, but I did guide three fishers this summer. I put two of them in the bow of a tandem canoe and I spent 70% of my time positioning them for bass and coaching them. If they were on a sweet spot, I kept the paddle in my hand so as to be ready to back the boat away from weeds when they hooked a bass. One of the three fishers was a kayak angler, so I gave him all my best spots, suggested tactics, and stayed near him in case he needed me. Again, I wasn't paid, but a paying guide should at least equal the support I offered.

 

FWIW, the kayaker lost a four-to-five-pounder, the kid caught the biggest bass of his life, and the kid's father caught his biggest bass of the summer. If they'd been skunked, I would have been embarrassed. 

 

The kid caught the most and I attribute that to a kid being less set in his fishing ways.

 

Chef, I think your guide used you to pay for his gas and boat's mortgage payment. I think only you and your buddy should be casting to those FFS fish. 

Slow morning. Caught four, missed one. Everything on a blue/black laminate 5” Senko WR. Did have one start to take a Whopper Plopper but other than that, no bites on anything else.  Three were like the one in the first pic. One was decent. 
 

@BrianMDTX nice. Look at those lovely East Texas trees

Water temps here dropped very quickly from 64-ish to 58-ish.  Suddenly I'm finding them bunched up on windblown main lake points.  Love the time of year when, if I catch one, I know I'm catching more from the same spot.  They are definitely hunting.  I have to keep my pliers in my pocket because every single one of them just INHALES it.  Two or three weeks from now they will be piled up in the backs of pockets.  Just Heaven. 

 

Oh, and I have to remember to keep my net assembled and handy this time of year because 4lb 8oz saugeyes are hitting crankbaits in less than a foot of water. SMH

 

 

 

@LrgmouthShad Yep, everything’s still green here! 88° right now. 

@BrianMDTX My biggest dislike of Central Texas is that the ‘trees’ are just glorified bushes. 

 

I have quite a few things I like about Texas though. It certainly is not a bad place to live. That’s even withstanding that the summer was INSANE, STUPID hot

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

@BrianMDTX My biggest dislike of Central Texas is that the ‘trees’ are just glorified bushes. 

 

I have quite a few things I like about Texas though. It certainly is not a bad place to live. That’s even withstanding that the summer was INSANE, STUPID hot

 

Florida is the same way. The trees are too short for me. I want cathedral trees, not shed trees. 

Got a few this AM, the spot paid the ultimate price 

@TnRiver46 the way you are holding that smallmouth it looks like a swimbait 

4 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

@TnRiver46 the way you are holding that smallmouth it looks like a swimbait 

Caught several swimbaits 

@TnRiver46 careful what you say. I can already hear Steve Kennedy running towards you and giggling 

It's October and that means Jitterbug time.  The dinks were tearing it up from first light until the sun hit the water.  After the Jitterbug bite died I got the last bass on a swimjig.  I saw the snake on the way back to the car.

22 hours ago, thediscochef said:

I've had one good bite across three boat trips this year with two different guides. I just get the opportunity so little, I'm honestly pretty upset at how that has gone this year. Been looking forward to this trip for weeks. Guide caught a 7+ and a couple smaller fish. My buddy and I had a single 16" fish between the two of us on an 8 hour trip. I get that nobody controls the bite but I do feel like maybe when you realize your clients haven't caught **** all day, maybe put your own rod down for a little bit and give them first crack at a FFS fish for once 

 

Would've had some words for that guide if it'd been me. A cast here and there is one thing, but you're there to guide, not fish. Wouldn't have tipped, and would've posted a bad review. Sorry to hear the trip was a disappointment for you.

13 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Got a few this AM, the spot paid the ultimate price 

The price of deliciousness 

Got back out today at a spot I've been hitting a lot lately, caught 9 bass on a walking bait. Shallow this morning. I had probably just as many bass miss the bait. Feels good

Kinda fishing report after camping trip Saturday.  The camping trip was to a local 1500 acre lake.  I was temped to call it skunk lake, but I usually manage to catch 1 or 2 tiny spots.    Yesterday was no exception.  I caught a small one.  (first picture, the picture makes it look bigger)  Mrs B's cousins husband caught one.   The picture makes it look smaller.  It "might" have been 14 inches.  I didn't measure it......so it wasn't shorter than 14".   The lake was FULL of people fishing.   One guy is always posting fish pictures of fakebook.   We've thought for some time he was posting a single fish picture multiple times.  I watched him several different times come up to an area, pull a bass out of his livewell, take a picture, then fish for a bit.  Later at the landing I saw him release a single fish out of his livewell.   I saw the pictures later on fakebook.  I'm 99% sure they were all the same bass, out of his livewell with different backgrounds.   I've been resisting commenting "that looks like a bunch of pictures of the same bass".    

 

Anyway, camping trip was great...... didn't get skunked, and had a delicious nice thick rib eye cooked on the campfire last night.