Dang @Woody B let's go buddy!

 

I had the pleasure of doing an impromptu guided bank fishing safari with @FishTaxand his son this morning with my son.

 

It poured hard as all get out but Jake and Josiah got on some catfish and crawdads and frogs while the dads bass fished.

 

Managed to get Jeremy on a real live bass fish and in fact he did indeed hook one that we estimate was between 5-7 lbs on a Shakey head that came up and jumped 2-3 times before snapping him clean off out in open water on a drop off.

 

 

He also got a 50 lb grass carp to hit his finesse jig TWICE and almost hooked her the second time.

 

We messed around with some bluegill feeders and some wolfpacks but the rain had them literally sliding up and down right before our very eyes all morning!

 

We had a blast and it was nice having the pond to ourselves on a Saturday and hopefully next time we land that 7 lber when we hook her.

 

😎👍🏼🎣

Fun half day! One of those times you are thankful for BassResource.  Came down to the lakehouse to retrieve my weedeater (and run it). It was raining when I arrived so I fished out of a kayak for 3 hours, got 7 bass all on the same senko (unheard of, right?!) I took a rigging tip from @TOXIC and left the eye of the hook out. It appears that was the ticket, the man knows his senkos. Also a generous member of the site gifted me the bag of senkos. What a cool website, eh? The gamakatsu nano also was sticking several of them right thru the cheek plate like @Bluebasser86 described, even with 12 lb mono ! 
 

came up the hill to clean the gutters and cut the grass before going back home and I could hear the cicadas. Saw a few holes in the ground…… then looked at the siding and chimney and they were out ! 

 

27 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

he did indeed hook one that we estimate was between 5-7 lbs on a Shakey head that came up and jumped 2-3 times before snapping him clean off out in open water on a drop off.

 

Noooooooooooo! 

 

Hey, wait, your losing a biggun makes us kin. 

 

Cool. 

 

Hey, brother!

25 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Dang @Woody B let's go buddy!

 

I had the pleasure of doing an impromptu guided bank fishing safari with @FishTaxand his son this morning with my son.

 

It poured hard as all get out but Jake and Josiah got on some catfish and crawdads and frogs while the dads bass fished.

 

Managed to get Jeremy on a real live bass fish and in fact he did indeed hook one that we estimate was between 5-7 lbs on a Shakey head that came up and jumped 2-3 times before snapping him clean off out in open water on a drop off.

 

 

He also got a 50 lb grass carp to hit his finesse jig TWICE and almost hooked her the second time.

 

We messed around with some bluegill feeders and some wolfpacks but the rain had them literally sliding up and down right before our very eyes all morning!

 

We had a blast and it was nice having the pond to ourselves on a Saturday and hopefully next time we land that 7 lber when we hook her.

 

😎👍🏼🎣

Thank so much @Pat Brown! We had a great time. The 7 one was crazy. I'm ditching my line and going to braid on the spinning rod as you suggested so she can't break me next time. What a monster! 

I learned so much today, an incredible experience all around at the pressured pond! Can't believe how many active beds we saw today. NC is crazy! 

Also about that grass carp,  That thing was crazy. Really think Jake should hunt her, big PB potential! Who's ever heard of a grass carp attacking a bass jig? Fun to watch though!

 

Returned to New Reservoir to see if I could catch some bigger fish than what I have been getting there lately.  Well, this picture sums up how that went.
Weather was overcast with on/off rain, 67 degrees and 6 mph winds out of the SSE.

I caught 7 more after that first one with the fish pictured below being indicative of their size.

The day wasn’t a total loss however as I kinda have figured out that most of the fish are holding out where the weed line will be around summertime.  There aren’t many fish shallow with most of them being smaller fish in wolf packs (dink packs?).  I caught most of my fish burning a crank over the tops of these submerged weeds and then following up with the floating worm.  
 

In any case I’m hanging in there hoping the big gals will be shallow soon.

 

 

Water at my favorite pond is still pretty cool in the 50’s, but that can be a plus as the weeds that choke this one are just getting started, come summer most of the pond is unfishable. Had a good am till the wind wore me out about noon. The best of the day was this one at 5.5, which is a once in a year thing where I fish. White spinner bait with a baby craw trailer.

 

 

Second trip DD hunting, another skunk LOL. My fault for picking Somerville. Weather nasty tomorrow in my usual spots. If I go tomorrow I’ll probably just spend a day graphing some of Lake Brownwood

 

Great fish y’all! 

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Great day, @OmegaDPW! A farm pond or something bigger? I love mixed bags. 

It probably was 100 years ago. I've been fishing it for about 20 years. The owners of the property put a mobile home out there and do family reunions about twice a year. With the odd exception, I'm the only one fishing it. We've pulled a 9 pound bass out of it back in November and I got a 3lb crappie a week ago or so. It's about a 10 acre pond but only 1/3 of it is fishable from the bank. It's a nice place to sneak off to every Saturday for a couple of hours. Especially when the fish are biting. I have been known to catch a skunk there, though. Nothing is guaranteed I guess. 😉

23 minutes ago, OmegaDPW said:

It probably was 100 years ago. I've been fishing it for about 20 years. The owners of the property put a mobile home out there and do family reunions about twice a year. With the odd exception, I'm the only one fishing it. We've pulled a 9 pound bass out of it back in November and I got a 3lb crappie a week ago or so. It's about a 10 acre pond but only 1/3 of it is fishable from the bank. It's a nice place to sneak off to every Saturday for a couple of hours. Especially when the fish are biting. I have been known to catch a skunk there, though. Nothing is guaranteed I guess. 😉

 

Do you ever think about buying one of those Bass Pro Shop pond boats and stashing it there?

Spent about four hours total fishing today. I tried to make a couple of my own handmade lures official, but nothing would hit em. I did foul hook a bluegill in the eye and he chose to leave his eye behind rather than get caught. (Yikes!) I threw half my tackle bag at em before I finally switched to a #1 Mepps Agila in hopes one of the bluegill would bite. Instead I hooked a bass. Finally! 

 

The Mepps was too small to comfortably use with my medium action pole, so I switched to an actual spinner bait. Managed to catch one more: only my second fish on a spinner bait: 

 

 

Turns out the fish wanted shiny stuff. 

 

Both of these bass were sitting super shallow. I told this to two other anglers fishing down the bank from me, and I watched them pull in a bass after adjusting. That felt good. What didn't feel good was losing that spinner bait on a submerged log two casts after that. 

 

I also went and spent some time bank fishing the river, but no dice. Those were the only two things I caught today, other than a slight sunburn. 

Got a new PB today…..

But it was a mudfish…

We fished a lake we hadnt fished in many years. On the water at dawn. Got halfway to the first spot and Jeff had forgot to put the plug in ( again) . So back to the ramp we go. 

Finally get to the spot and the TM doesnt work. Mess with the connections awhile and it starts working. Fished grass edges, docks, cypress, and offshore  all morning . Used Speed worms, culprits, senkos, jerkbaits, Traps,  swim baits,  Bandito bugs, diferrent topwater baits, even a roostertail.  Flipped, pitched, skipped , you name it.Results: 3 halfhearted bites, 1 bass, a smaller mudfish, and my PB mudfish.   It was 8-10 pounds , but I didn't  fool with weighing it..   First bass skunk Ive had in a long time. 

@padlin  Awesome fish, congrats!   

 

@N Florida Mike  Sure is pretty down there, taking a skunk with scenery like that has to lessen the sting a bit

@N Florida Mike, well, congrats on the PB. Even if it is just a mudfish. Lol

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Do you ever think about buying one of those Bass Pro Shop pond boats and stashing it there?

 It's one of those deals where I don't want to ruin a good thing. In fact, I don't think he even knows how often I'm out there. Better to keep it that way. It's a great pond and only 6 miles from my house. I'd hate to lose the place. 

I fished 3 1/2 hours in the rain this morning.  I managed to get 7 in the boat.  I only took a picture of the first, which happened to be the largest.  (18 inch skinny post spawn Largemouth)  The lens on my phone was fogged up so I put it inside a dry zip lock bag to keep it from getting any wetter.  The water temp was 2 degrees cooler than yesterday, (73) but I was on a different part of the lake.  I've only seen one school of Bass fry.  I wonder if the spawn was unsuccessful this year due to the strange weather.  The water temp/weather kept going crazy.   I've read that if they lay their eggs, then it cools too much they'll abandon them.   I haven't seen any Bass on beds for the past 2 weeks, so I'd say the spawn is over.  This years Shad spawn has been a bust for Bass, at least so far.  I've only caught 1 Bass anywhere near spawning Shad.  The Bass, at least the ones I'm finding are on secondary points and ledges.  There's plenty of White Perch feasting on spawning Shad.   The Bluegill spawn should be starting soon.  They're gathering on flats and in pockets.  There's a few Bass around them.   I suspect more Bass will be coming soon for a Bluegill feast.  

 

13 minutes ago, Woody B said:

 

@Woody B, demonstrating mastery of the classic 1970s Soft-Focus technique.

A friend at church suprised me with a new combo today. A Wanyoo ? Anyone hear of that? 

Went home , made one cast with  it, using a bama craw yum dinger and…got the skunk off…

@Woody B: Your photo looks like one of mine! That's what we get for our mutual love of fishing rainy days.

2 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

@Woody B: Your photo looks like one of mine! That's what we get for our mutual love of fishing rainy days.

 

I love fishing in the rain.  I'm not ready to buy another phone, and I suspect all that water isn't good for it.  I had to buy this phone when I lost my last one fishing.  I caught, photographed and weighed the biggest Bass I've caught in my current boat. (7 lbs 13oz)  After taking a picture of the weight on the scale I "released" my phone, and held on to the Bass and scale.   I wish I had a video of that.   I have some kind of "family tracker" on my phone I turn on while I'm fishing so Mrs B knows I'm OK.  After throwing my phone in the water (that was 60 degrees and 15 feet deep) I high tailed it several miles down the lake to a Marina and called Mrs B to let her know I was OK.  The family tracker still showed my phone where I had caught the Bass.   I don't know if it was still working there under water, or the position never changed because it never moved.  The signal went away after a few hours.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woody, we have more than rain and fuzzy photos in common. I also dropped my phone into the lake within minutes of catching my PB. 

I have dropped my phone into the lake as well. Even went swimming for it. Couldn’t see crap. Then told myself I only dropped my phone into the lake to see how hard it was to remount my kayak. Went home. It was a great day. 

Fished around Birmingham, AL today. Started at the Blackburn Fork Little Warrior River. It was slow and the fish were spooky, but I did manage an Alabama x warrior bass hybrid. He ate an SB77.7.

 

 

My goals were to catch an Alabama bass and a warrior bass, which were both new species for me. Since hybrids don’t count, I still had work to do. I drove over to Turkey Creek and managed several warrior bass, all small.

 

 

These guys were hard to pattern. They didn’t care too much for normal craws and worms. I finally got them to bite by sticking half of a finesse worm on a dropshot hook, and letting it drift. They came out of the riffles and smashed that worm about the same as a brook trout attacking a spinner. There were some football-sized warrior bass in there, but they were too smart for me. The big ones were more blue than green, which I found interesting. 

I drove further north, and took a stop at the Little River in hopes of catching an Alabama. It wasn’t meant to be. I only found green sunfish, which is amazing considering how pristine the water was. 
 

 

Since I didn’t manage to picture any fish from the Little River, please accept this rhododendron (I think) instead.

@Buzzbaiter   My dude, you got to hit me up......I would have met up with you in a heartbeat as I'm not far from the area. 

 

I've actually been thinking of getting into fishing for the endemic Alabama species like the Cahaba and Warrior.   I found a youtube channel named Shoalbandit, and he offered to share some places but I can't stop fishing for LMs right now.   

 

That's very cool brother, thanks for sharing! 

 

ETA:  I can 100% guarantee you an Alabama Bass on my home lake, won't be a giant, but 1-3lb fish are easy to catch.   

 

I can see the allure of catching one where they truly belong like the Cahaba River though.   You can catch them very easily anywhere on the Coosa as well.   

@AlabamaSpothunter I was just passing through on a road trip, so unfortunately that’ll be the last time I end up in Alabama for a while. It’s a beautiful state though, so I’ll definitely be back sometime; I have unfinished business to take care of . 
 

I’m in TN right now. My next goal is a Kentucky spot, assuming there are any genetically pure spots left.

I was surprised to have this sweet girl wade out to visit me while I was throwing a swimbait off a long shallow point. Unfortunately she didn't bring me good luck. 😆

 

Spot on an underspin.

 

 

Wacky senko

 

Even got a LM to join the party.