12 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@BluegillsTightlines: Your lake is beautiful. Nice bass too!

 

@JoshFromBolo: In your front yard? Lucky duck! Keep posting pics, Josh. It's always ducky to have new anglers in this thread.

Appreciate you!

Yup all i gotta do is put on the flip flops and grab a pole and I'm at the water in 30 seconds 😄

Committed an afternoon to some old school Carolina rigging. I picked off a few fish on rocks in 12’. I caught the big fish of the trip off a newly discovered rock pile. Always an exciting moment when you feel the line swim off while probing a new piece of structure.

 

 

Nice to see folks catching em good.  Been mostly catchin dinks and snapping turtles.  Missed some big fish this week but we gonna get one.  😎😎😎🎣🎣🎣

 

Keep up the excellent work folks.  Love seeing all this action - summer is fun.

Northern swing pics. Isle royale and voyaguers national parks. Probably hammer out a separate report. Thought it was going to be all pike but finally caught 2 bass. 

 

first bass , fluke in shallow water with st croix rod seviin reel and 33 lb seaguar JDM braid, gamakatsu nano alpha hook 

 

second bass, fluke on first throw this morning same spot back by that pontoon boat. Rolled out of bed at the rental in the same clothes as yesterday and BAM! He grabbed it off the surface 

 

 

 

 

got lots of pike too, here’s some samples. They are delicious. Had to hike a few miles with them On a stick at isle royale 😂 

 

Fat, North Country bass! And look at that meal. YUM!!!!!!!!!!!! 

@ol'crickety, I’ve got tons more photos to share, I know you will enjoy them 

I'm excited to see them, @TnRiver46! With the new puppy, it's pretty hard to go fishing. I used to fish three to four times a week. Now, I try to fish once a week. He is, of course, worth it. 

@TnRiver46 looks like a ton of fun! Thanks for sharing!!

Here’s my fishing report for today….

 

 

 

6poundbass did get one pike and one dink LMB.

It's good to see many of you still catching the heck out of them.  I had a slow weekend.   2 Spots Saturday, and 2 Spots Sunday.  At least no micro Bass.  One was borderline micro though.  They varied between 13 and 19 inches.   They were all on points between 12 and 18 feet deep.   2 were on a Shaky head, 1 on a Spinnerbait, and the biggest on a XD3.  I also caught 7 smallish Catfish (~3 pounds and under).  I shook them off beside the boat so I didn't get slime everywhere. 

  

This coming weekend around the new moon I think is going to be dynamite fishing here 

Got 3 in under 15 minutes on the bama bug yum dinger…

My son and I fished a private access lake Friday afternoon-evening, on invitation from a friend.  My friend claimed the lake had plenty of 5-8# bass in it… but a 6# bass up here is a very rare catch and over 7# would be big news in the local fishing world.  So I was excitedly optimistic, but skeptical.  My friend fished in another boat with a buddy and not too long after we started fishing they had a big one on.  We were only 50 yards apart and hearing “oh, yeah that’s a big one!”… “get the net”… “look at the size of the mouth!”… excited laughing… high-fives…  Wes and I were riveted with anticipation for the monster to be revealed… then a fat 2.5# was hoisted high for us to see and “look at that one!” shouted to us.  Right away I knew we likely had the only scale to ever grace these waters.🫢

 

All humour aside though, this little 8 acre oval provided good fishing and we caught several 1.5-2.5# fish which made me plenty happy after so many 1-3 fish outings. That said, the fishing was up and down through the day.  This is a natural lake, fed and drained through a swamp/small creek on either end, the deepest hole being 15ft. the east end with most areas 6-10ft.  The lake is rimmed with a fringe of lily pads, the bottom has submerged weeds everywhere… and bass seemingly everywhere we fished.  I decided to start out by frogging the entire perimeter, with Wes throwing our go-to flashy swimmer with a paddletail as we slowly graphed most of the lake to get a feel for it.  I only caught a few, but missed another half-dozen bites, a few of which looked like quality (3#+) fish.  They just weren’t biting the frog well, but I was having fun.  Based on my bites, I coached Wes to cast right at the edge of the pads and he started catching some, most almost immediately when his bait hit the water.  After one round of the lake (about 2:30-3:30pm), the 4 of us had probably caught 20-ish fish, with a few over 2#. My friend and his buddy were seriously out fishing us, drinking beer and throwing “rubber worms” when I asked what they were using.  They had one spinning rod each, so I was feeling a little stupid with 8 combos in the boat and not catching as many as them.  I put the frog down and I started cycling through baits while Wes started throwing a wacky rigged senko.  I threw a senko, Texas rigged 10” worm, flipped a beaver, a chatterbait, spinnerbait, whopper plopper… and we went through a painfully dry spell of probably 2 hours, even our buddy’s bite almost shut off.   My buddy said this was the worst day of fishing they’d ever had, and I was was thinking yes of course because I’m here and I’m cursed this year.😖 But then he “mentioned” that one of the other owners on the lake (there are only three) had seven guys up fishing for the past week. So, 8 people fishing an 8 acre lake for 7 days straight.  Adding at least 2 of those fishermen were on the water sunrise-dark every day.😒 That really burst my bubble, because I thought there were only 2 owners on the lake and only my buddy fished it occasionally.  Oh well - I guess any lake you can drive to and launch a boat in ain’t gonna be untapped.  I just didn’t expect the poor little lake would have been hammered by 600+ man hours of fishing the prior week. 😭
 

Anyway… our spirits slowly sank as the other boat enjoyed a beer fuelled dink fest.  Then, I finally cracked the nut.  Wes somehow got his line wrapped under the spool of his spinning reel and while I was fixing that a 1.5# grabbed his senko and I had to hand line it in.  That was unrealized clue #1.  I kept cycling baits with zero bites, then Wes blew up his bait caster and while he was trying to fix it a

really good bass grabbed his paddletail off the bottom.  Wes said “I’ve got one, what do I do!?” and I heard it jump, but didn’t see it.  Wes went into panic mode saying it’s huge.  I said just hand line it in, and there was a brief struggle then it was into the deeper weeds and gone (no hookset at all).  Wes was frustrated, and now his line was a total mess so I said I’ll fix it.  I didn’t realize his bait was still laying on the bottom and while I was trying to fix things another small bass grabbed his bait.  That’s when the light bulb came on.  I ended up cutting off a bunch of almost brand new FC Sniper (😩) then we were both back in the fight.  I said the key is fish slow… like, deadstick slow.  I tied on a weightless white fluke and we proceeded to cast onto/close to the pads and work very slowly back into the deeper water with 5-10 second pauses to let out bait sit.  That was the ticket and we started catching ‘em.  By now it was about 7pm and the evening bite started picking up for everyone.  In the last half hour, I switched to a popper and got several bites by just casting it out and waiting 10 seconds, then if nothing grabbed it I’d give just a few twitches and long pause again.  I only hooked half the fish that swirled on the popper, as the “bites” seemed very lazy.  All in all, a good day.  I do really look forward to trying again when the weather cools a bit - my fried still swears there’s much bigger bass in there.

 

Slow this morning, only 3 on a wacky rig.

Had a giant Snakehead rip a small bass off the hook right at the boat.

Weather was hot and sunny, water temp 82*.

This was the best fish.

I fished this morning with a pal and didn't count the fish or take pics, but we caught at least 40 and he had a great time. Lots of 2.5 to 3.5-pounders at my pond.

 

I take pride in putting a pal in the bow and putting him on bass. He caught the majority because I focused on positioning the canoe, but I caught the two biggest, both just shy of 18 inches.

 

We're going again on Thursday morning. I'll get some pics then. 

I started bass fishing in 2020 and have been on the pursuit of catching one over 5#. Well, I was on vacation last week in northern Michigan and ended up accomplishing this goal… 2x! I caught my new PB, which is pictured below, of 5.24 and 20.5”. The following day, I caught another one over 5 at 5.15 and 21”. I caught both of these largemouth bass on a Zoom Trick Worm in ‘Candy Bug’ Texas-Rigged (1/4).

 

 

^ 5.24 | 20.5”

@ABrugs: Two over five beating your PB twice in one trip. Whoa!

I lost two this morning in the 2 to 2.5 range, bummed me out. I considered giving it up but I decided to stick with it and 30 minutes later this big mamma struck and gave me an amazing airshow. She splashes me good upon release and gave my thumb a good munching. 

 

Did not have a scale with me, but got a girth and length. Length was 20.5 inches and girth was 13 inches. Using the estimator on this site with those data points, it estimated it at 5.35 lbs. I was stoked. That's my biggest one of the year and pushed my PB. Held her up like a WWE title belt at one point 😂

I lost two this morning in the 2 to 2.5 range, bummed me out. I considered giving it up but I decided to stick with it and 30 minutes later this big mamma struck and gave me an amazing airshow. She splashes me good upon release and gave my thumb a good munching. 

 

Did not have a scale with me, but got a girth and length. Length was 20.5 inches and girth was 13 inches. Using the estimator on this site with those data points, it estimated it at 5.35 lbs. I was stoked. That's my biggest one of the year and pushed my PB. Held her up like a WWE title belt at one point 😂

I lost two this morning in the 2 to 2.5 range, bummed me out. I considered giving it up but I decided to stick with it and 30 minutes later this big mamma struck and gave me an amazing airshow. She splashes me good upon release and gave my thumb a good munching. 

 

Did not have a scale with me, but got a girth and length. Length was 20.5 inches and girth was 13 inches. Using the estimator on this site with those data points, it estimated it at 5.35 lbs. I was stoked. That's my biggest one of the year and pushed my PB. Held her up like a WWE title belt at one point 😂

I lost two this morning in the 2 to 2.5 range, bummed me out. I considered giving it up but I decided to stick with it and 30 minutes later this big mamma struck and gave me an amazing airshow. She splashes me good upon release and gave my thumb a good munching. 

 

Did not have a scale with me, but got a girth and length. Length was 20.5 inches and girth was 13 inches. Using the estimator on this site with those data points, it estimated it at 5.35 lbs. I was stoked. That's my biggest one of the year and pushed my PB. Held her up like a WWE title belt at one point 😂

21 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

This coming weekend around the new moon I think is going to be dynamite fishing here 

1 hour ago, ABrugs said:

I started bass fishing in 2020 and have been on the pursuit of catching one over 5#. Well, I was on vacation last week in northern Michigan and ended up accomplishing this goal… 2x! I caught my new PB, which is pictured below, of 5.24 and 20.5”. The following day, I caught another one over 5 at 5.15 and 21”. I caught both of these largemouth bass on a Zoom Trick Worm in ‘Candy Bug’ Texas-Rigged (1/4).

 

 

^ 5.24 | 20.5”

Not only is that a nice big bass, but gorgeous too. Love that dark green she's got.

On 7/28/2024 at 11:00 AM, TnRiver46 said:

 

The tail on this one is massive compared to the length of the fish! I bet that beast was fun to catch.

Three PBs in one day!

3 hours ago, Fishlegs said:

The tail on this one is massive compared to the length of the fish! I bet that beast was fun to catch.

That smallie is gorgeous!!!

Long been home and cleaned up. But any time you see this after a day on the water, that is generally a good sign.

@BluegillsTightlines: I wear a glove on my left hand with rubberized fingers, leaving my right hand free for knot tying and other fine motor tasks.