Always enjoy reading your tourney breakdowns, @Bluebasser86. Entertaining and informative. Good luck in the championship!

12 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Lol - they were clearancing out SPF50+ long sleeve shirts for $25, so I bought several. I wear a fresh one each trip 😉

I have 2 sets of the exact same shirts and pants from Academy because I like them and found them on clearance. Nobody has said anything yet, but I'm sure they're always thinking that I'm just dirty all the time, wearing the same dirty clothes in the tournament I wore for prefishing the day before. 

I actually do wear the same clothing, again and again and again. They're Permethrin-treated and I want to maintain their effectiveness. You know those YouTube girls who apply makeup before going fishing and wear tight outfits? That's not me. 

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I have 2 sets of the exact same shirts and pants from Academy because I like them and found them on clearance. Nobody has said anything yet, but I'm sure they're always thinking that I'm just dirty all the time, wearing the same dirty clothes in the tournament I wore for prefishing the day before. 

I think only one person would ever notice…. 🤣 

The A-Rig accounted for this gorgeous Brown bass today. 

Brief report to follow.

A-Jay

 

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I think only one person would ever notice

 

Fashion police has a job to do. Its almost winter again.  I'll be back on active duty soon enough.  Warnings are still being issued at this time. 

2 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Fashion police has a job to do.

I thought we de-funded that department?

5 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I thought we de-funded that department?

 

Only one rule in bass-fishing, my friend....'Have Fun'. How you dress, what your hair is like - none of that matters.

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I actually do wear the same clothing, again and again and again. They're Permethrin-treated and I want to maintain their effectiveness.

 

Given the tick and mosquito infested country you walk through on a regular basis, I don't blame you for that one.

 

Hopefully you at least shower on the frequent lol

My wife had a bumper sticker that said “fish naked” on her old car. I drive that car to work now so I scraped it off 😂 

 

Not sure if it would be a fashion violation or not so I just play it safe 

The fishing has not been kind to me of late.  After our heat wave we had a few nights that got down into the 40s.  Couple that with sun and clear skies it’s been tough.  
 

Last 3 days I’ve returned to wade the tail waters of Dillon lake on to find the water level had dropped there as well.  Three days of grinding produced a dink LMB along with a dink channel cat.

 

Today cloudy weather was forecasted but after waiting until 3PM I was getting antsy so I decided to just go conditions be damned.  

Since I didn’t have a ton of time I went to the crappie hole which is the closest to me.  I started out drop shotting around the dock the houses the spillway riser, but no takers there.  
 

I moved to the other end to fish the shallow flat where I caught my PB in July.  I was working my shaky head along the bottom and got a hit but when I went to set the hook my line broke at the leader knot.  I shrugged it off and figured I must has tied it wrong since it was kinda a rush job.  I retied it, being a little more thorough this time.  I was out of shaky heads but I had a single solitary tube left over from my Canada trip so I tied that on and got back to fishing.  

I worked the tube across the flat a couple times and caught the nicest LMB since this summer.

Unfortunately after releasing it I spotted another even bigger fish floating out in the middle.  My stomach dropped thinking this may have been the one that broke me off earlier.  It was too far out for me to reach it.  In my defense there were a couple guys fish in my that area when I pulled up, and I didn’t see ten feet of leader line dangling from its mouth.  
 

Either way my heart wasn’t in it anymore and I decided to pack it in and head home.  When I looked out the fish was no longer there so I guess there’s a small chance it’s okay, at least that’s what I’m telling myself.

 

I fished my pond for an hour at the end of the day. The problem with only fishing it for an hour is that the bigger bass are at the far end of the pond, but there's no time to paddle there and back, so I'm left catching 15" to 16.5" bass instead of 17" to 18.5" fish. Still, they're strong and fun. I caught four on a spinnerbait in deep water and one tight to the shoreline on a Googan Revolver.

 

 

No bigs today, but you’ll never hear me complain about catching a limit. I had 6 keepers today along with one missed fish and one broken off - it took my 6 lb. line into a treetop and that was the end of it. On and off rain through the weekend, but surface temps did drop below 80 for the first time this summer.

 

 

 

 

 

@ol'crickety Beautiful fish, and I had to look up that Googan bait.   That's a cool looking bait, and makes sense why you'd be fishing it #whopperplopperqueen 😆

 

Last few days have been surprisingly great since we've started to transition into Fall.  

 

8.6 on a DT10.   She bent out both hooks on STX 38s.   That fish would have been lost on stock trebles 1000%.     Those hooks are just exceptional.  

 

7.10 and a 7.3 on Free Rigged D Bombs.       

 

 

 

Visited a buds pond in a light drizzle and 25 mph gust today that I call " The Nursery ". Took my new Aldebaran BFS/Dobyns combos and caught 18 micro - bass and 2 bream. 

7 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@ol'crickety Beautiful fish, and I had to look up that Googan bait.   That's a cool looking bait, and makes sense why you'd be fishing it #whopperplopperqueen 😆

 

Last few days have been surprisingly great since we've started to transition into Fall.  

 

8.6 on a DT10.   She bent out both hooks on STX 38s.   That fish would have been lost on stock trebles 1000%.     Those hooks are just exceptional.  

 

7.10 and a 7.3 on Free Rigged D Bombs.       

 

 

 

Not catching a lot, but there's been some quality.  Here's a few little bait/big fish.

 

scott

 

8 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Last few days have been surprisingly great since we've started to transition into Fall.  

 

So it begins.

 

Alex, I found this inscribed on a stone tablet deep in an Alabama swamp:

 

"Lo, and yea, it is written that Alex shall rule the fall and winter. For this is right and good and maketh the Heavens smile. It shall maketh the good people from North to South smile too. So be it."

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

So it begins.

Good thing too. This thread has been missing his monster fish. Nice fish @AlabamaSpothunter!

@softwateronly: Thick pike. Thick bass. Keep this up and I'll be calling you windycityalex. 

14 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@ol'crickety Beautiful fish, and I had to look up that Googan bait.   That's a cool looking bait, and makes sense why you'd be fishing it #whopperplopperqueen 😆

 

Last few days have been surprisingly great since we've started to transition into Fall.  

 

8.6 on a DT10.   She bent out both hooks on STX 38s.   That fish would have been lost on stock trebles 1000%.     Those hooks are just exceptional.  

 

7.10 and a 7.3 on Free Rigged D Bombs.       

 

 

 

 

Just a few casual giants!

Thanks for the kind words friends!    

 

@GreenPig  I see somebody else has discovered the magic of the Flashback Mini.   If you ever want to upsize the profile a bit, Damiki 3" Armor Shads make the perfect trailer for them.   

44 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Thanks for the kind words friends!    

 

@GreenPig  I see somebody else has discovered the magic of the Flashback Mini.   If you ever want to upsize the profile a bit, Damiki 3" Armor Shads make the perfect trailer for them.   

Excellent. I just happen to have 2 or 10 bags of the 3" around here.