20 hours ago, lo n slo said:

my grandson starts back to school tomorrow so we took the Javelin out..........just one more time  

Nice Catch! 

 

Man, they seem to start school early down south.

58 minutes ago, boostr said:

Nice Catch! 

 

Man, they seem to start school early down south.

his first bass on an artificial lure, a 1/8 oz yellow Road Runner w/gp Yum mini grub. he’s been using minnows and worms all summer but he wanted to throw something different yesterday. i dont know who was more excited, him or me! 

 

yes, they do go back to school too early ?

Just checking in. No pics of today's adventure due to being directly in the water (phone, water, bad). Buddy and I have been wading for 7 miles. Taking a break at the moment. I'm sitting at 61 Smallmouth and 4 Largemouth, as well as a couple Crappie and Rock Bass. Been slaying it with the Ned Rig. Not that I'm counting, ha!

Went down to Alexandria today for the birth of our new granddaughter and had a chance to go to Pineville and hit my old little neighborhood pond. My son still lives there and he walked with me over there. Didn't have alot of time to fish because we had to get back to the hospital for the birth. Anyhow my second cast with a 1/4oz Texas rigged 6" Yum watermelon red flake lizard landed this 1lb 4oz scorable bass. Nothing else after that though. It was nice to fish thare again and to catch a bass on top of that. Will post a pic of the grandbaby when I can. We have two grandbabies in NICU at the moment. So as soon as I can I'll post pics. ?

Grandpa Copeland has a nice ring to it, congratulations on the new additions to your family Michael! Glad you found a free minute to go fish with your son and the fish were wiling participants...

small lake fishing in the little johnny this morning. warm and muggy early with a nice SW breeze building as the morning progressed. numbers were down slightly but the quality bite was good. i caught a solid bag of largemouths to go along with this 5.12 kicker. life is good!

Numbers were good this morning. 7 in about 90 minutes on T rigged black/blue and junebug Dingers. 

 

 

I also managed to catch the same intriguing fish I caught 2.5 months ago! He appears to have grown a bit. Caught in the same general area. Left side: July, right side present day. 

 

I was out a few days ago trying my new Whopper Plopper 75 Loon color to no avail. I switched to a Berkley Squarebull Bluegill color and got a Smallmouth on the first cast. It hit the water and 2 cranks later fish on!

 

The second catch was better and proves the Berkley fusion hooks are wicked sharp (my savage hookset helps) Last picture is after I preformed surgery to remove the crankbait. You can see the marks the hook left in the Bass' side. One of the many things I hate about treble hooks.

 

1 hour ago, J._Bricker said:

Grandpa Copeland has a nice ring to it, congratulations on the new additions to your family Michael! Glad you found a free minute to go fish with your son and the fish were wiling participants...

Thank you sir! I sure do miss fishing that pond. Where I'm living in Minden, LA now there's only one pond that's a public pond and it's a hard pond to fish. There's tons of bank to fish from, but there's entirely too much vegetation in it. That may be good for the fish that's in it, bass included, but not very angler friendly. Every cast, whether fishing topwater, weightless Texas rigs or everything else in between, always reeling in some slop on it. A hollow body frog may be the only thing you can throw out there that doesn't come back like that, but I can't seem to attract any bites with it. 

Tough week for me. Logged about 14 hrs. Between tues.weds. and thurs. For 14 fish. Best I could muster was this little humpback  3-5 on the double wide beaver

Big mouth billy bass on a little brush hog. Also, I think I finally found a swing jig head that I really like for fishing vertically in different types of cover and then swimming the bait back. (Zman makes these.)

 

 

Got his first victory in the Friday night derby. 3 fish limit for 6lbs and big bass 3 lbs 3oz. Had to get off the water an hour early cuz it looked like it was gonna storm. It didn't until weigh in. He woke up the ole lady and my brother with a phone call stating we'd just won the bass pro shops tournament lol 

git r done robby ?

Thank you. I mean between being out WAY past bed time, whacking bass and playing in the rain what more does a 4 year old have to look forward too. Lol 

Don't usually do weekends before Labor Day.

So Very Glad I made an exception.

A-Jay

Holy smokes! It that a 6?

Holy football, Batman!

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

Don't usually do weekends before Labor Day.

So Very Glad I made an exception.

A-Jay

 

 

Wow that’s a beast! Can’t wait for the report on her. 

Thanks guys ~ She went 6-4 

 A Report (with sweet video) is just about ready.

A-Jay

Got out today for a quick 2.5hr. After work bonus trip. Got 7 pitching a double wide beaver with the best  checking in at 6-1

 

 

Not the biggest smallie by any means, but the first one I've ever caught on the fly. Here's to many more! Also didn't manage to get a decent picture of it because the darn thing flopped out of my hands and into the water right as I got the hook out.

 

Got out this weekend and had my best day from the kayak yet.  Got my PB smallie along the way with this one!

I am addicted to the topwater bite. My new Whopper Plopper 75 loon color has failed to produce a fish for me. I had one fish on my very first cast with it. That one shook the hook at shore and nothing since then.

 

My Whopper Plopper 90 Bluegill color however is a solid producer.

 

There is this little spot next to a creek that I drive the Jeep to when I'm out riding with the wife or daughter. Last time i was there I had my sunglasses on and I could see a few small bass swimming around. I made a mental note of that and went back on my lunch break today. I caught 4 including a bass. there were bigger bass there and there were more pools to wade, but it's a lunch hour. I'm going back when I have more time to kill and can walk further. 

[August 19, 2018]

 

This year is really flying by quick, I can already see it's starting to transition from summer to fall with the shorter days and colder temps. The forecast for today shows partly cloudy with a high of 88F, low of 59F, with falling pressure. That doesn't tell the whole story though, as the conditions lately have been heavily impacted by the smoke from the local wildfires...

 

 

It's been twelve days since our last fishing trip, and today we finally had the opportunity for another one. It was on our weekend, so I met up with Jeremy at his place around 6:00am to gear up and head out.

 

 

We arrived at the ramp and noticed it was pretty busy, which was expected being a Sunday. Water temp was ~71F, and had a little color to it probably from all the boat activity over the weekend. First location - we both quickly hooked into our first bass of the day, and Jeremy also landed a nice pike.

 

 

We left in a hurry this morning so I didn't have a chance to change/retie baits from our previous trip like I usually do. The bite seemed to slow down so I made a minor change swapping my current squarebill (KVD 1.5) to my new 6th Sense Crush 50x (Live Baby Bluegill) that I wanted to try out. The main difference between them that I noticed was the KVD is silent, where the 6th Sense has a faint rattle chamber.

 

 

We fished our first location for an hour and a half, and the only other thing I caught was an 8 & 1/2" yellow perch on the new squarebill. Time to move...

 

 

Second Location, 8:45am, Water temp 71F, Clarity 10ft+. First cast with the grub, I hook into my "fish of the day" that was followed by one of equal size to the boat.

 

17", 1 lb 12 oz

 

As we were moving along I saw a lot of activity out deep on the graph, so I made a short cast behind us and pulled up an 11 & 1/4" Smallmouth out of ~30ft. I did try working a lipless out deep along the bottom, but it never resulted in anything. Continuing to throw my new 6th Sense Squarebill, I hooked into something big... and told Jeremy to head for deep water. After a good long fight, it turned out to be my very own "freshwater cuda" aka pike.

 

9lb, 10oz

 

It was now after 11:00am, I made a long bomb cast with my topwater popper next to a dock as we were moving to another area that resulted in a 12" Smallmouth exploding on it, and becoming my 6th bass today. 11:30am Jeremy hooked his 3rd bass on a Spinnerbait that had ~7 followers with it.

 

 

Around noon he hooked into his 4th on the Spinnerbait, this time Largemouth. We decided to move again, but sadly our plans were cut short as the pull cord on the big motor broke (luckily it started on that pull). A change of plans put us at a different location within range of the ramp using the electric motor.

 

 

Third Location, 12:45pm, ~3ft Clarity, Water Temp 73F. Worked a Horny Toad across the entire field of pads within the area and only had a single small bass blow up on it multiple times, but no hookup. Using a grub, Jeremy made a perfect cast into an open boat house and hooked into his 5th bass today...

 

 

We fished our way back to the ramp and decided to call it a day at 2:15pm.

 

 

All in all it was a good day, we each caught 5 or more bass, no giants unless you count the sizable pike. Had to deal with the wind a bit during the first part of the day and waves from boat traffic during the later. Actually had one wave come over the front of the boat a bit... It's too bad the pull cord broke on us, was really hoping to continue on to some key locations, but at least we were able to catch something when trying to salvage the rest of the day. The smoke from the wildfires was thick on the drive home, this is the worst I've seen it this year...

 

 

WolfyBrandon