Forgot about this one. This happened last Sunday at a reservoir that's only open to fishing 5 days in the summer,  and these days are broken up thru the whole summer.  So you figure you'll be catching non stop no matter what you throw... right? Well not this guy.  In between casting, I had to deal with this kid getting his baits stuck in trees and untangling birds nests out of his reel. So yeah he was catching while I was fixing... To make it worse my buddy and his girl caught 6 between them. Anywho I'm glad my kid was catching, and that's all that matters. Just look At him,  with his "Let me rub it in my dad's face" grin...

First morning of my trip to my parents place in Elliot Lake Ontario, fished lake #1 for about 3 hours, got at least 50 bass and lost a bunch more. 

Best fish was 4-1/4lbs but probably half of them were over 3. 

2 hours ago, boostr said:

Forgot about this one. This happened last Sunday at a reservoir that's only open to fishing 5 days in the summer,  and these days are broken up thru the whole summer.  So you figure you'll be catching non stop no matter what you throw... right? Well not this guy.  In between casting, I had to deal with this kid getting his baits stuck in trees and untangling birds nests out of his reel. So yeah he was catching while I was fixing... To make it worse my buddy and his girl caught 6 between them. Anywho I'm glad my kid was catching, and that's all that matters. Just look At him,  with his "Let me rub it in my dad's face" grin...

well done my friend 

Afternoon of my trip up north, lake #2 for about 3 hours after supper. Got another 30 or so bass, most were smaller than the morning lake but we still got some nice ones, best was right at 4-1/2lbs. 

 

[August 24, 2018]

 

 

As mentioned in my previous post, fall is fast approaching. The forecast for today showed a high of 73F, low of 49F, with an 11mph wind out of the SW. Arrived at Jeremy's after work around 1:45pm, (already rigged up baits the previous night for our planned trip) here is my bait selection for today...

 

 

Had a few delays before the lake (Gas, Store, Construction) combined with it being a Friday and traffic at the boat ramp. We launched the boat and where headed out at ~3:00pm.

 

 

We were pleased to see that even though there was high wind today, the lake was fairly calm. There is still a good amount of smoke from the local wildfires that seems to blow in or out depending on the conditions each day.

 

We arrive at our First Location, Water Temp ~69F. Jeremy quickly hooks into the first bass of the day...

 

1 lb 04 oz

 

Soon I hook into my second bass of the day (actually caught my first little dink on the grub while we were at the launch ramp earlier).

 

 

After that we stopped getting bit, so we decided to move.

 

 

Second location, Water Temp ~70-71F. I kept seeing a lot of activity on the graph out deep in ~30ft, so I decided to throw the lipless around for a while. Tried various retrieves, letting it sink to bottom, yo-yo, etc, but never connected with anything... Even tried fishing up shallow using the other baits, but nada. time to move...

 

 

Third Location, Water Temp ~70F. This has been a common sight I've been seeing on the graph lately, and its lead me to make multiple short casts behind the boat with the grub, and I've caught numerous small bass by doing this. So... I decided to swap the plastic worm (which I wasn't using much) for this...

 

Strike King 6XD Crankbait (Natural Shad)

 

Had that combo in my hand for most of the early evening that we fished, and lets just say they were "chewing" cranks. Caught 4, one being my "Fish of the Day"...

 

16 & 1/4", 1 lb 08 oz

 

Whats interesting was Jeremy was throwing a popper during the low light hours, and though he caught some early on with it... as the light faded the bite slowed down for him but stayed steady for me out deep.

 

 

Was a good day. We each caught 5+, I caught a total of 9, and we had to leave them biting...

 

WolfyBrandon

 

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[August 27, 2018]

 

Congrats to my fishing buddy Jeremy for catching his new PB Smallmouth Bass!!!

 

4 lb 09 oz

 

Post WIP, Coming Soon...

 

WolfyBrandon

 

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Try a Hopkins Shorty Spoon in this situation.  Drop it right under the transducer, and set your graph sensitivity so you can see the jigging action of the spoon.  See if you can get those fish react. 

9 hours ago, J Francho said:

Try a Hopkins Shorty Spoon in this situation.  Drop it right under the transducer, and set your graph sensitivity so you can see the jigging action of the spoon.  See if you can get those fish react. 

 

I've been putting together a collection of various spoons to always keep in my tackle bag to do exactly that, and hopefully in the near future I can give it a try. Problem is I have a limited number of combos and already have 5+ other baits I want to tie on and try, but can't because the 6 baits I already have selected I plan to use. I make anywhere between 0-2 bait changes per trip on average, and I'm good about putting in time with a bait before changing. If I change baits 90% of the time its because either I need something weedless and don't have it, or I need a bait to run a different depth. Also on a side note my fishing log determines some of my bait selection as well. I have 3 different projects in the bait department. 1) A personal seasonal guide I put together that I'm testing out. 2) A specific selection of bait types I plan to focus on for that year. 3) Bait type & catch number results. So I guess the best way to put it is, it will happen when it happens. lol Hence why I've substituted the grub for the spoon in those situations and it seems to be working... (for now) 

 

WolfyBrandon

 

I got off from work early today and was on the water by 5 or so. Fished until dark. Decided to fish the south end ( furthest from the house )Bite was slower today. Windy at first, so I fished the calmer water by the island. Caught 2-3 on the 4 inch yum dinger but it was slow. Got out past the island in the wind trying to fish weed edges .Switched to a 5 inch green and red sparkle watermelon senko, that they have been all over lately- nothing.

So I decided to fish the other side of the Island out of the wind around brush and eel grass and switched to a ruby sparkle baby brush hog, on my little finesse rod .Caught 7-8 including the pictured fish.

Then, with remaining daylight I went back to the far south end and caught a few more on the senko on eel grass edges. Ended up with 14.

 

Caught this guy a little after 7pm on a green frog at Nat Caldwell Park in Hendersonville, TN. Got him by those trees you see in the background just over my right shoulder. Using 20lb mono and pulled him out of the sticks. He was 15 in, didn't have a scale though but maybe 1-2 lbs. After seeing where I hooked him, I'm lucky he didn't come off. Set the hook a little too early on another in the same spot. Can't wait for another couple weeks for the action to start picking up. 

Finally ended my skunk streak near a cliff wall with a zoom finesse worm on a 1/8 oz swing head 

12 hours ago, Gator in TN said:

Caught this guy a little after 7pm on a green frog at Nat Caldwell Park in Hendersonville, TN. Got him by those trees you see in the background just over my right shoulder. Using 20lb mono and pulled him out of the sticks. He was 15 in, didn't have a scale though but maybe 1-2 lbs. After seeing where I hooked him, I'm lucky he didn't come off. Set the hook a little too early on another in the same spot. Can't wait for another couple weeks for the action to start picking up. 

Cool name and I.D pic.

Oh, and nice chunky bass too.!

1 minute ago, N Florida Mike said:

Cool name and I.D pic.

Oh, and nice chunky bass too.!

 

 

 

We'll see @Catt , we'll see. Got y'all at the swamp again this year !

1 hour ago, N Florida Mike said:

Cool name and I.D pic.

Oh, and nice chunky bass too.!

Thanks, Go Gators!

 

Hopefully Mullen can bring us back to where we belong. 

 

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You can tell it's that time again lol

 

Seems like SEC Country around here!

 

Nothing like Saturdays in the south. 

 

Good luck to everyone's team (unless you're playing the Gators of course  )

1 hour ago, bagofdonuts said:

This!!!! I like this!!!! WPS!!!!

i think we hijacked the latest pics thread. but who cares...football starts this weekend!

2 hours ago, Gator in TN said:

Thanks, Go Gators!

 

Hopefully Mullen can bring us back to where we belong. 

Agreed man!

 

go gators all the way from NE!

Day 3 of my trip to my parents, caught over 40 bass today, it was a much tougher bite with the cold front rolling through after a bunch of thunderstorms came last night. We finally found the active larger ones this afternoon around some big, thick cabbage beds in about 8-10’ of water. Caught a few on spinnerbaits and a couple on a dropshot 4” Gulp minnow, but the bulk of the damage was done on a strike king rage swimmer rigged on a wide gap football head. We managed quite a few fish between 3-4lbs and several over 4, losing a couple more about 4lbs, but couldn’t seem to find anything much bigger than 4 today. Got a few small pike as well. 

 

way north, git r done son! 

Had a decent weekend with roughly 38 bass boated.

No giants, but did have some decent ones thrown in.

This one being the best of the day. Falling for a jig/craw.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been HOT, and my river cleared up enough to wade again, and it's been nice and cold until today. I think the water temp went up about 15° since yesterday. Felt like bath water. 

Three days, three adjacent sections of the river, maybe 1/4 mile each. Spent about two and a half hours each day after work before sunset. 

They were eating anything that moved yesterday and the day before. Monday Got 8 or 9 decent smallies plus a 17.5" chunker that came in just shy of 2lb. Lots of short strikes from smaller fish that couldn't quite eat a 5" senko in one gulp. Had tons of followers. Had one group of 5 other fish chasing one that was hooked. Watched one run up and steal the worm off the hook and swim away and the others chased off after it!

Tuesday picked up another 6. Couple dinks and a couple 12-15". Nothing spectacular. They were sitting on rocks in current and would chase down a twitching senko or swim bait if it came within sight. 

Today only got three. If it was moving they didn't want it, and they weren't gonna chase it. It had to be on their nose and just drifting with current or rolling on the bottom. 

 

While I enjoy fishing alone, taking someone new out can also be enjoyable. My buddy got a new PB on a weighted wacky trick worm......3.4lbs

He even learned how to long arm ??

 

You guys are killing me with all the fish pics. I'm down with a nagging case of tendonitis and early carpal tunnel in my casting hand.   Hoping it clears up before the weather changes to fall. If not I'm chopping off the hand at the wrist and ducktaping a pair of salad tongs on so I can at least reel with it and I'll finally have some use for the salad tongs. 

3 minutes ago, Gundog said:

You guys are killing me with all the fish pics. I'm down with a nagging case of tendonitis and early carpal tunnel in my casting hand.   Hoping it clears up before the weather changes to fall. If not I'm chopping off the hand at the wrist and ducktaping a pair of salad tongs on so I can at least reel with it and I'll finally have some use for the salad tongs. 

These help when not in the water.....and yes....surgery on both wrist and rebuilt shoulder