Yes the main river is nasty. There's plenty of lakes around here that stay clear no matter what, I chose one of those sunday 

17 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Had a young friend from church over this afternoon to take advantage of the springlike condtions. 

We caught 27 on trick worms, flukes, and senkos. The bites came mostly in 2-3 big flurries throughout the afternoon. High was pushing 80 !!

I lost 2 fish 5 minutes apart that didnt budge when I set the hook.

Mission accomplished though, in putting him on some fish.

Ok, new rule on the boards.  Guys from Florida are no longer allowed to post pics wearing shorts when I am chipping ice off everything that I own.  

1 hour ago, BigAngus752 said:

Ok, new rule on the boards.  Guys from Florida are no longer allowed to post pics wearing shorts when I am chipping ice off everything that I own.  

Sounds like a good rule to me, I just finished blowing a path out to my geeenhouse to get some salad greens, and there’s about 24” of snow out there ?. Won’t be seeing shorts here for some time yet. 

1 hour ago, BigAngus752 said:

Ok, new rule on the boards.  Guys from Florida are no longer allowed to post pics wearing shorts when I am chipping ice off everything that I own.  

 

15 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

Sounds like a good rule to me, I just finished blowing a path out to my geeenhouse to get some salad greens, and there’s about 24” of snow out there ?. Won’t be seeing shorts here for some time yet. 

I can get behind this - today is the warmest it's been in weeks...and we're still not breaking freezing.

2 hours ago, BigAngus752 said:

Ok, new rule on the boards.  Guys from Florida are no longer allowed to post pics wearing shorts when I am chipping ice off everything that I own.  

They havent built a wall at the bottom of Georgia......... Yet..........

Sorry, you guys in the frozen north -- I just gotta do another Florida post!

That's because I got lucky tonight and caught this 5-4 on a Eco Pro Tungsten Trokar jig fished barbless. This is definitely the biggest bass I've caught barbless. It's great being able to simply lift out the hook and leave the bass unharmed. When you're just fishing for fun it makes a whole lot of sense. Also, it's a good way to practice keeping 'em pinned when they jump.

 

Great to see someone’s catching fish somewhere. This winter thing is killin me.

On 2/18/2019 at 7:50 PM, hawgenvy said:

Sorry, you guys in the frozen north -- I just gotta do another Florida post!

That's because I got lucky tonight and caught this 5-4 on a Eco Pro Tungsten Trokar jig fished barbless. This is definitely the biggest bass I've caught barbless. It's great being able to simply lift out the hook and leave the bass unharmed. When you're just fishing for fun it makes a whole lot of sense. Also, it's a good way to practice keeping 'em pinned when they jump.

 

Nice fish! I always fish barbless and very rarely lose fish on jigs. It's stuff like ned rigs, dropshots, etc. that are hard to keep fish on.

Agree, EG. Its not that hard to keep the bass pinned with a barbless jig as long as you keep the pressure on, especially when it jumps. 

Had time at one of my work route ponds to catch this one  on a trick worm.

Had a great afternoon with ned rig on some decent fish.  This was the best of nine I caught in a little over an hour. Rain tomorrow then big wind and more cold. The groundhog is a con artist.

@The Bassman, I thought surely you would be frozen in 

6 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

@The Bassman, I thought surely you would be frozen in 

I think we're done with ice. It came and went several times this winter with mid Jan. being the most persistent. It's been a great winter of finesse fishing but I'm anxious for some power techniques soon.

Well we had to wait until 3:30 for a break in the rain but it was worth it! Got 4 nice ones. Hopefully a short video to follow 

 

Got this skinny 4 pound, 9 oz. fish on a 5 inch pumkin chartruese tail yum dinger.

17 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

Got this skinny 4 pound, 9 oz. fish on a 5 inch pumkin chartruese tail yum dinger.

Really envy you. I was catching fish in 50* yesterday. Today we're hanging on to whatever we can with 45-50 mph wind and temps dropping to the teens tonight. Our spring's coming real soon. I can sense the transition.

We have had a very mild winter, even for us. It hasnt even been under 50 for 2 weeks now. Everything in nature around here thinks its spring. We'll see. 

Got this one on the small pumkin yum dinger.

1 hour ago, EGbassing said:

Do you see how that one in the top picture is hooked? That's how I hooked one yesterday and it took me forever to get it out.

Unless I'm missing something it looks like just a quick flick with the needle nose.

2 hours ago, EGbassing said:

Do you see how that one in the top picture is hooked? That's how I hooked one yesterday and it took me forever to get it out.

That's weird, it can be kind of tough right there sometimes but not terrible. 

 

18 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

Unless I'm missing something it looks like just a quick flick with the needle nose.

It didn't even require pliers or any any real effort to remove. 

2 hours ago, The Bassman said:

Unless I'm missing something it looks like just a quick flick with the needle nose.

The hook shank is under a piece of its skin, so it can't just be popped out, assuming that's the same way mine was hooked.

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

That's weird, it can be kind of tough right there sometimes but not terrible. 

 

It didn't even require pliers or any any real effort to remove. 

^

@Bluebasser86 nice fish can’t wait to throw some of those spinner baits around here. Nice fish!

On 2/17/2019 at 5:10 PM, N Florida Mike said:

 

I would pay that young man $5 if I could hear him say "Hey, Beavis, this fish has a big mouth, uh, huh, huh huh!"

 

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8 hours ago, EGbassing said:

The hook shank is under a piece of its skin, so it can't just be popped out, assuming that's the same way mine was hooked.

^

I think you're trying to be too surgical.  You have to tear a little skin.  It heals.  Better to get the fish back in the water quick than worry about a hole.  I catch bass with fully disjointed jaw hinges sometimes. It's the nature of the sport.  They don't hurt like we do.

11 hours ago, EGbassing said:

The hook shank is under a piece of its skin, so it can't just be popped out, assuming that's the same way mine was hooked.

^

Sounds like maybe you had it hooked in the joint of the jaw or maybe right behind jawbone. I've had that happen a few times and it can be pretty tough to get out. You got to get a little rough sometimes, give it a little jerk with some force to try to pop it out. You can get cheap wire cutters for $2 at Harbor Freight that will cut any hook out there if you want to have them in the future.