@Gundog, at long last! Nice smallmouth

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

@Gundog, at long last! Nice smallmouth

Its been too long. After 5 times out fishing and catching nothing I was starting to think it wasn't going to happen.

 

Had a good trip to Lake Gaston this past weekend.  Took 3rd in 2-day tournament with 10 fish for 23-15.  Lot's of 3lb+ fish but no true big ones to put me over the top.  Weighed in a few spotted bass too, Gaston is the only lake I fish that has them so it's still cool to catch them for me.  

 

Practice...

 

Day 1...Culled a small LM with this Spot for the smallest fish in the limit.

 

Day 2...Couple nice LM's a spot that was eating very well, had 2 shad tails visible in it's gullet.  

 

Everything I weighed in came on one of these, most were on the bladed jig.  

8 minutes ago, Logan S said:

Had a good trip to Lake Gaston this past weekend.  Took 3rd in 2-day tournament with 10 fish for 23-15.  Lot's of 3lb+ fish but no true big ones to put me over the top.  Weighed in a few spotted bass too, Gaston is the only lake I fish that has them so it's still cool to catch them for me.  

 

Practice...

 

Day 1...Culled a small LM with this Spot for the smallest fish in the limit.

 

Day 2...Couple nice LM's a spot that was eating very well, had 2 shad tails visible in it's gullet.  

 

Everything I weighed in came on one of these, most were on the bladed jig.  

Really nice. 

Thanks for sharing.

Btw..love the black tail on that trailer. 

Totally stealing that.

A-Jay 

My biggest from this weekend. Caught on a 3" Megabass Hazedong Shad with an 1/8oz jighead. 

 

 

Not sure what you did there, but I fixed it for you.

 

Nice feesh!

12 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Not sure what you did there, but I fixed it for you.

 

Nice feesh!

Thanks. Imgur was giving me fits, and it's a blocked site here at work, so I wasn't sure what was actually being posted. 

Try:

https://postimages.org/

Not a giant but it is my first bass of the year.  Caught it with an Arkie sexy tail shad with an ultralight while crappie fishing on my way home from work.

Fortunate to get a couple quick trips in over the weekend, Saturday with Pops and Sunday with my oldest. Good times and it's getting so close to busting loose...

 

 

 

 

 

Bank fishing local ponds with my friend Mike has become a Wednesday night ritual. We caught a bunch tonight. Mike was swimming a jig and I was tossing a black 13 inch ribbon tail worm. The highlight was a double header: a four pounder and a five pounder landed simultaneously!

 

I also tried out a new (for me) bait, the beautiful (and expensive) Greenfish Beer Belly Prop bait. A lot of fish ate it but I only landed half of them, probably my error. I might have kept them pinned better with a less stiff rod.

 

 

 

I've been following the same routine since Sunday: Work, come home, eat dinner, listen to a few of my wife's stories, walk the dog, then go wading. Rinse, repeat. Last night was chilly. The water was colder than usual. I got skunked for the first time in days. Defeated, I left the lake well in to darkness truly exhausted to my core. I told myself that I really needed a break, but I woke up quite early this morning refreshed somehow. I can't explain it. While walking my pooch and noticing the dark clouds and near dusk conditions it occurred to me that this really looks like great bassin' weather. Plus, we're on the edge of a full moon. "I can slip in a quick one before work" I told myself, so I did just that. Second cast throwing the Rat 30 in morning dawn I hooked a nice 2 pounder. Last night's defeat was instantly turned into victory! "Go out on a good note" I told myself, but just one more cast... I picked up the rig with a Dark Sleeper tied on and started working angles. Sixth cast and I'm hooked up. The bass takes a run at a stump in the water and starts to wrap around it. Instead of panicking and losing the fish, as I've done once before in this very spot, I gave it slack and it ran out of the trouble zone and I landed her. A nice 19"er. "OK, I'm really done now" I told myself, but just one more cast... I start chucking the sleeper again. Fast wind, then let it die, repeat. I lift the rod, then Bang! This one is heavy. I'm winding but the spool is slipping wildly. With so many spots to get snagged on I crank down the drag and pull her in. 22 inches and fat. "Go out on a good note" I told myself, and so I did. But I went back right after work and instantly got another cutie on the Rat 30. It was good day of phishin.

 

Seems like full moons have always been a curse to our fishing, but the temps and season were lining up too perfectly not to take a chance today. Thank goodness we gave it a shot. Caught over 30, including my PB largemouth. I had been throwing swimbaits most of the morning and skipped to a stick bait after no luck on some prime looking areas. First cast with the stick bait and boom goes the dynamite out to deep water stripping line like a catfish followed by a couple circles around the boat like a shark. I about had a heart attack the first time she came up to jump and I saw it was a bass and a beast of one at that. We thought she was a 10 pounder for sure, but she was a 25" fatty that weighed in at 9.1 on my scale. Busted my 110 Special rod in half about an hour later but had such a rush I didn't even care. Good times.

 

 

One last pic after getting her back in the water for a breather 

 

That's an awesome beast, Norcal! Congratulations. Don't forget to change your PB designation on your profile!

39 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

25" fatty that weighed in at 9.1 on my scale

Congrats, NorCal! That's a whopper!

Is anyone else having problems uploading a pic? Caught my biggest of the year last night and it keeps telling me on all threads my media file is to big

@Dwbassin you will need to resize your image

57 minutes ago, Dwbassin said:

Is anyone else having problems uploading a pic? Caught my biggest of the year last night and it keeps telling me on all threads my media file is to big

https://postimages.org/

 

Copy and paste the direct link here.

NorCal WOW what an amazing catch congrats!! 

 

 

Biggest last night skipping and pitchin Keitech 3.8s around the docks.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/2k6adyzne/

Figured it out, so here’s my biggest of the year, was out snakehead fishing in blackwater refuge. Thanks @J Francho

SLOB!!!!!

Decided to try a local lake for the first time in 2019.

After  catching dinks all day, I finally caught a decent fish. it hit a ned rig.it was 18 inches long and weighed 3lb. 1oz.

 

 

Friend and I went fishing. I spotted her a few feet from the shore. She didn't want anything to do with me, but my buddy came and yanked a smaller one off the bed and she destroyed my fluke. Got her on an ultralight with 4lb test. 

Been awesome getting so much water time this past week. Tried a different lake today and had some solid action with quite a few in that 2-3# class. Lost a solid 5 pounder at the boat on a jumping head shake, but watching that was almost as good as actually landing her.

 

This fella took it right off a bass bed

 

One of the nicer ones of the day

 

This one hit at the end of a small cove, went crazy stripping line as she passed under the boat rubbing the line along the hull, and then found vegetation to run through and around. I free spooled her assuming the tension from her run and the line rubbing on the boat was going to snap her off, and to my surprise she jumped about 30 ft away on the opposite side of the boat right after I got the line away from the motor. Line was frizzed out, but 6# sniper was even tougher than I thought.

 

This tom was trying to impress his hen and kept squaring up to my truck and boat as we were trying to pass through on the way to the lake. Not the smartest turkey.

Got me a new rod, so of course I had to test it out. Only had a little bit of time. Rod (903C MBR) works great btw!

 

 

And another one, before I had to leave.