Didn’t find the big girls but had a good morning boating 28 bass.

Most caught on various t/rigged plastics.

 

I had a whole bag of baits with me today when I left at 6am I wound up using 1 bait most of the day. The Yo-Zuri 3DB Popper I got at Walmart last week for $5 it was magic today for the early morning Smallmouth Bite. No monsters but a fun day no doubt

Finally got the boat out after a couple month hiatus on a 400 ac. community reservoir. Put the finesse gear to work in some hot weather and high boat traffic to land around a dozen keepers. Slider came through again for me, along with a Ned rig for my buddy.

 

 

 

 

Fishing after a small lake the day after a tournament is always challenging for me, especially with water Temps near 80.

Today I was just happy to get a few 3 pounders.

[July 29, 2019]

 

"Sunrise"

 

"Location Scenery"

 

"Fish of the Day"

 

"Bait"

 

"Headed Home"

 

WolfyBrandon

 

Took Lake and my oldest niece Lilly fishing Sunday. With all the lakes being 80+ degree water temps and Lilly having very little fishing experience, we pretty much were limited to going somewhere we could fish for whatever was biting and they needed to be biting fast. I even bought some nightcrawlers to make sure that fish were caught. They both caught lots of bluegills, several drum, and Lilly caught a bass and channel cat. I'm not a big fan of catching drum, but they were great for the kids because they bit so readily, pull hard, and they get good sized.

 

Haven't fished much recently but got out to do a river float today. Not quite the fastest action (or the biggest fish) I've had on this river, but very satisfactory--20 smallies and a couple largemouth in 5 hours.

A handful of 14"ers showed up, like this one:

 

 

And here's a somewhat beaten-up and abnormally skinny 18.5" -- couldn't have weighed more than 2lbs. A shame -- this would have been quite a nice river fish if it was healthy:  look at the head compared to the body.  I wonder if it unfortunately has a taste for discarded plastics...  

 

A much healthier one on the next cast, 2 inches shorter, but seemed heavier. 

Nicely done! Sounds like a good day all together. That one does look like it’s seen better days. Which river? 

2 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Which river? 

 

Yours! South of you.

Gotcha! ?

Caught a bunch, these 2 went well with grits. 

hit the water at 0530 this AM, got a new PB shortly after. got her on the slammer, she followed it to the boat then rolled on it. i saw it all go down.  this is actually my first bass on the slammer. a bit ago i got a monster chain pickerel that was all sorts of huge. included is a pic of that and another good fish from the day, ate a spro rock crawler. productive morning, few more fish here and there on drop shot. hit a sudden rock and prop fell off had to go overboard to retrieve it. too much action before 8 am. tuckered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 7/29/2019 at 11:13 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

Took Lake and my oldest niece Lilly fishing Sunday. With all the lakes being 80+ degree water temps and Lilly having very little fishing experience, we pretty much were limited to going somewhere we could fish for whatever was biting and they needed to be biting fast. I even bought some nightcrawlers to make sure that fish were caught. They both caught lots of bluegills, several drum, and Lilly caught a bass and channel cat. I'm not a big fan of catching drum, but they were great for the kids because they bit so readily, pull hard, and they get good sized.

 

 

Man those kids steal the show from all the grown men holding fishies

 

That little boy cracks me up, he's all straight-faced when his sister holds up those big fish. "big deal" I can see above his head.  But he's got a huge grin when its his turn...probably reading into it, just struck me as funny.  Great pics.

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

On the water at 8am - caught this baby about 8:30 on a willow/colorado spinner with yellow/orange skirt. 3.92 lbs...well under my PB, but the first decent fish of the year.

 

That was the ONLY fish of the day though.

Nice one man! 

Another slow day for numbers, but my partner managed to get the 5.4 on a foul-hooked popper in a foot of water.  The rest of hit were 3lb LM.  Where the heck did the SM go?  You would never know this lake was know for it SM quality by what we caught in the last month.

It's amazing what small changes can produce.  Look at this little cove:

 

I could see bass moving in the shallows, mostly dinks but the occasional 1-2lb fish.  It was hot and sunny out and I spent about 45min casting a Senko all over it.  A few of the tiniest of dinks would grab it and run, but nothing big enough to even hook.  I walked away for 20min to try another spot. then came back.  I tied on a 3.5" Fat Impact rigged with just a hook and some nail-weights.  Immediately caught a 1lb bass, killing my paddletail.  While I was re-rigging some clouds blew in and from then it was game-on.  In the next 20 min I got five (FIVE!) more bass from dink to maybe 1.5lb and then got this nice little 2.5:

 

I soon ran out of FI's and the same rig with a Rage Swimmer produced nothing.  Sure, 7 bass out of a spot the size of a backyard pool might be all there was to catch, but I quickly walked to the other parts of the pond with similar conditions and still nothing.  

I didn't think it was possible, but I caught a fish on a Westin Danny the Duck. Got the lure as a joke gift, showed them! 3lbs 3oz

 

 

 

 

Tues. Was fishing in wicked heat only got 3 with 1 at 3-12 punching a double wide beaver, today up.in Maine chasing smallies got about 27 with the best right at 3lbs. On a spinnerbait

Another Thursday night tournament, another win and big bass for the night. She was my first bite of the night on a Big Bite Baits YoMomma under a dock. 

 

New PB from Saturday the 27th. 9.42lbs. Caught on a chart/black 6xd off a stump row in 10-12ft of water. Was sure I’d snagged a catfish in the back or something for at least 30 seconds or so. Even better I got to share this awesome experience with my dad. Was released to be caught again one day. 

Wow congrats! Nice hat 

That is a pig. Gotta love the xd cranks.

36 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Wow congrats! Nice hat 

Thanks! I’m definitely a glutton for punishment. 

On 8/2/2019 at 11:27 AM, StretcherJockey said:

New PB from Saturday the 27th. 9.42lbs. Caught on a chart/black 6xd off a stump row in 10-12ft of water. Was sure I’d snagged a catfish in the back or something for at least 30 seconds or so. Even better I got to share this awesome experience with my dad. Was released to be caught again one day. 

 

That's a tank for sure!  Excellent work!