Fun weekend on the holston river

On 9/8/2019 at 6:34 PM, TnRiver46 said:

Fun weekend on the holston river

So I don't see a shotgun and it seems really early for goose season, did you hit it with the boat?

 

Caught myself a skinny one, and a toad this weekend on a slow day. I don't mind it when I get bites like those though. I even caught them both on a crankbait! When they start filling up the big Frabill Power Extend net like this chunk did, that's the kind I'm looking for!

 

 

@Bluebasser86, we have an early goose season from sept 1 to sept 22. My buddies shot two of them while we were fishing and made pastrami out of them. Mmmmm. And nice green fish ya got there! 

Too nice to go home after school tonight, so after I picked him up, Lake and I got the boat real quick and hit the water for a couple hours. He almost got one his first cast, and pretty much caught them steady the whole time we were on the water. His casting was great tonight for a 5 year old. It's amazing the difference the nicer equipment I got him is making.

9 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Too nice to go home after school tonight, so after I picked him up, Lake and I got the boat real quick and hit the water for a couple hours. He almost got one his first cast, and pretty much caught them steady the whole time we were on the water. His casting was great tonight for a 5 year old. It's amazing the difference the nicer equipment I got him is making.

Catching some Hawgs, NOICE!

Been sick for a long time and haven't gotten to fish a lot. A few of my best Smallies from the past few short trips I've been able to make. 

 

 

 

 

My lungs are slowly but surely getting better so hopefully I can make a full fall out of it.

Doubled up on the fishing trips today . Went for 1.5 hours this morning by myself and it was a grind. My frog must have called this one's mom a bad name or something because it sounded like it was going to weigh 10 pounds the way it destroyed my frog through the thick grass. My first bite of the day 20 minutes in, I should have put it back on the trailer and gone home after that.

Found a spot on a creek that I liked the looks of, and Lake loves playing in creeks just like I did when I was his age, so after I picked him up from school it didn't take any convincing to get him to want to go check it out. First spot was pretty nice. All really shallow, but we caught some little channel cats, a bass, several sunfish, and most surprising was several little wipers and white bass including 1 bigger white. I also almost sight fished a pretty big longnose gar with my Mepps. Lake desperately wants to catch a gar for some reason, he was pretty disappointed when it didn't hook up but really excited to see one up close, and I mean up close because we were wading and the sucker swam right next to us before I popped him.

With our time running short, we walked back towards the truck but I wanted to poke around under the bridge and see if there was anything going on in the pool below it. There was a few big logs in the water, and I immediately lost a little largemouth, then had a small school of very aggressive longnose gar swim through, swatting at everything that moved, one even took a swipe at a floating leaf and Lake's bobber when he moved it. I got one to eat a piece of cutbait, but even after waiting at least 5 minutes to set the hook, it still didn't hook up. Lake was pretty devastated that we didn't catch the gar, but very next cast with the Mepps and a big fish was screaming drag and he was about in the creek. It was a tedious fight around and through the laydowns, but we finally got it landed. We'll be going back to check that spot out more for sure!

 

And I swear he's wearing shorts, he just hiked them up for wading the creek for some reason. I didn't realize he looked like he wasn't wearing pants until after I got home and looked at the pictures ?

Been missing your posts. Always good to see those smallie pics.

Did manage to boat 11 decent bass this morning,

The best being just over 4 lbs. caught on adrenaline jig with paca chunk trailer.

A few of the better ones.

 

 

Just two from today. Two different lakes. Both lost my senko.

Been using screw lock hooks for t-rigging and vinyl tubing for wacky with senkos. Really saves on baits.

this 4 lb largemouth came off a brush pile in 18 fow this morning.

On the pause with a light perch Ripstop.

Biggest one of the day at the local electric only water reservoir. Caught 7-8 most of the damage was done with a baby bass tiny torpedo. Lakes an adventure to get to so don't make it often but is always fun when we do.

The largemouth hit the sprinker frog, that was cool! 

Caught my first Whopper Plopper fish on Friday... Yeah, forgot my phone so use your minds eye... Maybe a 2lbr.  

 

Pretty sure she's pushing 5. ?

I can live with that...

7 hours ago, boostr said:

Caught my first Whopper Plopper fish on Friday... Yeah, forgot my phone so use your minds eye... Maybe a 2lbr.  

 

you big dummy ?

Did some evening fishing today with the wife to try her new spinning setup

 

Biggest one out of the 3 she caught

Buddy took me out, and put me on a good one today. This was the only one I caught, but good to be back on the water after almost a month.

 

 

 

On 9/15/2019 at 11:23 AM, lo n slo said:

this 4 lb largemouth came off a brush pile in 18 fow this morning.

My first thought when I saw this was "what does he have shoved in the bass' mouth.