Up until this year I had never caught a fish on a buzzbait despite having several and using them off and on for years. I bought some cavitrons on the strength of recommendations on this board, resolved to be a little more persistent than usual and, boom, like magic, they produce. They've been far and away my most productive topwater this year.

And in a kayak we can make long casts keeping the buzzbait within a foot of the bank fishing parallel. That's deadly  .

Fishing was slow Thursday, but I made up for it by catching my biggest bass of the year so far. 5lb 15oz on one of my homemade bladed jigs in Golden Shiner color.

 

Caught a couple nice ones flipping the grass at a little local lake Friday morning too.

 

Cavitron And War Eagle were the main players today. Brown ones and green ones

A couple decent ones from earlier.

Had an hour to kill after school, the rain was dumping so the current was picked up in the river and fish were holding by runoff creeks. caught 8 on a chatterbait, these two were the biggest.

yes sir!

 

Well done

Caught on a Booyah Pad Crasher in Albino, my favorite frog! I cut the legs at the tip of the frog nose then I snipped another 1/2inch off and I have never had an issue with the hook set. At first I thought I cut the frog too short so I ordered another one, by the time it arrived it has stayed in the box and this one has never came off my rod except to re tie.

Stay on them guys!

5lb 10 oz. Missed big fish by 1 oz. 2nd biggest fish of year for the club.

Jig fishing. Only one of the day, slammed it no subtle jig bite! Put up a good fight.

On the drop shot.

 

Solid bass I caught on a BPS Boss Shad Swimbait today, he had a belly on him!

I think its the camera haha I've got Terradactyl feet in that picture hahaha

Nice surprise today while finesse fishing from my dock on a worm landed a nice rainbow

 

 

Had to help stack some wood this morning, and afterwords the landowners let me fish their pond, didn't look like much, silted in cow pasture pond but I never pass up a chance to fish! Caught 4 fish in 45 minutes, all of them healthy 2.5-3lb class fish. Bluegill DT4 did the damage

 

This evening I fished a little stretch of river that is a wintering hole, and fish are already stacking up... Nothing much heavier than 2 pounds, but 27 largemouth in 3 hours, all but 4 of them on the bluegill DT4, tons of fun!

 

Cow pond

I think they wanted it

River fish

Yeah they wanted it

It was so good yesterday that I decided to go back...28 this time 

On 10/16/2015 at 6:34 PM, Retired@176 said:

Nice surprise today while finesse fishing from my dock on a worm landed a nice rainbow

 

I'm pretty sure that fish is a brown trout. Nice trout btw

Bluebird.

 

First fish landed on a buzzbait and I'm a buzzbait believer now! 19 inches and second biggest for me this year. 

Put in 7 hours today on the kayak for 9 fish. Slowwwwwww. This was the only nice one, taped out at 18". Hit a chatterbait a few feet from my kayak in crystal clear water, very cool to watch!

The 6.1 I caught right before the 8. Broke my PB twice in less than an hour!

Largest of 9 boated from this past Saturday.

4.2 lbs caught on t/rig 4" pitboss.

10+Lber

Another mixed bag. Past couple of months the pickerel bite has been on and the bass bite has been slow for me, so I have been throwing cranks and spinners at the pickerel. 

 

Got this one on a yellow perch shad shallow

 

This one kept following the shad shallow but would not hit it. I changed to a booyah super shad spinner and first cast it hit it like a run away freight train. Wet my hands, got a pic and back it went.  

 

 

caught my first salmon. I was fishing for bass but the salmon schools are very active right now and shallow. I was in the right place right time. This one was feeding aggressively at the surface and I cast into the ruckus and it went right after it. Super cool fish.

 

For over a month I have not caught many bass and any I have caught have been small. But fun!

 

This is my biggest bass in over a month. The bite seems to be picking up again. Lots of follows on this day but none would commit. Finally caught this on a huckleberry salty sinker wacky rigged. 

2 weekends ago my father in law and I got out for a few hours and put together a solid bag including this 6.92lber. Thought we finally clipped the 7lb mark but just a bit shy. Checked on 2 scales with the same weight reading. Choked a homemade jig I made for him last winter. 

 

 

That is quite a fish! What a TANK