i’m glad for you being able to get out and hang a few Will ?

 

and i hope this stuff clears up soon so you can get back out there and hang ‘em on regular basis.

Back to the land of big kicker-size bass, after almost 9 months. Only caught two today though, and the other one was a dink.

 

 

 

 

Was able to get a few to bite while out before dark.

First day on vacation!!!!  Hit up little platte lake for about 4 hrs this evening.  I know generally where the fish are. It’s a good sized lake however, it only avgerages about 4 ft deep.  I slowly moved towards the emerging pads that had wood on the bottom.  I nailed 6 large mouths and a bonus smallie within a 30 minute period using a googan bandito bug summer craw.  Small mouth shouldn’t be in the lake but, the can enter via the platte river to the dead stream into The little platte. The two lakes are only separated  by a 1/4 mile.

The smallie was hanging out with the large mouths in the pads in 3.5 ft.  The bass ate me out summer craw bandito bugs. One bass isn’t pictured he was boarder line out of the water Longer than I like. didn’t want to stress it to much 

 

I was slacking to day didn’t get on crystal untill 10 am bite shut down by 11:30am. 
 

caught 2 sub legal smallies and this decent one.  I saw 4 of the biggest northern pike of my life in 15 ft of water.  one chased one my lure had to of been 40-45 inches.

 

2nd pic is how clear Big crystal lake is.  That fish is about 8-10 feet down.  Caught the bass on zoom GP tube on 3/8 strike king tube jig 

Got out today 8-1:30. Landed 7 bass all on a spinnerbait the biggest weighed 3-13. 

I caught a tiny bass. Also lost a pack of 6th Sense swimbaits into the drink when I was over on the dock in the background. Thought I was dropping it into my bag, but I dropped it onto my bag, immediately precipitating it dropping into the water.

 

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where ya at there? singleton station, ic king, or turkey creek? i cant tell lol

IC King. It's on the way to the office.

 

Apparently I've got this weird monkey's paw style curse in which I can go to places where "nobody catches fish," and then catch precisely one fish in an outing.

 

Last year I was fishing down along the beginning of the walking trail, and pulled a fish out of some brush (the same brush pile I posted a fish from here earlier this week, actually). Dude and his dog were walking back to the parking area as I was getting it unhooked, and the guy said "I've been coming here for years and have never once seen anyone catch a fish here."

 

From that moment, I was cursed. Now and forever, when I go there, if I catch a fish at all, it'll be one really dumb, hungry fish, then it goes back in the water and the bite's dead to me. lol

man walk around that trail to the left and go fish the culvert in the back and that point across the way. throw a spinnerbait you will catch somethin

I do that every so often. I didn't have a lot of time this morning so I just parked where I could hop out of the car and start fishing real quick.

 

The issue is that I'm not good at fishing, while also being limited to very highly pressured spots in a highly pressured region. To quote @TnRiver46, "Every swingin' **** here has a rod and reel."

 

So the (self-inflicted) curve for me is pretty steep, but I have fun so I guess it's whatever. I think I'd just die if I pulled in the weight i see some of y'all posting. lol

hit up big platte today.  Cold front came in and shut everything down water temp was mid 60’s.  The smallies should have been cruising in 4-6 feet.  I didn’t see anything.  Only saw a couple caught in 6 hrs of fishing.  Only thing I caught were monster rockbass on 4 inch tube.  After a while I was just trying to catch a master angler Rock bass. These suckers are so big you look down in 12 feet of water thinking they are Sm and LGm bass. 
 

I should keep them to eat.  You can see 15 feet down at this particular lake.  That was probably my last trip with my boat.  Brother just purchased a 27ft sea ray for Lake Michigan fishing .  Supposed to go out Saturday night Sunday morning. 
 

so many people fishing right now.  Last year I had basically little platte, big platte, and crystal to myself as far as fishing for bass.   Now there are a ton of people bass fishing 

First time I'd been to this lake since late winter/early spring when it normally fishes best. Back then it was nasty, pea soup green colored instead of clear like I expected and the fishing was terrible. I was hesitant on going because it has been raining and I thought it would be dirty again, but that wasn't the case thankfully. Not only that, but they'd done some renovations on the swimming park area and pushed a lot of bushes into the lake along the backside of the riprap that lines the park, and the fish were thick in those bushes. Caught a lot of skinny, postspawners, there was drum everywhere that I tried real hard to avoid and nearly did except back-to-back cast that I caught my only 2 of the day. Caught 1 surprise walleye and dropped another when I decided I was too lazy to lean down and grab it and the hooked pulled out. Finally had some success with a frog, swung 3 times, caught 3 fish ? Ended up with 24 largemouth, 4 smallmouth, 2 drum, 1.5 walleye, 1 crappie, 1 channel cat, and 3 green sunfish.

Whopper Plopper kind of morning. Landed four river Smallmouth on the Plopper. Multiple Rock Bass as well before switching to other baits.

 

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Took my dad out for a few hours and after an incredibly slow first couple hours things busted wide open. Ended the day with 85+ with the only bummer being him losing his would be PB (5-6lbs) right at the side of the boat. Just as he started lifting to guide it into the net she simultaneously turned for a big run and snapped his line. At least he got to see it.

 

Not a PB but still a nice one.

 

Quite a few LM's today.

 

And the spots were wolf packing on seemingly every point.

 

They didn't seem to want anything but Keitechs.

 

 

 

Caught four bass maybe 8”-10”, but did catch one that was a little bigger. 
 

 

 

Not huge, but it was the first time out with my new finesse rig so I was happy to land it. But one took my hook and the Senko. It was substantially bigger. I should have retied the hook after getting snagged. Lesson learned!

This morning started off hot but the breeze blew all the pond scum up my end of the pond and haven’t gotten a strike in 90 minutes. Caught two decent (not nice lol) bass early on a watermelon Senko wacky style on my new finesse rig. 
 

 

 

a couple nice spotties from this morning. blue bird skies, SW breezes and 79 degree swt. t rigged Zoom plastics around 15+ fow.

 

Got one more. One through the hook. But I lost what I know would have been my new PB. That’s a thread unto itself. 
 

I picked up where I left off yesterday. River fishing for Smallmouth. The only difference was I was using the Whopper Plopper 75 in the “I know it” color instead of the 90 in bone color.

 

I caught a few Smallmouth. This one was the best

 

 

 

Had a big rain and the fish were fired up near our little spillway . The water got high enough to flow over it. This causes a slow current and bass come around to eat the little fish that are drawn to them.

I got 6 bass,  2 catfish and a few bream. I caught 4 of the bass while catfishing on cut bream, including the biggest one,  one on a live bream, and 1 on a fluke. Left em biting at dark. ?

8 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

 Left em biting at dark. ?

So did I, except they were skeeters.

Got up this morning and decided to throw a frog a little before work. It was the same fish I caught and released yesterday 

Another fun camping trip! We had about 12-15 people do an overnight Saturday/Sunday float, maybe 18-20 miles of river with a couple class 3 rapids. Fishing was a little tough, big full moon and a lot of fish were still spawning, that’s our excuse anyway. I think there were a few Muskie sightings and some delicious frog legs! There were a lot of folks flipping boats but everyone was fine. We borrowed my buddies old town 158 and it was awesome, filled it half full of water a few times but never even came close to flipping. My fiancé of course paddled her new Jackson with canine Bo in tow. He stole her chair everytime she got up.... at the end of the trip there’s a rapid called devils jump, I forgot to get a good pic of it but the bottom picture is where it all spits out, several folks swam it. Tyler captured some good video of everyone going through from that rock he’s on. Edit: I got a grainy version of the video added at the bottom 

 

6 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Another fun camping trip! We had about 12-15 people do an overnight Saturday/Sunday float, maybe 18-20 miles of river with a couple class 3 rapids. Fishing was a little tough, big full moon and a lot of fish were still spawning, that’s our excuse anyway. I think there were a few Muskie sightings and some delicious frog legs! There were a lot of folks flipping boats but everyone was fine. We borrowed my buddies old town 158 and it was awesome, filled it half full of water a few times but never even came close to flipping. My fiancé of course paddled her new Jackson with canine Bo in tow. He stole her chair everytime she got up.... at the end of the trip there’s a rapid called devils jump, I forgot to get a good pic of it but the bottom picture is where it all spits out, several folks swam it. Tyler captured some good video of everyone going through from that rock he’s on. Edit: I got a grainy version of the video added at the bottom 

 

 

Now that is one smart dog. He looks super comfortable.