Today I made a milk run of irrigation ditches and river backwater .  Caught 16 . This was the first and biggest . Caught on a 1/4 ounce yellow Beetle Spin up inside a culvert . I dont think there is a better lure to throw than a Beetle Spin when ditch fishing .

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Today I made a milk run of irrigation ditches and river backwater .  Caught 16 . This was the first and biggest . Caught on a 1/4 ounce yellow Beetle Spin up inside a culvert . I dont think there is a better lure to than a Beetle Spin when ditch fishing .

Virgil Ward would have been proud.

Great day on the water Sunday.  Barometer absolutely bottomed out and it was going to be pretty windy so I picked a fairly sheltered lake and launched 15 minutes before dawn.  It turned out to be perfect.  Immediately identified a good pattern (vegetation on rock near deep water) with three fast catches on a whopper plopper. Caught one more on a KVD 1.5.  When the sun got up and shiny I kept the same pattern and switched to a bladed jig.  Ended up with 9 in the boat  (that's very good for this particular lake) and all but one were keeper-sized.  This is the biggest of the day and my best of the year so far.  She was 5lb 3oz.  The fish on this lake have been very fat and healthy this year.  This lake is on it's way "up", which is wonderful.  

 

 

Working on the new boat all day so I only had about 3 hrs to fish so I went to slam dunk place on little platt. Better day for only 3 hrs. Finally got my tatula sv tw hs103 bait casters broken in.  Here are the first 2 fish to fall to the rig. Both came on a 1 1/2 oz jig with summer craw trailer.  I don’t know the name it’s a creature craw from bps with ribbed body,  long attenas, and flappy claws.  Also caught my first square bill bass on a strike king rick Clune? Model 

 

Total improvement punching and flipping into pads.  Pads don’t slow the reel down one bit.  I actually like that bassx rod now. Total game changer.
 

Apparently I cheated a bit on the bottom bass by 1/4 inch oooppps 

 

I've had the stench of skunk on me so long that I was afraid it'd never wash off, and I thought a change of scenery would be nice.

 

So I went to a pond nearish to the house and I knew I had a chance when one of the maintenance crewmen that was weedeating asked me if I ever caught anything there, and said that he didn't even know if there were any fish in the water.

 

Somehow, that always means I'm gonna catch a fish. The change of scenery did me good, apparently.

 

First one. Caught it slow rolling an H2O Xpress plopper past the cattails.

 

The second one thought a @Siebert Outdoors shotcaller looked like a tasty snack.

 

 

I really needed to get moving cause I have stuff to do today that can't be accomplished with a fishing rod in my hand, but I got one more before I packed up. Caught it on a Gill Raker jointed swimbait. This fish pooped on me. Which I guess is fair since I tricked him and caused him to get stuck in his face.

 

 

Lost two others. One on a weighted wacky rig, and the other on the same swim jig from above. My hookset is bad and I should feel bad.

Sweet fish!

Thank you, sir! That bluegill skirt was money in this little pond.

I landed a 10.2 pound bass kayak fishing last Saturday.  Had a difficult time taking a picture with my camera by myself.  I didn't want to keep the fish out of the water too long, so I didn't get a good picture, but at least I remembered my camera.  Last big bass a few weeks ago, I left my camera in the car and didn't have a scale.  This time I had a camera and a scale.  I only got four bites all day, but when one is this size I don't mind having a slow day.  I caught the fish on a home made spinner bait adding a little extra satisfaction to the catch.

1 minute ago, king fisher said:

I landed a 10.2 pound bass kayak fishing last Saturday.  Had a difficult time taking a picture with my camera by myself.  I didn't want to keep the fish out of the water too long, so I didn't get a good picture, but at least I remembered my camera.  Last big bass a few weeks ago, I left my camera in the car and didn't have a scale.  This time I had a camera and a scale.  I only got four bites all day, but when one is this size I don't mind having a slow day.  I caught the fish on a home made spinner bait adding a little extra satisfaction to the catch.

Congrats!!! Don’t see double digit bass come across here too often 

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

Congrats!!! Don’t see double digit bass come across here too often 

Thanks.  Until recently I didn't think I would ever catch one.   A month ago my personal best was 5 1/2 pounds caught in 1977.  This past month I have fished 3 days, and landed 3 over ten pounds on this small lake, where I am the only bass fisherman around.  The few people that do fish, are trying to catch Tilapia.  They don't like the bass because they eat Tilapia.   A local told me the bass don't bite well in the summer, that I should fish there in February.  That is my busy time of year, but I can guarantee  I will find the time to give the lake a try the time of year when the fishing is " good".

We went to Montauk Saturday to Today got skunked on the freshwater lakes/ ponds, but the other bass were on point...

 

 

Oh and this was the week before localy:

 

2 trips in a row I've had great weather and the fish were just tough to come by. I swore this was a bluegill or really small bass when I missed it the first bite, but the fishing was so tough I couldn't afford to skip by it without giving it another chance to prove me wrong. Thankfully it did, because it represented half the bass I caught this morning and a quarter of the fish I caught.

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

2 trips in a row I've had great weather and the fish were just tough to come by. I swore this was a bluegill or really small bass when I missed it the first bite, but the fishing was so tough I couldn't afford to skip by it without giving it another chance to prove me wrong. Thankfully it did, because it represented half the bass I caught this morning and a quarter of the fish I caught.

 

When the weather gets really bad, you will be hauling in the 5-6 lbers 

19 hours ago, king fisher said:

I landed a 10.2 pound bass kayak fishing last Saturday.  Had a difficult time taking a picture with my camera by myself.  I didn't want to keep the fish out of the water too long, so I didn't get a good picture, but at least I remembered my camera.  Last big bass a few weeks ago, I left my camera in the car and didn't have a scale.  This time I had a camera and a scale.  I only got four bites all day, but when one is this size I don't mind having a slow day.  I caught the fish on a home made spinner bait adding a little extra satisfaction to the catch.

What scale do you use?  Do you like it?

It is a digital scale that I bought at a tackle shop for $20 in PV. last week.  I can't find a brand or model number on it.  Just says portable electronic scale and a Logo W.  I tested it with a large expensive spring scale I have and it seems to be accurate.  So far I am impressed because it is small and digital, but need more time to see if I like it.

5 hours ago, king fisher said:

It is a digital scale that I bought at a tackle shop for $20 in PV. last week.  I can't find a brand or model number on it.  Just says portable electronic scale and a Logo W.  I tested it with a large expensive spring scale I have and it seems to be accurate.  So far I am impressed because it is small and digital, but need more time to see if I like it.

And more monster bass 

Zombie cannibal Shellcracker G2 eater! I thought this one was a fluke until one of his gang took a Spro Rat 40 and another bit a 3" Livingston wake. All were about the same size and fired up for bass baits. With the relentless heat and windless days the water's actually hot in the shallows. The bait and bass have been very tough to find near the shoreline recently. Thank god for psycho panfish.

 

 

Caught my current PB LMB this AM. 5.25 lbs. The SMB was 3 lbs. Guess which was the better fight? 

Excellent catches, I would guess the green one fought harder but I feel like it’s a trick question 

31 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Excellent catches, I would guess the green one fought harder but I feel like it’s a trick question 

I needed a partner with a net for the smallie. They never quit.

 So today was the day my youngest decided to fulfill her 2019 Christmas present and spend the day fishing with me. Up at 0315hrs with no complaints so we’d (i.e. me) wouldn’t miss the morning topwater bite and beat the projected 95 degree afternoon heat the day began. Fortunately, the fish liked the my buzz bait and my daughter’s wacky senko ...
 

The ned wacky rig is still putting in work but this geecrack bellows gill is the real deal. 3.8 paired with a 3/8oz dirty jigs California swimjig. Skeeters ended the night. 

Nice smallmouth, skeeters are undefeated 

Activate ninja mode.

Put a hurt on them Thursday, 38 bass and a crappie by noon. Homemade bladed jig and Big Bite Baits craw tube did most of the damage.