i caught 7 spots and this nice largemouth this morning. she hit an old BPS Tournament Series worm in green pumpkin, in a brush pile about 15’ deep. 

 

On 5/21/2020 at 3:09 PM, A-Jay said:

Thunder Goby Strikes Again ~ !

 

 

A-Jay

That's a hog!! Wow!!

 

Another river smallie . 

Dedicated the morning to deep DS (40-50 FOW) and put 12 in the boat,

6 being within a couple ounces +/- of 3lbs.  While I am late to the DS party, I am now a believer.

Started and ended my day the same way, catching a keeper off the ramp boat ramp on a Ned rig. Only had to catch 38 shorts between the 2 ?

 

My wife was out of town most of Wednesday and Thursday with her mom, so the boys and I did a bunch of fishing. Wednesday was creek fishing. No bass, not many fish, but we caught one that made up for it. I'll make a post of it in the Other Species forum though.

 

Thursday we went to a reservoir and caught a mixed bag and a couple real nice smallmouth and Lake caught a great spotted bass for Kansas and had a really nice smallmouth to the boat when it just kind of let go. Finn helped me land a 3.69lb smallmouth

Lake caught a healthy channel cat on his Ned rig.

We caught several fish before making a run to my deep water spot and really catching a mixed bag. I probably caught 20 crappie, several white bass, a couple drum, my biggest smallmouth of the day, and Lake caught the spot and I caught one much smaller than his.

Finn seems to be over his fear of touching fish too.

While he wasn't looking I hooked this channel cat on his little Dock Demon and tossed it back in the water and told him he needed to check his pole. Man the giggles and excitement when he found out he actually had a fish (he normally has a crankbait with no hooks because he doesn't have great control of where his cast go yet), were priceless. He was so proud of his fish that he caught on his pole, it was great.

Caught a couple with @Bluebasser86 bladed jig in what I think is milfoil 

Got 17 by lunch time, mostly on zoom flukes. Nothing on the frog or pop-r first thing in the morning. Caught a couple on a watermelon orange finesse worm, and the june bug uv speed worm.

Still no hawgs, but I got this one at least off our  big spring at the southeast corner of the lake.

Went out to one of our favourite little local lakes this morning. Water was like glass all morning. No real monsters today, but we stopped counting at 30 bass and managed a few half decent fish. Most came on a Strike King squarebill, with a few more on a drop shot. 

Drop-shotting 30 FOW yields more than Bass!

 Cool Pic & Super Pretty Trout too.

Congrats

A-Jay

 

Looks like a landlocked salmon to me.

I think you're right 

A-Jay 

We had some friends hiking the smokies from the highest point in TN down to Fontana lake in NC. They needed a boat ride across the lake, said they would be at a certain spot at 4:30 (no cell service). Luckily the coordinates were spot on and we found the spot by maybe 2 pm and sure enough they emerged from the woods 26 miles and 2 days from where they started at 4:27. I also found a nice smallmouth or meanmouth, I dropped it in the lake while attempting weight and measurement. Seemed like a 19” fish. The water was super clear, my fiancé snorkeled around and spotted all kinds of fish 

Had a job this morning . Afterwards I stopped at an irrigation ditch culvert . It was a hot and muggy 94 degrees. The water not more than two foot deep . It doesnt look like a place that would hold bass . Well bass are very resilient and take up the best places like culverts and tubes . Caught this one on one side and lost another on the opposite side about the same size . Beetle Spin .Caught eight total . I didnt weigh it but around 5 lbs maybe 4.5 . This is the larger size Beetle than the 1/4 ounce Wal-mart ones . Found them at a Mom and Pop store on the clearance rack .

Dock skipping a stick bait has been productive lately.

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Had a job this morning . Afterwards I stopped at an irrigation ditch culvert . It was a hot and muggy 94 degrees. The water not more than two foot deep . It doesnt look like a place that would hold bass . Well bass are very resilient and take up the best places like culverts and tubes . Caught this one on one side and lost another on the opposite side about the same size . Beetle Spin .Caught eight total . I didnt weigh it but around 5 lbs maybe 4.5 . This is the larger size Beetle than the 1/4 ounce Wal-mart ones . Found them at a Mom and Pop store on the clearance rack .

 

I've gotta say, your Beetle Spin has been a force to reckon with   

 

Roger

 

 

Love all the pics/stories! Keep them coming.

 

Here's a few of the bigger bass I've caught over the past month. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@A-Jay How have you fared on your rats this year??