Finally got on some fish! Crankbaits and jigs have been doing the job lately! 

Bass were a little tougher to come by Friday, but I still managed to catch plenty. Still no big smallmouth like I was hoping. They seemed to be skittish, just nipping at the bait, caught a lot of them on the trailer hook.

Missed one in a laydown on a spinnerbait so I flipped a Hoodaddy back into it, pretty sure what I got isn't what missed my spinnerbait but it was still fun.

Towards the end of the day, I hooked a fish on an underspin that took off and pulled line so I thought it was going to be a wiper. Then I saw color and it was gold, so I started cussing this stupid carp that I must have snagged and horsed the heck out of it just trying to get it in as quick as I could and get it gone. Once it got closer, I realized I'd hooked the biggest walleye I've ever had on my line and I'd dang near straightened my hook pulling on her so hard. Got really lucky to get my hands on it but put a new PB walleye in the boat of 5.62 pounds. I was unpopular with the guys on the bank when I carefully released her to say the least.

 

Saturday I took the johnboat out to the same little tributary creek I fished earlier in the week to try and explore further up the creek. I got way up there and caught fish the whole way. I got another good one and after looking closer, I wonder if it's not one of the same fish I caught last week. It had a hole in it's gill plate and a torn up dorsal fin, a lot like the one I caught a few days ago, but it was almost a mile further up the creek.

 

Wednesday's fish

 

Saturday's fish

11 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

. I was unpopular with the guys on the bank when I carefully released her to say the least.

 

 

Well I guess they should have caught there own 5.62 lb walleye then! Congrats on that stovepipe 

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Well I guess they should have caught there own 5.62 lb walleye then! Congrats on that stovepipe 

I'm just glad I was out of reach of their bank sinkers because they took it pretty personal that I didn't think to give the fish to them apparently.

few pics from a couple trips out last week. The Brownies are HOT!! Thursday afternoon i got out with around 2 hours of daylight left, caught 7 keepers(18 inches) with 3 over 4lbs! @TnRiver46 pulled up and got in on a little bit of the action, even though i think his jumped off before landing them LOL also won a little 3 fish club tourney on chik saturday with 9.21, lake is fishing incredibly tough. Second only had 5.38! I love Fall!!!

Saturday produced the best outing of the entire season.  My friend and I caught 25 bass and 7 pike in about 5 hours including several mammoth largies, and even a few good size pike on accident.  We caught all of them on moving lures.  They refused to bite a slower finesse presentation.

6 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Saturday produced the best outing of the entire season.  My friend and I caught 25 bass and 7 pike in about 5 hours including several mammoth largies, and even a few good size pike on accident.  We caught all of them on moving lures.  They refused to bite a slower finesse presentation.

Goodness gracious! Nice ones 

To buff or not to buff.? That is the question.

Had a fun time catching em on the ned rig lately! Had a good time sunday with a buddy of mine caught a couple nice ones biggest being 2.3lbs! Best part was we shouldn't have caught anything because the conditions sucked but we were persistent! 

Man that is just painful to watch when people jab the hook on a scale through the fish's mouth.  Get rid of that thing and use a clamp.

11 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Man that is just painful to watch when people jab the hook on a scale through the fish's mouth.  Get rid of that thing and use a clamp.

You do realize you're supposed to slide it in through the gills and it doesn't hurt the fish.. You actually think i'm "stabbing" the fish....

12 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Man that is just painful to watch when people jab the hook on a scale through the fish's mouth.  Get rid of that thing and use a clamp.

Or at least put the clamp on the hook instead of the fish. Tare out the scale first.

Just now, TriStateBassin106 said:

You do realize you're supposed to slide it in through the gills and it doesn't hurt the fish.. You actually think i'm "stabbing" the fish....

Can still 'slip' and damage the gills.

2 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Or at least put the clamp on the hook instead of the fish. Tare out the scale first.

Can still 'slip' and damage the gills.

I have a clamp coming in the mail.

46 minutes ago, TriStateBassin106 said:

I have a clamp coming in the mail.

Its so much easier than the hook.  I've seen several fish flop off using the hook and smack themselves on the floor or ground and end up stone dead.  A clamp is the way to go, my friend.  Keep up the good work.

 

Why they even sell scales with those stupid hooks is beyond me.

4 hours ago, gimruis said:

Its so much easier than the hook.  I've seen several fish flop off using the hook and smack themselves on the floor or ground and end up stone dead.  A clamp is the way to go, my friend.  Keep up the good work.

 

Why they even sell scales with those stupid hooks is beyond me.

Rapala used to sell the 25lb scales with the clamp, the 6 size model I believe. I can't find that setup anymore anywhere so I just ordered the size 6 from Bass pro a few days ago. Dicks sporting goods used to sell the combos a lot couple years back. 

Well, he wasn't much, but here's number 2,000 for the year.

30 degrees this morning at sunrise. I fished the Ned Rig several different ways, slow roll, short hops. It wasn’t until I deadsticked it that this nice 2 pound Smallmouth took it.
 

I was watching the line. It was apparent that a fish had the bait when the line never stopped moving when I know it should have hit the bottom by now.

 

http://

 

http://

http://

 

Crankbait got it done again

Started back to afternoon fishing now that it’s cooling off some. Got 12 , mostly on watermelon red super flukes , and a couple was on a 12 inch ribbon tail worm. Lost the two biggest fish I hooked, which has been the trend lately... 

Got out 8-1 today. Caught 6, 1 on a plopper,1 on a Frog and 4 on a spinnerbait with the best at 4-1.

After work trip this morning. Great fishing weather, so not very nice weather really. 39* at the ramp and misting with a 10mph SE wind. I started out struggling, just covering water with a DT6 and RES 2tap mostly. Finally figured out they were TIGHT to the weedlines and cover but wouldn't eat a slow moving bait for me. It was on after that. Mixed in a Booyah Covert once I found how close they were to the willows and caught several on it. Biggest was on the DT6. Leaves are falling fast and willows are dying off so lots of lures to be found also. Caught bass number 2020 for 2020 (plus a few more), and a bonus white bass.

#2020