Lots of dinks but a fun day. Using the owner jig rig with Keitechs sungill color until I ran out. 

On 3/27/2021 at 11:50 AM, NorcalBassin said:

Pops broke his 5 trip scoreless streak. Amazing how a small fish can make you almost as happy as a giant when you've been getting skunked.

 

 

I daresay that everybody on this website knows exactly the joy relief your Pops was feeling in that picture. That's a good feeling.

Won a little preseason team derby this past weekend, great way to kickstart the season.  Our limit weighed 12-2 and this 3-2 was our biggest.  My partner caught a 2-11 which culled out a 1-10 with about 10 minutes left in the day, without that fish we would have lost by 1 ounce!  It was a catch-weigh-release tournament and the 2nd place team is a good friend, so we got to know exactly how that played out when we talked at weigh in .  

 

Another one falls victim to the spinnerbait. 

The fish are dinks, but my fortune cookie from lunch was nice.

11 minutes ago, fishballer06 said:

Another one falls victim to the spinnerbait. 

The color on that fish is great!  Nice fish!

Too windy to get the boat out today, with steady winds at 20+ gusting to 30 mph, but I caught several chunking cranks and jerkbaits from the bank instead. This one is the best I've caught from this little lake - on a HJ08 tossed on 6'6" ML with Curado G and 8# fluoro.

 

2nd trip out in the boat this year for a few hours. Got a jig fish right off the bat, though it would be the deal,but after 2 hrs had nothing but a couple pickeral to show. Picked up a spinnerbait and got a 4-10 on my 7th cast. Got 4 more before heading home.

7 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Too windy to get the boat out today, with steady winds at 20+ gusting to 30 mph, but I caught several chunking cranks and jerkbaits from the bank instead. This one is the best I've caught from this little lake - on a HJ08 tossed on 6'6" ML with Curado G and 8# fluoro.

 

There's one that put on the Quarintine 15. 

Fished an hour this afternoon. Missed one fish on a long cast that hit a 5” Senko weightless TR and spit the hook before I could set it. But I did catch my first bass on the new XZone 4.25” Adrenaline Craws the BM talked me into over the winter. Not real big but it was a fighter!

 

My once a year fish-with-my-spinny-rod day happened today. I bought a couple new jerkbaits I wanted to try out- a 110+1 Jr, and a Realis Rozante 77; and the wind today was like 20 miles an hour; so it turned out well.

 

I really like the plus 1 Jr, much better than the standard junior 110. Seems to dive ~6 ft or so on 20# braid and 10# leader, I can work it like the plus 1, and it catches fish. Definitely a winner for me.

 

The Rozante caught fish too, as did an X80+1 trick darter (those were the 3 baits I had with me today).

 

Caught around 15 in ~3.5 hours, mostly 12-14 inchers. Quick released a slightly larger one. Also caught a nice sized bluegill. That was cool; hadn't managed to run into one of those in quite a while.

 

 

 

I know this isn't rhe best way to hold a bass, but there wasn't anyone else I could get to take the pic. I had a previous best of 5 lbs caught last year. I feel this is at least right at that, or my new PB. My buddy said he thought it is in the 4 lb range but I believe it was heavier than that. My one arm got quite tired trying to hold it up qnd still while I snapped photos on my phone. 

 

I left my scale in the truck and I didn't wanna walk up to get it, as that would have had the bass out of the water longer. I could kick myself for that  d'oh. But I am 90% sure this beats my PB of 5 lbs. What do you think?

I wouldn't call it 5lbs, if you don't know for sure, you can call it 10lbs if you want to. Whatever makes you feel good.

It's a nice fish but that's an impossible picture angle to take a guess on.

1 hour ago, jbsoonerfan said:

I wouldn't call it 5lbs, if you don't know for sure, you can call it 10lbs if you want to. Whatever makes you feel good.

Yeah not gonna lie, that does kinda take some of the excitement out of it. Just looking at it in person I thought it beat my previous PB, which woulda put it around 5 lbs. But it is a big improvement over my only other bass of the year pictured here, and I do feel confident I can call it in the high 4 range at least.

 

This first little dink bass of the year went after a minnow half as long as it was ?

Saturday was a slow morning, nothing but dinks. Then this girl came by to say hi in the afternoon.

1 hour ago, PowPow said:

Saturday was a slow morning, nothing but dinks. Then this girl came by to say hi in the afternoon.

Awesome. Only takes one decent one like that to make the day worth it to me. Anything else, or anything bigger especially is icing on the cake.

Quite a way to break in the NEW P5 Destroyer Windbuster! Didn’t have a scale but this one was over 3 all day! Ate a spark shad/Okashira head combo. Great looking fish! (Wish the photo quality was better but had to be under the size limit)

Edited April 1, 20215 yr by JWall14

That's a beautiful smallmouth, dude.

Went out in the rain today, and wasn't disappointed with two nice ones on the 3DB jerkbait in Table Rock Shad, water temps are finally at the 55 degree mark and the fish are up shallow.  

By the time we hit our spot last night the wind had disappeared and a gigantic, beaming moon had turned night into day. After 4 hours of not seeing a sign of life in any way I tied on a Dark Sleeper and threw a hail Mary pass, literally. Rigged on my combo that I'm able to cast it the farthest I boomed it out,  then got one way out there at the end of the cast. Missed more than a few bites, but landed 3 more. My bud, who was fading fast, finally capitulated and tied one on and salvaged his night. No bigs, but we drop kicked the skunk again!

 

 

44 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

By the time we hit our spot last night the wind had disappeared and a gigantic, beaming moon had turned night into day. After 4 hours of not seeing a sign of life in any way I tied on a Dark Sleeper and threw a hail Mary pass, literally. Rigged on my combo that I'm able to cast it the farthest I boomed it out,  then got one way out there at the end of the cast. Missed more than a few bites, but landed 3 more. My bud, who was fading fast, finally capitulated and tied one on and salvaged his night. No bigs, but we dropped kicked the skunk again!

 

 

Nice fish bad shirt 

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice fish bad shirt 

Not me, Him. I'll pass that along?

I wasn't planning on fishing today, probably shouldn't have. I have a ton of bait orders I need to get to but it wasn't as cold and was way less windy when I got off work than I expected, and it was the last day for my kayak tournament with me sitting 1 spot out of the prizes, soooo. Unfortunately in my hurry I forgot to put my memory card back in my GoPro. As sure as forgetting the net, caught the biggest fish of the whole tournament. Slacklined a 1/2oz War Eagle white/gold Colorado/Indiana bladed spinnerbait. Moved me into a tie for 3rd (last prize spot), but tiebreaker goes to biggest fish ?‍♂️. Also my new kayak PB and lake PB.

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I wasn't planning on fishing today, probably shouldn't have. I have a ton of bait orders I need to get to but it wasn't as cold and was way less windy when I got off work than I expected, and it was the last day for my kayak tournament with me sitting 1 spot out of the prizes, soooo. Unfortunately in my hurry I forgot to put my memory card back in my GoPro. As sure as forgetting the net, caught the biggest fish of the whole tournament. Slacklined a 1/2oz War Eagle white/gold Colorado/Indiana bladed spinnerbait. Moved me into a tie for 3rd (last prize spot), but tiebreaker goes to biggest fish ?‍♂️. Also my new kayak PB and lake PB.

Nice fish.