On 8/29/2021 at 1:48 PM, Jmurphy87 said:

I started wading around checking the bottom composition with my feet lol, if I had to guess maybe 8-9 feet deep at the max. Th

Dang , how tall are you?

The river hasn’t given up any monsters lately. Just a steady supply of these guys

 

Well, good news and bad news from my Labor Day fishing effort. The bad news? Yet again I lost what could have been a PB. Chatterbait in shallow water and the strike as massive.  She came up out of the water and, for some stupid reason, I felt compelled to reset the hook. When will I learn?  How many big fish must I lose before I remember not to panic and just keep tension in the line?  Oh well, we will meet again someday.

 

On the good news front, Dinkfest 2021 is over for me … at least for now. In the last two weeks, I was catching fish, but nothing that measured. Today was a different story. 9 fish total with only one dink. 8 were over a pound.  Of those 8, 4 were over 2 lbs and 1 was over 3 lbs.  

 

Not long but fat as a football!

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, NYWayfarer said:

The river hasn’t given up any monsters lately. Just a steady supply of these guys

 

Nothing wrong with those hard-fighters!   All smallies are good; some are just better than others...   ?

1 hour ago, NYWayfarer said:

The river hasn’t given up any monsters lately. Just a steady supply of these guys

 

Nice job.. 

5 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Dang , how tall are you?

6’2 just guessing lol. But I get it.

Today was a grind. Got out at 2:30 pm wind was strong most of the day started with a spoon caught two small ones. Switched to soft plastics caught three to four more small ones. Then I decided to throw a walking bait had to grind for a while then caught this one 20 inches long 14 inches around. No weight unfortunately I still don’t have a scale don’t really catch them big enough to worry about weighing them most of the time lol. Caught it on a chrome sexy shad sexy dawg definitely a decent fish for Michigan I would say, they do definitely get bigger but finding them can be hard. I then caught some on a popper also. I enjoy getting out and catching the bigger ones, it’s been a dink fest lately. My goal for the year is to catch a 6lb bass we will see.

2 minutes ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Today was a grind. Got out at 2:30 pm wind was strong most of the day started with a spoon caught two small ones. Switched to soft plastics caught three to four more small ones. Then I decided to throw a walking bait had to grind for a while then caught this one 20 inches long 14 inches around. No weight unfortunately I still don’t have a scale don’t really catch them big enough to worry about weighing them most of the time lol. Caught it on a chrome sexy shad sexy dawg definitely a decent fish for Michigan I would say, they do definitely get bigger but finding them can be hard. I then caught some on a popper also. I enjoy getting out and catching the bigger ones, it’s been a dink fest lately. My goal for the year is to catch a 6lb bass we will see.

Yeah buddy!!!

53 minutes ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Today was a grind. Got out at 2:30 pm wind was strong most of the day started with a spoon caught two small ones. Switched to soft plastics caught three to four more small ones. Then I decided to throw a walking bait had to grind for a while then caught this one 20 inches long 14 inches around. No weight unfortunately I still don’t have a scale don’t really catch them big enough to worry about weighing them most of the time lol. Caught it on a chrome sexy shad sexy dawg definitely a decent fish for Michigan I would say, they do definitely get bigger but finding them can be hard. I then caught some on a popper also. I enjoy getting out and catching the bigger ones, it’s been a dink fest lately. My goal for the year is to catch a 6lb bass we will see.

Thats a nice fish, big gut!  

The free Bass Resource Weight Calculator, available under tools(In the menu drop down), puts the fish at 5.49!  Almost there! 

Here is the calculator: https://www.bassresource.com/bassfishing/fishcalculator.html

47 minutes ago, HaydenS said:

Thats a nice fish, big gut!  

The free Bass Resource Weight Calculator, available under tools(In the menu drop down), puts the fish at 5.49!  Almost there! 

Here is the calculator: https://www.bassresource.com/bassfishing/fishcalculator.html

My best guess is probably 3.5-4.5 range maybe larger, although my rule of thumb is to always make the fish lower weight when you have to guess you know. I rather underestimate than overestimate on size rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed lol.

Sunny, but an approaching frontal boundary tonight has us with steady winds of 15+ mph gusting to over 30. That kept the boat in the garage, but was still able to sneak another ProjectZ installment in today.

 

Hey @Team9nine you have a ginormous hole in the right knee of your jeans, just in case you didn't know.  Nice fish.

18 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Hey @Team9nine you have a ginormous hole in the right knee of your jeans, just in case you didn't know.  Nice fish.

 

Fishing pants  I don't do shorts any more walking the banks, even in summer. Helps slow down the ticks, chiggers, and other sundry critters you always seem to encounter around woods and uncut shorelines.

Got out today 8-3. Long slow day. banged my head against the wall with a punch rig most of the day with only 4 bass to show. kinda paid off in the end as the last of the four weighed 5-2.

1 hour ago, keagbassr said:

Got out today 8-3. Long slow day. banged my head against the wall with a punch rig most of the day with only 4 bass to show. kinda paid off in the end as the last of the four weighed 5-2.

Good job.. nice catch ?

17 hours ago, Team9nine said:

 

Fishing pants  I don't do shorts any more walking the banks, even in summer. Helps slow down the ticks, chiggers, and other sundry critters you always seem to encounter around woods and uncut shorelines.

So the big hole don't keep em out? 

 

Kneeling down to take pics of all the biggins you catch put that hole there right?

 

Edited September 8, 20214 yr by HaydenS
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Almost chilly out this morning when I got off work. Wind was blowing all the weeds into my normal bank fishing spot. I tried but they were too thick for the 2 baits I brought. Moved to a different spot and had a small one follow my swimbait, he was all over the weightless plastic I followed it up with. Couple cast later with the swimbait, I got a skinny, big headed fellow that needs to stop eating fake stuff so he can gain some weight.

7 hours ago, gimruis said:

Hey @Team9nine you have a ginormous hole in the right knee of your jeans, just in case you didn't know.  Nice fish.

I was wearing jeans like that once and cutting an old mans grass. He said “we used to call those pants starvation badges” hahaha

Pure Michigan. Almost as big as the ones @A-Jay

catches 

 

ended up with 2.5 hours of time maybe more, caught somewhere around 15 fish, 5 species (LM,SM, bluegill, pumpkinseed, and yellow perch)

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Pure Michigan. Almost as big as the ones @A-Jay

catches 

 

ended up with 2.5 hours of time maybe more, caught somewhere around 15 fish, 5 species (LM,SM, bluegill, pumpkinseed, and yellow perch)

That’s cruel but funny ??

5 minutes ago, GaryH said:

That’s cruel but funny ??

They look just like them only different……. 
 

I found a river I could walk for miles without even getting my wallet wet in my back pocket, pretty crazy. At home it’s 20 feet deep right next to shore basically everywhere 

11 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

They look just like them only different……. 
 

I found a river I could walk for miles without even getting my wallet wet in my back pocket, pretty crazy. At home it’s 20 feet deep right next to shore basically everywhere 

Kinda like up here when I fish the Juniata river. We wade out to the middle and it’s just above our waist. Then your next step you hit a hole and it’s swimming time.

Made 3-4 casts in a new work route pond and caught this little guy.

Then it started lightning too close and I had to quit?

36 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

Made 3-4 casts in a new work route pond and caught this little guy.

Then it started lightning too close and I had to quit?

Cool colors, kinda looks like a crappie.

Here's a couple bass we've caught this summer and fall. Just figured out how to post em'