6 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy took me fishing in the rain, caught some decent ones and saw an osprey ripping a fish apart

Fishing in the rain is about the only way we can fish in our part of the country lately. Too bad we can't share some of this rain with the areas suffering from a drought.

24 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Fishing in the rain is about the only way we can fish in our part of the country lately. Too bad we can't share some of this rain with the areas suffering from a drought.

We share it all with the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on a constant basis! It actually hasn’t been too wet in Knoxville, it’s the surrounding areas that always get it bad 

I enjoyed a week of kayak fishing during my vacation last week. The bite was definitely on fire. I was averaging 30 Bass a day, mostly Smallmouth in the 11” range. Some nice Brown and Green Bass mixed in

1 hour ago, NYWayfarer said:

I enjoyed a week of kayak fishing during my vacation last week. The bite was definitely on fire. I was averaging 30 Bass a day, mostly Smallmouth in the 11” range. Some nice Brown and Green Bass mixed in

Good job… ?

Another day off last Friday so I hit the lake before the rainstorms moved in. The fish were fairly active and I caught a total of 12.  This 3 lber came from behind some small twigs that were sticking up through the water.  The bad things is, I was trying to land my worm in front of the twigs, but overshot them.  A "well, crap" moment became joy when I felt that solid thunk.

 

Nothing special but two more for me today 3/8 oz bullet weight on a 4/0 jungle flipping hook bandito bug bama bug color.

1 hour ago, Jmurphy87 said:

Nothing special but two more for me today 3/8 oz bullet weight on a 4/0 jungle flipping hook bandito bug bama bug color.

Sick combo!

Brand new to bass fishing.  Here are a few catches thus far.

 

First catch, on my birthday.  A green chunk caught on a shakyheaded rigged worm next to structure on a hot mid August day.  Did not weight or measure.  Was elated to say the least....especially on my birthday.

 

The next fish I caught were due to going out with a guide.  My trips out previously, since my first fish, had yielded nothing so I was getting rather frustrated.  Learned quite a bit a from him, observing and asking question, although I only caught a rather small Green the entire guided trip.  I did have a nice Brown on the line, but lost him at the boat.  The guide on the other hand caught quite a few.

 

First solo trip after the guided trip yielded this 18in, 2.3lb Brown, caught on a whopper popper.  The fish got too close to my trolling motor so got a little skinned up in a couple places.  Lesson learned on that one.  I felt bad, but was glad to see it survive to fight another day as I am strictly a catch and release guy.  Caught a small Brown right before this one.  Both on the whopper.

 

Next trip was a skunk, but the next trip got me this 15in., 1.6lb Green caught on Sexy Dawg Jr.  This trip yielded 4 Greens total, this was the biggest as the rest were pretty small.  I had another keeper, but it jumped off trying to boat flip it in (rookie mistake). 

 

Being a newbie and fighting the summer bite is rather challenging.  Learning a lot though and with fall around the corner and with it bringing cooler water temps and more active bass hoping to catch more and bigger bass.  Tight lines!

Couple of fish from a recent trip. 4-13 on a bps bargin bin popper and 3-12 on a jig.

Couple off sea walls with an H2O popper

Only had a couple hours to get out this morning in the kayak, but I got a couple pretty decent ones in the process, 1 on a glide and 1 on a jig. 

3 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Only had a couple hours to get out this morning in the kayak, but I got a couple pretty decent ones in the process, 1 on a glide and 1 on a jig. 

Great footwear!! Oh and nice fish as well ?

8 minutes ago, Tatsu Dave said:

Great footwear!! Oh and nice fish as well ?

Those are my "Merica" colored Crocs. 

Well son had Wed off so we planned a trip, problem was they called him in to work so bummer. I still got up and slogged to the water solo and started out, forecast was cloudy and calm, water temp was low sixties. Started casting and noticed the other nights rain had raised the water noticeably and hid a lot of short stickups and stumps. Great gotta rely on memory to not practice bumper boats with the wood ? slow start but had no way to hold any fish and take pics anyhow.

Then it started getting dark and a thunderstorm let loose w/ strong winds, day just got better I thought, but I noticed the wind and current had teamed up with the chop and was beating the shallows on one side. Kept casting cause that's what you do, the fishing changed quickly and the bass bite was on! First bass was 3 1/4lb's and they started coming steady, lost count of the total but enough chunkies to keep it fun. Lost a big one right at the boat when he dived into some sunken timber, threw back 2lber's as fast as possible to keep throwing that lure. Don't get days like this as often as I'd like but sure appreciate them when they come. Sorry had to hang them on my net to hold for pics but fish understood and we got thru it.   Tatsu Dave

Sorry for double post but heres a bass that has just a tinge of that yellow orange coloring I posted about a while back....gotta be the craw's. If I would have had a pic taker w/ me I could have held him like my avatar, his mouth was colored inside some, oh well. What an old war veteran w/ the scars to prove it. Looks like an eagle or big fish hawk tried but failed, Love them ol' brown fish.........

Haven’t been on much lately, or fishing at all for that matter. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer last month, and I’ve been struggling with it. 
 

But this spring after saving up for some time my wife and I moved to a house on some acreage, and has a 1.5 acre pond it. Frankly I thought all the bass were stunted never catching anything over a pound, but there’s a massive shad population taking away from the bluegill forage.   Wife and I were fishing out some of the shad, and caught a couple blue Gill as by catch and we’re getting hammered by bass reeling them in. One was particularly big and I lost him twice on the ultralight with reeling the blue Gill in. 
 

Ran to the shop for bass tackle and a shiner hook and got her first cast. Had to go in after her and busted my behind getting out. 7.3 pounds. Much needed after the past month. God comes when you need him most. 

I caught a 5.4 lber yesterday , largest of the year . I put it on a metal clip stringer tossed it in the lake then readied my camera . With camera on a tripod , timer set I went to retrieve the bass and it  straightened the stringer and was gone . 30 minutes later I hook another about the same size , it gets wrapped up in a marker buoy line and escapes . So no pictures . The lure was a  1/2 ounce Red Eye Shad tungsten two tap about 12 foot deep on a point .

9 minutes ago, NoShoes said:

Haven’t been on much lately, or fishing at all for that matter. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer last month, and I’ve been struggling with it. 
 

But this spring after saving up for some time my wife and I moved to a house on some acreage, and has a 1.5 acre pond it. Frankly I thought all the bass were stunted never catching anything over a pound, but there’s a massive shad population taking away from the bluegill forage.   Wife and I were fishing out some of the shad, and caught a couple blue Gill as by catch and we’re getting hammered by bass reeling them in. One was particularly big and I lost him twice on the ultralight with reeling the blue Gill in. 
 

Ran to the shop for bass tackle and a shiner hook and got her first cast. Had to go in after her and busted my behind getting out. 7.3 pounds. Much needed after the past month. God comes when you need him most. 

Congratulations ?? She’s a beast??

2 hours ago, NoShoes said:

Haven’t been on much lately, or fishing at all for that matter. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer last month, and I’ve been struggling with it. 
 

But this spring after saving up for some time my wife and I moved to a house on some acreage, and has a 1.5 acre pond it. Frankly I thought all the bass were stunted never catching anything over a pound, but there’s a massive shad population taking away from the bluegill forage.   Wife and I were fishing out some of the shad, and caught a couple blue Gill as by catch and we’re getting hammered by bass reeling them in. One was particularly big and I lost him twice on the ultralight with reeling the blue Gill in. 
 

Ran to the shop for bass tackle and a shiner hook and got her first cast. Had to go in after her and busted my behind getting out. 7.3 pounds. Much needed after the past month. God comes when you need him most. 

Congrats on the nice fish, and the house. I pray things go well with your mom.

We were supposed to go fishing today, but we had to postpone it because of high water on our lake. I did make it to the creek bank at a park on my lunch break though.

 

I was walking along the bank trying to decide where to start when I saw two decent ones next to a fallen branch about 6-8 ft from the edge. I made a cast well before I got to them so I wouldn't scare them away. The water was crystal clear so I got to watch the whole thing. They both checked it out, but this one didn't hesitate to eat my watermelon ned rig. It looked skinny, but measured about 17 in, and right at 2.5 lbs.

 

There were a lot of baby bass in the creek too. Maybe that bodes well for the future of this creek.

 

went culvert fishing today in minnesota because i needed to find some deep water as all my wader fishing and bank fishing spots dried up from draught and now just dead weed patches left.

 

So i went to a big culvert today and water was fairly deep inside it and the mouths of the culvert were holding baitfish. It was about 2.30 pm and using flukes on tr and dropshot i casted into the culvert and caught all my fish doing just that.

 

I kept my pole high and line tight, had a 3 foot leader on the drop shot with 1 oz of weight and just slowly dragged it out. Hard part was casting far into into the culvert without banging the lure on the sides of the culvert.

Nice crisp, foggy fall morning launch today.

 

Plenty of action on t-rig, wacky rig and finesse fishing. 
 

Two best fish were a 2 pound Largemouth and a long skinny Chain Pickerel. I lost 3 rigs to those snot rockets razor teeth

 

This tiny guy saved me from getting skunked, got the yak out for almost 4 hours tonight. It has been cold lately. 3/8 bullet weight pegged 4/0 jungle flipping hook rage punch bug in summer craw. The rig glx 894 jwr met b xg and 50lb suffix performance braid hi vis yellow. 

Caught 9 LM & 17 Hybrids Friday on a Rio Rio(Bone) and a CC spoon(chrome). Water temp was 82 and they were in schooling mode.

Got out yesterday AM ready to slay some LM. Water temp was 64 and the air temp was 55. A buddy had been out the evening before and he and his partner caught 40 on top water so I just knew fish would be jumping in the boat. They weren’t. It was tough sledding but I did mange to trick 7 LM. The best came in at 2.36 kbs.