23 hours ago, bigspirit said:

Another post I saw yesterday about worms mentioned the zman fattyz and reinvigorated my obsession with them; so I had to make sure they could still catch fish. First spot of the year was a chunk. Catch a couple smaller fish after but nothing really picture worthy 

 

 

It seems  your fishing partner approves?

56 minutes ago, galyonj said:

I hate that we didn't capture the epic battle I had with that stick.

 

Your stick jumped , mine just bulldogged under the boat

Is that Phil Robertson you’re fishing with @TnRiver46?!

16 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Is that Phil Robertson you’re fishing with @TnRiver46?!

Must be his oldest boy……. ? 

4 hours ago, Eric 26 said:

It seems  your fishing partner approves?

Ha, the guy loves it. Any other day he could lay in bed till 11am but he knows when I get stuff together the night before and gets out of bed as soon as I do. I left him one time it was a little chilly out and he was noticeably upset, so now he has a fancy jacket ?

27 minutes ago, bigspirit said:

Ha, the guy loves it. Any other day he could lay in bed till 11am but he knows when I get stuff together the night before and gets out of bed as soon as I do. I left him one time it was a little chilly out and he was noticeably upset, so now he has a fancy jacket ?

A good fishin dog is a wonderful thing. I like to take the laziest dog but my wife likes taking the hyper swimming dog haha. A few times we took our big dog, she nearly swam away (fast on land and sea)

Just an itty bitty guy, but always nice to catch a fish in your backyard. Went out behind the house to make sure a jerkbait was suspending properly after a hardware swap, couple of twitches and POW, little guy smoked it. Shout out to the H2O Xpress Ultimate Jerk Shad. Fantastic action for such an inexpensive lure. I'll definitely be picking up a few more.

2 minutes ago, lynxcat said:

Caught my PB tonight. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my scale. This bass is 8+ lbs….absolute hunk. Caught on 3inch ZMan Minnowz in opening night. 
 

Content for the foot image. I wear size 14 shoes. 

Congrats!

And one more. I am 6’4 260. 

11 minutes ago, lynxcat said:

And one more. I am 6’4 260. 

Great Bass

Congrats on the new Personal Best. 

Now go staple your scale to your forehead.

A-Jay

1 minute ago, A-Jay said:

Great Bass

Congrats on the new Personal Best. 

Now go staple your scale to your forehead.

A-Jay

I couldn’t believe I had it in my other bag. I’m going to buy another so that this doesn’t happen again! 

17 minutes ago, lynxcat said:

Caught my PB tonight. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my scale. This bass is 8+ lbs….absolute hunk. Caught on 3inch ZMan Minnowz in opening night. 
 

Content for the foot image. I wear size 14 shoes. 

 

Congrats on the PB! That's a gorgeous bass. And a hard lesson learned not to leave home without the scale. I have literally had nightmares about this exact situation ?

15 minutes ago, lynxcat said:

I am 6’4 260

And you wear size 14 shoes?
 

Are you bigfoot? No wonder you didn’t want to show your face.

 

1 minute ago, Aaron_H said:

 

Congrats on the PB! That's a gorgeous bass. And a hard lesson learned not to leave home without the scale. I have literally had nightmares about this exact situation ?

I have caught a few nice 5lbers in this pond last year and been told “there is a ~9lber in there” my a neighbor. I think this is likely that bass…but no way to tell. It’s a small neighborhood pond but guys stocked it with some big ones over the last 15 years. 
 

I thought this one was a large catfish at first. Long cast and it was quite the fight to land her…jumped twice. At first thought it was another one of he 5lbers (had my scale on those!) and then realized “oh Lordy, this is NOT one of those!”  

 

 

 

 

Nice job guys!

Looks like we’ve got some big prespawn bass being caught!

Edited January 18, 20224 yr by HaydenS
Forgot to finish the sentence.

8 hours ago, king fisher said:

This bass is proof, that it is better to be lucky than good.  I went bass fishing for the first time this year today.  The wind was blowing 30 MPH out of the East by 9:00 AM.  Usually the wind is light out of the East in the morning switching to strong West winds by mid day.

         I had already  peddled to the West end of the lake before the wind picked up, and was getting beat up and tired.  I had only caught two small bass, and was getting frustrated.  I decided to take a break, and hide behind some trees.  I tied up to one and casted a spinnerbait, and Jack Hammer, without any luck in the 2 foot deep water, I was hiding from the wind in.

       I had a 7 inch Senko, rigged weightless on one rod.  I had it rigged for casting at any bass that missed my buzz bait which I had started the morning fishing with.  I was going to switch it out to a Texas rig with a half ounce weight to help with the wind.  For some reason I decided to cast the Senko out before switching.  The Senko didn't even hit the bottom.  The next thing I new I had landed my first big bass of 2022.  I didn't get another bite but at least the wind switched mid day, making it easy and safe to peddle back to launch.  I would like to say I made a wise logical decision on where I fished, and what I threw to catch this 10.4 pound 25.5 inch surprise, but truth be told, I was tired, and to lazy to change lures.  I just wanted to take a break, cast something out and eat some lunch.  I wasn't even going to go fishing, until I read a thread here, yesterday where people talked about fishing in freezing weather.  I decided if they could fish in freezing weather, I could make an effort to get on the water.  Just pure luck I was even out.   better to be lucky than good.    

Awesome Fish ! 

What a way to start the year,

a Double Digit Donkey

Congrats 

A-Jay

9 hours ago, king fisher said:

This bass is proof, that it is better to be lucky than good.  I went bass fishing for the first time this year today.  The wind was blowing 30 MPH out of the East by 9:00 AM.  Usually the wind is light out of the East in the morning switching to strong West winds by mid day.

         I had already  peddled to the West end of the lake before the wind picked up, and was getting beat up and tired.  I had only caught two small bass, and was getting frustrated.  I decided to take a break, and hide behind some trees.  I tied up to one and casted a spinnerbait, and Jack Hammer, without any luck in the 2 foot deep water, I was hiding from the wind in.

       I had a 7 inch Senko, rigged weightless on one rod.  I had it rigged for casting at any bass that missed my buzz bait which I had started the morning fishing with.  I was going to switch it out to a Texas rig with a half ounce weight to help with the wind.  For some reason I decided to cast the Senko out before switching.  The Senko didn't even hit the bottom.  The next thing I new I had landed my first big bass of 2022.  I didn't get another bite but at least the wind switched mid day, making it easy and safe to peddle back to launch.  I would like to say I made a wise logical decision on where I fished, and what I threw to catch this 10.4 pound 25.5 inch surprise, but truth be told, I was tired, and to lazy to change lures.  I just wanted to take a break, cast something out and eat some lunch.  I wasn't even going to go fishing, until I read a thread here, yesterday where people talked about fishing in freezing weather.  I decided if they could fish in freezing weather, I could make an effort to get on the water.  Just pure luck I was even out.   better to be lucky than good.    

 

Congrats on the DD.

On 1/13/2022 at 6:31 PM, TravisVirginiaAngler said:

Finally got the winter to cooperate and stuck my first double digit of the year! Ole girl smashed the jerkbait on a 5 second pause. 25” and 10.52 lbs! Cheers y’all! 

 

Congrats on the DD. Great way to start out the year.

Got out for my first trip of the year on the powerplant lake. It was tough to say the least, and it didn't help that I didn't do well converting on the few bites I had. Only managed 3 bass, one was a nice one at least. 

This is the time of year I can sometimes get a flathead to eat a spoon in the hotwater when the shad are packed in there and spawning. I don't think I was there for 5 minutes before I felt a thump even in the current and 15' down. Didn't quite match last years monster, but it was a nice one, too much for my fish grippers on my scale.

It just barely got my spoon ?

Couldn't get my scale to lock in but it was bouncing around between a high 36 to low 38 pound range.

10 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

 

Congrats on the DD.

 

Congrats on the DD. Great way to start out the year.

Thanks man I’m still high off this catch!

Nothing special, but first time out in over a week. Big weather change coming so I thought they would be chewing. I was wrong. Only 3 bites total at 3 different ponds but made the last one count with this 2.2 pounder on a stupid tube. 

On 1/15/2022 at 7:56 AM, NorcalBassin said:

Great day out there and the cooperative fish were just a bonus.

 

3 generations of bassers, what a great pic!

 

 

On 1/15/2022 at 1:42 PM, bigspirit said:

"Floppy green thing in net. Most curious."

 

 

On 1/15/2022 at 5:13 PM, TnRiver46 said:

 

 

That's @galyonj, no? Nice to be able to put a name with a beard.

 

 

On 1/16/2022 at 7:43 PM, Aaron_H said:

Just an itty bitty guy,

Itty bitty sounds just fine about now, since I've got ice everywhere here....

 

 

On 1/16/2022 at 10:40 PM, king fisher said:

 

 

 

Good lord! congrats on the DD!

 

 

On 1/16/2022 at 8:36 PM, lynxcat said:

And one more. I am 6’4 260. 

heck yeah, congrats!

On 1/17/2022 at 12:36 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

Couldn't get my scale to lock in but it was bouncing around between a high 36 to low 38 pound range.

Wow, what's your PB flathead?

 

On 1/20/2022 at 5:23 PM, Holetail said:

Only 3 bites total at 3 different ponds but made the last one count with this 2.2 pounder on a stupid tube. 

 

Oh, it counts....

 

 

********************

 

Okay, enough procrastinating -- I should finish what I'm supposed to be doing right now...

On 1/17/2022 at 12:36 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

too much for my fish grippers on my scale.

same thing happened to my Berkley scale couple nights ago, but my cat was 6lb ? 

5 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

3 generations of bassers, what a great pic!

 

 

"Floppy green thing in net. Most curious."

 

 

 

That's @galyonj, no? Nice to be able to put a name with a beard.

 

 

Itty bitty sounds just fine about now, since I've got ice everywhere here....

 

 

 

Good lord! congrats on the DD!

 

 

heck yeah, congrats!

Yes sir that’s him in the flesh 

Walked to the canal out back a few minutes ago to test the swimbait I found yesterday. Hit with another cold front, air temp 20* colder than yesterday, but got this 4lb 2oz on the third cast. Had to run back up to the house for pliers and my scale, didn't expect to get bit for the few casts I was planning on making. There was another one with her about the same size trying to grab the swimbait while I was fighting this one, but she spooked off once I got this one close to the bank.