18 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

Where abouts?

I don’t know, although I’ve heard them say it many times haha. Quad city? Quad cities? He’s in the army 

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I don’t know, although I’ve heard them say it many times haha. Quad city? Quad cities? He’s in the army 

That's a haul..basically the complete opposite side of the state from me. Bout a 6hr drive.

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Flew?? I’m too scared to even get on a roller coaster much less an airplane!!! Thanks for the invite, I bet we could catch em! I’ll have to come via ground travel tho, I do have some family in Iowa 

White bass angler maybe………..

 

Wait, so you’re afraid to fly but you get up on those steep roofs to chase after critters?

3 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Wait, so you’re afraid to fly but you get up on those steep roofs to chase after critters?

Yes, i know it’s weird. I believe it’s motion related not heights related. I usually have to climb a 32 foot ladder every weekday 

 

I have flown many times before, never once enjoyed it 

Spinnerbaits, tubes, and 6th Sense Curve Finesse Squarebill (Tiger-Treuse). The squarebill landed that big girl. She measured from my elbow to the tip of my middle finger. She was fat and had a bloody tail. It's in the thick of spawn in Southeast Texas! 

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yes, i know it’s weird. I believe it’s motion related not heights related. I usually have to climb a 32 foot ladder every weekday 

 

I have flown many times before, never once enjoyed it 

I’d fly to the moon before I climbed a 32’ ladder and I used to do roofing and siding. ?

1 minute ago, 12poundbass said:

I’d fly to the moon before I climbed a 32’ ladder and I used to do roofing and siding. ?

You know, the moon is further than 32’…………. Hahaha

Jumped in the boat for a few hours after work today (3-6:30). Caught 6, 1 each on a jig and spinnerbait and 4 on a bladed jig with the best of those going 5-15.

36 minutes ago, lunkerboss923 said:

Spinnerbaits, tubes, and 6th Sense Curve Finesse Squarebill (Tiger-Treuse). The squarebill landed that big girl. She measured from my elbow to the tip of my middle finger. She was fat and had a bloody tail. It's in the thick of spawn in Southeast Texas! 

Is that a super bowl ring on your left hand?!

45 minutes ago, keagbassr said:

Jumped in the boat for a few hours after work today (3-6:30). Caught 6, 1 each on a jig and spinnerbait and 4 on a bladed jig with the best of those going 5-15.

Uh oh. The "Hammer" is back at it ?. Well done, heck yeah

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

Is that a super bowl ring on your left hand?!

My alma mater Texas Tech! Who just beat Notre Dame to advance to the Sweet 16! 

10 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I really need to work on my camera work because it looks like I'm trying to smother the lens with the fish in every photo I take in the kayak ??.

 

Fish selfies are definitely a challenge in and of themselves. Great catches, man, thanks for sharing.

Nothing special but some of my first fish of the year, I actually had my scale with me put completely forgot about it till I put the fish back into the water lol. The bigger one of the two came on a watermelon red fat ika, the smaller one came on a 1/16 oz Rapala original in clown. 

Saturday I had training from 6am-2pm. 10  minutes after training I made a few cast from the bank of the lake by my house and got 3 on a jerkbait with 2 being decent ones.

 

Went home and gathered my boys and loaded the boat. Got them out for a few hours and their first fish of the year.

 

 

Sunday I took my oldest to get his first trout. Did that with ease, plus a tiny lightning trout. I got my first smallmouth of the year and a solid largemouth on a homemade jig too.

Had a few hours to fish this evening, did decent numbers but nothing with any real size. Ended up with 20 bass and 3 tilapia, about half the bass were chunky 1.75-2lbers, the rest were ~12 inches. Rain has the water raised about a foot or so, pushed the bank up about 4-5 feet in some spots. The bank here is usually a little steep right where it meets the water due to erosion from the plecos, this created a nice ledge today that the bass were pushed up against. I got a few in more open water that were busting on bait, but the overwhelming majority of them were caught running a lipless parallel to that ledge as close as I could get it. A few on the jerkbait as well.

This one was about the upper end of the fish I caught today, came in right at 2lb even.

 

Hung up my jerkbait a couple of hours in, thought it was a big submerged branch as I could feel it give slightly but couldn't get it unstuck. Finally coaxed the "branch" off the bottom and got it in, only to find I hung someone's old minnow trap. Gee, thanks. Got my lure back at least, and won't have to worry about that snag in the future.

 

Got a Shimano World Minnow in the mail the other day, and I tried it out today. Impressed!

 

One of the best casting jerkbaits I own (and I have >40 different models from different manufacturers). I was making 45 - 50 yard casts with quite a bit of thumbing in a fairly stiff breeze! Suspends well right out of the box in high 40/ low 50 water. I like the hooks too, light wire and round bend.

I liked the flat sided flash; should be a good player once the water warms up a bit. It actually reminds me of the old Daiwa SP Minnow in some ways.

Caught on it the (probably only) 3 fish that moved up shallow in the afternoon sun. All small.

I like it enough to buy the deeper diving version soon.

 

Probed the depths for a while after that with a 1/2 oz football jig. Caught a few more, including a pretty nice one. Hard to feel bites on long casts in deep water with the wind, but 12# Tatsu was up to it. Been fishing Tatsu for ~10 years now, and don't see a reason to change.

 

 

I'm not sure what made me tie on a 6" GY senko to throw in 44 degree water, but I did. The problem was that it was actually a 6" BPS Stick-O. The action is OK, but it smells just like rubber. I had some pro Cure Craw scent so I slathered it up. I bought a pile of these things in bulk on sale and have not done well with them even though they look exactly like a watermelon black flake GY. On top of that I decided to work a part of a lake where I've had terrible luck in the past. I worked the Stinko slow-n-low near the front of a creek inlet and a stumpy chunk ate it. Then a few more cuties ate the Gantarel jr. OK for an unexpected quick after dinner sesh in a spot where I've taken untold whippings. #nomoreshame?

 

 

A few cold nights and a cool rain dropped the water temp and moved them but I was able to hook up with nine.

On 3/20/2022 at 6:52 PM, DitchPanda said:

Where abouts?

I think I heard yesterday it was le Claire. 

yep

 

2 hours ago, lo n slo said:

yep

 

Cats outta the bag on the Zoom lizards brother 

1 hour ago, flatcreek said:

Cats outta the bag on the Zoom lizards brother 

i already went through about 4 bags in the last couple weeks!

12 minutes ago, lo n slo said:

i already went through about 4 bags in the last couple weeks!

That’s valuable information because we’re headed to Lake Russell Thursday which is full of Spots and lizards don’t discriminate against Largemouth either.thanks for the tip .Good luck to you brother. Semper fi

I tried out another spot tonight where I've had no luck in the past and spent 2 hours in a short-strike-athon. I didn't matter what I threw, I just kept missing. It was windless and chilly tonight, but finally a puff of wind blew through and a pocket of ripple about 100 feet out moved across the water. I went into zombie mode and bombed out a black/blue Jackhammer-Diesel Minnow into the ripple and finally got a few decent fish to commit. The second fish had a buddy who followed him in right up to where I scooped him up. The follower freaked when he saw me and tail slapped away to safely. Took a few swings at where I thought he might be, but no dice. Things are finally getting going around here. I'll take it.

 

 

Not a latest catch, but my phone brought this up. Two years ago today, I caught this fat 38" on a TRD bug. 6# XT. Twas a memorable battle.