2 minutes ago, Woody B said:

I caught 23 today in the rain.  12 Spots and 11 Largemouth.   Flatside cranks, spinner baits and texas rigs.  This 3 pound 15 ounce Spot jumped over a lay down to get a motoroil colored worm.   I attempted to cast right beside the tree trunk but the wind blew my line across it.   I crawled the worm over the trunk back into the water.  This spot jumped over the trunk following the worm.   Pretty much every one of them hit after the bait had bounces off of wood.   

 

What a spot!!!

1 minute ago, Woody B said:

I caught 23 today in the rain.  12 Spots and 11 Largemouth.   Flatside cranks, spinner baits and texas rigs.  This 3 pound 15 ounce Spot jumped over a lay down to get a motoroil colored worm.   I attempted to cast right beside the tree trunk but the wind blew my line across it.   I crawled the worm over the trunk back into the water.  This spot jumped over the trunk following the worm.   Pretty much every one of them hit after the bait had bounces off of wood.   

 

So you say they were biting ehhh?

 

Dang nice Spot!    

9 minutes ago, Woody B said:

I caught 23 today in the rain.     

 

Nicely Done ~

Just goes to prove that holding your mouth right can really help 

Congrats 

A-Jay

The next best thing to fishing is not fishing and seeing the fish that others are catching!

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

This spot jumped over the trunk following the worm. 

I've only seen that once . A bass jumped over a log to hit the buzzbait on the other side . Unlike you , I didnt catch the fish .

Managed to catch a couple this morning on the ultra-lite setup again. First was a 3.5lb scrapper caught on a wacky-rigged worm in blue/black. The next was a dink who had illusions of grandeur thinking it was gonna swallow a craw right off. ? Weather was nice with temps in the upper 70s and a nice breeze.

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Your friendly neighborhood dinkmaster.

35 minutes ago, Drawdown said:

Your friendly neighborhood dinkmaster.

 

Different neighborhood, different dinks. Maybe we can franchise. 

 

 

 

Lost two more, but it was a good time for a short session with a stickworm and a spinning rod.

33 minutes ago, galyonj said:

 

Different neighborhood, different dinks. Maybe we can franchise. 

“It’s the size of the fight that counts.”

Extremely dynamic weather the last week.....like going from 30.10 to 29.73 over a 24hr period, and back up, and back down.  I'm having lots of difficulty finding numbers of fish, but I continue to get lucky with the quality fish.    

 

Fished for 3 hours today, from 330-630pm.   Very overcast day that ended with a pretty sunset and moderate cloud cover.     Still quite hot, but my lake's avg. temp seems to have fallen about 4-5 degrees in the last week.   

 

Caught 6 including an exceptionally healthy 5lb 14oz fish.  Super feisty for a LGM this time of year as well.   So close to being a 6lber.  Next nicest was b/t 1-2lbs.     The 4 others were small Spots.     The 7" Black Grape Roboworm on a 1/8th Tungsten/ Gama EWG 3/0 T-Rig took the big girl along with the other LGM, and two of the Spots.   Another Spot came on a Chatterbait, and one came on a Scrounger Head with Magic Shad being trolled in-between spots.

 

Oh yeah, check out the huge Gizzard Shad I found that was about to die.....looks like a bird or something got it.     This lake doesn't have lots of Gizzards, and this is easily the biggest one I've ever seen.    I imagine a big Bass would hammer it.   It was about 8" for reference.   Last pic is a threadfin pod holding right above the main lake channel that almost filled my 9" screen......I mean if I were a Bass I'd never eat anything but those things.   Oddly it seems I only catch 1-2lb fish around these huge bait balls.   

Well done, Mr. Spothunter. That big one's a beauty! 

12 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Well done, Mr. Spothunter. That big one's a beauty! 

Thanks friend!

 

I was ecstatic with how healthy and fat she was....no marks or sores either.    These are the fish that give me great optimism one of these days I'll get a DD on my home lake.   

 

One last funny story from today and a word of caution to anglers and honeyholes......

 

So I see this guy fishing in terrible conditions last week in a very odd location of the lake, go to the store, come back an hour later.....the guy was still there fishing in the rain in the exact same spot.

 

Flash forward to today, I'm fishing that part of the lake so I decide to really give that area a good screening with the sonar.     Lo and behold this dude was fishing on perhaps the most sheer vertical dropoff in the lake, and on a ledge is a huge structure ball with what I can only guess was tons of Crappie holding all around it.      

 

Now if I knew a single thing about Crappie, I'd have just scored one heck of a honey hole lol.   I've had other anglers approach me in the past because they saw an exposed net, and asked " See ya got the net out, how nice was she".     If you hold your honeyholes near and dear, remember there is always a fellow angler trying to scoop you including myself LMAO ?

I fished some ponds yesterday and it was a total dinkfest. This was the big one of the day I caught using a plastic worm. 

1 hour ago, Bankbeater said:

I fished some ponds yesterday and it was a total dinkfest. This was the big one of the day I caught using a plastic worm. 

Maybe we should have a thread for “Best Dinks” or something like that. ? I’m sure we all would have  plenty of offerings. I know I would.

On 9/6/2022 at 9:29 PM, Eric 26 said:

Stopped off at my favorite retention pond for 10 minutes on my way home from work. Glad I did, was throwing a 1/16 oz crappie jig in black on the bps panfish elite ultralight ?

Those are nice rods for the $$$. I have a couple for crappie fishing.

8 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Thanks friend!

 

I was ecstatic with how healthy and fat she was....no marks or sores either.    These are the fish that give me great optimism one of these days I'll get a DD on my home lake.   

 

One last funny story from today and a word of caution to anglers and honeyholes......

 

So I see this guy fishing in terrible conditions last week in a very odd location of the lake, go to the store, come back an hour later.....the guy was still there fishing in the rain in the exact same spot.

 

Flash forward to today, I'm fishing that part of the lake so I decide to really give that area a good screening with the sonar.     Lo and behold this dude was fishing on perhaps the most sheer vertical dropoff in the lake, and on a ledge is a huge structure ball with what I can only guess was tons of Crappie holding all around it.      

 

Now if I knew a single thing about Crappie, I'd have just scored one heck of a honey hole lol.   I've had other anglers approach me in the past because they saw an exposed net, and asked " See ya got the net out, how nice was she".     If you hold your honeyholes near and dear, remember there is always a fellow angler trying to scoop you including myself LMAO ?

You are so right about loose lips sinking the best bass trips. When I was young, my brothers and I pedaled to farm ponds and over the years, we saw some fine ponds reduced to Dink Towns by gluttons. 

 

What's your first name, Mr. SpotHunter? I'm Katie.

6 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

You are so right about loose lips sinking the best bass trips. When I was young, my brothers and I pedaled to farm ponds and over the years, we saw some fine ponds reduced to Dink Towns by gluttons. 

 

What's your first name, Mr. SpotHunter? I'm Katie.

I'm Alex, and I think calling each other Alex and Katie will save us some time ?

Just now, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I'm Alex, and I think calling each other Alex and Katie will save us some time ?

Heck, yeah, Alex! Now I'm going to tie a double uni knot. I HATE that knot. 

Been fishing a new section of river each week. It’s paid off with a lot of productive water and smallmouth bass.
 

Still have yet to get on that hot fall bite as temps are still in the mid 80s during the day, and mid 60s at night. Unseasonably warm. 
 

But got into some decent smallies that had their fall bellies today. They all looked stuffed to the gills. Pop-X and a Ned rig did the damage. 
 

 

The river has been eating so many of my Ned heads this year, so I made the switch the Z-Man Ned football heads. Glad I did as I went an entire day on the river without snagging my Ned rig. 

3 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

Been fishing a new section of river each week. It’s paid off with a lot of productive water and smallmouth bass.
 

Still have yet to get on that hot fall bite as temps are still in the mid 80s during the day, and mid 60s at night. Unseasonably warm. 
 

But got into some decent smallies that had their fall bellies today. They all looked stuffed to the gills. Pop-X and a Ned rig did the damage. 
 

 

The river has been eating some many of my Ned heads this year, so I made the switch the Z-Man Ned football heads. Glad I did as I went an entire day on the river without snagging my Ned rig. 

Now that's a Brown Bass!   It drives me mad knowing just an hour north of me these magnificent fish can be found.     

10 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

Been fishing a new section of river each week. It’s paid off with a lot of productive water and smallmouth bass.
 

Still have yet to get on that hot fall bite as temps are still in the mid 80s during the day, and mid 60s at night. Unseasonably warm. 
 

But got into some decent smallies that had their fall bellies today. They all looked stuffed to the gills. Pop-X and a Ned rig did the damage. 
 

 

The river has been eating some many of my Ned heads this year, so I made the switch the Z-Man Ned football heads. Glad I did as I went an entire day on the river without snagging my Ned rig. 

Rivers feast upon ned heads haha

6 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Now that's a Brown Bass!   It drives me mad knowing just an hour north of me these magnificent fish can be found.     

It’s worth the trip. The aggressiveness, the tail walking they do when hooked. They hit topwater baits like missiles. This is the first year in several that I’ve targeted smallmouth more than largemouth. It’s been so much fun.

Just now, Jar11591 said:

It’s worth the trip. The aggressiveness, the tail walking they do when hooked. They hit topwater baits like missiles. This is the first year in several that I’ve targeted smallmouth more than largemouth. It’s been so much fun.

Yeah buddy! I don’t necessarily target smallmouth but they are what I usually catch . We have all 3 species overlapping everywhere 

 

Heck I’ve been throwing an 8” swimbait and I’ve had smallies and spots follow and bite, no largemouth yet 

 

 

17 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Now that's a Brown Bass!   It drives me mad knowing just an hour north of me these magnificent fish can be found.     

A few good lakes between you and me that would be good. Supposed to be ‘decent’ weather this week too! ?

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

We have all 3 species overlapping everywhere

That’s gotta be great