15 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

That’s gotta be great 

It’s fun! We don’t have big ones like they do down river but still fun and tasty 

Today was what I call a "drainfest". Copious rainfall since last night had storm inlets flowing strong. Can make for some epic action. Everything came on a ned rig and this one was my best. Fished for about three hours before the main front went through with monsoon like rain. Really not sure how many I caught but have an extra fuzzy thumb to show for it. Can't get any pity from the wife, though.

1 hour ago, The Bassman said:

Today was what I call a "drainfest". Copious rainfall since last night had storm inlets flowing strong. Can make for some epic action. Everything came on a ned rig and this one was my best. Fished for about three hours before the main front went through with monsoon like rain. Really not sure how many I caught but have an extra fuzzy thumb to show for it. Can't get any pity from the wife, though.

Nice - no signs of running water here today, and the fish weren’t cooperating at all…but it was a good bite yesterday pre-storms 

9 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Nice - no signs of running water here today, and the fish weren’t cooperating at all…but it was a good bite yesterday pre-storms 

I was in Hamilton Co. They had big time rain last night.

10 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Nice - no signs of running water here today, and the fish weren’t cooperating at all…but it was a good bite yesterday pre-storms 

 

1 minute ago, The Bassman said:

I was in Hamilton Co. They had big time rain last night.

You guys are making me jealous. Over here in Iowa ive had 2 skunks and a 1 fish outing in my last 3 bass endeavors. I've switched over to catfish just to feel some pull.

31 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

 

You guys are making me jealous. Over here in Iowa ive had 2 skunks and a 1 fish outing in my last 3 bass endeavors. I've switched over to catfish just to feel some pull.

Look on the bright side, corns up 

36 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Look on the bright side, corns up 

 Not really here. We have guys cutting full fields for silage that have never been used for that since I've lived here. We have had terrible drought conditions for a long time. Alot of the fields around here in a good year can average over 200 bushels an acre...heard lots of talk of fields at 30-50 bushels an acre this year. Even some guys around here with only stalks...no ears on them.

 The lead grain buyer at my plant has worked there since it opened almost 19 years ago..said he's never seen it like this. He's having to pull from much farther away so we are paying out the a#$ just to have corn for our Ethanol process. Real bright side is I've been catching plenty of catfish to eat!

 

33 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

 Not really here. We have guys cutting full fields for silage that have never been used for that since I've lived here. We have had terrible drought conditions for a long time. Alot of the fields around here in a good year can average over 200 bushels an acre...heard lots of talk of fields at 30-50 bushels an acre this year. Even some guys around here with only stalks...no ears on them.

 The lead grain buyer at my plant has worked there since it opened almost 19 years ago..said he's never seen it like this. He's having to pull from much farther away so we are paying out the a#$ just to have corn for our Ethanol process. Real bright side is I've been catching plenty of catfish to eat!

 

Catfish is good eats!

 

 

wasnt it your buddy that said “Corns up” ??

Introduced a few of the local residents to the SK Sexy Dawg Hard Knock ~

I think they were impressed. 

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

2 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Introduced a few of the local residents to the SK Sexy Dawg Hard Knock ~

I think they were impressed. 

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

Sheesh. Pushing 5? 

5 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Introduced a few of the local residents to the SK Sexy Dawg Hard Knock ~

I think they were impressed. 

 

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

Beautiful, and I'm impressed

I fished the bog right down the road this evening. I caught 22 fish. 19 were largemouth and 3 were chain pickerel. One chain pickerel was thick enough to fight like a hefty largemouth. I did use the fluke and got half a dozen fish that I hooked for a second or two. I know I'm setting the hook too soon. I also caught a couple bass on the fluke. Again, the Whopper Plopper was the most successful lure for me. I caught a 18.75 inch bass and a 19.25 inch bass. I'm kind of stuck on two big bass each morning or evening. I did have a third big fish hooked, but lost it to reeds. Here are the two big gals. Tomorrow morning I'm fishing a gully. It's a river that runs deep through a gully and then widens with some weeds on the edges. I'm excited and a little intimidated. It's just so different than any water I've fished this summer. I figure I'll troll my Whopper Plopper through the gully with the deep water and then frog and fluke fish the wide, shallower, weedier part. 

 

 

20 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Sheesh. Pushing 5? 

Gosh, you catch beautiful fish!

7 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I fished the bog right down the road this evening. I caught 22 fish. 19 were largemouth and 3 were chain pickerel. One chain pickerel was thick enough to fight like a hefty largemouth. I did use the fluke and got half a dozen fish that I hooked for a second or two. I know I'm setting the hook too soon. I also caught a couple bass on the fluke. Again, the Whopper Plopper was the most successful lure for me. I caught a 18.75 inch bass and a 19.25 inch bass. I'm kind of stuck on two big bass each morning or evening. I did have a third big fish hooked, but lost it to reeds. Here are the two big gals. Tomorrow morning I'm fishing a gully. It's a river that runs deep through a gully and then widens with some weeds on the edges. I'm excited and a little intimidated. It's just so different than any water I've fished this summer. I figure I'll troll my Whopper Plopper through the gully with the deep water and then frog and fluke fish the wide, shallower, weedier part. 

 

 

Gosh, you catch beautiful fish!

Wow, both numbers and hawgs.....call me jelly!    I'd love to know what the bottom one weighed, that's a big looking fish!

Did some creek fishing with panfish jigs in N Georgia. Got this lovely blue-hued dink. Plenty of longear sunfish, too. Also my first warmouth.

23 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Wow, both numbers and hawgs.....call me jelly!    I'd love to know what the bottom one weighed, that's a big looking fish!

The top one was bigger. I could feel it in her jaw and when I lifted her. She was half an inch longer too. I'm guessing they're both four-pound fish, more or less. Maine bass are thicker than some of the bass I see posted on this board, so I don't know how much I should trust length to weight charts. I just might buy a scale someday. 

 

I won't call you Jelly. I like Alex better. 

11 minutes ago, Drawdown said:

Did some creek fishing with panfish jigs in N Georgia. Got this lovely blue-hued dink. Plenty of longear sunfish, too. Also my first warmouth.

The more I look at this pic, and think about where I caught it…I think I caught a Coosa Bass!

3 hours ago, The Bassman said:

I was in Hamilton Co. They had big time rain last night.

Hamilton and NE of there got hammered. I’m SW of there and we missed most all of those storm cells. Kind of glad in a way - lol - though I didn’t read any of them becoming severe. Missed most of the rain again today, too.

17 minutes ago, Drawdown said:

Did some creek fishing with panfish jigs in N Georgia. Got this lovely blue-hued dink. Plenty of longear sunfish, too. Also my first warmouth.

Looks like a blue to me! (That’s what some folks call a coosa bass )

7 minutes ago, Drawdown said:

The more I look at this pic, and think about where I caught it…I think I caught a Coosa Bass!

I think you're right. I think you caught a Coosa bass. I've always wanted to catch one of those and an Aurora trout too.

I’m so stinking pumped!!!!!! Been dreaming about getting one.

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Catfish is good eats!

 

 

wasnt it your buddy that said “Corns up” ??

Yes it was. Although he ain't said it much this year...for the reason I mentioned. It was his funny take on the boy we could use some rain- how's the crop this year?-can you believe gas prices? Crap we hear everyday from the old guys in the cafe and gas stations sitting around drinking coffee.

On 9/10/2022 at 4:24 PM, ol'crickety said:

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

 

I'm so envious of all the pics -- I haven't been able to go fishing more than once since July.  Everyone needs to catch a few for me until I can get back out there!

7 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

I'm so envious of all the pics -- I haven't been able to go fishing more than once since July.  Everyone needs to catch a few for me until I can get back out there!

I'm right there with you. Between crappy weather and muck-ups with the wife's at-home health care, I've only had the F-9 on the water three times this year...and only three other shore trips.

2 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I'm right there with you. Between crappy weather and muck-ups with the wife's at-home health care, I've only had the F-9 on the water three times this year...and only three other shore trips.

 

Indeed. That's why the best time to fish is always whenever you can -- because once you can't, you'll wish you had!

A bass hooked my finger a couple weeks ago. This morning, a pond gut hooked me. It was a new pond and because I have some great ponds in my fishing rotation, a pond has to be pretty special to make the cut. Well, I caught 27 fish this morning, 23 bass and 4 pickerel, with quite a few in the 15"-17" range. And I had about ten blow-ups on my frog and didn't hook a one. I think the heavy action rod I ordered will help. I also lost lots of fish with my fluke, but what gut hooked me was something that has never happened in my life before this morning and likely never will again: In three casts, I hooked three four-pound fish. Two jumped right beside my canoe and threw the lure and the third one was inches from my net when it came unbuttoned. 

 

I know what you're thinking: "Old Crickety is exaggerating. She doesn't know what a four-pound bass looks like. They were probably pound and a halfers."

 

But they were four-pounders! No lie. I was inches from all three and I had every advantage: deep water, no reeds or pads, no trees, etc. 

 

So, I'll be going back to that pond. I'm totally sleep deprived and I think that's why I missed so many fish. I even missed a dozen or so fish on my Whopper Plopper and that thing bristles with hooks.