3 minutes ago, Woody B said:

PSA-Disclaimer- Don't put bass on your boats carpet. (read on for my excuse)

 

I ended up catching 14 today, biggest...meh,  15 inches.  Caught a double though.  2 bass on 1 bandit 200.   Why are they on my carpet?  I wasn't prepared.  I had my glove on to lip "it"  but didn't know I had 2.  My net wasn't out, and I had failed to unlock the compartment it was in.  (it blows open on the interstate)   I grabbed the line and picked them up into the boat.  Both fell off just over the gunwale.   I should have just let them swim around until I got my net out or they got off.    I dumped a bucket of water on the bass and carpet, then released them.   I decided to snap a pic while I was picking the first one up.  I don't remember catching 2 bass on 1 lure before.  I've caught 1 bass and 1 bluegill on a devils horse a few times,  but never 2 bass.   (and never 2 anything on a single crankbait)   

I hooked a (longnose) gar today.  It jumped 2 or 3 feet out of the water and threw my spinnerbait back at me.   

 

Look at that tail on the top one, besides being a swimming muscle, that tail is ridiculously large in proportion to the rest of it's anatomy.    How can you not love Spotted Bass!  

 

I just got my first A-Rig, well kinda, it's the Picasso Bait Ball finesse version.    I bought it for this exact reason.    These smaller spots hunt it packs, twofer is better than onefer ?

My buddy from Memphis came into town to fish smallmouth this weekend, the fish participated pretty well. Teaser pic……

 

I knocked off work around 12:15 on Friday and my buddy got here around 1 . We took my shallow boat up the Holston river and caught a lot of fish but mostly small, I caught a herring right away with a nose hooked fluke. Pretty sunset

Saturday morning we switched over to the French broad and caught some nice fish in a variety of artificial baits. I caught one nice fish with a Fishlab flipping frog on the st croix legend tournament bass rod and the rest was mostly with a small marabou jig. My buddy was using a paddle tail and tube. I also got an obligatory “boat ramp” photo for @gimruis

 

Then as we made our way downstream, we started using a kick seine to catch some bait. Got lots of crawdads and only two helgrammites, they worked pretty well but ran out quickly. Then I was able to Cast net 6 or so minnows that worked well. I ended up catching one 20” fish (the one in the pic from the intro) and a 19.9999 “ fish. The 20 incher hit the marabou jig and the 19.9999” hit a minnow

 

day 3 we only have from sunrise until noon to fish since my buddy has to drive back to Memphis. We floated the same stretch in the morning and caught some fish but nothing too big. I got down to the same area to get some minnows and caught maybe 8-10 by 11:08 am. My buddy then says time constrains don’t apply and we shall use the minnows until they are gone, sounds good to me. I got two 19” fish with those! We were a bit past our predicted departure time but I was tickled to catch (basically) 2 20” fish and 2 19” fish in the same weekend 

 

 

Some great photos right there! Congrats! 

30 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy from Memphis came into town to fish smallmouth this weekend, the fish participated pretty well. Teaser pic……

 

I knocked off work around 12:15 on Friday and my buddy got here around 1 . We took my shallow boat up the Holston river and caught a lot of fish but mostly small, I caught a herring right away with a nose hooked fluke. Pretty sunset

Saturday morning we switched over to the French broad and caught some nice fish in a variety of artificial baits. I caught one nice fish with a Fishlab flipping frog on the st croix legend tournament bass rod and the rest was mostly with a small marabou jig. My buddy was using a paddle tail and tube. I also got an obligatory “boat ramp” photo for @gimruis

 

Then as we made our way downstream, we started using a kick seine to catch some bait. Got lots of crawdads and only two helgrammites, they worked pretty well but ran out quickly. Then I was able to Cast net 6 or so minnows that worked well. I ended up catching one 20” fish (the one in the pic from the intro) and a 19.9999 “ fish. The 20 incher hit the marabou jig and the 19.9999” hit a minnow

 

day 3 we only have from sunrise until noon to fish since my buddy has to drive back to Memphis. We floated the same stretch in the morning and caught some fish but nothing too big. I got down to the same area to get some minnows and caught maybe 8-10 by 11:08 am. My buddy then says time constrains don’t apply and we shall use the minnows until they are gone, sounds good to me. I got two 19” fish with those! We were a bit past our predicted departure time but I was tickled to catch (basically) 2 20” fish and 2 19” fish in the same weekend 

 

 

LMAO....If UT goes 5-0 you'll be just an entire annoying orange blob by that point.     Don't think we aren't noticing your UT swag game increasing ?

 

Great stuff though, beautiful fish.   Fun way of fishing as well.   I don't do it often, but live bait fishing has always been my favorite because of the excitement.   

49 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I also got an obligatory “boat ramp” photo for @gimruis

Lol that “ramp” is nothing more than a gradual slope of mud into the river.

 

Definitely some solid brown bass though.

3 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Lol that “ramp” is nothing more than a gradual slope of mud into the river.

It’s a terrible one! The river goes up about 6’ every night so it all washes awy

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy from Memphis came into town to fish smallmouth this weekend, the fish participated pretty well. Teaser pic……

 

I knocked off work around 12:15 on Friday and my buddy got here around 1 . We took my shallow boat up the Holston river and caught a lot of fish but mostly small, I caught a herring right away with a nose hooked fluke. Pretty sunset

Saturday morning we switched over to the French broad and caught some nice fish in a variety of artificial baits. I caught one nice fish with a Fishlab flipping frog on the st croix legend tournament bass rod and the rest was mostly with a small marabou jig. My buddy was using a paddle tail and tube. I also got an obligatory “boat ramp” photo for @gimruis

 

Then as we made our way downstream, we started using a kick seine to catch some bait. Got lots of crawdads and only two helgrammites, they worked pretty well but ran out quickly. Then I was able to Cast net 6 or so minnows that worked well. I ended up catching one 20” fish (the one in the pic from the intro) and a 19.9999 “ fish. The 20 incher hit the marabou jig and the 19.9999” hit a minnow

 

day 3 we only have from sunrise until noon to fish since my buddy has to drive back to Memphis. We floated the same stretch in the morning and caught some fish but nothing too big. I got down to the same area to get some minnows and caught maybe 8-10 by 11:08 am. My buddy then says time constrains don’t apply and we shall use the minnows until they are gone, sounds good to me. I got two 19” fish with those! We were a bit past our predicted departure time but I was tickled to catch (basically) 2 20” fish and 2 19” fish in the same weekend 

 

 

Something amazing happened to my wife when we were fishing the dam on friday. I didnt post about it because I needed to take screen shots off of the video she took.

 

Wife was fishing a square bill crank and hooked into a fish, well sorta hooked it she snagged it in the top of the tail fin, it was a large muskie.

I was a few feet away and she was struggling to reel in the fish. The drag was all the way tight as she likes it, i yelled out to loosen it up, dont break off and she did that and she yelled out her arms were sore and asked me to take over.

I did and she started filming. I got the fish right up to the rocky bank paralel with it and the fish was calm.

She went to get the fish grabber and bent down to insert it into the mouth and it shook its tail fin, the lure flies into the air and it slowly swam away.

I was amazed that the trebble hook in the tail fin lasted the duration it did.

Another incredible thing is she was using the $2.00 rod i bought 2 weeks ago at an estate sale, a wallmart FLW tour 6-6 medium rod and not her usual Ugly stick GX2.

Notice the pic, it loaded up but didnt break. And just one more thing, that was the first muskie of the day. I caught one and landed it later in the day. Dams are just so fun to fish.

 

my muskie later that day

27 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

Something amazing happened to my wife when we were fishing the dam on friday. I didnt post about it because I needed to take screen shots off of the video she took.

 

Wife was fishing a square bill crank and hooked into a fish, well sorta hooked it she snagged it in the top of the tail fin, it was a large muskie.

I was a few feet away and she was struggling to reel in the fish. The drag was all the way tight as she likes it, i yelled out to loosen it up, dont break off and she did that and she yelled out her arms were sore and asked me to take over.

I did and she started filming. I got the fish right up to the rocky bank paralel with it and the fish was calm.

She went to get the fish grabber and bent down to insert it into the mouth and it shook its tail fin, the lure flies into the air and it slowly swam away.

I was amazed that the trebble hook in the tail fin lasted the duration it did.

Another incredible thing is she was using the $2.00 rod i bought 2 weeks ago at an estate sale, a wallmart FLW tour 6-6 medium rod and not her usual Ugly stick GX2.

Notice the pic, it loaded up but didnt break. And just one more thing, that was the first muskie of the day. I caught one and landed it later in the day. Dams are just so fun to fish.

 

my muskie later that day

8 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

My buddy from Memphis came into town to fish smallmouth this weekend, the fish participated pretty well. Teaser pic……

 

I knocked off work around 12:15 on Friday and my buddy got here around 1 . We took my shallow boat up the Holston river and caught a lot of fish but mostly small, I caught a herring right away with a nose hooked fluke. Pretty sunset

Saturday morning we switched over to the French broad and caught some nice fish in a variety of artificial baits. I caught one nice fish with a Fishlab flipping frog on the st croix legend tournament bass rod and the rest was mostly with a small marabou jig. My buddy was using a paddle tail and tube. I also got an obligatory “boat ramp” photo for @gimruis

 

Then as we made our way downstream, we started using a kick seine to catch some bait. Got lots of crawdads and only two helgrammites, they worked pretty well but ran out quickly. Then I was able to Cast net 6 or so minnows that worked well. I ended up catching one 20” fish (the one in the pic from the intro) and a 19.9999 “ fish. The 20 incher hit the marabou jig and the 19.9999” hit a minnow

 

day 3 we only have from sunrise until noon to fish since my buddy has to drive back to Memphis. We floated the same stretch in the morning and caught some fish but nothing too big. I got down to the same area to get some minnows and caught maybe 8-10 by 11:08 am. My buddy then says time constrains don’t apply and we shall use the minnows until they are gone, sounds good to me. I got two 19” fish with those! We were a bit past our predicted departure time but I was tickled to catch (basically) 2 20” fish and 2 19” fish in the same weekend 

 

 

Great job..?????

Didn't fish Saturday, worked OT 10pm Friday until 6am Saturday morning and then my oldest had his first football game of the year early afternoon. Sunday I went to a small, state lake with a young man from the local Junior Bassmasters and we caught a ton of fish but I kept losing the big bites. I did finally manage to boat one better one on a jig.

Good Day All,

Something fishy out there in this fall weather we are having here in SE AZ. A great time goofing off at Parker Canyon Lake. Our seasonal monsoon brought PCL up to full pool after being several meters down for some time. There is a break in the rainy weather with enough time for the fish to get comfortable with all the newly flooded shorelines. So catching was awesome! Upper double digit taunting, catching & release, of small sunfish and other fish species. Using ultra lite 5 foot on 4 pound mono with a curly tailed grub on a 1/32 oz jig. Easy and accurate casting amongst all the flooded shrubs and plants while floating the yak from one spot to another was very successful. The yak attack on the lake was great till you get hauled into the trees or branches from hooking onto a larger stronger fish.

 

The channel cats wanted to play quite a bit too. Rather tough to get them pose for the camera. They can get rather wiggly while waiting for the timer to count down.
 

Of course the large mouth bass were willing to play too. Most were yearlings but then there are those that are exceptionally fun, exhausting, and thrilling. A friendly bass angler was near by to watch the drama unfold as I dealt with this one hauling me and yak into a tree and me being the hot mess trying to keep tension on the barbless jig while paddling single handed to clear the mess of the tree and low branches to finally get it clear into open water so I could simply tire it out and get a look at it and get it eventually into the net. Yeah, the jig slid out right after getting it sort of into my smallish landing net. It took me a few minutes to sort it all out and recover. They provided their scale to measure it at 5.2 lbs. Good fall fun!

Have an awesome time out there. Just let's be careful too! Cheers!

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...hauling me and yak into a tree and me being the hot mess trying to keep tension on the barbless jig while paddling single handed to clear the mess of the tree and low branches to finally get it clear into open water so I could simply tire it out and get a look at it and get it eventually into the net. 

Then I too am a hot mess, for what you described is pretty much my fishing life. It's good to meet another hot mess!

Got 3 on a Zoom speed craw on a shakey head

KVD 3/8 oz spinnerbait

3 hours of fishing......one single bite on a roboworm, and two lost small Crappie

 

30 mins of fishing right before I end the day........6 fish, 7 bites.   Biggest was 4.2lb LGM, however I caught a nice little chunky spot on a Crappie setup that felt like a Tarpon in the Keys lol.  

 

Fishing is the ultimate game of patience, me and one of other gentlemen started fishing the same time, he packed up and left at 6:30 after experiencing the same lockjaw conditions.   30mins later like magic the fish decided to bite.    You always here it stressed, but it's really the golden rule of Bass fishing......time on water is the only thing that matters.     The last spot, the last 10 mins, the last cast can always be the best of the day, season, or even your PB.     

 

Chatterbait took 4, small Chatterbait for panfish took one, and then caught a smaller LGM on a 7" Bold bluegirl Roboworm.  Thinking I might just have these fish's feeding time nailed down after this session, and the one two days ago.    They just won't eat right now during the day.   

 

pics:   Biggest LGM, biggest Spot, and I'm not sure what type of bird this is, but it let me get right on it unlike Herons, very cool bird.     That laid down tree top is a favorite for Herons, so I guess this bird is more alpha.      

6 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

3 hours of fishing......one single bite on a roboworm, and two lost small Crappie

 

30 mins of fishing right before I end the day........6 fish, 7 bites.   Biggest was 4.2lb LGM, however I caught a nice little chunky spot on a Crappie setup that felt like a Tarpon in the Keys lol.  

 

Fishing is the ultimate game of patience, me and one of other gentlemen started fishing the same time, he packed up and left at 6:30 after experiencing the same lockjaw conditions.   30mins later like magic the fish decided to bite.    You always here it stressed, but it's really the golden rule of Bass fishing......time on water is the only thing that matters.     The last spot, the last 10 mins, the last cast can always be the best of the day, season, or even your PB.     

 

Chatterbait took 4, small Chatterbait for panfish took one, and then caught a smaller LGM on a 7" Bold bluegirl Roboworm.  Thinking I might just have these fish's feeding time nailed down after this session, and the one two days ago.    They just won't eat right now during the day.   

 

pics:   Biggest LGM, biggest Spot, and I'm not sure what type of bird this is, but it let me get right on it unlike Herons, very cool bird.     That laid down tree top is a favorite for Herons, so I guess this bird is more alpha.      

Nice fish! Great egret is the bird 

I have never fished a chatterbait nor a Roboworm, Alex. My 50-year pause in catching LM has left me so far behind the times! Beautiful bass!

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice fish! Great egret is the bird 

Most excellent and thanks, gonna Google them now

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I have never fished a chatterbait nor a Roboworm, Alex. My 50-year pause in catching LM has left so far behind the times! Beautiful bass!

Thanks!  I'm the same way with your Whopper Plopper, and frogs by in large Katie.    I fished a frog once this summer for about 5 mins.

 

Amazing how we find all these different ways to catch Bass.  I guess that's what makes the industry so big, so many different products will catch em

Caught one this morning that might’ve weighed a pound and was maybe 12 - 14 inches and lost two others. The bite is sucking wind for me here. A friend and his family came over and he caught 2 bass using a t-rigged green pumpkin worm in maybe 20 minutes. One was decent sized too. ? I was checking him out to see if he was calling them to him. ?

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4 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:I'm the same way with your Whopper Plopper, and frogs by in large Katie.    I fished a frog once this summer for about 5 mins.

I’ve tried a whopper plopper and had hit or miss luck so far but couldn’t catch a cold with a frog yet. Dunno why.

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Typos ~ R ~ Us

3 minutes ago, sdw215 said:

Caught one this morning that might’ve weighed a pound and was maybe 12 - 14 inches and lost two others. The bite is sucking wind for me here. A friend and his family came over and he caught 2 bass using a t-rigged green pumpkin worm in maybe 20 minutes. One was decent sized too. ? I was checking him out to see if he was calling them to him. ?

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Mine, then his:

 

Pretty fish brother.    Same here the last week for sure, slowest it's been in months.   

 

Maybe try a little bit once the sun goes down.    I'm going to try that this evening.   Instead of fishing the last 3 hours of light, I'm gonna fish the last hour of light + a few hours after light.

Gonna try that. I was out there by sunup this morning thinking I’d beat the heat and catch a few. Guess I’ll try reversing that idea and see how it goes.

On 9/20/2022 at 11:51 AM, sdw215 said:

Gonna try that. I was out there by sunup this morning thinking I’d beat the heat and catch a few. Guess I’ll try reversing that idea and see how it goes.

Go figure I tried to repeat the same formula as last night tonight, same time, same place, same everything.....nothing

 

That said, I didn't fish much after dark because I opted to go at about 4pm thinking I'd fish 50/50 Bass and Crappie.    

 

Ended up catching a lot of small Bass, including the smallest one I can remember catching since I was a kid.   Caught the most uniquely colored Bass I've personally ever caught.    A perfect blend of a smallie and LGM.   Biggest fish was under 2lbs, most of the fish were pounders or below.   Very unique day for a number of reasons, but catching lots of small fish is very unique for this lake. 

 

Caught 4 Species of fish today which was cool.   1. Alabama Bass 2.  Largemouth Bass 3. Crappie 4. Rock Bass or Warmouth.....we've always called them Rock Bass mainly, but I think both might be wrong haha

 

Figure as long as my normal routines and honeyholes are lockjaw for the most part, might as well take advantage of the gorgeous weather and fish/wildlife  

 

Lastly, the bird of the day is........?    I love how they all fight for this place.   Perhaps just a juvie Blue Heron.

 

 

I love the quality of the light in the third photo. I also love that you always catch joy. You are a master joy fisher.

 

I'm actually going fishing tomorrow afternoon, Alex, and won't be able to fish for at least five days after that due to a visit from a Tennessee bud who doesn't fish. What's wrong with him??? Anyway, I'm loading my rods with different lures: a soft plastic swimbait, a lipless crankbait, a real nightcrawler, and a Ned bait. My catch has been cut in half my last two outings and I want to see if different lures will help. I am going to also use a wacky worm since that's still producing. 

 

P. S. - I'd love to catch a rock bass. I haven't caught one of those guys for more than half a century.

2 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I love the quality of the light in the third photo. I also love that you always catch joy. You are a master joy fisher.

 

I'm actually going fishing tomorrow afternoon, Alex, and won't be able to fish for at least five days after that due to a visit from a Tennessee bud who doesn't fish. What's wrong with him??? Anyway, I'm loading my rods with different lures: a soft plastic swimbait, a lipless crankbait, a real nightcrawler, and a Ned bait. My catch has been cut in half my last two outings and I want to see if different lures will help. I am going to also use a wacky worm since that's still producing. 

 

P. S. - I'd love to catch a rock bass. I haven't caught one of those guys for more than half a century.

It's so nice to hear kind words from somebody such as yourself Katie.   Everybody likes to be understood in this world, fishing is such an intimate activity the way many of us do it.  Thusly, it's hard to share the highs/lows, and beauty that is Bass fishing with anybody but those rare people in this world that "get it" in regard to the pursuit of these magical fish.   

 

I love the idea of going for LGM with night crawlers, and I'm envisioning some really nice Maine Bass.    That's a great gameplan to me because it's nice to try things you don't have time to do when the bite is on.     

 

Good luck, looking forward to some pretty super green lunkers

First bass ever caught on a scrounger head '