You fish is a Warmouth and your bird is a double crested cormorant 

 

nice catches 

You the man, you really know nature.   Thanks for all the help on the IDs

No prob, nature ID was my schoolin’ haha. I’m not telling you which university tho……

As if we can't already take a guess ?

"T" is for Texas?

The University of Woods and Water?

Got out for about an hour and a half before noon. Good breeze ahead of a our first real fall cold front so I figured that bass would be aggressive. Caught 15 on an old Azuma Wake-Z that's seen a lot of action. I also lucked into it being bogo Wednesday. Got two for the price of one!

I'm going to buy one of those Azuma Wake-Zs. I bet the Yankee bass will love it. Any tips on retrieving it or where I should cast it?

I really wish Tackle Warehouse was closer. Waiting on UPS is not my forte’. ? Didn’t get a chance to go back out yesterday evening as my hands/fingers have developed trigger-finger and were hurting pretty bad in spite of getting steroid shots in them Monday. Let me just say that stung like the devil. Anyway, soon as the ‘ol hands ease off I’m gonna go back at it.

4 minutes ago, sdw215 said:

I really wish Tackle Warehouse was closer. Waiting on UPS is not my forte’. ? Didn’t get a chance to go back out yesterday evening as my hands/fingers have developed trigger-finger and were hurting pretty bad in spite of getting steroid shots in them Monday. Let me just say that stung like the devil. Anyway, soon as the ‘ol hands ease off I’m gonna go back at it.

Dang friend, sorry to hear about the hands.   Hopefully the shot works, and you'll be hammering them in no time.

 

Yeah waiting for fun stuff in the mail makes me feel like a petulant child ?

3 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

"T" is for Texas?

Don't forget that @TnRiver46 knows where the Forensic Anthropological Research Facility (a.k.a - the body farm) is, OK? I don't want you to disappear. ?

 

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

The University of Woods and Water?

Well Woods is my last name…….. getting warmer 

3 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Don't forget that @TnRiver46 knows where the Forensic Anthropological Research Facility (a.k.a - the body farm) is, OK? I don't want you to disappear. ?

 

I live pretty close to it! 

1 hour ago, sdw215 said:

I really wish Tackle Warehouse was closer. Waiting on UPS is not my forte’. ? Didn’t get a chance to go back out yesterday evening as my hands/fingers have developed trigger-finger and were hurting pretty bad in spite of getting steroid shots in them Monday. Let me just say that stung like the devil. Anyway, soon as the ‘ol hands ease off I’m gonna go back at it.

Dang Father Time!

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

Dang Father Time!

I know, right?!

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I'm going to buy one of those Azuma Wake-Zs. I bet the Yankee bass will love it. Any tips on retrieving it or where I should cast it?

They're 5/8 oz. and like throwing a brick. I just retrieve at a moderate steady pace. The strikes can be vicious. Also, I change out the stock hooks for #2 KVD triple grips. One of the stock hooks broke in short order. This set has been on it ever since.

Thanks, Bassman. I've selected three colors. I LOVE vicious strikes and am excited to use them. Thanks too for the hook swapping tip.

 

Well, I fished this evening and caught two bass. I threw my tackle box at them and they threw it back in my canoe. The water felt cool as the bite, but the evening was gorgeous. A Maine bog with gin clear air and sugar maples beginning to blaze. At times, I just drifted, witnessed, and gave thanks. 

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Well, I fished this evening and caught two bass. I threw my tackle box at them and they threw it back in my canoe. The water felt cool as the bite, but the evening was gorgeous. A Maine bog with gin clear air and sugar maples beginning to blaze. At times, I just drifted, witnessed, and gave thanks. 

That sounds like my kind of day!

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Spot, sunset, then smallie

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Thanks, Bassman. I've selected three colors. I LOVE vicious strikes and am excited to use them. Thanks too for the hook swapping tip.

 

Well, I fished this evening and caught two bass. I threw my tackle box at them and they threw it back in my canoe. The water felt cool as the bite, but the evening was gorgeous. A Maine bog with gin clear air and sugar maples beginning to blaze. At times, I just drifted, witnessed, and gave thanks. 

Sounds beautiful, and I think it's slow fishing for everyone on this forum right now.  I know it is for me.   Maine sounds like a remarkably beautiful place anytime it's not cold.    Wimps like me from the South just can't tolerate snow, and freezing temps.  

 

94 degrees today, just boiling hot, felt temp was close to 100.   Almost no wind as well.   I finally located and hooked my first big offshore LGM because of my sonar....have enough time to start congratulating myself on accomplishing something I've been trying to do for a few months, and this fish pulled the hook about 10ft from the boat.    Had a solid 30-45 seconds of fight in open water, lots of jumps.   I'd say it was likely in the 5-6lb range.     Big enough to break my heart for sure. 

 

Then I tried a RC25 Lucky Craft in bluegill on some flats off the main channel and had another big 5lb+ fish hammer my lure about 2ft from the boat, one of those strikes that happens so close you see it all happen and it scares you a little or surprises you.      I'm so mad about that one because I would have finally been able to justify having a hundred or two invested into beautiful looking LuckyCraft baits that I'm usually too afraid to throw when StrikeKing and Rapala baits get the job done ?

 

Then finally right at dark I killed the skunk with a chunky 2lb Spot taken off a Chatterbait.  I got a rod for these baits that has changed the whole game for me on them.   Went from missing over half my bites, to catching 80-90% of the fish that bite it now.    

 

Bird of the day is a Blue Heron.    Before TNRiver46 I had no idea the other types of fish eating birds on the lake.      

46 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Spot, sunset, then smallie

Awesome fish brother!    Spotted Bass are just so exquisite to look at.    That one was frisky enough to have bitten another angler's hook in the past.   How can you not love a fish that gives multiple anglers a thrill

8 hours ago, The Bassman said:

Got out for about an hour and a half before noon. Good breeze ahead of a our first real fall cold front so I figured that bass would be aggressive. Caught 15 on an old Azuma Wake-Z that's seen a lot of action. I also lucked into it being bogo Wednesday. Got two for the price of one!

How did I miss this earlier.....dude that's awesome!

 

What a really nice fish that first one is.....wonder what it weighed?

Nooooo, Alex! However, I think about the Twilight Zone episode where the gambler dies and thinks he's gone to Heaven because he wins at every game he plays, but then he's told that he's not in Heaven, but Lucifer's pad, for there's no elation in winning when we always win. Your two lost hogs will make your next caught hog so much sweeter.

 

However, I get that those lost fish gut hook us. Remember when I lost three four-pound bass in consecutive casts a couple weeks back? I still pine for such a chance again.  

29 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Nooooo, Alex! However, I think about the Twilight Zone episode where the gambler dies and thinks he's gone to Heaven because he wins at every game he plays, but then he's told that he's not in Heaven, but Lucifer's pad, for there's no elation in winning when we always win. Your two lost hogs will make your next caught hog so much sweeter.

 

However, I get that those lost fish gut hook us. Remember when I lost three four-pound bass in consecutive casts a couple weeks back? I still pine for such a chance again.  

Yeah I do remember that, losing them right by the kayak is vastly more gut wrenching like yours.   Yours were all but caught fish.

 

I don't think the crankbait fish ever got hooked, it happened so fast.    And the other one was still a bit away, far enough that I hadn't reached for the net yet.   

Awesome being one of the first people out on the lake on a beautiful morning.

 

Little fella but still great catching em on a rat.

 

More topwater action.

 

 

Pops getting in on the action.

 

Decent one on topwater.

 

Fish of the day on a magdraft. One of the fattest and roundest fall bass I've ever caught. Still went 5.6 despite only being just a tad over 20".

19 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

Awesome being one of the first people out on the lake on a beautiful morning.

 

Little fella but still great catching em on a rat.

 

More topwater action.

 

 

Pops getting in on the action.

 

Decent one on topwater.

 

Fish of the day on a magdraft. One of the fattest and roundest fall bass I've ever caught. Still went 5.6 despite only being just a tad over 20".

LOL....second time now I've seen that rat of yours and I laugh every time.  It's a big as the fish that will hit it.   Crazy the things Bass will hit.    Beautiful fish, and congrats on the pig.     A real fish to be proud of to be sure.   That's a very healthy looking Bass, the ones that give you motivation in the belief a fish is twice it's size is in the same body of water.   

 

Down here usually if a lake produces fat 5 and 6lb fish, you can count on it having DD Bass in it.   My old fishing buddy who also fishes my home lake sent me a pic of a fish he caught in February from it that went 10.6.    So much more exciting when you think or know DD Bass swim in the waters you are fishing.   

8 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

LOL....second time now I've seen that rat of yours and I laugh every time.  It's a big as the fish that will hit it.   Crazy the things Bass will hit. 

 

Fish are ridiculous and I love them for it. Little while back, on another trip with @TnRiver46, I caught a bluegill on a squarebill, then I caught a largemouth on a Choppo that wasn't much bigger than the lure.

 

The bluegill cracked me up. All it had was the rear treble, and it couldn't fit but one little hook in its mouth, but it went for it.