1 minute ago, N Florida Mike said:

At it again this afternoon. They were biting anything I threw. Perfect weather- Mostly cloudy, temps in the 70s, Windy but perfect for fishing .

Started out with the baby brush hog, then the speed worm, then a culprit, then a ol monster. Caught 10 , but lost that many again. They were tight to the bank and I lost several after they got into brushpiles. 

Love them dark beauties you catch

8 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Do you dangle night crawlers off all the hook points on your whopper plopper?

Mine’s a Christmas tree ornament.

Lake Minichuck was much better to me today.

Decent conditions with more & better quality smallies.

Small swimbait was lethal today. 

Getting pretty close to calling it a for the season.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

3 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Lake Minichuck

 Lol. How many “chucks” are there?

 

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 Lol. How many “chucks” are there?

Guess we'll find out . . . 

A-Jay

6 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Lake Minichuck was much better to me today.

Decent conditions with more & better quality smallies.

Small swimbait was lethal today. 

Getting pretty close to calling it a for the season.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

Magnificent specimen

 

All you Yanks say you're done, then you post a pig ?

5 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Magnificent specimen

 

All you Yanks say you're done, then you post a pig ?

I think we all want to go out on a high note.

Sitting on a last trip bogus outing all winter can be pretty rugged. 

A-Jay

3 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I think we all want to go out on a high note.

Sitting on a last trip bogus outing all winter can be pretty rugged.

Having had both those results many times, I can confirm that going out on a high note makes a northern winter much more tolerable. When you finish on a sour note, it tends to bother me for a long time because I know I can’t remedy that until the following spring.

11 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I think we all want to go out on a high note.

Sitting on a last trip bogus outing all winter can be pretty rugged. 

A-Jay

I get this but also think how much ill regret not going on a nice day because I called it just so I can go out on a high note. The not knowing to me is more bothersome than trying and failing.

1 hour ago, DitchPanda said:

I get this but also think how much ill regret not going on a nice day because I called it just so I can go out on a high note. The not knowing to me is more bothersome than trying and failing.

Lol, I swear half the days I fish is because of the "not knowing" part.   I always think if I don't go when I could have, that's when I would have caught my new PB, or had raw thumbs.

 

Like you said, I can see both sides and as somebody who lives in the South I can't relate to having to sit that long on a sour outing.   

Wife and i went fishing to a dam we never heard of untill a guy at baldhill dam told me to check it out so we went wednesday.

Its a small small dam and we had gulp live minnows and then an old man gave us his live minnows when he left for home. It was 49 degrees and windy and when we left at 8pm it was actually a nice 36.

 

I of course had to try lipless cranks and jerks all the while my wife was catching smallies and walleye.

I was still convinced i was going to catch fish on lures so i finally put on a 3/8 oz jig and a 2 1/2" multicolored paddletail and caught 5 walleye.

She caught 29 fish, 5 smallies, 3 catfish and 21 walleye. 23 of her fish were on live minnows 6 on gulp live minnow all using an 1/8 oz ballhead jig and bobber.

I let her enjoy the live minnows while i kept warm by casting knowing i was missing out on numbers but i call it testing out what works this time of year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice job @throttleplate, the dams have been good to you this season.

 

Technically, I think a catch of walleye should be in the "other species pics" thread though if I'm not mistaken.  Minor detail that I've made the same mistake on before too.

30 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Nice job @throttleplate, the dams have been good to you this season.

 

Technically, I think a catch of walleye should be in the "other species pics" thread though if I'm not mistaken.  Minor detail that I've made the same mistake on before too.

It’s all good since he caught some smallies  

13 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

At it again this afternoon. They were biting anything I threw. Perfect weather- Mostly cloudy, temps in the 70s, Windy at times but perfect for fishing the home lake.

Started out with the baby brush hog, then the speed worm, then a culprit, then a ol monster. Caught 10 , but lost that many again. They were tight to the bank and I lost several after they got into brushpiles. 

Mike, I miss fish nearly every time I fish. An average day for me is missing as many fish as I catch. By miss, I mean a fish will hit a surface lure and I won't hook it or I will hook it for a second or two or I have it hooked for a nearly full fight and have it beside the boat and it comes unpinned. I had one morning this year where I caught nearly every fish, but they were inhaling my wake bait that morning. They weren't flirting. 

18 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

When the bait pauses and you throw a little slack into the line it will continue around if it glides good. You can kind of see the cadence on how to do it in this video I took last Sunday.

The first fish I had follow it in this video I really made the bait 180 on the fish but I was drifting at it too fast and I think my shadow spooked it. 

 

Nice job @Bluebasser86. My favorite part was when you gave the catfish the Mushu dishonor line. HaHa!

 

54 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Mike, I miss fish nearly every time I fish. An average day for me is missing as many fish as I catch. By miss, I mean a fish will hit a surface lure and I won't hook it or I will hook it for a second or two or I have it hooked for a nearly full fight and have it beside the boat and it comes unpinned. I had one morning this year where I caught nearly every fish, but they were inhaling my wake bait that morning. They weren't flirting. 

Sometimes I get a little prideful about it. At this point with all the fish Ive caught in my life, it just seems strange that I would miss as many as I do sometimes.

I mean, yesterday I caught the first 3 , then missed 7 in a row!!. Then caught 4 in a row, and a few more misses and catches made the day.

There were some reasons. ( or explanations)

1. They were smaller fish

2. They got me into brushpiles

3. They were not engulfing the whole bait like they often do.

4. Eel grass sometimes is a good place for you to lose touch with exactly where the fish are when you set.

5. Poor or wrongly timed hooksets.

( Not that I’d ever do that)?

58 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Nice job @Bluebasser86. My favorite part was when you gave the catfish the Mushu dishonor line. HaHa!

 

I'm glad someone caught it ?. I use that line a lot, especially at work because nobody ever realizes I'm poking fun at them.

This should be my tagline: "At this point with all the fish I've caught in my life, it just seems strange that I would miss as many as I do sometimes."

 

As I shared in another post, one reason I miss fish is because I get a lot of my hits at the very end of a long cast with stretchy mono. Another is that I'm in a light canoe and the wind is always moving my canoe, meaning there are times when I'm trying to set the hook over my shoulder. Yet another reason is that I'm sitting in a canoe, with nowhere near the leverage to set the hook that you get when you can plant your feet. I'm also old with a little arthritis in my hands. 

 

Still, there are moments when the stars align, like yesterday with a 19" bass that had a single hook of my six hooks just barely in her lip. I could see that this was the case as she started thrashing by the boat, but I managed to get her in the net. As someone posted here, sometimes we're the windshield and sometimes we're the bug. 

18 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Lake Minichuck was much better to me today.

Decent conditions with more & better quality smallies.

Small swimbait was lethal today. 

Getting pretty close to calling it a for the season.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

Gorgeous smallie! Some day I will make a trip up north to try and target those brown bass, they are so incredibly pretty. A bucket list fish for sure.

 

Also laughed at the "Minichuck" designation. I honestly get such a huge kick out of naming my spots.

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Gorgeous smallie! Some day I will make a trip up north to try and target those brown bass, they are so incredibly pretty. A bucket list fish for sure.

I feel the same way about spotted bass. One day, I will make a trip down south....

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

I feel the same way about spotted bass. One day, I will make a trip down south....

 

I'm too far south for those, too. But we grow good LMB here, so I can't complain too much.

13 minutes ago, Aaron_H said:

 

I'm too far south for those, too. But we grow good LMB here, so I can't complain too much.

Your PB is DD. You grow ginor-giganti-gargantu-uge bass! If your Florida-strain bass were magically moved to Maine, the Maine bass would yell "YIKES!" and your bass would say, "Yummy." 

Hey,

 

Had a great Friday, managed to land a few decent fish from the rock pile after work. Just had enough light left to cast out for a little bit ? 

Beautiful fish, Steve.

11 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Beautiful fish, Steve.

Lol I appreciate that, they are nothing spectacular. The other peacock bass was decent though, put up a nice fight, almost 2 pounds. Take care