Go figure I catch a couple Crappie after trying to catch them for 3 days with Tuffy minnows lol.  Caught 4 other Bass, all small fish.   3 Spots and a LGM.   Bass on the MiniMax, Crappie on the Flashback mini. 

 

The amount of Bass, and seemingly large Bass I'm seeing stacked and suspended on the edges or around the edges of the main lake channels is frustrating.    I'm just picking off some random fish.   The big fish have been offshore seemingly for a few weeks now.   I'm sure a pro could catch these fish, and with enough time I could learn what they'll eat.   

 

  

 

@AlabamaSpothunter the bass in that picture is beautifully marked, and that crappie ain’t so shabby either??

5 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

@AlabamaSpothunter the bass in that picture is beautifully marked, and that crappie ain’t so shabby either??

Thanks Eric!   Occasionally I catch an aquarium sized one and the smaller they get, the more striking they seem to be.   

 

4" fish trying to eat another 4" bait.....why yes that's a Spotted Bass ?

Well just another small fish Friday from me lol, the weather has been weird around me lately. I dropped my son off in allegan like normal at Jaycee park after work around 7pm. I knew what I was going to throw, a 5” hula grub green pumpkin root beer on a 3/32oz outkast tackle money jig.

 

well I made my first cast and look down at my line and there’s a knot slightly in my line. Tried to get it out but failed miserably, wasn’t really trying to hard I don’t have enough on my reel anyhow. I only have maybe 30 yards on my bfs reel. I am going to put more on it next year. I don’t remember if I caught it on my first or third cast, somewhere around there. I caught this small guy on the fall.

 

 I was very happy to finally catch something on a hula grubs, I have over 10 packs of various colors. I knew that I could catch fish with them that’s why I kept buying a pack here and there over the past 2 years, I was just slow to use them. I had a good day.

37 minutes ago, Eric 26 said:

@AlabamaSpothunter the bass in that picture is beautifully marked, and that crappie ain’t so shabby either??

I love when we appreciate fish for more than just their size. 

Finally got the opportunity to take the kayak out to some bigger water.

 

First scorable spot in the yak.

 

Funny how the little fellas feel bigger than they are when you're right on top of the water.

 

Pretty cool of these deer to come out for a swim as I was cruising along.

24 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

Finally got the opportunity to take the kayak out to some bigger water.

 

First scorable spot in the yak.

 

Funny how the little fellas feel bigger than they are when you're right on top of the water.

 

Pretty cool of these deer to come out for a swim as I was cruising along.

Awesome, I saw a family of deer swimming in a cove today as well, but it was right at dark.  Not that deep though, maybe a foot or two.   

 

As for the Spot, now we're talking my man ?

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Funny how the little fellas feel bigger than they are when you're right on top of the water.

Heck, yeah! I even like when they splash me.

10 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I catch a couple Crappie after trying to catch them for 3 days with Tuffy minnows lol.

Try a swim bait next time?

 

Wednesday night

 

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

Try a swim bait next time?

 

Wednesday night

 

Dang that's huge.....what that fish weigh, 2lbs+?

Friday we went to scout 2 more small dams on the sheyene river in north dakota. This time we brought live fat head minnows, scheels was out of shiners. Cost was $3.75 for 1/2 a scoop.

Wife was bobing with the minnows i was throwing lures of course to start out.

I bought some vmc mooneye hair jigs that were on sale, i never used hair jigs before and went below the dam in an eddie and caught a little smallie.

 

I thought for sure i was on the fish but for the next 2 hours nothing. I then went to jigging minnows and using a bobber well below the dam in the eddies and just nothin.

Wife caught 8 walleye and it was now pitch black dark and just couldnt see so we decided to go.

As she was picking up our things i had a zip lock baggie with some water and minnows on the ground and didnt zip it up.

Wife picked up the baggie and asked me if i put a frog inside it. What? no i did not and she brought me the bag and here was a small frog in it.

She asked me if i want it and i said no so she tossed it on the ground and then i thought why not try it on my 1/4 oz ball head jig, nothin else has worked for me.

So i with my headlamp spot the frog on the ground and i pick it up and lip hook it and toss it out.

I am jiggin it in on first cast and whamo it gets hit and i bring in my saturday night dinner. That experience i will never forget.

 

On 10/28/2022 at 7:39 AM, 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.

 

On 10/28/2022 at 8:11 AM, TnRiver46 said:

It’s all good since he caught some smallies  

 

Thank you,

Huge crappie, Phish! You're a heckuva fisher.*

 

 

 

*Sorry 'bout the cussin'. The crappie made me do it. 

A couple more on the Super Spook Jr. this morning. This one was 3ish lbs 18".

25 minutes ago, Jmontgomery87 said:

A couple more on the Super Spook Jr. this morning. This one was 3ish lbs 18".

Its head is so big that it could eat itself, if it started at its tail. 

 

that’s my dock on the right, hickories are putting on a show 

 

 

                                                       

17 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice one ?

8 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Dang that's huge.....what that fish weigh, 2lbs+?

No scale on hand. Looks like it though. That place has 15"-16"ers in it, so I guess it's possible when they're well fed. There are massive schools of white perch there, so they eat well.

 

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Huge crappie, Phish! You're a heckuva fisher.*

That one is actually my buddy's. He's pretty good. I made the mistake of peeling off to another lake not knowing it had just been stocked with 12"-14" brown trout earlier that day. I didn't attempt to count the greedy trout googans encircling the place. They were everywhere. They get a limit, stash it in their cars, then come back for more. The bass are spooky at this lake to begin with, so it was a fool's errand for me to stay. I tried anyway to no avail, even though it was a chitshow of lures and bobbers hitting the water. I would've been better off just going home and polishing my hood ornament.

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

No scale on hand. Looks like it though. That place has 15"-16"ers in it, so I guess it's possible when they're well fed. There are massive schools of white perch there, so they eat well.

 

That one is actually my buddy's. He's pretty good. I made the mistake of peeling off to another lake not knowing it had just been stocked with 12"-14" brown trout earlier that day. I didn't attempt to count the greedy trout googans encircling the place. They were everywhere. They get a limit, stash it in their cars, then come back for more. The bass are spooky at this lake to begin with, so it was a fool's errand for me to stay. I tried anyway to no avail, even though it was a chitshow of lures and bobbers hitting the water. I would've been better off just going home and polishing my hood ornament.

That fishing circus sounds awful. I like quiet fishing. No, I love quiet fishing. Gluttons trampling gluttons sounds awful.

I went again for a couple hours before dark. Since I didnt have long , I stayed at the upper end of the lake . Since I fished the west shoreline the other day, today I fished the east side. 

Strange how fish bite one day, and then 2 days later it’s different. The other day they wanted anything with a curly tail tight to the bank .

All I could catch them on today was green pumpkin yum dingers out 5-10 feet off the bank . All generally the same size, these being the biggest.Ended up with 7. 

I caught 21 today.  The smallest was 13" so that's better than I've been doing.  Biggest wasn't huge though.  3 pound 8 ounce Largemouth followed by a 2 pound 15 ounce Spot.  The Largemouth showed out walking on it's tail.   I didn't have the usb plugged into my camera all the way so the battery went dead.      I've been "trying" to catch bass on a bladed jig but I left them alone today.  1 on a Devils Horse, 1 on a Texas rig,  the rest on Bandit 200's DT8's and Red Eyed Shad.   The bass were scattered, not really schooled up.   Most were on ledges or flats near ledges.  

21 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Finally got the opportunity to take the kayak out to some bigger water.

 

First scorable spot in the yak.

 

Funny how the little fellas feel bigger than they are when you're right on top of the water.

 

Pretty cool of these deer to come out for a swim as I was cruising along.

Beautiful fish?? Love the deer in the water picture, so cool when you can be a part of something wild when you’re not expecting it?

13 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Try a swim bait next time?

 

Wednesday night

 

All I’m going to say is WOW!!!!!

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

 

that’s my dock on the right, hickories are putting on a show 

Awesome fish?? I’m very jealous of your dock, my family and I visited your lovely state last Christmas and although we were in tourist areas we took the time to hike one day and it was breathtaking as is your dock and hickory trees. I’m sitting here watching your “favorite team” putting on a clinic?

2 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

2 hours ago, Woody B said:

 

I know I sound like a broken record but man there are some just gorgeous fish in this post? I don’t know if it’s due to the season or everybody getting really good at photos but wow it’s awesome to see and making me super jealous.