got eight more this evening  to add to a great week of evenings ,all 2 to 3 1/2 lb plus this monster bluegill

2 & a-half-er on top at a new lake:

 

 

22 bass today 19" 18"  several 16" 15" threw 3 different paddletails some ikas and hydras.

 

 

Finally, Finally got the boat back after breaking the axle in the beginning of May.  Took the boat to our favorite lake, Shasta.  Were not on the water too long since someone (me) forgot the key to the boat at home.  We got about 3 hours on the lake.  A lot of dinks starting to get active but we did find some quality fish throughout the day.  Once again Jamie out caught me 12 - 7, but i did have the better size, so thats something.  Biggest was 16 1/2 inch spot that fought really well.

 

One of Jamie's better fish, right about 15 inches

2-11 fatty yesterday during my lunch break

Largest was 4lbs15oz, caught using a floating jerkbait I found. Last year I caught a 4lber almost every trip just beating the banks at this pond. This year I've only caught one shallow. I've been finding better quality bass in the mid depth sections (6-8ft) with weeds coming up about half way. 

... the pattern is real. Jerkbait and square bill crankbait again. 5lb4oz and 4lb1oz. The 5lber had the best fight out of any bass I've caught. 

Every 4th time I tie on a new horny toad, a gar immediately rips its legs off.

 

 

Here's a 3.77 lb. smallmouth that ate a Finesse TRD on a 3/32 oz. Ned (mushroom) jig head worked slowly at a depth of approximately 20'.

Mrs Bull landed 2, 4 ponders on her first time out.....

 

Think that means I need to buy more gear ?

Mixed in amongst a bunch of "dinkos" (dinks-on-a-Senko), a couple of fat ones 18" and 17" this morning bright and early. On a KVD 2.5 and a...Senko:

found a couple little spotted bass that were willing to bite on saturday night.  black buzzbait and a berkley 10" black grape power worm were the baits.  had a few more blowups on the buzzbait, but only managed to hook and land the one. 

here's one of them, picture of the other one didn't turn out very well in the dark!

 

 

Tough day at Wohlford Lake.  Almost got skunked but landed a nice little guy here:

 

 

Then a few hours after that one I was about to give up but went to drop shotting a Roboworm and caught this 5lber!

 

Mid/late day water here in Southwestern TN is approaching bath water temps, so I'm struggling with my usual preferred crankbaits and forced to move to Senkos. Needless to say, I'm ready for late Summer/early Fall to get these water temps back down. 

 

Caught this one Monday(plus a few others)on a watermelon Senko, and is the largest I've caught in about three weeks(previous was 3.02 on a squarebill in light rain). He was fun to bring in though, I was watching a school(3-5' in diameter) of shad/minnow moving around right in this "narrow" cut and I kept tossing the Senko all around and inside the school.

 

Finally got that familiar bump and run and set the hook. Jumped out of the water a couple times for dramatic effect, but I had him hooked squarely in the corner of his mouth, so he had no chance of getting off. 2+, 2.5 if I'm being generous.

 

 

As I alluded to earlier, I don't often fish with Senkos(or plastics in general) often, but it's been fun to catch them on my med/fast spinning setup with the drag dialed down a bit. If the size isn't there, then I might as well make it a fun fight. 

 

Thanks for reading my rambling.  

 

Family night bridge fishing. The wife actually set the hook started reeling saw how big it was and panicked, handed it to my son. He couldn't reel very much so he handed it to me. I finally was able to land it after a decent fight. A new PB 3lb 3oz. It was a good night.

Flat River Smallie?

You're good! On a weightless Senko.

That's a tank with beautiful colors. Congrats!

46 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

You're good! On a weightless Senko.

 

Not that good, I just pay attention!

True, fairly easy to figure out. You're good if you can tell me what bridge. Lol

11 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Family night bridge fishing. The wife actually set the hook started reeling saw how big it was and panicked, handed it to my son. He couldn't reel very much so he handed it to me. I finally was able to land it after a decent fight. A new PB 3lb 3oz. It was a good night.

So who's PB is it!? Family PB!

The weather has been hot here the past 2 days into the mid 90s with clear blue skies. Not sure why but that means the lipless catches fire and the bass here love it. I've gotten 19 the past 2 days almost all 2-4lbs and lost about 9 more all on the lipless. 

 

Here's a few from the past few weekends! Got my pb smallie for at least fir length, didn't get a weight on her, but she was a tank even though spawned out! And a nice largemouth 100yards away the following weekend. 19" and 20.25" respectively. Big shoutout to @roadwarrior for helping me out!! On jigs!

 

11 hours ago, corn-on-the-rob said:

So who's PB is it!? Family PB!

Yup we'll say it's a family PB. She catches enough big ones by only using a Senko so she can share this one. LOL

14 hours ago, Ktho said:

The weather has been hot here the past 2 days into the mid 90s with clear blue skies. Not sure why but that means the lipless catches fire and the bass here love it. I've gotten 19 the past 2 days almost all 2-4lbs and lost about 9 more all on the lipless. 

 

Good job man, It show 90 in my car when came back from kayak at 10:00

today. Didn't catch a thing and missing A bite from Fluke. Gotta try lipless crank for sure. Too bad I only have a few and tried in once this year.

It's worth a shot. I really only get into them good on the lipless here at laguna niguel regional park, although I see on instagram that people get em at canyon lake with it. Looks like the temps aren't going anywhere, guess it's summer for real now.