Caught 7 today including a couple 4 pounders.  4.01 Spot, and 4.15 Largemouth.  (.01 and .15 hundredths, not ounces)   The 4.15 LM came on a Devils Horse in 2 feet of water.   4 on a crank, and 2 on a t-rig.    The lake was busy.  Some people fishing but a BUNCH of people riding around.  I saw a couple people wake boarding but most of the wake boats were just riding around making waves.  

 

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

Caught 7 today including a couple 4 pounders.  4.01 Spot, and 4.15 Largemouth.  (.01 and .15 hundredths, not ounces)   The 4.15 LM came on a Devils Horse in 2 feet of water.   4 on a crank, and 2 on a t-rig.    The lake was busy.  Some people fishing but a BUNCH of people riding around.  I saw a couple people wake boarding but most of the wake boats were just riding around making waves.  

 

Fantastic!  4lb Spots are always memorable.  

Well done, Woody! 

Long list of things to do today, but I couldn't not take a rod with and stop at a pond before starting my run. Highs here hit 72 degrees with a SW wind at 20 mph, gusting to 30. Just headed for the windiest corner and threw a jerkbait - and they were there. A dozen bites in about an hour of fishing, and then I was off.

 

 

 

 

These are Bass beds correct?

 

Caught about 20 sub 2lb fish earlier, all on the flashback mini.    I can find bait of all sizes, I can find small fish to catch every day out, I simply can't consistently or even really at all catch 3lb+ fish.   Still lots of fun to catch small fiesty Spotted Bass on a spinning reel, way better than doing the chores and grown up stuff I need to do ?

 

Almost skunked today.

Windy, bluebird skies, water temp 46* and managed 1 fish on a Jerkbait.

Tried to force feed them a spinnerbait for a while, no luck. picked up a worm and instantly got 2 and missed another. Water temp 56

2 hours ago, Bird said:

Almost skunked today.

Windy, bluebird skies, water temp 46* and managed 1 fish on a Jerkbait.

Nice, I'm finally at the "I don't give a blank how I look" hat phase, digging that one ?  

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Tried to force feed them a spinnerbait for a while, no luck. picked up a worm and instantly got 2 and missed another. Water temp 56

What a pretty fish, zero sympthy to you though for being foolish enough to throw a fidget spinner ?

 

It's the "rosettes" on SMs, and especially Spots that I love.   The top half has an almost snake like patterning.  So cool.   Some SMs don't have as pronounced ones, but I imagine they come back in a livewell.

4 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

These are Bass beds correct?

 

Caught about 20 sub 2lb fish earlier, all on the flashback mini.    I can find bait of all sizes, I can find small fish to catch every day out, I simply can't consistently or even really at all catch 3lb+ fish.   Still lots of fun to catch small fiesty Spotted Bass on a spinning reel, way better than doing the chores and grown up stuff I need to do ?

 

Man those are dinosaur tracks.?

4 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Nice, I'm finally at the "I don't give a blank how I look" hat phase,

Say What? ?

@T-Billy, I like that furry hat. It gives you a Grizzly Adams look, but in your case, Musky Adams.

16 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

These are Bass beds correct?

 

Caught about 20 sub 2lb fish earlier, all on the flashback mini.    I can find bait of all sizes, I can find small fish to catch every day out, I simply can't consistently or even really at all catch 3lb+ fish.   Still lots of fun to catch small fiesty Spotted Bass on a spinning reel, way better than doing the chores and grown up stuff I need to do ?

 

Alex in my experience the Bass will not communally bed. They are way to territorial for that. In my pond, they will be no closer than 20' minimum, and in most cases no closer that 30 to 40'.  Once again this is my experience in my particular pond. My water temps reached 65 yesterday and the bass were checking out the shallows but were not preparing nests.

Had about an hour to kill after after hitting the bank and post office. only 1 bite on my 2nd cast but it was worth it. 5-6 on a jerkbait.

Went to lake in search of big trout eaters on opening weekend for trout season. Didn't find any big ones but lots of nice quality fish. Stony found one of the monster trout, a 6.38 pounder on a KVD 1.5. No idea how many fish we caught but it was pretty nonstop action all day for bass and trout.

 

Went to the river on my lunch break today since it was such a gorgeous day. Didn't have any luck for the majority of the time I was there. White bass were jumping everywhere, but I couldn't even get one of those to bite. When I was just about to go back to work I spotted a jumping school of white bass. I decided to throw my fat albert grub right in the middle of them one more time, let it fall through, and call it a day. This fat smallie is what came back on the cast. Turned it into a mighty good trip.

 

51 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

Went to the river on my lunch break today since it was such a gorgeous day. Didn't have any luck for the majority of the time I was there. White bass were jumping everywhere, but I couldn't even get one of those to bite. When I was just about to go back to work I spotted a jumping school of white bass. I decided to throw my fat albert grub right in the middle of them one more time, let it fall through, and call it a day. This fat smallie is what came back on the cast. Turned it into a mighty good trip.

 

Is the river a roiling, angry torrent where you are? I've been wanting to go below Nickajack but the spillway gates are open and the water is high and muddy.

Caught 21 Spots, 2 LM, and a Shellcracker today.

11 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Is the river a roiling, angry torrent where you are? I've been wanting to go below Nickajack but the spillway gates are open and the water is high and muddy.

I’ll answer for him: Yes. If it’s rolling at nickajack it’s rolling at pickwick and all the way to the ohio haha

 

1 hour ago, Fishlegs said:

Went to the river on my lunch break today since it was such a gorgeous day. Didn't have any luck for the majority of the time I was there. White bass were jumping everywhere, but I couldn't even get one of those to bite. When I was just about to go back to work I spotted a jumping school of white bass. I decided to throw my fat albert grub right in the middle of them one more time, let it fall through, and call it a day. This fat smallie is what came back on the cast. Turned it into a mighty good trip.

 

Smallmouth love fat Albert, great fish 

23 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Is the river a roiling, angry torrent where you are? I've been wanting to go below Nickajack but the spillway gates are open and the water is high and muddy.

Yes, sir. It's almost out of the bank, and the current was so fast I had a difficult time getting any lures to touch the bottom before getting swept away. 

 

11 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ll answer for him: Yes. If it’s rolling at nickajack it’s rolling at pickwick and all the way to the ohio haha

 

Smallmouth love fat Albert, great fish 

Thanks. It was a fun fish to catch. I probably should've done a better write-up. It did several missile launch jumps on the way. There were some small kids behind me yelling when it jumped. I let it run a little longer than I normally would because they were enjoying it. It was great.

6 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

Alex in my experience the Bass will not communally bed. They are way to territorial for that. In my pond, they will be no closer than 20' minimum, and in most cases no closer that 30 to 40'.  Once again this is my experience in my particular pond. My water temps reached 65 yesterday and the bass were checking out the shallows but were not preparing nests.

Thanks Bob!

50 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Caught 21 Spots, 2 LM, and a Shellcracker today.

You’re slap on ‘em. Seeing spotted bass makes me hungry…..

1 hour ago, Fishlegs said:

Went to the river on my lunch break today since it was such a gorgeous day. Didn't have any luck for the majority of the time I was there. White bass were jumping everywhere, but I couldn't even get one of those to bite. When I was just about to go back to work I spotted a jumping school of white bass. I decided to throw my fat albert grub right in the middle of them one more time, let it fall through, and call it a day. This fat smallie is what came back on the cast. Turned it into a mighty good trip.

 

 

5 hours ago, keagbassr said:

Had about an hour to kill after after hitting the bank and post office. only 1 bite on my 2nd cast but it was worth it. 5-6 on a jerkbait.

 

Awesome fish guys!   I see a pattern here.....Quality over Quantity.    I'll always take one toad over a bunch of little ones, finding the discipline for that is another story. 

57 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Caught 21 Spots, 2 LM, and a Shellcracker today.

Dang nice Spots!   Bet that was fun ?

Gusty ENE winds and skies clearing and becoming sunny. Helped a bit with the temperature, but not sure about the bite. Ended up with a dozen bass split nearly equally between Ned and jerkbaits. Water is clearing quick, and east winds are supposed to stick around for the next couple days.
 

 

 

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Went to lake in search of big trout eaters on opening weekend for trout season. Didn't find any big ones but lots of nice quality fish. Stony found one of the monster trout, a 6.38 pounder on a KVD 1.5. No idea how many fish we caught but it was pretty nonstop action all day for bass and trout.

 

Beautiful fish, and I'd LOVE to catch a 6lb Rainbow.    Do the big ones still taste as good as the stocker sized ones?  

Finally seeing some signs of fish back at my normal grounds 

This scrawny lil fella ate a red chatterbait with red trailer. Bait monkey bit and now I'm c-rigging floating 8" lizards. Hoping for a pig at some point with that, lol