I snuck out to a pond tonight, in spite of the hot sticky windless miserableness of the weather. I swear the only breeze was that generated by the beating wings of my personal congregation of gnats.  Why do they love my ears? Anyway, the Menace Grub came through for me tonight.  I tried the Delta Red for the first time, on a whim, and it brought me a half dozen 2-4 pounders in an hour. It was nice also to spot the gallinule chicks with their mom.

 

Long arming some 14"ers for all the folks that love it. I caught about 30 of them drop shotting some brush piles, it was pretty neat, I dropped to the individual fish a couple times.

Water temp is bathwater, outside temp is armpit. This bass felt like it had a fever. 

 

 

And one while I was avoiding the storm:

 

 

 

MEH...

 

Big SMB this week on the Quabbin:

 

 

On ‎7‎/‎20‎/‎2017 at 5:35 PM, JustJames said:

 

if I were fishing in a kayak the only whopping and plopping would be me! the way I feel any more on this medicine. its so bad the bass would be buying go pros just so they could win the $10,000 on Americas funniest home vidios. cool looking catch!! gonna going to have to get me one. absolutely love top water bite! 

It is actually not that bad in calm water. I share this lake with all the skiers no 5mph zone, so it kind of tough when they come out to play. I only stay near bank and cove. I think next time I will either take my kayak or boat out where houses and docks 5mph zone lake. The WP 110 is actually pretty good I might get another one in loon color.

So we waited for the sun to go down and went to the lake, seemed like the perfect time.

My sister landed a fish and was upset when all she had was "slop" and it got away but to her surprise there was something else under there.

Let's just say she was really happy and proud when "her" bait she picked out for us to use worked.

As for me, I didn't catch anything but i am using a new bait caster rig and i do like this setup but i haven't caught anything on it yet.

I'm still trying to figure out how i can cast a t-rig senko just out pass the dock and slop and not bringing in slop on every retrieve would be great. <3

 

 

Got my biggest of the year this morning. This fish was on the thin side, but it had a giant head and mouth and was 21.5" long. 

Got her on a LiveTarget popper. She just barely sipped it in with no blow up or boil.

Nice was that on a popper frog or minnow popper?

 

This little guy right here!

Caught this AM on a 20 acre pond in Vermont. I was about to give up as it was slow and I kept catching pickerel. Just throwing a keitech 4" easy shiner on a 3/16 oz. jig head with light tackle. The drag let out a scream and it was on. 4.3 lbs. Biggest one of the year, so far.

Had 30 minutes to catch a fish...only took 5 minutes on my 3rd dock...lol  Not huge but was nice to see the newly purchased Hornet patterned Spro Bronzeye 65 bring it in.

 

South Holston gave up some fine brown fish today

Got out the other day with the lady . We had a blast with senkos and jig/chunks. 

 

They were all about the same size.

 

It'd be a better picture If I could upload more than 857kb. But it is what it is. 

I needed that.

A-Jay

Nice football! I was starting to think you retired from fishing. ?

 Thanks - 

Life's been coming at us kind of hard up here recently.

Haven't been able to get out.

Today felt good though.

A-Jay

Lake Mittry =]

 

This young lady made my morning...

 

I  spotted bass

Day two on South Holston was TUFF! I caught 5 bass from 5:30-2:30. It was extremely frustrating, we found tons of schooling smallmouth but they were really spread out and would only be on the surface for 3-5 seconds before they vanished, and it would be individual fish. We could see them suspended on the graph at about 20-30 feet, and they would look at a drop shot, but not bite it. It was like that all over the lake!

First time using a hollow body frog and was rewarded with my first bass!  Sorry for the camera noises.  I was using a Yi Action Camera and noticed the sound wasn't too great.

 

Caught my 2nd off the Live Target frog.  Was advised to use the smallest Live Target hollow body frog from a very wise local.

 

 

Caught two off the Yamamoto D Shad but just got a pic of one em.

 

Switched to a Sexy Dawg Jr and used it to find an active feeding school of bass

 

My friend and I started throwing these "spook" type lures and got the active school to bite.  I think we caught around 7 or 8 off between us off this school.  Fun times!

Had a fun morning drop shotting some brush piles. 11 bass, two pickerel, and one pretty nice one! Fish was 19" and scales said 1.53... Time to get a new set of scales.