2 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

a beaver that scared the beard right off my face after he snuck up on me and smashed his tail on the surface 20 yards from my boat. 

Those dirty buggers will do that 2 feet from your boat at night. 

8 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Those dirty buggers will do that 2 feet from your boat at night. 

I’d probably end up overboard. I was fishing a calm cove, it was dead silent, and I was completely locked in and focused until “WHAM!”. I’ll confess to the words I called it in the profanity thread ?

50 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

I’d probably end up overboard. I was fishing a calm cove, it was dead silent, and I was completely locked in and focused until “WHAM!”. I’ll confess to the words I called it in the profanity thread ?

LOL, Yup. They're territorial, and at night they'll swim right up to the boat and tail slap. You're fishing along in the dark, usually dead quiet, and all the sudden it sounds like someone did a cannonball right behind you, and there's water raining down on ya. Sometimes they'll circle the boat and keep doing it. 

Fargen herons are another pesky critter at night. They'll wait until you're directly under their roost tree, then launch out of it squawking at the top of their lungs. Either they think it's funny, or The Lord does. Someone's getting a laugh out of my reaction, of that I'm sure.

I had five beavers slapping last night. 

 

#whosaidnatureisquiet???

@keagbassr your fish always look well fed & stocky.  

1 hour ago, Dwight Hottle said:

@keagbassr your fish always look well fed & stocky.  

Ya these fish around here sure ain't shy about eating, here's a pic from last week of a 13"er that decided to have my frog for dessert before finishing his lunch. 

Big Fish Jeff put on a Clinic today ~ 

A-Jay

28 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Big Fish Jeff put on a Clinic today ~ 

A-Jay

WOW… Great catch..they are hogs.

 

1 hour ago, keagbassr said:

Ya these fish around here sure ain't shy about eating, here's a pic from last week of a 13"er that decided to have my frog for dessert before finishing his lunch. 

I saw ^this^ movie. It was called "Alien."

A representative catch from this morning -- a dozen cookie-cutter 15"-17"ers about like this one. 

My favorite little lake in my area -- publicly accessible only from a creek, which can be carry-down launched 1/2mile upstream from a minor gravel road out in the middle of nowhere, .  Only rarely do I ever see anybody else on the water here.

5 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

A representative catch from this morning -- a dozen cookie-cutter 15"-17"ers about like this one. 

My favorite little lake in my area -- publicly accessible only from a creek, which can be carry-down launched 1/2mile upstream from a minor gravel road out in the middle of nowhere, .  Only rarely do I ever see anybody else on the water here.

 

Nice bass and my kind of pond!

2 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Nice bass and my kind of pond!

...and 30 min from the center of the 2nd largest city in the State.

 

If @Mbirdsley is the king of 2 pounders for Central MI, I'm the king for Western MI!

My wife is staying in the city this week so I tried to maximize my time on the water. Last week got waylaid with work and other stuff and were away the next two weeks so this was my last chance of bass in the prespawn to spawn. Fished three lakes m/t/w.  Monday and Tuesday surprised me with 68-71 degree water.  I hadn’t fished my favorite smallmouth spawn top water spot so hit that this morning- it was too late. Only little males left.  On the way back to the ramp I thought the largemouth might be close to beds and ended up losing a 5# fish.  The largemouth Tuesday were heavy on the beds. Lots of big fish cruising and not much that would even look at a bait.  Finally convinced the small male of the set of 4 fish and he was 3#. The other two were 4-5 easily.  Ended up with just a handful over three sets of fishing. At this rate, when we get back in two weeks we’ll be in a full summer pattern at least. Grass is going to be thick this summer. 
 

 

 

36 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

...and 30 min from the center of the 2nd largest city in the State.

 

If @Mbirdsley is the king of 2 pounders for Central MI, I'm the king for Western MI!

I had it my head that the big ones were going to be shallow.  So I didn’t even bother looking deep.  The bigger fish came out of 5-6 ft.  I probably should have been looking 10+ ft atleast.  Matt from Btl made a comment about this mental scenario the other day at the end of the show. 
 

fish the moment not what you think should be going on 

It's officially summer here, 80d water temps, and it's getting harder and harder to fish during the day.   Getting close to executing my "Pat Cullen" plan, it's always such a shock to get your body and head in tune with night fishing.  

 

Got a nice 3# Spot and another quality one on the buzzer

 

 

eta:  How about a water rat, this dude was actually following me around a cove and then even down the bank a ways, crazy.

 

 

24 minutes ago, Mbirdsley said:

I had it my head that the big ones were going to be shallow.  So I didn’t even bother looking deep.  The bigger fish came out of 5-6 ft.  I probably should have been looking 10+ ft atleast.  Matt from Btl made a comment about this mental scenario the other day at the end of the show. 
 

fish the moment not what you think should be going on 

yeah, that's probably what was going on this morning where I was too. There's a 20 foot drop a little behind me in that pic -- I worked it at about 6-12' with a lizard for a little while but gave up quickly because...well, what can I say? bites are addictive, and I was getting bites shallower.

4 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

 Getting close to executing my "Pat Cullen" plan, it's always such a shock to get your body and head in tune with night fishing.  

One fat night chunk will get your mind right, and quickly.

22 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

One fat night chunk will get your mind right and quickly.

DAYGUM STUD SON!!!!!  Squeeze that belly, she was just rooting around in that mud ?

 

Literally watching stupid spillway MFer videos lol

49 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

One fat night chunk will get your mind right and quickly.

3 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

yeah, that's probably what was going on this morning where I was too. There's a 20 foot drop a little behind me in that pic -- I worked it at about 6-12' with a lizard for a little while but gave up quickly because...well, what can I say? bites are addictive, and I was getting bites shallower.

That’s my issue too. I like getting bites even if it is a 1 lbs fish 

PHISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Y’all ain’t gonna believe this one……..

I was piddling around downtown and saw some shad flicker . Chucked the spinnerbait over there and a smallmouth ate it. Still in shock today……. I even took two pictures just in case and the fish looks totally different seconds apart haha

@TnRiver46 the most surprising part for me is that you even had a spinnerbait tied on lol 

Thank goodness. I can now sleep at night

@TnRiver46 I knew you could do it?