Work's a mess, but the time available has been great over the last week...

 

scott

 

 

I know better than to go fishing after my wife makes tacos for dinner, but I was jonesing after missing all these days, so I bucked up and hoped for the best. Quickly popped a decent scrapper on the Zman Pro Crawz, then the bite went dead. Post spawn struggles are par for the course at my ponds during these 2 weeks in June, and it's hit or miss trying to catch a bite window, but I was in it for the long haul. Darkness fell eventually and I was out of ideas, so I tied on a coppertruese finesse TRD and went to work. A mongo yellow perch scooped it up and I was hoping things might finally light up a bit, but like a shot to the gut the gurgling began. I figured my odds were 50/50, but I was unwilling to bet on a bubble and lose, and with cold sweat creeping over me I clinched down to my toes and flew home for dear life and my sacred honor. By some miracle I caught green lights all the way and just made it, barely.

4 hours ago, BigAngus752 said:

Guess who LOVES Zoom Trick Worms in Watermelon Candy and really doesn't want the hook removed after he eats one.  I named him Bitey McBiterson.  He does not consider us to be friends. 

 

Ha! I caught a snapper on the whopper-plopper last summer. He did NOT like it when I tried to remove the hooks. He was so unfriendly I chose not to name him. He was angry, I was angry. It was not a fun time.

19 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

Work's a mess, but the time available has been great over the last week...

 

scott

 

 

Now I'm ashamed to post my dinks.  Those are some NICE fish, my guy!

29 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

I know better than to go fishing after my wife makes tacos for dinner, but I was jonesing after missing all these days, so I bucked up and hoped for the best. Quickly popped a decent scrapper on the Zman Pro Crawz, then the bite went dead. Post spawn struggles are par for the course at my ponds during these 2 weeks in June, and it's hit or miss trying to catch a bite window, but I was in it for the long haul. Darkness fell eventually and I was out of ideas, so I tied on a coppertruese finesse TRD and went to work. A mongo yellow perch scooped it up and I was hoping things might finally light up a bit, but like a shot to the gut the gurgling began. I figured my odds were 50/50, but I was unwilling to bet on a bubble and lose, and with cold sweat creeping over me I clinched down to my toes and flew home for dear life and my sacred honor. By some miracle I caught green lights all the way and just made it, barely.

Bawhahahaha.......nothing worse than when that gurgle kicks up on the water, you're playing deadly games once you start that game.   

 

Friend has this scene framed on his bathroom wall ?

Little night time therapy.....I have made it a mission to catch a bass every day for the whole summer. Since I can walk down to my pond in like 2 mins, I can hit the moonrise and dusk. 

 

This will be my log ?

 

Okay, @softwateronly lives in Chicago with nearly 9,000,000 people and he's catching those bass? Count me bedazzled. And gobsmacked. 

 

5 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

with cold sweat creeping over me I clinched down to my toes and flew home for dear life and my sacred honor

 

Count me bechuckled. 

13 hours ago, BigAngus752 said:

I only got about 2/3rds of it back.  It was a clean cut where she bit it off.  Looked like I did it with scissors.  I was impressed.  It's a Spiny Softshell and they eat fish and insects so they must have a pretty good chomper. 

And they are the fastest turtle ever on dry land. The only time they leave the water is to lay eggs and if they are startled, they can seriously run to the water. I've never seen anything like it.

11 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Fished from a friend's little red kayak for 2.5 hours this evening. I was pleased by the plumpness of the bass and caught 20 of them. I caught most of them on big Senkos, both black and green, either wacky or T-Rigged. Paddling back, I had a 19.25-incher hit. I heard it jump behind me and knew she was heavy. I photographed her twice, on the board and pinching her chin. Three times, I had what I assume were pickerel hit my worm in the weeds, pull hard, and cut the line. 

 

 

Wow Katie! You are crushing them. I know you've invited me up but its a couple thousand miles from Tennessee! I am slowing regaining my natural color from the deep green from a few minutes ago! One of these days though........sausage and taters and a boat load of bass!

I know it's horribly far, Bob. However, it is Maine, i.e. waves crashing against pink granite (Google "Schoodic Maine" and click on images.) and Camden, a town with not one downtown waterfalls, but two, and a harbor full of 1800s sailing ships. And then there's taters and sage chicken sausage sizzling in my kitchen! 

 

However, the distance does daunt. It daunts me too, for I've friends I'd love to visit in Tennessee, including you. 

 

Speaking of snappers, I was paddling a bog a couple days ago and I happened to look down and to my right just as I was about to paddle on that side and a snapper was suspended there inches below the surface. It was big, but aren't they all? I don't think I've ever seen a small snapper.

Baby snappers are cool, we always waved twigs in front of them and watched them snap them in half 

Afternoon session, keeping my streak alive.....every day of summer. Also, caught Dom's Dink of the Day!

 

16 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Bawhahahaha.......nothing worse than when that gurgle kicks up on the water, you're playing deadly games once you start that game.   

It was dark out, so at least none of the neighbors saw me doing the penguin walk from my truck to the house.

4 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

It was dark out, so at least none of the neighbors saw me doing the penguin walk from my truck to the house.

To bad the bucket brigade wasn't there. Copping a squat on one of their bait buckets would be a priceless moment.

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

To bad the bucket brigade wasn't there. Copping a squat on one of their bait buckets would be a priceless moment.

Just so you know, iced tea is really painful when you laugh so hard it comes out of your nose.   

Had a pretty decent bite today considering we were just sliding on to the back side of a high pressure system that moved through overnight, and a breeze that had already shifted to coming out of the north. The lingering cloud cover probably helped in that regard. Picked up a couple dozen today, along with another dozen last night when I went out to test a presentation that popped into my head. Was able to land the one big bite I got, a nice bass that inhaled a finesse jig on the fall that was cast right over the only well defined depth breakline in the entire lake.

 

 

And for the curious; I’m wearing shorts, not jeans with even bigger holes in the knees, and it started out in the mid 60s today, so I grabbed the flannel again today to wear over my clean T-shirt (more versatile than a jacket) ?

@Woody B Although I don’t drink iced tea I’ve had this happen to me several times reading some of the comments on here myself. @ol'crickety although this isn’t a direct response to your earlier post this is yet another reason why I at least find this site so appealing in that no matter what the topic the range of answers cover every spectrum from….and I’m trying to find the right words here? from serious to silly is the best I can come up with currently. 

Well, sometimes you get lucky and today that was me 

 

We were just sitting around the house today after work and about 6 pm I convinced my wife we should go for a boat ride, even though it was a tad windier than normal.  She was driving the boat and knowing we didn’t have much time, tried stopping at a few usual spots and there were pleasure boats sitting in most of them. She stops at a random clay bank and I started working the RAD 1.5 squarebill and got a small LM, lost a decent SM that short lined it and I tried boat flipping while the fish was still bananas and he fell back in.

Then I saw a kayaker down the bank we were fishing so I trolled to the opposite side of the river and cranked the rip rap. I thought I was stuck in a gob of milfoil and then felt a fish, then it jumped…….. a nice LM! Don’t get those often near my house and Ive hooked 2 in 2 days! It jumped several more times but stayed pinned, I had it with both hooks. Guess she wanted it! Ended up going somewhere between 20 and 21”. 

 

3 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Well, sometimes you get lucky and today that was me 

 

We were just sitting around the house today after work and about 6 pm I convinced my wife we should go for a boat ride, even though it was a tad windier than normal.  She was driving the boat and knowing we didn’t have much time, tried stopping at a few usual spots and there were pleasure boats sitting in most of them. She stops at a random clay bank and I started working the RAD 1.5 squarebill and got a small LM, lost a decent SM that short lined it and I tried boat flipping while the fish was still bananas and he fell back in.

Then I saw a kayaker down the bank we were fishing so I trolled to the opposite side of the river and cranked the rip rap. I thought I was stuck in a gob of milfoil and then felt a fish, then it jumped…….. a nice LM! Don’t get those often near my house and Ive hooked 2 in 2 days! It jumped several more times but stayed pinned, I had it with both hooks. Guess she wanted it! Ended up going somewhere between 20 and 21”. 

 

Awwwww  yeeeeeaaahh

 

Very nice man

12 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Well, sometimes you get lucky and today that was me 

 

We were just sitting around the house today after work and about 6 pm I convinced my wife we should go for a boat ride, even though it was a tad windier than normal.  She was driving the boat and knowing we didn’t have much time, tried stopping at a few usual spots and there were pleasure boats sitting in most of them. She stops at a random clay bank and I started working the RAD 1.5 squarebill and got a small LM, lost a decent SM that short lined it and I tried boat flipping while the fish was still bananas and he fell back in.

Then I saw a kayaker down the bank we were fishing so I trolled to the opposite side of the river and cranked the rip rap. I thought I was stuck in a gob of milfoil and then felt a fish, then it jumped…….. a nice LM! Don’t get those often near my house and Ive hooked 2 in 2 days! It jumped several more times but stayed pinned, I had it with both hooks. Guess she wanted it! Ended up going somewhere between 20 and 21”. 

 

What did you do with the guy who wears obnoxious UT appareal and catches small TN River LGMs??????????     We liked that guy, please don't harm him ?

 

You better go back out tomorrow, make it 3 for 3......those are some really nice fish, congrats.  

I gotta work at 3 tomorrow and pickup a grill for mom but that still leaves plenty of time for a morning trip…….

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

morning trip…….

I'm going too. If you leave now for TX, you might be able to catch a couple hours with me ?

I got out this evening with the wife again, I caught around 10 or more dinks and she caught 5. I get back from my wading expedition and see that instead of fishing a wacky rig she has a finesse worm nose hooked oddly and tells me that is how she has been catching them. I am a smart man who doesn’t argue with success lol. She told me that she didn’t even get a nibble on my worm, a shimme stick in sweet tater pie. I was determined to make it work in clear water. I just fish with colors that I like now lol.

A bass a day.....keeps the GF complaining all day.....this counts for Saturday (a fish every day for the whole summer), streak is still going. 

 

6 hours ago, Dominat0r said:

A bass a day.....keeps the GF complaining all day.....this counts for Saturday (a fish every day for the whole summer), streak is still going. 

 

 

Joe (DiMaggio) had his streak. Pete (Rose) had his streak. Lou (Iron Man Gehrig) had his streak. Carl (Yastrzemski) had his streak. Now @Dominat0r has his streak. Go, man go!

Another day of catching these little ones…

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Joe (DiMaggio) had his streak. Pete (Rose) had his streak. Lou (Iron Man Gehrig) had his streak. Carl (Yastrzemski) had his streak. Now @Dominat0r has his streak. Go, man go!

 

WOW......Carl Yastrzemski....thats a name I have not heard in a DECADES! I got one for you, one of my favorites to watch....GEORGE BRETT!

 

Going out to my pond after shopping with the lady.