20 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Drove 56 miles out to a lake last night with my brother for a quick jon boat trip, but found a carnival set up across the street from it. Some nudnick parked in front of the boat ramp, so that was that. What a letdown. Our closest option is a bit of a nightmare because we need to hump the boat over a fence and tote it about 600 feet down to an entry point to the water, but ya gotta do whatcha ya gotta do. It was nearly completely choked with pads, but we had oars, so with very little wind to spoil the party we made it work.

 

It took a while to find a bite, and things looked sketchy, but I broke the ice first with a tribute to @IcatchDinks?

 

My brother got some on the Mattlures Strong shad, and several more on the Hazedong shad.

I got into some good fish on the Zman ProCrawZ in Black-Blue, and the bigger girl bit on a Black Gold Flake Yum Dinger. Our boat has leaky rivets, and I wasn't paying attention to things floating in the bottom, so my bag and scale got soaked. Scale said it weighted .047oz, then tried again and it read 3lbs, so who knows. Fought like crazy, so that was cool.

What kind of a knothead parks in front of a boat ramp? That beats all I've ever heard! The redneck in me would want to leave them a sour note on the wind shield. Thanks for the easy access pal!

2 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

That's crazy beautiful Katie, awesome fish as well!

 

Your fish are always so blemish free, you've carved out a piece of truly unmolested Bass fishing in your area.   You seemingly have all those Bass to yourself, and equally all that nature and water to yourself........you can't buy that, it's a priceless commodity. 

 

 

1 minute ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

What kind of a knothead parks in front of a boat ramp? That beats all I've ever heard! The redneck in me would want to leave them a sour note on the wind shield. Thanks for the easy access pal!

People park in front of the one close to my house every single day without fail, grill of the vehicle pointed downhill at the water. No trailer 

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

People park in front of the one close to my house every single day without fail, grill of the vehicle pointed downhill at the water. No trailer 

Unreal! That's akin to blocking an emergency room entrance.......well, almost!

@AlabamaSpothunter, I actually live in a relatively crowded part of Maine. Literally, millions of tourists pass through each year on their way to Acadia and Bar Harbor. However, Maine is also the oldest state, so fewer Mainers are launching canoes to fish in the woods.

 

You are correct about having it to myself. Most times, I'm the only one on the water, which means a lot to me. I hate to hear chatter from another boat. And the bass here are healthy...and I do my best to keep them that way!

 

There are lakes up north that might never be fished once in a year, but you do have to work to reach them. If I were younger, I'd be fishing them too!

 

I should have mentioned that the second fish was the strongest. It parked under my canoe and twice I checked to see if it was caught in weeds, but it wasn't. It just wasn't moving.

 

When she finally came into the canoe, I thought, "Really? That's your size? That's all? Whoa."

 

9 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

People park in front of the one close to my house every single day without fail, grill of the vehicle pointed downhill at the water. No trailer 

 

That's deeply disrespectful. 

@Blue Raider Bob you have no idea. Same ramp that @TnRiver46 is talking about, I have personally seen people set up camp at the waterline on the ramp, and have a little picnic while they take turns with their jetski. Get the boombox out, half-naked kids running around in the line for the other ramp that's not blocked, the whole bit.

@ol'crickety, last week while parked there they just chucked a foam drink cup out the window. If it wasn’t entirely possible that they kill me, I would have said something 

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

@ol'crickety, last week while parked there they just chucked a foam drink cup out the window. If it wasn’t entirely possible that they kill me, I would have said something 

Gunfight at the O.k. Corralramp ?

 

One of the best places to see mankind's stupidity is any public boat ramp during the summer months.   I could likely start and youtube channel with a livecam feed and make a living ?

Now that’s not a bad idea 

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Now that’s not a bad idea 

Like that dude who sets up a tripod and nice cam at Haulover Inlet down near Miami, similar to a boat ramp but much more exciting.    You'll see a redneck in Jon boat with like 8pax aboard try to run the inlet ?

 

That channel likely makes 75k+ yearly, crazy.  

26 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

What kind of a knothead parks in front of a boat ramp?

Good thing we weren't out fishing earlier and got trapped in there. The roadside was loaded with cars in each direction for a half mile. No way we could've found them at the carnival to get set free. It worked out better in the end at a better lake. Because of the difficulty launching there we had it all to ourselves from 10pm to 1:30am, which is always a lovely thing. Lemonade.

42 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I fished a dammed streambed this morning, so it was long and skinny with bays lining both sides. I'd only fished this pond one prior time this summer, but I'm liking it more and more. The quantity is okay (20 this morning) and the quality is pretty good. I lost a bass right beside my canoe that went between four and five ponds. It was SO close that I even attempted to net it after it unbuttoned right beside me. The fish here are well-shaped, well-fed, and feisty. And the pond is beautiful. See for yourself!

 

 

 

 

WOW.....thats amazing scenery there.....beautiful.  Also some really nice fish there. Where are are you? 

44 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I fished a dammed streambed this morning, so it was long and skinny with bays lining both sides. I'd only fished this pond one prior time this summer, but I'm liking it more and more. The quantity is okay (20 this morning) and the quality is pretty good. I lost a bass right beside my canoe that went between four and five ponds. It was SO close that I even attempted to net it after it unbuttoned right beside me. The fish here are well-shaped, well-fed, and feisty. And the pond is beautiful. See for yourself!

 

 

I don’t think those waters were damned @ol'crickety, but blessed with solid, quality bass and beautiful scenery. Thanks for sharing and continued great fishing!

I watch haul over inlet, quite entertaining haha

1 hour ago, galyonj said:

@Blue Raider Bob you have no idea. Same ramp that @TnRiver46 is talking about, I have personally seen people set up camp at the waterline on the ramp, and have a little picnic while they take turns with their jetski. Get the boombox out, half-naked kids running around in the line for the other ramp that's not blocked, the whole bit.

Totally disrespectful. Adults teaching kids to be disrespectful as well. Vicious cycle. I would put a knot on any kid of mines head if they were to treat others that way. Also I would toss the boombox! This krap makes me long for Katie's quite waters and WayNorth Guys unpolluted streams, far from the corruption of Jet Skis and other unholy inventions. Durn, you got me wound up!

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

I fished a dammed streambed this morning, so it was long and skinny with bays lining both sides. I'd only fished this pond one prior time this summer, but I'm liking it more and more. The quantity is okay (20 this morning) and the quality is pretty good. I lost a bass right beside my canoe that went between four and five ponds. It was SO close that I even attempted to net it after it unbuttoned right beside me. The fish here are well-shaped, well-fed, and feisty. And the pond is beautiful. See for yourself!

 

 

Katie, I've fished some dammed stream beds too but they don't produce like the one your mad at! ?

The trick is gritting your teeth past all that, then you motor waaaaay on upriver where nobody else goes.

@Blue Raider Bob: Anytime you want it, my friend, these ponds and your guide await you. You just have to drive 14 triblillion miles and arrange for babysitting for a goat herd, a horse herd, an angry goose, and the rest of your menagerie. 

 

@Dominat0r: I'm in Maine. You can kinda tell from the second to bottom photo, with the northwoods water backdropped by a mini-mountain. There are lots of northwoodsy lakes in the U.S. and Canada, but if you want mountains too, your options are fewer. 

 

1 hour ago, J._Bricker said:

I don’t think those waters were damned @ol'crickety, but blessed with solid, quality bass and beautiful scenery.

 

Ha! Good wordplay! 

1 hour ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

What kind of a knothead parks in front of a boat ramp? That beats all I've ever heard! The redneck in me would want to leave them a sour note on the wind shield. Thanks for the easy access pal!

I carry a tow strap in my truck. That knucklehead would have got moved.

Well I figured that I would update you guys on how these 2 fish faired with my cooking abilities. I pan fried them and had them with coleslaw, cornbread, cottage cheese. These 2 fish fed my wife, mom, oldest son and I had a small chunk or two. I wanted to do something special for my family, my wife loves eating bass and my mom has been harassing me for a fish dinner with all of them that I catch. I really liked how the fish came out, I have never fried fish before. Everything was delicious and I was impressed with how the fish came out, that’s not a easy task lol.

Ok....PB here, the worm was just as big as him.......the SMALLEST bass I have caught in this pond by an inch. HAHA....storming bad here again, but going to try and sneak out after my girl goes to sleep. 

 

Mid 80s with light breezes and partly cloudy skies. Nearly 3.5 inches of rain this past week has really cleared up a few of the micro lakes. Didn’t see any bass up shallow on the flats near the shoreline, so went small and skinny on the finesse worm and added a tiny bit of weight to speed up the drop and focused just off the breakline into deeper water. Apparently the bass liked the approach, as I got an even 20 fish today up to 17”.

 

 

 

 

Even though they nuked these spots and killed a lot of the Chara in the shallows, I was happy to see a few sprigs of floating pondweed trying to establish themselves amongst the devastation here and there. Nature abhors a vacuum.

 

 

I caught covid, rocky mountain spotted fever, and also this smallmouth bass. Not my usual stringer. I don't feel well at all. But not bad enough to miss night fishing...yet. Also being outside helps the sneezing 

Streak is alive and well, went out after my girl went to bed. Got a quick fish in the rain and came home after it started to really come down. Fish is for Tues 7/11. Off a carolina rig and a zoom lizard. 

 

 

 

 

Dang @thediscochef, hope you are on the mend 

I want to fish like @Team9nine one day. He's always shifting gears and using different lures. 

 

@thediscochef, I urge you to not fish for a few nights. Let your body use all its resources to get well instead of catching bass. In the meantime, your seven-pounders will only grow larger.