thediscochef Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Just call me Josh Jones 9 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAngus752 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 2 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said: Couple dinks on a new lake my first time fishing it. Think I figured out something. We’ll see what happens tomorrow Hey now, you Texas yay-hoos can't be calling fish like that "dinks" or you'll have every bass fishermen in the middle states gettin' het up. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATA Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 15 minutes ago, BigAngus752 said: Hey now, you Texas yay-hoos Today I paid for some Taxes, It was brutal, so I start read that "Hey now, you Taxes yay-hoos" 🤣 I am still dizzy and disoriented. LOL 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcatchDinks Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 On 5/25/2023 at 8:06 PM, ScottW said: Broke my PB this evening Congrats on the new PB! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Popular Post NorcalBassin Posted May 27 Super User Popular Post Share Posted May 27 My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long... 29 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted May 27 Global Moderator Share Posted May 27 7 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said: My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long... Congrats! 7-8 lbs? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATA Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 13 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said: My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long... Congrats on new PB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User NorcalBassin Posted May 27 Super User Share Posted May 27 14 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said: Congrats! 7-8 lbs? Ended up going just a little over 5 lbs. She just knows how to pose with a fish to make it look even more impressive. 😆 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Billy Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 7 hours ago, gimruis said: It was only a matter of time. Back to the night shift huh LOL. I will be, starting next week. Last night was a recon mission. It's about to be on, when the bass come off the beds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol'crickety Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 3 hours ago, NorcalBassin said: Ended up going just a little over 5 lbs. She just knows how to pose with a fish to make it look even more impressive. 😆 4 hours ago, NorcalBassin said: My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long... Whoa! Atta girl! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Zurawski Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Had the pleasure of river trippin with @Jessco87 yesterday. He figured out the big fish equation under difficult high pressure, ultra low crystal clear water, bluebird sky conditions after a slow start and tying on a homemade little black jig which he pitched into micro eddies behind rocks in shallow riffle water. 20" post-spawn beauty 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator 12poundbass Posted May 27 Global Moderator Share Posted May 27 9 hours ago, NorcalBassin said: Ended up going just a little over 5 lbs. She just knows how to pose with a fish to make it look even more impressive. 😆 Picture says 7-8lbs….your scale is out of calibration. Tell her to go with 7lb 15oz. 😂 Dang nice fish! 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol'crickety Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 34 minutes ago, 12poundbass said: Picture says 7-8lbs….your scale is out of calibration. Tell her to go with 7lb 15oz. 😂 Dang nice fish! Ah, I've come to understand your screen name now. 😉 Jeff, your friend's beauty is still thick for post-spawn. Heck, she's thick for pre-spawn. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottW Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 10 hours ago, NorcalBassin said: My daughter just got back from college and said she wanted to break her PB this summer before heading back in a couple months. Well, that didn't take long... Congrats on her new PB! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol'crickety Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 I was off the water by 9:15 this morning. I caught 22 fish: 2 pickerels, 10 smallmouth, and 10 largemouth. Seven of the smallmouth were at the back of a windblown bay. They were fun. My biggest lmb was 18.5" and she's at the bottom of the photos. I'm going fishing again tomorrow morning! I saw an osprey dive on a fish that was so big that the osprey was struggling to fly with it. I caught them on a bone-colored Whopper Plopper, a Yo-Zuri popper, a Golden shiner-colored lipless crankbait, and a shad-colored paddletail. I took nightcrawlers with me in case I saw the bass smacking the surface again that I couldn't catch, but they were gone, so I never used them. The 18.5-incher wasn't thick, but she didn't look unhealthy. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Zurawski Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, ol'crickety said: Jeff, your friend's beauty is still thick for post-spawn. Heck, she's thick for pre-spawn. Yes ma'am! They been eating good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Brown Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 7 hours ago, T-Billy said: LOL. I will be, starting next week. Last night was a recon mission. It's about to be on, when the bass come off the beds. We have one more cold front and then the full moon in a week. I can't wait. I feel like this time last year we were already way more into the summer/post spawn. I saw bass making beds last night at the pond so it's all out of whack. The water is still in the low to mid 70s though so it makes sense to me...just wild how long the spawn cycle has gone this year here in NC. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Billy Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, Pat Brown said: just wild how long the spawn cycle has gone this year here in NC. Same deal here in OH. They've moved up only to be pushed back out by cold fronts several times. What a difference a day makes. I took a skunking today. Same conditions, totally different fish behavior. Only saw two quality fish up shallow, and not nearly as many bucks cruising. I fished from 15"-15', grass, wood, rock, clay, moving baits, bottom contact...... Couldn't buy a bite other than a couple redears. Couldn't believe it after what I saw yesterday. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User BrianMDTX Posted May 27 Super User Share Posted May 27 It’s been a heck of a weekend so far! Back up to Monday. Dropped my truck off at a local shop (first time) as I had a P0455 large EVAP leak CEL and my left exhaust manifold gasket gave up the ghost after 177K and 18 years of use. Picked it up Thursday. Said they wouldn’t try the manifold as it was too rusty, and they smoke checked the EVAP system and found a leak at the top of the tank, but once again, passed on the repair due to “too rusty”. I fished yesterday morning and called a shop I stopped at on the way home Thursday. He said it may take longer due to possible snapped bolts so if not, I would not have my truck until Tuesday at best. All the bolts snapped. Needed a new manifold as well. He was finished at 4:30 and 1/2 the cost quoted at the other shop. Came home and reset some hoses on the charcoal canister and cleared the code. No new code after 60 miles of driving! So…having a truck, I decided to fish Lake Raven. Now, 203 acres is not huge, but it’s way bigger than the 2-5 acre ponds I fish 99% of the time. Only fished there once before and got skunked. I am not used to fishing deeper water, and having loads of hydrilla. It’s a learning process. I started on top with a Whopper Plopper, then worked the lily pads with a Texas rig. No strikes. Then I started casting a chatterbait, which lately has been producing. After 10 minutes or so I thought I had a strike and set the hook. I felt it pull and then…boom. Dead stop. I thought it threw the hook and I snagged a log. I kept pulling and still felt a fish. I’m thinking “what is this? A DD?” It was. Almost 3 lbs. of bass wrapped in 8 lbs. of hydrilla lol. I switched to a jig (another bait I rarely use in ponds) and caught another nice bass. Plus I hooked a 20” gar but it threw the hook at the boat. Probably a good thing. So, only two bass but both were good. I have to fish this reservoir more and learn how to fish it. 18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody B Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, BrianMDTX said: Almost 3 lbs. of bass wrapped in 8 lbs. of hydrilla lol. 3+8= 11lbs. Technically that is a DD. I've got some kind of stomach bug today. I managed to catch 4 in between finding places to take a dump. 3 dink Spots and one barely not a dink Largemouth. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User LrgmouthShad Posted May 27 Super User Share Posted May 27 Might as well post up my trip during the hour paddle back to the ramp Hey, first, please excuse my sunscreen face and gas station sunglasses. But today was real interesting. I caught two more dinks in precisely the same location as yesterday. Had a lot of little fish try to eat my worm there, but only caught those two. I’d been fishing in the same fashion for the whole morning so I basically decided that I was playing a little fish game and should try something else. Heres where it gets interesting. Yesterday I graphed something real interesting. It was an isolated hard spot in 19ft of water with some intermittent hydrilla. I fished it twice yesterday and no luck. Then I graphed over it today, didn’t see much too too much except for one very large solid mark. After I was done fishing some new areas, I came back to that spot, but this time I did not graph it. I merely dropped anchor about 40ft away, and went to casting. Third cast got the 4.5. I wonder if the mark I saw on my graph was this fish. Bait wise, the zoom mag II is once again asserting that it is king of summertime. Plum color variations are good. I like this lake! But it fishes a little weird. I’m finding that I have to look for the oddball stuff. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cbump Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Son and I had a great tournament today. Unfortunately my bass club is not teams so we were competition. Three fish Limit club. I won heavy stringer with 10.59 and big bass with 5.18. My son brought in 5.5 lb stringer! Second place had 10.56 and weighed in last. Close call!! 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User gimruis Posted May 27 Super User Share Posted May 27 I did some more damage on the brown bass today. These things are shaped like footballs. Thanks to @GreenPig I can now take some action photos by myself using a timer on my camera phone. 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol'crickety Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 @gimruis, your third bass is so fat it made me laugh! Way to go, @Cbump! @LrgmouthShad, I like the last photo of your big girl. I am terrible at discerning the size of a fish when the fisher's arms are extended, but your big fish right beside you really lets me appreciate her size. Cool how you caught her too. You are wily! @Woody B, I hope you're not reading this because you're sleeping and getting well. Cool that you're fishing new water, @BrianMDTX. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User LrgmouthShad Posted May 27 Super User Share Posted May 27 5 minutes ago, ol'crickety said: @LrgmouthShad, I like the last photo of your big girl. I am terrible at discerning the size of a fish when the fisher's arms are extended, but your big fish right beside you really lets me appreciate her size. Cool how you caught her too. You are wily! Thank ya! I'm stumped how to duplicate that into more good fish though, without first spending a lot of time graphing. So likely my last day tomorrow will be spent doing a lot of just that. Graphing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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