I managed to boat 6 today.  5 were between 14" and 18".  I didn't measure the smallest one, but I guessed it to be 12".    The little one was up a creek, the rest on stumpy main lake points.   The little one came on a crank, the other Spots on a Shakey head.  The lone Largemouth was on a jig.   

 

Treebeard?

Orcas sink sailboats.

 

Woody keeps catching bass.

 

The Mississippi River becomes salty.

 

Woody keeps catching bass.

 

TnRiver46 hangs with Ents.

 

Woody keeps catching bass. 

 

The Yankee fishers have garaged their boats.

 

Woody keeps catching bass.

26 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That face is gonna be an emoji in my discord server now

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Orcas sink sailboats.

 

Woody keeps catching bass.

 

 

Pat Brown and Team9nine are the Carolina bass machines.   Pat catches huge bass regardless of conditions.  Team9nine was catching a bunch of nice bass, then moved into my back yard, and keeps catching a bunch of nice bass, as well as other species.  

 

Speaking of sail boats.  They had some kind of sail boat meet, race or something today.   (I was fishing near a Yacht club)   They took off down wind to a pylon, around half of them made a nice turn at the pylon and headed back into the wind.  The other half kept going with the wind.   If I had a sail boat I'd have a motor on the back.   Thankfully there aren't any Orca's in Lake Wylie to sink them.   

Went down to Tampa area for ten days for work, took a couple of rods with but was only able to get out once for a little pond-hopping close to the hotel. Caught a handful, including a 3lber, and hooked into a huge bass that I thought was a carp at first until she came up. Sadly the hook pulled when she went under and changed direction. I don't want to be the guy saying "it was a frickin' ten pounder bro!!!" but I wouldn't have been surprised if she would've beat my PB, she was a big girl. To add insult to injury, I broke off that chatterbait evo a couple of hours later.

 

This evening was the first trip out since I got back home Friday night, nothing insane but did get into a decent jerkbait bite, biggest of the trip was this 5lb 12oz LM. I thought she would've weighed a bit more based on her length but she was definitely pretty skinny for this time of year.

 

Headed over to Clear Lake for a couple days and it did not disappoint. Incredible amount of bait pretty much everywhere and just about every bass had a belly full of it.

 

 

Pops getting into the action...

 

 

 

Seems like every time out he catches a "Papa fish" as the grandkids call it. 😆

 

Water quality wasn't too bad anywhere we went, but it was strange seeing the surface green up with the wind being uncharacteristically absent. Gave the boat and trailer one heck of a bath when I got home!

 

 

Dink chillin

Caught the only fish I saw today

Dang nice fish everyone.  Glad to see folks catching em.  @Aaron_H I seen what you catch, I reckon it was probably close to 10.  I did get some of those Thunderhawk Sergeant lipless cranks to try and I have very high hopes!

 

@NorcalBassin those are some studs!

 

Jake was real proud of himself on account of catching his first fish on a buzzbait and wanted me to share with y'all.

 

 

Not only did he catch a topwater fish the day after a cold front in the middle of November but he also caught the only fish we got into the boat yesterday.  I'm real proud of Jake too.  🙂

First cast in a work route pond got this one, on a 10 inch june bug worm . Not sure if it is a ol monster or a culprit.

Interestingly, this pond is in a park that used to be an old friends farm. When the suburbs got a couple miles away , they thought it was “too citified “ for them anymore , so they sold out and moved to Georgia…

13 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Jake was real proud of himself

 

Please tell Jake that he and his dad aren't the only ones proud of him. We all are too. 

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

Dang nice fish everyone.  Glad to see folks catching em.  @Aaron_H I seen what you catch, I reckon it was probably close to 10.  I did get some of those Thunderhawk Sergeant lipless cranks to try and I have very high hopes!

 

@NorcalBassin those are some studs!

 

Jake was real proud of himself on account of catching his first fish on a buzzbait and wanted me to share with y'all.

 

 

Not only did he catch a topwater fish the day after a cold front in the middle of November but he also caught the only fish we got into the boat yesterday.  I'm real proud of Jake too.  🙂

In about 10 years, I have no doubt that Jake will out fish the both of us combined.   

You can't buy or learn time on water from such a young age, and you can't buy or learn that true love of Bass fishing, the Basshead factor.    Every hall of fame pro I know of was obsessed and chasing Bass from their earliest memories.    

 

Great job Jake! 

I hiked all the way around a 50 acre lake without a bite just to catch my only bass right by the parking lot. 

Near #3

@PaulVE64: Smallmouth fishing in Ontario in mid-November? You make this guy seem wimpy:

 

Got this one on the Big Bites craw in green pumpkin. Stop and go retrieve. Got another smaller one that hit it on the fall…

Took my daughter and her bf out for a quick afternoon trip and finally came across some decent spots.

 

 

Underspins were the ticket around the big bait balls deep in creek channels.

 

 

My very first bass on an underspin out of the cold in the dark tonight!

 

 

My 8 millionth bass this fall on the buzzbait and a nice one at that 🙂🎣

 

 

Solid 45 minute trip after work on the way to the store.

@NorcalBassin  Bunch of slaunch donkey Spots, very nice!   

 

Been catching them on the Underspin the last week as well, three post in a row......very un-sexy, sneaky effective bait.  

The underspin is one of my three favorite lures.

 

Those are FAT spots, @NorcalBassin!

If I caught as many topwater fish as you Katie, I'm not sure I could fish stuff like underspins lol.    

 

I feel I'm always "forced" to fish an underspin, usually tying one on out of frustration after trying 6-10 other baits for open water schooling fall and winter Bass.   When they won't eat my Jerkbait, everything else stinks in my head.  

 

I've noticed though that they get the better quality bite over my other sneaky/finessy presentations.    

 

Milliken has really opened my eyes to using sneaky little minnows in open water for big fish.   Be it an underspin with paddletail swimbait, hover rig, or now what I saw last night in the video, those Drift Frys and he rigs them on a 1/8 ball jighead.   Will be buying those very soon.   Wish he taught like TacticalBassin, but if you read between the lines he's the best teacher I've found.  

 

42 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@NorcalBassin  Bunch of slaunch donkey Spots, very nice!   

 

Been catching them on the Underspin the last week as well, three post in a row......very un-sexy, sneaky effective bait.  

 

au contraire! Anything effective ---expecially sneaky effective-- is quite sexy indeed.

Underspin is something I felt weird throwing being a 6'4 250 lb guy from NC that caught his first 6 lber on a spinnerbait 🤣

 

But I felt a lot less weird getting about 7 bites on it yesterday!

 

It's the juice for sure.  Excited to toss it throughout the cold months.

12 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I feel I'm always "forced" to fish an underspin, usually tying one on out of frustration after trying 6-10 other baits for open water schooling fall and winter Bass. 

 

I use my underspins with paddletails mostly in the thickest cover. Heck, I've even used them as surface lures, i.e. a frog, casting them onto a lawn of lily pads so thick that that the underspin scooted atop them until there was an opening...and I've had bass bust through the pads to clobber them before they ever reached an opening. But my bread and butter tactic with underspins is casting into or on the edge of reeds, lily pads, and grasses. I also cast them at shorelines like a surface lure and they've worked in a foot of water many times for me. 

 

There's nothing dainty about the underspins I throw, for I saddle them with five-inchish paddletails. They're big lures that I can chuck beyond yonder. 

 

Alex, I enjoy fishing with them because I can cast them everywhere and because a paddletail has terrific action and the flash of the underspin's blade is a siren's call for bass. They're my mid-column lure, along with inline spinners, squarebills, and jerkbaits, but my underspins catch more bass than my other three mid-column lures combined. If I'm casting to open water, I'll let them sink sometimes before retrieving, counting to five and then six on the next cast and so on until I find the fish.

 

I like the Owner underspins:

 

4 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Excited to toss it throughout the cold months.

 

Last spring when the water was cold, the underspin was the lure that caught 'em. However, it's a warm water lure too. 

 

#theoldkatlovestoplaywithunderspins