2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

 

 

Did the osprey free itself?

 

 

Yes with some assistance.

 

another time years ago my buddy was throwing a musky lure and an osprey would grab it over and over, carry it a couple hundred feet, then drop it 

 

Friday evening my wife was kayaking and saw a bald eagle eating a white bass . It flew away and she paddled up to the white bass and it was still alive but ripped apart. On the way back to the ramp a paddleboarder said he saw about a dozen white bass floating on the surface, I think the eagle had a busy afternoon 

Nothing super crazy to report here but I did catch this beautiful post spawner yesterday morning.  Jake caught every male bass that he could find willing to bite expeditiously 🤣👍🏼 

 

Seeing big fry clouds out deep shimmering under the surface being guarded by big wolfpacks of male and female bass out on offshore structure at the pond has been very very neat.

 

It dropped nearly 40° over night and I plan on going fishing later this afternoon from the bank at the pond and I'm very very curious to see what I see.

 

Lost a fish that was 24" long skipping a senko under a dock yesterday evening.  She hit it right as I hopped it once after the initial fall and I set the hook.  My 30 pound braid starts ticking my drag real fast and I see her shoot out around a support beam 10 feet with my hook and Senko.  Gorgeous and super long.  I start to pull her back towards the piling and she shook hard and popped right off.  Heartbreak hotel but dang if it wasn't cool!

 

 

Still a 5 lber to start the day on the dropshot was cool and my biggest fish on a dropshot to date!  Let's GO!!!!

 

Tight lines friends!

Let's go is right, my friend. Well done and Jake looks bigger day by day. 

 

10 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yes with some assistance.

 

Do tell. 

 

Pretty please!!!

Who knows, we might have PETA reading in . It flew away 😂 

3 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Who knows, we might have PETA reading in . It flew away 😂 

 

Well, I'll just settle for imagining you heroically wrasslin' the dinosaur to set it free. 

 

8 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Seeing big fry clouds out deep shimmering under the surface being guarded by big wolfpacks of male and female bass out on offshore structure at the pond has been very very neat.

 

I would love to see that.

I thought I was going to end up in the top of a tree 

The fry look like glitter!  It's mesmerizing!  They get bigger fast but in that first stage it's like glitter mist just under the surface.  You can see wolfpacks of purple bluegill encroach and the 5-6 lb females plow through them like lightning while the males hover in the fry.  They position up on the hard high spots in the evening sunlight I presume for the warmth and so that the fry can eat phytoplankton and the water is so clear you can just sit and watch it.

Pat, you are a scholar of bass. Or maybe a poet, for you see the world with a poet's precision. And you appreciate it too, as a poet or a samurai would, but I repeat myself, for samurai are poets. 

 

I think the tannin in our water makes it impossible for me to see all that you do. Our water is black. Plus, I'm low in a canoe too, so I'm always at a bad angle. 

Since getting that 5 pounder 2 weeks ago its been slow for me. Mostly due to work and weather. Got out yesterday morning. Almost caught another giant, followed my jig back to the kayak then took a swipe. Unfortunately i was distracted by a gigantic snaping turtle on the other side of the yak. The bass d**n near jumped in with me but i blew that whole deal. Then it started raining and i called it quits empty handed. 

 

There was a kayak tournament at the lake iv been fishing most latley, so decided to go else where. Less than 5 minutes from my house. A lake iv been to a handful of times but never caught anything. Started off pretty frustrating. Pitching the jig into shoreline cover. Caught nothing but branches. Was pretty chilly out. Decided to throw the lipless crank in deeper water and ended up getting this nice fish. 

 

Didn't weigh it but probably closer to 3. Really nice fish. I was surprised honestly. Might have to put more work in at this lake. It's definitely convenient being so close to home, that's for sure

@JayMac89: Sweet fish. Sorry you lost that beast by your boat. 

I caught 10 today in the rain.  The lens on my phone was fogged up by the 2nd one so I put it away.  My phone is supposed to be IP68 rated but I figure if the lens is fogged up it's not liking the water.   None were BIG or I would have gotten my phone back out.  Biggest were 16".  One LM and one Spot.  The rest were between 12" and 14".  About the time I released the first one I saw some fleeing shad on the other side of my boat.  I grabbed a rod and cast a Devils Horse toward the commotion.   A small (Longnose) Gar hit my Devils Horse, coming a couple feet out of the water with it in it's mouth.  It threw in on it's next jump.   I've never been able to land a Gar, but I'm not sure I want all those teeth in my boat on a fish that's considered a trash fish.  It's cool to watch them jump though.  I think I can almost hear them laughing when they throw my lures back at me.   It was 59 with light drizzle when I launched my boat at 9.  It was 50 with harder rain at noon when I loaded it back up.   

 

 

 

Got a couple on the horny toad right before dark. Lost 3 also,including a bigger one. They absolutely clobber this bait , like they hate it…

I went out yesterday and only caught one dink in 7 hours of fishing. 

 

 

The wind was so bad I clocked the boat drifting at 5mph at some point during the day.  The wind seemed to be blowing around 20mph all day in two different directions. The boat at one of my spots just turned in circles without me using the trolling motor.

 

The water was really muddy as well with no visibility. 

 

About half way through the day I got snagged next the bank and fell in to about 10 feet water.  Luckily I was able get a selfie. 

 

 

When will the water clear up?  😁

@FishTank: Where do you live? It's bad in Maine too. I'm intending to fish on Wednesday and Friday, when it's supposed to drop to 10 mph, which might not sound like much, but in a high-sided, lightweight canoe, I'll spend half my time adjusting the boat. So, five hours of fishing is really 2.5 hours of fishing and 2.5 hours of paddling. 

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

@FishTank: Where do you live? It's bad in Maine too. I'm intending to fish on Wednesday and Friday, when it's supposed to drop to 10 mph, which might not sound like much, but in a high-sided, lightweight canoe, I'll spend half my time adjusting the boat. So, five hours of fishing is really 2.5 hours of fishing and 2.5 hours of paddling. 

Indiana.  

 

I spent half my time positioning the boat. My foot hurts from operating the trolling motor. 

@ol'crickety I kayaked in a regular kayak for years, felt that. I still do when I visit in NC. 
 

Big thunderstorm here in TX this past Saturday. Will have had time to stabilize by the time I hit the water tomorrow. It will be my third fishing trip of the year. I have the whole day off 😎

Caught 5 Spots this morning before a Kidney shut me down.

I caught two small ones today, came right along the rip rap on a line through swim bait head. The small one came on a 4’ easy shiner and the slightly bigger one came on a 2.8 keitech. They both liked the crawl it and chop retrieve and would hit it close to the bank. Was a struggle to catch anything but I didn’t give up on catching something. Just have got to be creative and think outside the box sometimes. 
 

the rod was a dobyns kaden 745c and a slx xt xg was the reel with 30lb braid. The treble hook that I used was an extra megabass outbarb hook that I had lying around. I fish the river a lot and I don’t like leaving things behind. These hooks allow you to get your rig back easily if snagged and they definitely stick the fish.

Cool river, Murph.

 

GP, I figure I'm going to my grave without catching a single spot, but I sure enjoy seeing yours.

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Cool river, Murph.

 

GP, I figure I'm going to my grave without catching a single spot, but I sure enjoy seeing yours.

Yeah it’s definitely different from fishing a lake or pond. I had to rescue the larger fish on I got him to the bank. He unhooked himself and decided to try to burrow back to the water. I had to lift a couple rocks to get him out. I am very happy that I did though. I would try to grab him and he just kept going deeper into the rocks persistent little fellow lol.

@GreenPig   Nice ones brother, hopefully you're okay.......I wouldn't wish a kidney stone on my worst enemy.   I don't even like to talk about them

9 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@GreenPig   Nice ones brother, hopefully you're okay.......I wouldn't wish a kidney stone on my worst enemy.   I don't even like to talk about them

 

And here's me thinking he just had to pee. I've heard that kidney stones are the worst. Sympathies, GP.

@GreenPig and everyone else.  Getting in a tub of HOT water will ease kidney stone pain.  When the water cools the pain will come back, just drain a little and heat it back up with fresh.   At least this will give you a few minutes of relief.  

I always love a good photo of @Bluebasser86's tie-dye Crocs.

 

I went to the pond this evening. It was low sixties all day and quite windy. I was afraid I wasn't gonna get a bite.

 

Tried using a drop shot rig for a while but wasn't getting any action, so I switched over to the trusty Rebel wee-craw. I caught a lot of slimy weeds. 

Then a big gust of wind came up just as I went to cast and carried my lure way farther than I had intended, landing it in about a foot of water on the other side of the small pond. The water boiled as a fish struck and missed. I reeled the bait in just a little bit, and she chased it down. Fish on! 

 

Lovely, fat old girl, 16 inches long (which is a very respectable size for my small pond) and 1.84 lbs. 

Then I caught a dink from the same spot just to live up to my username,

About a hundred fruitless casts later and I was done. 

 

 A pair of Canada geese have nested in the same spot at this pond for three years running. This was the first time I've seen the nest without one of them on it. Usually they chase me away with loud hissing and spread wings. 

 

That 16-incher hitting in such shallow water with that boil sure sounds exciting, ICD!