@Pat Brown 

 

Rather expensive weekend. I lost 3 spinnerbaits, 2 texas rigs, and a jig in total

 

I don’t even know how three spinnerbait in a single weekend is possible but here we are

Tried a friends pond on the way home from work and got 5 on senkos and Bandito bugs…all around pad clumps. Nothing big , but it beats a skunk…

Evening trip with Jake after work and we got us a baby - brush - HAWG!

 

 

Not a bad day!  😎🎣👍🏼🤠

Bass whisperer. 

Well I caught 8 fish after work this morning after my last 13 hour shift for a minute hopefully. All came on a weightless general and stink o stick.  Nothing huge but still fish.

Those are nice ones, Murph, especially the first and third. If you want to double their size, simply long-arm them.

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

Those are nice ones, Murph, especially the first and third. If you want to double their size, simply long-arm them.

Nope no long arming from me, make them look as small as possible is my moto don’t exaggerate your size stay humble and proud. They were chomping  the stick bait today. This is a new to me body of water. Maple lake in paw paw, seems different and strange. Once again this place gets pounded daily. But hey it’s just down the road from my job. I have been trying to get a bite on the stink o gill, but that’s going to take a bigger fish due to it being a larger presentation. I don’t know if I should keep fishing there or try a new place. I might try some tubes and see if I can best my stick bait numbers. A beaver or creature bait is my confidence lure oddly enough.

Got out today 7-12. Bit of a rough start as early on I was sitting with 3 fish boated and 5 hooked and lost. Managed to fight back a little and ended the day with 9 caught 7 lost. Fortunately none lost were bigs. Did land 2 good ones that weighed 4-7and 3-8 both on a buzzbait. 

Finally got to fish a little. Caught 4 little ones, all about this size. All were caught on the same color brush hog. Brush hog - 4, every other lure - 0. The good news is that it broke a three trip skunk streak.

 

On 5/13/2024 at 7:56 PM, Pat Brown said:

Evening trip with Jake after work and we got us a baby - brush - HAWG!

 

 

Not a bad day!  😎🎣👍🏼🤠

I reiterate my previous statement. Stud!

On 5/14/2024 at 12:11 PM, Jmurphy87 said:

stay humble and proud.

You're my hero Murph!

Love your attitude and determination!

16 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

You're my hero Murph!

Love your attitude and determination!

 

Yep, Bob, like you, Murph (@Jmurphy87) is a hardworking family man, which matters exactly a flooflillion times more than catching bass. Plus, he, like @Pat Brown, catches bass while standing on concrete and dodging errant frisbees.

Not much work today. I fought it all day , but finally had to get a few casts in.

This healthy fish fell prey to the Bama craw yum dinger.

 

Work and weather had kept me away from angling pursuits.  So when I got the chance today I went to the neighboring village’s municipal park to wet a line.  Even though I knew it would probably be a dink fest I just wanted to get my rod bent.

 

When I arrived it was 66 degrees, dark threatening skies with winds 5 mph from the NNE.  
 

Normally I consider casting out into the middle of the body of water I’m a fishing an act of desperation,  the angling equivalent to the Hail Mary pass.  But today I could see milfoil topping out in the middle of the lake.  So I tied on my floating worm, in this case a Xzone Deception Worm in Bass Candy, and began working it around the outside of the weed bed.  
 

I was rewarded with catching 5 fish the first one pictured being the largest that I’ve ever caught at this particular pond, and the next being typical of the rest.

At that point it started raining so I took shelter in the pavilion and snacked for a while.  The deception worm was chewed up pretty bad so I switched it out for a Senko in watermelon red flake.  I wanted to see it the more vertical presentation of the faster sinking Senko would have a different result than the more horizontal twitching movement of the floating worm.

 

By then the rain had stopped so I walked to the opposite bank of the pond to fish the other side of the weed bed.  It started raining again, so I took shelter under a big oak tree.  But then the deluge started,  I considered going back but I would end up soaked either way so I decided heck with it I’ll stay and keep fishing. I caught another 5 on the Senko with this fish being representative of the rest.  

I started to hear thunder in the distance so I called it a day and beat a hasty retreat to my car.

 

 

10 bass at a municipal park is impressive. 

 

First fish of the day Sunday morning, a double when two spotted bass competed for my Yo-Zuri Rattl'n Vibe 😎👍

Caught my largest Ned fish ever today . Didnt have a scale. Five lbs I guess . Caught on a rip rap bank.

 

Dang NICE ones everyone!  5 all day @scaleface !  That's a gorgeous fish.  Love her proportions and colors.  I can't imagine the fight on a Ned!  I bet it was amazing!

 

This morning before work - only thing I could get them to eat in torrential downpour and ultra muddy water was a C rig D Bomb dipped in chartreuse dip n glow directly into the current dead stocked.

 

 

One had crawdad antenna coming out of his throat!

 

 

After work the rain subsided and Jake wanted to toss the inline spinner in the muddy water so back we went.

 

I grabbed my frog and down the bank we went.  BAM!  He is on to the right of the boat house AND I hook up on a good one on the frog on the other side of the boat house.

 

Mine comes off swimming directly at me lightning fast (bit 30 ft from me) and Jake catches his first of the day on the inline spinner!

 

 

We keep a walking down to where I was getting action in the rain this morning and I get 4 blow ups on the frog in the channels on the deep weed lines just off the banks.  I am fairly certain 3/4 of the blowups are the same fish missing it again and again so I point Jake in it's direction.

 

BAM!

 

 

Jake nails the kicker for the day on the inline spinner (same fish that missed my frog three times!). A healthy post spawn momma feeding up on bugs and minnows with her sisters.

 

Momma calls and says suppers on the way so back down towards the lot we head - I tell Jake ' hey son, you keep on throwing that spinner while we walk now 😎😎😎👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼'

 

Well it ain't long afore BAM! He whacks #3 and it's another nice one!

 

 

Just as we are about to pass the boat house again he sticks a dink and #4 for the afternoon.

 

 

My son put on a CLINIC with that inline spinner y'all.

 

Floored me!

Go, Jake, go!

 

Afternoon journey near home yielded an 18.5” SMB, jighead worm. My wife got 4 different species with a fly rod/popper. Bluegill, SMb, LMB, rock bass 

Spent about 40 minutes before work this morning fishing a local pond. Got to watch an osprey hunting fish after he decided tangling with Mother and Father Goose over their goslings would be too much hassle. He nabbed a small bass before I got mine, but I eventually did catch a very nice 16 incher just before I had to leave. 

That’s a solid one @IcatchDinks

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That’s a solid one @IcatchDinks

Indeed. I'm always impressed that this tiny, mucky, scummy pond I fish can produce such solid fish. It was zero substantial cover aside from a few weeds and scum matts. And yet every year I pull out several bass over 16 inches. I watched another angler pull out a 22 incher! My largest is 18. Next time I'm out I'll try to get a picture of the pond to illustrate how small it is. The entire pond will fit in the picture. It gets crazy pressure, and yet in three years of fishing, the fish I've been catching just keep getting bigger. 

I had a feeling....a tingling sensation....wake up early! - the voice inside of my head said to me before bed.

 

I set my alarm for 5 am and hit the pond at 6 am.

 

Sometimes that voice is absolutely right.  Missed one on my first cast that hit it weird.  Stuck this guy a couple casts later.

 

 

Moved down to where I missed on yesterday in some vegetation and tried to see if anyone was home.

 

 

Little but the blowup was satisfying and dragging him in with the salad was fun.  Also this told me all I needed to know.  Fish fast and fish that frog HARD.

 

Which is exactly what I did.

 

Missed one more who gently swirled at my frog so I left that area and made my way to the upper pond and made a cast paralleling the rip rap bank / deeper weedline.

 

BAM!

 

 

After an epic battle I land this 6 pound momma all full of eggs and mad as can be.  Set her off swimming and walked another ten paces and paralleled the bank with a second cast.

 

Missed what appeared to be a larger fish and in setting the hook I twisted my frog up in a deep thick tree branch and had to break it off.

 

The bite shut down pretty much at 7:30/sunrise but they were all over it for that first hour and a half of low light.

 

It was awesome!  Hoping I can find a couple more willing to bite after work!