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A SUP! Impressive. Impressive bass too.

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36 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

@BluegillsTightlines: Its great to have you posting in this thread. Keep it up! I love your story about your reel. 

 

@Bazoo is back! Missed ya, buddy.

Thank you. I missed you too. I been reading here and there, but not able to post much because of poor phone service. I use my phone for a hotspot.

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This crankbait was a gift, and in a color I wouldn't have chosen for myself, I caught several on it until it "went under".

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The walmart crankbait worked well at the river. I still have it after several trips to the river, which is somewhat headshaking, since I'd rather lose a cheap $2 lure than a $6 lure. It does work though and seems to be holding up well.

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They didn't like this one, only fish I caught on it for a long time of trying and then lost it.

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Lost the bandit 100 unfortunately. That color worked well and I can't find another one locally.

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This one was a nice one, love the orange eye too.

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Carolina rigging in current works! I used this one for my phone's lockscreen picture.

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Carolina rigged a hellgramite.

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Surprised I didn't lose the deep diver... but she's still in the box.

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Might not be "my type", but sure is a healthy one.

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Got these at a private lake... only thing that was working one hot day.

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Coaxed one with a lizard.

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Went to the river one day and didn't get anything but this gar... but wow! I'd never caught a gar before, and since they are so hard to hook, I was surprised. I lost the crankbait shortly afterwards.... darn it.

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It measured 34" long. I didn't weigh it but it was about 5 pounds. If I recall correctly, the state record is 40lbs.

 

An interesting side note... I was down to the same spot fishing yesterday evening, and with an identical replacement crankbait, and I hooked another gar, a smaller one. This time I had it foul hooked in the tail. I had it almost in, and was fixing to reach down to try to land it and it broke the line and swam off with a crankbait in it's tail. I hope someone catches it soon and removes the crankbait.

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4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

It wasn’t a rock trout

 

Honestly it doesn't seem to matter.  There's walleyes, muskies, pike, gar, rockies, sunfish, crappies, trout and everything else posted in the bass pics thread.  What's the point anymore.  Let's just keep making Roadwarrior's life more difficult.  Not like he doesn't spend any time moving posts to the correct threads...

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Well... It's called the "latest catch pics thread". The title doesn't say anything about bass, and if you go to page one, there's a trout in post 4 and a pike or ski in post 6 so...... Seems like it's been multi species from the start.

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While I do have occasional bycatches other than the intended quarry, largemouth is my target species. I don't specifically target smallies, but of course, they get in the mix anywhere you fish for largemouth in their respective range.

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6 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

@BluegillsTightlines: Its great to have you posting in this thread. Keep it up! I love your story about your reel. 

 

@Bazoo is back! Missed ya, buddy.

It is great to be back!!! And that first bass I posted the other day seemed to serve as sort of a test to see if I still remembered how to handle a bass. Caught it on 4 lb line while fishing on bottom for bluegill. It was a 19 incher and that was super fun listening to that drag screech after missing all of last year.

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@Bazoo, nice gar! I wouldn’t worry about the crank, I bet he shook it free before you left . Things are tough as nails 

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5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

@Bazoo, nice gar! I wouldn’t worry about the crank, I bet he shook it free before you left . Things are tough as nails 

 

If a gar gets tangled up in your 250 HP Merc, you'd have to replace the prop.

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Had a fun week!

 

Caught a couple buzzing a speed craw at sunset:

 

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Went out on the boat and had an awesome day with a buzzbait kicker:

 

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Couple on the frog:

 

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Another smaller one on the buzzbait!

 

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A big worm fish:

 

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Visited the coast and had a rough time hitting on redfish but we did find a pond loaded with dinks and we caught over 30 in an hour.  I caught half of them and caught them all on the scum frog bass rat!

 

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Meagan got her first Buzzbait bass!

 

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Last night we hit the pond and I nailed a nice one on the frog;

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And a smaller one in the AM

 

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Gonna be 97 today: hoping I can get out and get a bite at some point.

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@Pat Brown: "Had a fun week." says it all, Pat, about your approach to life and fishing. I'm also all about fun in bass fishing. When the kid I take fishing caught some four and five-pounders, he suddenly was less happy to catch 2.5-pounders. "Never pass on happiness" is my motto, and yours too, Pat. 

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@PhishLI: Your first photo gives away your location. You are fishing in the Amazon rainforest. Or the Congo. 

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Yesterday I took an impromptu detour and stopped by a pond I haven't fished since early spring. I only spent about 30 minutes before continuing on my way home, but landed one little guy. 

 

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Then this morning I spent an hour and a half at my favorite pond, but only managed to land two similar sized fish. 

 

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I did have a very nice fish on the line that would have made my morning, but somehow he spat my Texas rig, and I never saw him again. I don't think he even ever felt the hook, which doesn't make sense me. But I watched him spit it. I've never had a fish take an EWG into his mouth and not get hooked before, so I'm a little baffled by that one. 

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4 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

I've never had a fish take an EWG into his mouth and not get hooked before, so I'm a little baffled by that one. 

 

I'm baffled that you've never lost a fish on an EWG before this morning. I lose them all the time on EWGs. I do fast hook sets so I won't deeply hook them. When I do catch them, I hook them right in the lip, but about half find their immediate freedom. 

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Two and a half pounder choked down a Texas rig on an otherwise slow and windy day.

 

Also added a collection of BASS from a river trip last week.  I wasn’t going to post them because I had mistaken them for panfish 🙄

 

Lastly I snapped my Lews Mach 2 while caught in some rocks.  Pretty unbelievable, a situation I’d been in 1000 times and somehow, with 12lb test and drag set properly, the rod snapped more than 50% down just above the first eyelet.  Two years old almost to the day.  Happy it didn’t happen while fighting a fish.  Pretty wack.

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3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I lose them all the time on EWGs.

 

3 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

When I do catch them, I hook them right in the lip, but about half find their immediate freedom. 

Snelled straight shank is the answer. Roof of the mouth the vast majority of the time. Great hook and land %.

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Tim, I'm so quick on the trigger that I figure I'd miss some with the snelled straight shanks too. I deep hooked one bass this year, but none in 2022 and 2023. One is enough. I can live with losing some to not deep hook another. 

 

@CastingClinic: I like the composition of your rock BASS photos.

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8 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Tim, I'm so quick on the trigger that I figure I'd miss some with the snelled straight shanks too. I deep hooked one bass this year, but none in 2022 and 2023. One is enough. I can live with losing some to not deep hook another. 

Honestly, I don't recall ever gullet hooking one with a straight shank. 90% ish in the roof of the mouth, once in awhile through the gill plate or lower jaw. Most of the fish I lose on my flipping rig are dinks that come off while sailing over me on a slack line. 😂 I hit em as soon as I feel them also.

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Tim, do you have a photo of one of your snelled straight shanks? Are you snelling them or do you buy them that way? Also, why snell them? Why not tie them directly to your line?

 

@T-Billy: Tim, I'm going to buy some right now. Can you suggest a brand and size?

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34 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

I'm baffled that you've never lost a fish on an EWG before this morning. I lose them all the time on EWGs. I do fast hook sets so I won't deeply hook them. When I do catch them, I hook them right in the lip, but about half find their immediate freedom. 

I've lost them AFTER they get hooked. But I've never had one take the bait and not get hooked. 

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8 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

I've lost them AFTER they get hooked. But I've never had one take the bait and not get hooked. 

 

Ah, I see. 

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31 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Tim, do you have a photo of one of your snelled straight shanks? Are you snelling them or do you buy them that way? Also, why snell them? Why not tie them directly to your line?

 

@T-Billy: Tim, I'm going to buy some right now. Can you suggest a brand and size?

I like the 6th sense OX hooks. I get them at Walmart. Look up the Randall Tharp snell knot video on YouTube. I do it very similar to him, but I only go through the eye once. Never had one fail. 3,4, or 5/0 depending on the bait I'm using.

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Thanks, Tim. All out of reactions and off to watch the video right now.

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I also am all out of reactions, but I'm definitely gonna give Tim's Snell hooks a try. Off to YouTube and Walmart. 

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