IcatchDinks Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Caught a couple bass this morning: I started out with the Mepps #5 and hooked into a good one, but lost it right at the bank. Two casts later, I hooked into an even larger bass @17" long. Ole boy put up a heckuva fight, but I managed to keep this one on. Caught one more before I had to go to work. This one came on the Crush City Mayor. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted July 16 Super User Share Posted July 16 @IcatchDinks: Fishing with the Mayor is Crick fishing. Now, if you were fishing in a creek, you were Crick-crick fishing. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcatchDinks Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 30 minutes ago, ol'crickety said: @IcatchDinks: Fishing with the Mayor is Crick fishing. What do ya think inspired me to buy them? 😄 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishlegs Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Congrats @bp_fowler! Nice fish! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted July 16 Super User Share Posted July 16 2 hours ago, IcatchDinks said: What do ya think inspired me to buy them? 😄 The Mayor shakes her tail like this gal: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User PhishLI Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 It's been nearly 2 weeks since I'd fished my local hole and was surprised by just how choked out it's become with the relentless sun and heat. Just wild. Only had an hour after work but didn't even get that in because of lightning and pounding rain. Managed one scrappy acrobat on the Heavy Poop chucked as far as I could past a weed line and into slightly deeper water. Had to fight her back through the pads, but no problem on a heavy stick and straight 50lb braid. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 @PhishLI: I didn't know you moved to Brazil! I'm assuming you were fishing backwaters of the Amazon. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User PhishLI Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 5 minutes ago, ol'crickety said: I'm assuming you were fishing backwaters of the Amazon. Nope, just equatorial Long Island.🤣 I actually started at a lower lake just across the street, but it was way worse, so I gave up quickly. Weedlessly rigged plastics were frustrating to bring back in. Even when skin-hooked, they'd get wrapped up with what looked to me like a new-to-the area type of floating brown-green weed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 7 hours ago, PhishLI said: Nope, just equatorial Long Island.🤣 I actually started at a lower lake just across the street, but it was way worse, so I gave up quickly. Weedlessly rigged plastics were frustrating to bring back in. Even when skin-hooked, they'd get wrapped up with what looked to me like a new-to-the area type of floating brown-green weed. Your pics depict a magnitude of weeds that make me now feel like I'm fishing clear, blue water. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcatchDinks Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Nabbed a couple more today. The Mepps #5 Black Fury is the most productive bait this week. Also, something ripped the tail off my Mepps. Felt a big thump, then nothing, and when I got my bait back, the tail was gone. 🤷🏻♂️ 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 @IcatchDinks: You're a Mepps man. My kinda guy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcatchDinks Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 @ol'crickety it's the only bait that's getting consistent bites. Not even The Mayor is getting the job done consistently. My favorite soft plastic, a Texas-rigged stick bait, has been less than useless, and I can't even get bit on my go to hard bait: the Rebel Wee Craw. But that old number five just doesn't quit. 😎 An oldie, but a goodie. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 @IcatchDinks: The greatest two days of my angling life, numbers-wise, were with a Mepps. I caught more than 500 smallies on that one lure in two days. I pinched the barbs to shorten my release time and didn't even bring most of them into the canoe, releasing them in the water so I could catch a couple hundred more. Come the third day, I slept late and mostly lazed to recover. Their average size was 17 inches. Bonkers bass! So, yeah, I have a thing for Mepps and Mepps men. I wish I could use my Mepps here, but it's just too weedy. I spend most of my time pulling weeds off the hook. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User LrgmouthShad Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 1 hour ago, ol'crickety said: I have a thing for Mepps and Mepps men @IcatchDinks I think she’s hitting on you 😍 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcatchDinks Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 27 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said: @IcatchDinks I think she’s hitting on you 😍 too bad. I'm already taken. 😄 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User LrgmouthShad Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 Fishing with the BR crew definitely let me see some different baits than I’m used to. Pat throwing poop baits, creature baits on drop shots, tricked out buzzbaits, flukes, and more. ICatchDinks throwing mepps, that craw crankbait, other Northern creek finesse. FishTax throwing a mini swim jig. I like to think that my bait selection was very ‘Texan’. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazoo Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 I don't fish this lake much. It's always covered with stuff, but it's only 12" deep in it's deeper parts so often, punching through the mat produces nothing. But occasionally I'll hit it, and I've caught some decent ones there in the past. Pocket Frog Saw this but didn't catch it. Lizard for this guy. Not sure about this, hybrid warmouth? Private Lake here, trying out a vintage pack of power worms. Fat Albert on a ball head jig. I've never fished them that way. This is at my heavily pressured local public lake. The worms are working there too. The first 2 are right off the main office in a cove that gets hit a lot, and the first one is on the stump that always gets hit by everyone. All 4 in the same day was not bad at all for this lake along the shore. They like this color. All where split shot. This one is in another cove, that's not as heavily pressured but I'm sure it gets it. 2lb1oz, fat, and a fighter! Ya can't see it, but there was a shad tail barely sticking out of the gullet. This one came off a stump that is in a small creek that runs into the lake. It's about 6 foot wide at this point. Probably pound and a quarter, and was a fighter. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User PhishLI Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 9 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said: I like to think that my bait selection was very ‘Texan’. A kid I'd known since kindergarten moved away at the end of 4th grade. Angelo was as Brooklyn-Italian in his speech as it gets. Dis, dat, deese, etc. Ya know. Like a mini Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos. He came back one day to visit while I was in 8th grade, and it turns out he'd moved to Texas. He was dressed like a cowpoke and now had a cartoonish southern accent right out of an episode of Hee-Haw. Texas can change a boy. Don't change, LMS.😁 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User LrgmouthShad Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 30 minutes ago, PhishLI said: Texas can change a boy. Don't change, LMS.😁 Put me next to the man I was 10 months ago and they are not the same person. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted July 17 Global Moderator Share Posted July 17 2 hours ago, Bazoo said: Not sure about this, hybrid warmouth? Not a hybrid, just a standard Warmouth. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcreek Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Another good July windy bank fish 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcreek Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Russell Dam on Savannah River North end of Clarks Hill 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User MN Fisher Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 Still stuck shore fishing, but finally broke the bass-drought. Ya - it's only a pair of 13oz fish...but it's BASS. Missile Baits Warlock shakey head in 1/8oz GP with Zoom Finesse Worm in GP-Magic. Think I found my new shakey head jig - these stand up much better than the Owner Ultrahead I had been using. 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ATA Posted July 17 Super User Share Posted July 17 On 7/15/2024 at 3:49 PM, AndrewJ said: Thanks I appreciate it. If you go back about 5 years I am in this post a few times. Took a break from posting and now make videos for youtube. here they do dye the water because of safety of fishes inside from predators like eagle and falcons and ETC... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thediscochef Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 The pier I usually focus on when it's real hot or real cold out is still submerged, you can see the end of it sticking out of the water in the photo. A couple more feet to go. Nice to get this view again though. Caught a few decent crappies and a bunch of white bass but the LM still elude. Only two since May 30. Not that I've been trying, but it's still up there with the worst droughts I've ever had. Need it to end soon, ideally in a big way. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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