Pretty pleased with my first bass of the season! 

6 minutes ago, frosty said:

Pretty pleased with my first bass of the season! 

Sure looking forward to my first smallie of the season.  Streams look good right now.  I think that's going to change, though.  Weather service is calling for a wet pattern.  I'll never forget this week six years ago when we had a string of eighty degree days.  I was wet wading and catching smallmouth on March 21!  That's the summer when we had so many 100 degree days and no rain for almost eight weeks.

second time out on Lake Norman this season under blue bird skies and a pesky, chilly NE wind. fished up the river, muddy stain and swt in the low 50’s. caught an even dozen pale spots on main lake and secondary points in 12-17 fow. this 18” spot was bf.

1 hour ago, The Bassman said:

Sure looking forward to my first smallie of the season.  Streams look good right now.  I think that's going to change, though.  Weather service is calling for a wet pattern.  I'll never forget this week six years ago when we had a string of eighty degree days.  I was wet wading and catching smallmouth on March 21!  That's the summer when we had so many 100 degree days and no rain for almost eight weeks.

I definitely remember that! The creek was really clear, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it looking that good since I started fishing it! 

 

Last summer was pretty awful for rain to, all the ponds were way down towards late summer. 

Ive got a picture of my wife with a dandelion on January 1st last year, hopefully this summer will be a little more normal!

Still fighting tough conditions over here, with water temps hovering around 43 degrees, but had another enjoyable afternoon out on the water. Last couple stops saved the day for me.

 

 

Went to Caddo Lake yesterday with a friend of mine I've known since the fourth grade. Chatterbait was king for me. Caught 2 on the 1/2oz breaking bream Project Z and 1 on the 1/2oz chartreuse sexy shad Project Z. My friend caught 1 on a perch colored 3/8oz or 1/2oz Booyah spinnerbait. Didn't weigh any of them, but just guessing the biggest one was around a pound and half give or take a little. We had a blast. Can't wait to do it again. ?

Today I went to a little bayou around the corner from the house. I've fished it a few times and never caught anything. It looks pretty good for bass, but I've yet to catch one in there. Anyways I was gonna try again today. Had a weightless Texas rigged green pumpkin Z Craw on my Lew's spinning rig and on my second cast hooked into this 2lb 4oz white perch. The biggest one I've ever seen in person, much less caught. May have to give up on bass in there and just fish for perch or bream. 

First smallie of the year. Fought very hard for such cold water. Only fish in 2 days in fishing 4+hrs each day....

 

16 hours ago, MichaelCopeland said:

Went to Caddo Lake yesterday with a friend of mine I've known since the fourth grade. Chatterbait was king for me. Caught 2 on the 1/2oz breaking bream Project Z and 1 on the 1/2oz chartreuse sexy shad Project Z. My friend caught 1 on a perch colored 3/8oz or 1/2oz Booyah spinnerbait. Didn't weigh any of them, but just guessing the biggest one was around a pound and half give or take a little. We had a blast. Can't wait to do it again. ?

Today I went to a little bayou around the corner from the house. I've fished it a few times and never caught anything. It looks pretty good for bass, but I've yet to catch one in there. Anyways I was gonna try again today. Had a weightless Texas rigged green pumpkin Z Craw on my Lew's spinning rig and on my second cast hooked into this 2lb 4oz white perch. The biggest one I've ever seen in person, much less caught. May have to give up on bass in there and just fish for perch or bream. 

Looks like a white Crappie

Here in NW Louisiana we've always called them crappie or perch. I don't really fish for them though. I only use artificial lures/baits. Surprised I caught it...lol. ?

You did eat that crappie right???? I know some ppl may smash on me for asking since it's a slab but man that's fantastic table fare ???

I threw her back. I'm never really prepared for harvesting fish. I'm a catch and release angler. Every now and then, when I'm not walking the bank by myself, I'll keep some for eating. That doesn't happen very often though. Mainly because I don't wanna clean them...lol. ?

With rain in the forecast there was a narrow window to get on the water.  Air temperature was balmy 38 degrees when I hooked up the boat and headed for the Tract to do some fishing.  Tide had been going out for about two hours, water temperature was 54 and change as I dropped the boat in the water.

 

I covered a lot of water junk fishing and the bite got better for numbers later in the day as the water warmed. However, my better fish came in the first half of the day.  The 5.2lber absolutely crushed a square bill, and my biggest was a 6.8 which smoked a slow rolled spinnerbait.  As I was fighting them, one of my the first thoughts was why did I leave the net at the house....

 

Good Fishing all, JB 

 

 

@J._Bricker Beast mode! Toads 

Nice Fish !

Too cool!

 

Good times !

10 hours ago, Dorado said:

@J._Bricker Beast mode! Toads 

 

9 hours ago, Active_Outdoors said:

Nice Fish !

Thanks guys! I do some of my best fishing Monday through Thursday, #retiredguytournaments

11 hours ago, TravisVirginiaAngler said:

Big, beautiful bass TVA!

Got 3 the first day of the storm. Waiting for it to clear up again here in Cali.

 

those are a couple of nice spots brother ?

Caught this 9.44 lb Hawg night fishing with a big black and blue spinnerbait! 

WOW!!!  Congratulations @Bass’Brad what a great big ‘ole pig! 

Spent a very nice last 2 hours of the day on the water . Perfect temp. and wind. The fish are back on the beds again. Got this skinny  4.12 on a pumpkin zoom lizard. Caught a few more on zoom trick worms.

Stuck a good one pitching, only fish I managed to land for the day.