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[gim]

Finally back doing some river fishing huh @throttleplate?

[throttleplate]

3 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Finally back doing some river fishing huh @throttleplate?

Yeah, been awhile as the sheyene is to this day and all summer has been high where the shoreline is under water, had a few feet of shoreline last week to get out there. Been fishing the lake bank mostly for crappie and bluegill which the bluegill are very catchable this year with this nice weather.

[Swamp Girl]

36 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Finally back doing some river fishing huh @throttleplate?

 

Whenever I see an @throttleplate report, I think, "I'd like to fish there."

[CastingClinic]

A few catches from this morning.  
 

[bp_fowler]

Got some intel on a couple new spots…rumor has it they both are filthy with bass.  

 

First up is a creek that connects two man made lakes that I have fished previously.  However I’ve never tried to fish the creek until now.  

Caught three small ones with the below fish being the largest.  

Next day I tried the other spot which is a reservoir.  I had high hopes seeing as how it was off the beaten path.  

While the rumors were true that it was filled with bass but unfortunately they were all this size 

A little frustrated with the lack of quality I returned to the New Reservoir where I did slightly better from a size perspective and a lot better numbers wise.

 

 

[gim]

2 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Whenever I see an @throttleplate report, I think, "I'd like to fish there."

Those spots below a dam where he fishes are literally the only place I could see myself bank fishing.

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

Those spots below a dam where he fishes are literally the only place I could see myself bank fishing.

 

I like the variety of fish he catches. Nowadays, when a fish hits, it's going to be a lmb, smb, or pickerel. Pretty predictable. 

[DaubsNU1]

Note: I am not good fishing off-shore brush-piles. I am even worse fishing crankbaits. Yesterday was slow...so tied on a Shad Rap, and worked the brush-piles...

 

Eight LMB's in a little over two hours.

 

Ended with a 17", 17-1/2", and 17-3/4" in a ten minute span. Good fun!

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

@DaubsNU1: Swell fishing, Daubs! Good size too. I'm going fishing this afternoon. Gonna drift and fan cast, hoping to stumble on a big girl wolf pack. When I reach the end of a windblown drift, I'll troll back and begin again. Fishing tomorrow morning too. If today's drift fishing works, I'll do more of the same tomorrow morning. If not, I'll do the old plug and grind.

[Swamp Girl]

Well, my drift and cast idea didn't work. I did catch nine in two hours, but none of the four-plus-pounders I was targeting. It was pretty choppy with the occasional whitecap:

 

 

I was mostly using a spinnerbait. My lipless caught nothing. This was the average size:

 

 

When I was blown into a shore, I saw a bass feeding and pitched a popper to it. It was my biggest.

 

 

The fish are fattening for the winter. Even this short one was well fed.

 

 

Pretty pic!

 

 

I'm launching again tomorrow morning in the dark. Fingers crossed I find a big one!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Maine sure is beautiful when it's not snowing......those are the type of trees that make people tree huggers 😆

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Maine sure is beautiful when it's not snowing......those are the type of trees that make people tree huggers 😆

 

Maine might be at its most beautiful when it's snowing, Alex. I've planted a mound of red twig dogwoods and another of yellow twig dogwoods, which are bright red and bright yellow in the winter. They're both backdropped by giant arborvitaes, so the red and yellow stems are frosted with white, glistening snow. I just smile thinking about it. 

[Swamp Girl]

Well, this morning reminded me a day last fall where I managed to catch some fish, but never managed to find their pulse. I caught 25 total, all on a Dobyns spinnerbait with an orange Mayor and my Yo-Zuri popper, but nothing over 18 inches and eight of them came in two flurries. The first flurry happened when I was paddling across a rocky flat and a couple bass bolted from two reeds.

 

"Hmmm," I thought, "so that's where you hang."

 

So, I cast my popper to five other tiny stands of reeds and caught five smallies.

 

The other flurry happened when I was paddling back and saw two loons diving and diving.

 

"Hmmm," I thought, "bait."

 

Yep, I hooked four lmb in four casts, but only landed three, each about 17 inches, all on the spinnerbait. 

 

All my other bass came here and there. No pattern, no pulse.

 

My stupid, old camera stopped working (AGAIN!), so I used my cell phone, which takes much better photos. See?

 

 

Then the Sun rose.

 

 

To take a photo, I had to remove my cell phone from its waterproof pouch, rouse it, and then shoot, all while the bass was drowning in air, so I only took two bass pics, the first a typical fat bass and the second, a longer, skinny one that I caught in weeds.

 

 

 

 

^See^ my stupid, old camera? I shouldn't complain. I've used it for about 35 years. However, it is a slacker compared to my bike, which I've ridden for 53 years.

[gim]

Stunning photos @Swamp Girl.

 

90% of the leaves here are still green.

[TnRiver46]

Great sun photos! 

[The Baron]

That’s some beautiful scenery @Swamp Girl 😎

 

I’ve been so uninspired about anything lately, it was a toss up whether we’d fish at all this weekend (didn’t fish last weekend either 😕).  But I felt guilty at the thought of “wasting” a beautiful early fall day, so Wes and I went after smallmouth.  There’s a particular stretch of shoreline that has produced a few for me on a whopper plopper/Choppo in the fall so that was my plan.  Water temps were about 67 degrees.  We started in about 6-8ft. of water with sparse coontail, and I caught a chunky pike on about my 5th cast.  Not long after we’d moved to a deeper shoreline I caught a 2.60# smallmouth near a rock sea wall between two docks in about 5-10ft. of water (it’s a steep shoreline, dropping from 5 to 35+ ft. in a casting length.  The pattern along that steep shoreline was my El Choppo 105 around docks, and I weighed four 2-2.5# smb.  But it wasn’t a barn burner with a fish every 20-30min. and Wes blanking with his flashy swimmer (we’ve got several other ploppers, but he didn’t want to change).  So, I suggested we try a long underwater point that rises steeply from 30ft. of water to a narrow flat 8-10ft. deep.  I think we stumbled into a feed and Wes caught a 3.72# on his 2nd cast with a buzzbait (was trying for a largemouth) and I landed a 3.35# and a 4.01# about 5 minutes apart.   My 4# was very cool because I had just cast when a good smallmouth swirled 10ft. in front of the boat with a bunch of minnows spraying ahead, then my plopper got whacked about 1 second later.  I had one other miss on the plopper, then we lost track of the school,  We did see some bait busting again a couple times and trolling motored over there quickly with no luck.  So after 1/2 hour with no more bites, we called it a great afternoon and headed home for dinner. 🙂

[Swamp Girl]

@The Baron: It wasn't that long ago that you were wondering where the big ones were. Well, you found them!

 

I'm glad you guys enjoy the pretty pics. I figure I post enough fish pics to get away with posting a few not-fish pics. 

[thediscochef]

Got some blowups this morning and finally stuck a little bit better fish. Nothing big but at least enough to bend the rod a bit, 3.5lb. Missed a couple better ones but this morning is the first time I've seen the larger ones out.

I love fall surface fishing 

[Swamp Girl]

Thanks for posting, @thediscochef. I love surface fishing too. I actually love it too much, as I'll stay on the surface when I know better. 

 

Why is this thread seeing fewer postings? I love looking at other anglers' fish, large and small, and hearing their tales of glory and woe.

[thediscochef]

9 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

Thanks for posting, @thediscochef. I love surface fishing too. I actually love it too much, as I'll stay on the surface when I know better. 

 

Why is this thread seeing fewer postings? I love looking at other anglers' fish, large and small, and hearing their tales of glory and woe.

It's my favorite way to fish. This time of year it's always done by 9am if it's clear out, and I just leave at that point because chasing them down becomes a fools errand without a boat. I really want to catch a new pb on the surface sometime. I'm already thinking about winter topwater fishing and how it could be successful if i get to the right waters at the right times

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

 

Why is this thread seeing fewer postings? I love looking at other anglers' fish, large and small, and hearing their tales of glory and woe.

Flooded out 

[N Florida Mike]

Got this one on a watermelon seed super fluke…

[Fishlegs]

2 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

Why is this thread seeing fewer postings? I love looking at other anglers' fish, large and small, and hearing their tales of glory and woe.

I love seeing what everyone catches too. Personally, I haven't posted because I just haven't had time to fish lately. Hopefully that'll change soon. In the meantime, you keep the pictures coming to get the rest of us by.

[Fried Lemons]

Got this one deadsticking a big gill bait in a windblown pocket. I picked up this technique last year specifically for pressured fish. I cast it out and let it sit without any input, letting any ambient wind or current provide all the action. After about 10 seconds this fish slurped it off the surface. This type of bite is always very subtle and the fish is usually lightly hooked. 

 

 

[bp_fowler]

Fished the municipal pond today.  Caught a handful of dinks on the drop shot.  

While I was there I met a gentleman who told me about a strip pit near by.  I decided to check it out.  When I got here it wa shallow and weedy, just like I like it.  I deployed the floating worm and caught a quick couple fish before I ran out of time.  

Bigger than the ones at the municipal park but not impressive by any means.  Hoping I can explore this place more thoroughly soon.