Out yesterday for one last time on the kayak with a few friends. We caught around 10-12 fish with the majority being on shallow cranks and a handful on finesse swimbaits. Water temperature was 54-56, not a bad day for mid November in Ohio, they were definitely feeding heavily. Biggest fish for me was 3.30 caught on a flat side crank bait right off a submerged laydown. 

I love fat bass! Nice catches, @ak6388!

 

O-H....

48 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

O-H....

Ivie

On 11/15/2024 at 1:31 PM, softwateronly said:

@TnRiver46 helps the fishing that I’ve been severely underemployed the last few months and there’s been plenty of days without picture worthy fish!  
 

scott

There's my problem -- I'm a little too employed this time of year.  I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever fished in November, other than a random 1/2 hour walking the riverbank on the way home. 

 

Weather has been pretty cooperative -- I could still be out on kayak regularly this month if I had time. Alas...

On 11/8/2024 at 9:24 AM, softwateronly said:

Anyone have a pic of a rock bass caught on a spinnerbait? 

 

scott

Best I can do is a pumpkinseed:

I've been picking up a few green fish on the rig lately while fishing for the toothy critters that eat them. No big's. Most are about this size. Figgered I might should post one in an effort to keep my BR membership in good standing. It's been awhile since I posted any bass. 😁

@T-Billy: On behalf of zero power bestowed upon me, I appoint thee "BRer for Life."

10 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

I appoint thee "BRer for Life."

Does this mean I have to get a tattoo? 😂

Caught a nice one fishing the Kissimmee chain.

 

Beautiful fish Dwight!

Great Job

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

8 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Caught a nice one fishing the Kissimmee chain.

 

You always catch little minnows , when you gonna try for some big ones ? 

Well done @Dwight Hottle. That's a beast. Congrats brother!!!

Magnificent and scary looking fish Dwight!     Fish like that remind me why every day I don't wake up as a Bluegill is a good day 😆

 

Finally got an Elephant to eat my favorite little peanut bait, the Flashback Mini.    

 

 

Two incredible fish, congrats @Dwight Hottle and @AlabamaSpothunter

 

For me, today was a dinkfest. Biggest went 2.47lb and choked the H2OX lipless deep, got her in the gill so no glamour shot, just got her unhooked, got her in the water to make sure the bleeding was stopping, quick weight then release.

 

 

 

Got a couple of small ones on the 1/2 oz MiniMax. Have some 3.5" Spunk Shads and 3" Zakos in transit to pair with these, but made due with cutting down a Zoom Fluke, seemed to work just fine.

 

 

Missed quite a few bites on it, but I think the smaller profile was just attracting more tilapia strikes than usual. I'm starting to see more shad balled up on the surface, which is a good sign of things to come hopefully.

@Dwight Hottle and @AlabamaSpothunter:

 

@Dwight Hottle Calling that a “nice one” might be the understatement of the year. What a fish!

 

@AlabamaSpothunter Big beast on a mini lure. Well done!

 

@Aaron_H Gold is the only H2O lipless I don’t have. Now I need one. Thanks a lot! 😂

Dwight and Alex, you gonna share the stories of your Brunhildas? You know I love bass stories.

6 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

@Dwight Hottle Calling that a “nice one” might be the understatement of the year. What a fish!

 

@AlabamaSpothunter Big beast on a mini lure. Well done!

 

@Aaron_H Gold is the only H2O lipless I don’t have. Now I need one. Thanks a lot! 😂

 

I picked up some in gold, chrome/blue, a natural bluegill color, and then my store had a color called American Shad on clearance for like $2.97 so I bought 4 or 5 of them I think. Really solid bait IMO once you upgrade the hardware.

You can tell by the sky in the background that I was out today as a decent front was working its way into the area. It completely moved out the shad from the areas I was fishing a couple days back, and subsequently, many of the bass. I did find a couple in some shallower areas upriver, so it wasn’t a complete shutout…and the high hit 70, which is nearly 20 degrees warmer than the next couple days are supposed to be. Maybe we'll finally drop water temps into the 50s which I think would help the bite.

 

On 11/19/2024 at 6:57 PM, Swamp Girl said:

Dwight and Alex, you gonna share the stories of your Brunhildas? You know I love bass stories.

 

@Fishlegs  Thanks friend!  

 

Katie, not much of a story but she sure was a blast to catch on the pixie wand.   Some fish are just destined to be caught no matter how much the angler screws up, and the opposite seems true as well.    She ran under the boat and then jumped on the other side of the boat before I knew it, couldn't believe she stayed hooked up.   I feel like big LMB are akin to bucking broncs or bulls.   Every Bass seems to buck differently, they truly do have their own personalities.   That might be my favorite quality about LMB.   They really do seem like individualistic critters.   

I know many of you are getting snow, so I’m not going to complain about 43° this morning. It did warm up later (74° now). But it was slow. Started promising with a 3 lb’er on a Zoom Trick Magnum, but nothing for almost two hours after that until I caught a 1.5 lb. bass on a Rage Bug on a 3/0 EWG TR. That poor bass! Its jaw had been ripped bad previously. Still looked healthy overall but that had to hurt! Caught a dink after that one and that was it. 
 

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Somehow my net went over the side. That’s two in two years. 
 

I need one that floats! 

27 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Somehow my net went over the side. That’s two in two years. 
 

I need one that floats! 

I've seen people cut up some pool noodles and vinyl tape them to the hoop/handle.  Opens up more options.

 

scott

16 hours ago, softwateronly said:

I've seen people cut up some pool noodles and vinyl tape them to the hoop/handle.  Opens up more options.

 

scott

Just ordered this net from Amazon. It floats, has a longer handle (nice), Black Friday deal and coming today. 

On 11/19/2024 at 6:23 PM, Dwight Hottle said:

Caught a nice one fishing the Kissimmee chain.

 

😱

 

Yeah, that one’s OK.  Not as big as all the ones I lose though. 🤣

@The Baron: Canadians talk smack?

 

 

Love that net, @BrianMDTX. I'd order it if I didn't already own six nets.