another trip this morning yielded 23 spots, including this 3 pounder, caught by my cousin.....again. i hate his guts. ?

 

20 minutes ago, lo n slo said:

another trip this morning yielded 23 spots, including this 3 pounder, caught by my cousin.....again. i hate his guts. ?

 

You should just throw him in the lake!

4 hours ago, deep said:

Dink city gave up a major non-dink this morning. Super shallow wood.

 

Only had an hour to fish, so fished from the banks. Going to take out the yak there this evening and see if I can coax out another decent bite from one of the dozens of laydowns lining the shoreline.

 

Nice! Been a while since I've seen a solid fish come from that place. Are they up on beds in there yet? 

Since we were discussing the old Charlie Brewer slider in another thread earlier today, I decided to tie one on tonight and get an hour or two of "Do Nothing" in after dinner. Thirty fish later, the old slider worm still works as well as ever. This one sure didn't hurt my feelings any ?

 

 

On 5/3/2018 at 4:32 PM, lo n slo said:

we caught 34 spots this morning and put it on the trailer a little after noon as the heat builds in the western foothills of NC. my cousin caught this one on a Zoom lizard in 20 fow.

 

spots are a blast , thats why I like lay lake in bama so good.34 is a great day!!put on your boxing gloves ,because they will fight! fun!fun!

On 5/3/2018 at 10:16 PM, everythingthatswims said:

Some WV multitasking this morning

 

I can hear the story now. [ I got a 2lb. one and a 20lb. one the big one was so old it had a beard!! the secret was lead on for the bottom and lead for the air,]?

Figured I'd throw swimbaits for a while yesterday and had some pigs follow and dinks commit. Pretty surprised to see the little fella absolutely hammer the Slammer.

 

 

After losing a Gan Craft AND Deps last week (serioulsy, same trip) I gave BlueBasser's Shine Glide a shot and have to admit I was pleasantly surprised with the action and draw power.

 

 

First double on a Plopper and it was a spot/LM combo. Really cool if you ignore they're both under 12".

 

13 hours ago, Fairtax4me said:

Nice! Been a while since I've seen a solid fish come from that place. Are they up on beds in there yet? 

Thought I saw a few. It was pretty windy though; and it's difficult to see much sitting so low anyway.

7 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

Love those baits I’ve been meaning to pick one up. Glad to see it in action!

1st trip out on a little electric only lake down an abominable dirt road the other day. Pretty good trip caught 6-7 this was the biggest

Had our Thursday night tournament at the dreaded mudhole this week (which I love). The lake that I caught a 5.74 pounder at on Tuesday. @gardnerjigman had to bail on me to be a good son-in-law in install a sump pump for the impending monsoons that never happened (thanks weatherman!). My boat is still in the shop (I pick it up Monday), so I was in the tin can, by myself, with no gas motor, on a 5k acre lake, in 20mph winds, odds were not in my favor. So 5 minutes into it, I stick a 3.64 on a spinnerbait, which is enough to win on this lake at times, so that's a good start.

10 minutes later I miss and then catch a 1.19 on my next flip. 15 minutes later I add a 1.59, then I have a fish hit my bait 3 flips in a row but keeps pecking at it but not committing. A bedding fish for sure I think. So next flip I'm prepared and the instant I feel the bite I swing and a poor spawning male crappie flies out of the water over the boat. Untangle the mess, release the surely shaken fish. Next flip was much different as my line jumps immediately as it lands next to a tiny clump of dead water willows, slam the rod back and a big fish is just as quickly airborne into a bush, tailwalks to the boats, wraps the line around the end of the end of the dead hedge tree the boat was next to and proceeds to try just as frantically to relieve itself of the hook as I am to get the live loose from the tree. Thankfully, I was able to free the line and lip the fish, finding the hook had all but worked itself loose. Fish was about 100 yards down the bank from the 5.74 on Tuesday, in the same cove, same side of the cove, and went 5.80. Me thinks it was the same fish. 

I caught 2 more in the back of the cove to finish out my limit, and it wasn't even 7 yet, we launched at 6. I was flipping a YUM Bad Momma so I picked up a 1/2oz jig to see if I could pick up a bigger bite on the same little bank I'd just fished. Pulled my jig over a limb and got whacked. Fished charged to the boat, never really got caught up to it and when I tried to flip it into the boat it just popped off. I'll make a confession, I was 100% certain I'd won already at this point and everything from this point on was just icing on the cake, so I was fishing relaxed and really only trying to break my personal record for my best Thursday night weight, which was just a tenth of an ounce shy of 15 pounds, and I was already over 14. I ended up culling 3 more times with very slight culls, but putting myself over 15 up to 15.69 when what turned out to be disaster struck, I dropped my scale in the water, making it so it wouldn't turn back on so I couldn't weigh the last few fish I caught, which at least 1 or 2 of them would have helped, but like I said, I was positive I didn't need them. Get back to weigh in, feeling great, first boat to check in has 15.72 pounds, .04 pounds more than I had, all I could do was laugh and shake my head. I had a great night, caught a bunch of fish, set 2 personal records and 2 club records, but fell just short of the win because my scale got wet. Wouldn't have taken much to get that tiny little bit I needed.

First video was from Tuesday, when I prefished and had just shy of 14 pounds.

 

Then the tournament, I should have included the part where I hook myself in the leg with a spinnerbait but left it out for anyone that's squimish. You can tell I thought I had it in the bag.

 

That crappie is never gonna be the same...

5 minutes ago, frosty said:

That crappie is never gonna be the same...

There was no less than 50 boats in the parking lot the next day with the majority after crappie, his fate could have been much worse. He'll just be about half an inch longer than what he was supposed to be at this point in his life and I mean, what guy wouldn't want that?

Just now, Bluebasser86 said:

There was no less than 50 boats in the parking lot the next day with the majority after crappie, his fate could have been much worse. He'll just be about half an inch longer than what he was supposed to be at this point in his life and I mean, what guy wouldn't want that?

Yeah, you probably did do him a favor, I’m sure the next thing he eats will get smelled and pecked at a lot before he commits!

Over 27 pounds of Indiana largemouth. Caught them within 45 minutes of each other, all on a magnum rage bug, pitched dirt shallow.

4lb 20", 1/8 jighead,2.8" paddletail, 7' M/F Smoke rod, Daiwa SV105, 16# sniper. 

 

 

Got out today to fish the Susquehanna River. Unfortunately because of the spring that didn't happen this year most of the big females were nowhere to be found. But the 2 smallies I caught fought like the devil in the current. Both weighed about 1 1/2 pounds each. 

12 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

Over 27 pounds of Indiana largemouth. Caught them within 45 minutes of each other, all on a magnum rage bug, pitched dirt shallow.

git r done 

Was rigging up the night before i took my kayak out and put a strike king rage swimmer on my chatterbait and it just looked too nice for me to wait. so since i live a block away from a pond i decided to use it.  this was 4 and change, biggest of the year for me.  too bad it wasnt a sign of things to come. i pretty much sucked it up on my kayak for the next two days.

4# spot fought like she thought she was closer to 10...

 

that thing is beautiful 

lucky slippers. best day of the year so far. got 9 in a couple hours. most on a denny brauer pp jig with yum christie craw. rest on res 2tap natural bream.  biggest was only 2.5# but some big bellies and good fights.

 

 

 

 

 

I got 30 LMB in the Everglades yesterday, but none of them were as big as this 3-plus I nailed tonight after dinner from the bank just a mile from home.  I caught half the fish yesterday and this one today on the Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed Worm  -- my new best friend.

 

 

Got out on the boat for the first time this year and had a great day on a lake where we commonly get skunked.  The two nicest fish of the day were a 3 1/2 lb largemouth and a little tiger Muskie!  Largemouth was caught on a jig, the Muskie was caught on a senko of all things.

My buddy and I had a great day on the water Sunday. Could have done without the rain mid day, but we expected it and decide we needed to fish anyway. 

Between the two of us we put 30 bass in the boat. Handful of dinks and the rest 1-2lb males that were buried up in cover on the banks, right where they should be. Didn't ever hook into any big girls, but we definitely saw some. Saw one that was 4-5lbs cruising on a shallow flat. 

 

Saw several other BIG females rolling and crashing on bait on a super steep drop-off bank that drops straight into the channel and 35FOW. 2 were easily 5-6lbs, saw one other that was 8-9+. But couldn't get any interest from them on any of the bluegill or shad colored baits we were throwing.

Biggest for me was a 2.5ish that came on a spinner bait in the middle of the first rain storm. We had been running moving baits and spinners and a few top waters early then I decided to slow down and get way shallow with slow presentations. Wacky rigged senko got most of my bites prior to the rain. Got two on the spinner bait while it was raining, but after the rain stopped I fished it off and on the rest of the day and got one other hit which didn't get hooked. The rest of the day was weightless worms and a few on Keitech swim baits. 

Enjoyed an excellent afternoon of sun & fun today.

Waters are warming fast but the Jerkbait is still a major player for me.

A-Jay