I do love a good flood storage reservoir, it’s the only reason people can even build (dry) houses in much of my region

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5lber on the Red Eye Shad. I tried burning it and eventually had to do one of the slowest retrieves I've ever done with a lipless, and it worked. Crawled it with constant twitches and just spanked em.

Another prespawner this evening on a fire craw bladed jig. They are getting plump before the spawn. This is part of a stretch of super pressured neighborhood ponds I occasionally fish. The kids who fish them use trendy lures like glides and ploppers year-round, and if you look on the shoreline or in the trees youll probably get a few. I try to tell them what lures are best at what times, but most of them ignore the advice and dont catch much. In ponds like these, if you know what your doing, you will probably have a good time.

15 hours ago, thediscochef said:

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The chef is cookin'

7 hours ago, Flukeflicker said:

The kids who fish them use trendy lures like glides and ploppers year-round, and if you look on the shoreline or in the trees youll probably get a few. I try to tell them what lures are best at what times, but most of them ignore the advice and dont catch much.

It's kind of you to try.

Better to be lucky than good, they say. Temps in the mid 70s yesterday, but those were brought in by steady wind gusts of 30+ mph all afternoon. My first and largest fish hooked in a large pad field in 3 ft of water. Got it near the boat and it dove under the boat and tied me up in some emerging pad stems. Wind trying to blow me away from the fish in the opposite direction, string stretched and twanging, about ready to break, all while fighting the trolling motor and wind to get back toward the fish. A mess that gets worse. The line breaks - I lose the fish and my only bladed jig.

Had a hunch the line got into the TM prop and broke, so pull it up out of the water - yep, wrapped. Then the light bulb goes off…what are the odds? I grab the line and the fish is still on. I hand-line the dangling 8ft or so of broken line, land the fish and get my bladed jig back. A few unwraps of line wound around the prop and we’re all good to go.

No more drama the rest of the afternoon, and I go on to land a limit of bass, all in 3 ft or less in windblown pockets on Chatter.

Well done @Team9nine !

Had a cold front pass through last night, wind shifted from south to north. A friend needed to pre-fish for a tournament next month so we got in his nitro and crossed the main channel Ive been fishing

3 pounds 15 oz.

Lost one around 6 on a jump…

In-ter-esting day.

Got on the water and it was overcast and a bit breezy. I started fishing right where I launched the boat and in short order, I caught two bass on a weightless blue/black Neko Macho TR. Then bam, nothing. Fished almost 3 hours and only one nibble from a dink. I tried various baits and it was dead. I got back to my starting point and hooked a green pumpkin lizard through the head on a wacky rig hook and casted a few times, and the clouds broke and the sun came out. Right after that I saw wakes on the surface of baitfish being chased and In casted the lizard out in front. It got slammed immediately. Nice 3 lb. bass. In about 15 minutes I caught two more on the same bait. One was another 3 and the other was a shade over 2 lbs. The water is stained and murky so I guess the sun helped them pick up on the bait movement. All-in-all, five bass in February is good in my book.

4 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

In-ter-esting day.

Got on the water and it was overcast and a bit breezy. I started fishing right where I launched the boat and in short order, I caught two bass on a weightless blue/black Neko Macho TR. Then bam, nothing. Fished almost 3 hours and only one nibble from a dink. I tried various baits and it was dead. I got back to my starting point and hooked a green pumpkin lizard through the head on a wacky rig hook and casted a few times, and the clouds broke and the sun came out. Right after that I saw wakes on the surface of baitfish being chased and In casted the lizard out in front. It got slammed immediately. Nice 3 lb. bass. In about 15 minutes I caught two more on the same bait. One was another 3 and the other was a shade over 2 lbs. The water is stained and murky so I guess the sun helped them pick up on the bait movement. All-in-all, five bass in February is good in my book.

Ma that’s a great day!

Tank in a foot of muddy water today - leading the big bass battle for February for 2026 with this one! Free rigged bronco bug in black and blue got it done right before they closed up for the day!

9 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Tank in a foot of muddy water today - leading the big bass battle for February for 2026 with this one! Free rigged bronco bug in black and blue got it done right before they closed up for the day!

Pat the hammer never disappoints. Well done man!

@Team9nine: Since you have landed one hundred percent of the bass that wrapped around your trolling motor by pulling them in hand over hand, I suggest you guide all your hooked bass to your trolling motor going forward.

You are welcome.

Here's a little video of Pat leaving his home to go fishing:

4lb 9oz on a black and blue Strike King Premiere pro model casting jig with a Bass Pro Shops Bio bait brawny craw trailer. I barely shook it, then gave it a couple of hops, and she bit. It's pretty chilly outside, but there is an underwater pipe that pumps in warm water that fish like to hang around. I think it causes them to bite a lot better when it's cold. Although I loved catching this fish, I lost one at least twice its size that was easily the biggest I've ever hooked on a white-chartreuse bladed jig 😭. At least I know there are fish of that caliber here.

How did you lose the DDish fish?

Well, the bladed jig had a barbless hook. I know it SUCKS. If it had a barb, Im pretty confident I would have landed her since Im good at handling them near the bank, and their barbs are typically pretty stout.

16 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

How did you lose the DDish fish?

Little feller saved the skunk. Caught too many fish to count in 1.5 hours Thursday, same spot same time Friday got skunked and Saturday almost got skunked. Overnight storms muddied the water, I hate muddy water

33 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Little feller saved the skunk. Caught too many fish to count in 1.5 hours Thursday, same spot same time Friday got skunked and Saturday almost got skunked. Overnight storms muddied the water, I hate muddy water

We had a couple fronts come through with cold nights and I had the same experience. The spot I've been catching em at this week was totally empty

Today 10 am about 3 lbs. Jack All bladed jig.

Caught 3- 1lb also.

Cold front dropping temps into the low 40s (and into the 20s tonight) hit today and I walked the bank in the backyard - missed some good bites and then double back through making casts from far away and this 3 lb 12 oz beauty thumped the free rigged net bait dagger on the fall.

She wrapped me up in a tree pretty good but the 3/0 worm hook kept her pegged nicely. 6 lber yesterday and almost 4 lber today - that’s fun!

Unfortunately the action may slow down a lot tomorrow and Tuesday but by Wednesday the weather will be trending back up and this weekend we should have favorable conditions for catching a nice one on shallow cover again!

37 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Cold front dropping temps into the low 40s (and into the 20s tonight) hit today and I walked the bank in the backyard - missed some good bites and then double back through making casts from far away and this 3 lb 12 oz beauty thumped the free rigged net bait dagger on the fall.

She wrapped me up in a tree pretty good but the 3/0 worm hook kept her pegged nicely. 6 lber yesterday and almost 4 lber today - that’s fun!

Unfortunately the action may slow down a lot tomorrow and Tuesday but by Wednesday the weather will be trending back up and this weekend we should have favorable conditions for catching a nice one on shallow cover again!

Very nice! I went and stood in wind and 20 degrees today since the water is thawed out lol. No bites tho

Cold…… but I got 3. Wind and 34 ish degree air, my hands and legs were frozen on the way back to the dock. One spot one smallie and one blacknose crappie. Fished the calm spots I could find in river bend