Caught these last Saturday in Minnesota flippin pads and swimming jigs. Had a 22lb bag between the 2 of us 

An Australian Bass and its close cousin the Estuary Perch from a hot bite the other night.

On ‎6‎/‎25‎/‎2018 at 1:41 AM, saltybluegrass said:

Gotta show off the little grandson reeling in an Oscar at over 1 pound

That is a Mayan Cichlid, not an Oscar. Still an awesome catch, especially one over a pound! Nice job little man!

With the temps rising, the midday bite has fallen way off. So I’m hitting it in the morning with success. 7 this morning on the black/blue and junebug Dingers. Largest went 3.2. I was catching them in twos, on almost back to back casts. 

 

 

 

And this one(top middle of the collage), was just mean. He smashed the bait, and fought like Ali. Then I discovered a potential reason why—obviously some eye trauma(not caused by me). 

 

Caught a long and super skinny one today.. dinks were out in full force too.

 

 

 

3 hours ago, deep said:

Caught a long and super skinny one today.. dinks were out in full force too.

 

 

 

I caught an 18.5", an 18.75", and a 19" out there last time I went, all pretty lean, not sure why. There were also lots of 12" schoolers that I played with for a while out in the middle of the lake.

13 hours ago, Jim Osborn said:

That is one fat hawg. 

My buddy demonstrates when you "long arm" a 2 pounder 

I know this is a bass forum but, struck out on bass today. Caught this guy on the Saginaw river today.  I think it is a flat head. If it is a flat head it is my first one.  I was throwing my chatter bait with boot fluke white trailer to some wood and bushes.  Before it floated to the bottom he grabbed.  I’ve fought a lot of salmon while trolling and this guy will give 18 lbs king a run for its money. I have never felt anything like this while casting.  I was using 10lbs big game line. After I netted him the chatter bait fell out of his mouth.  He bent the kvd snap all up.  He gave my Black maxx rod and reel everything he had and the rod and reel came through with flying colors. 

That is without a doubt, a flathead catfish, congrats on your first one. They are one of the hardest pulling fish in freshwater in the US for sure, especially if you get ahold of a really large one. 

Got my first decent fish in awhile and a few of her friends this evening. They were all over the small June bug yum dingers.

Nice to see the Dinger catches decent fish! I picked up a couple packs last week to try. Can't beat the price and they seem to hold up better than senkos. Haven't caught any hogs with them yet but seems like the dinks love them! 

A buddy and I had a 70-fish Day combined (all LM Bass) recently fishing in kayaks. We both caught fish in excess of 21 inches (5 - 6 1/2 Lb. range) and lots of 3 pounders etc. We were fishing coontail and slop and so there was a lot of hard cranking and lifting. We used everything: frogs, toads (Ribbits), Yum Dingers, Power worms, whopper Ploppers, buzzbaits, and even a few crankbaits and spinnerbaits on the edges. When the day was over we both had sore wrists and elbows and scratched up fingers and thumbs. It took about 48 hours to fully recover from the soreness but it still felt gooood.  

On 6/8/2018 at 10:52 PM, WolfyBrandon said:

[June 08, 2018]

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Today was an example of the power of "PMA".

 

It was a Wednesday, Jeremy and I got off work and met up at his place for an after work fishing trip. We launched the boat at 2:30pm, and headed to our first spot. It was shallow, water temp ~70F, we could see bass all over. We both were catching little ones left and right, and having a great time. Then there was a moment where I turned to look behind us and out of nowhere there was a guy in a bass boat on his trolling motor that came right up to us, like less than 30ft away... At first it was all cool, and he asked if we had caught anything. So we told him yeah been catching little ones... Then he proceeds to go right around the back of us, and cut right in-front of where we were headed. Once he gets like 50ft away, he starts up his big motor and just has it idling as he stands on the trolling motor and drives down the next 1/2 mile of shoreline that we planned to fish not even making a single cast...

 

 

Jeremy and I both look at each-other and are like... "Well, that was rude..."

 

What happened next was - we both continued fishing the shoreline that the dude just cruised through - like nothing had ever happened...

 

(I just checked the time stamp on my images) Less than 5 minutes after that guy cut in-front of us Jeremy makes a cast and hooks into his "fish of the day"...

 

 

 

We both continue catching them just like before, Jeremy even breaks his one day total record today catching 30+ bass. Two hours after his catch, I make a cast with a lizard to the outside edge of a log parallel to the shoreline and nothing, I then make a second cast over the log to the inside edge between the log and the shoreline and hook into my "fish of the day"...

 

 

  

While I was in the process of landing my "fish of the day", Jeremy doubled up with a nice 3lb 05oz Largemouth. 

 

 

Fishing was so good we didn't arrive back at the ramp till 8:00pm. (We have to be up at ~3:30am for our work schedule.) We both made it work, so good times...

 

 

Looking back on this day, we could of easily got frustrated and moved to another location and missed out on all of this. Instead we kept positive and continued on with our original plan we had from the start and it payed off. There has been countless times over the past 3 years from when I first learned Positive Mental Attitude from Gerald Swindle that it has saved my fishing day. Whether you choose to believe it or not, PMA is indeed a powerful tool in the tackle box.

 

WolfyBrandon

 

There's people like that everywhere you go anymore. Key is to not let them get to you and just do what you do despite them. I try to focus even more and catch fish behind guys when they cut me off, making sure they splash around on the side of the boat so they can see them a little more than usual too

 

Good job keeping your heads in the game and catching some good ones. 

8 hours ago, Fairtax4me said:

Nice to see the Dinger catches decent fish! I picked up a couple packs last week to try. Can't beat the price and they seem to hold up better than senkos. Haven't caught any hogs with them yet but seems like the dinks love them! 

I was at Academy sports yesterday and they have a good selection , but don't carry the smaller senkos. They do have the dingers, which are cheaper , and last usually for at least 2 fish. In catching fish, I rate the real senkos as excellent  and the dingers as good.

I've caught fish over 5 pounds with the senko, but not many over 3 with the dinger. 

Got this big girl on a jig, between a dock and a pontoon on a hoist.  What a crazy fight, considering I had about 8 inches to work with between boat hoist and dock.  It pays to spend the dough on Sufix 832!

 

Close to my PB, it went 22".  I put her back, of course.

Man, nice tank there !

Second best of the summer on the frog. Mid day 90 degrees and full sun. Absolutely choked it and I had to horse her through 20 feet of thick vegetation. Went for 4.63, snapped a few shots and she was on her way.

Update: 

Went out in the kayak for round two and caught a 14 incher, on a frog again. I’m on a frog kick here in Virginia! 

Biggest smalljaw of the year so far for me.  Was banging flats with a Rapala X-Rap in olive color when this tank decided he was hungry.  Hit like a sack of bricks and made me think I had a 30+ inch pike on the line.

 

 

20” this morning breakin in new gear

 

 

My buddy came into town for a weekend of fishing and we got some nice ones!