2 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

Awfully quiet...nobody having any luck? I hope to get out sunday, to prides creek but another 65 hour work week may say different. 

I got out last Saturday for a couple hours. Nothing unusual, hopefully I'm going to be able to go Saturday morning for a few hours. 

4 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

Awfully quiet...nobody having any luck? I hope to get out sunday, to prides creek but another 65 hour work week may say different. 

Its been slow for me the past couple weeks, I've only been catching 10-15 bass in an average morning of fishing.  Best thing I'm on is an early morning buzzbait/popper bite but it only lasts till about 7:30.  I have been catching some bass offshore, mostly while stroking jigs or fishing 5xds.  I miss a lot of bites on the jig, can't seem to hook more than 20% of the bites.  Lots of catfish (including a couple flatheads) keep eating my cranks and jigs, unfortunately I have yet to hook a flathead that hasn't broken my line yet.

12 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Best thing I'm on is an early morning buzzbait/popper bite but it only lasts till about 7:30.

Dude is deadly with a buzzbait.  Made me a believer

 

12 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said:

I have been catching some bass offshore, mostly while stroking jigs or fishing 5xds.  Lots of catfish (including a couple flatheads) keep eating my cranks and jigs

Not to mention the 6xd-choking crappie and those jerkbait-eating pumpkinseeds

I plan to go in the morning for maybe 45 before heading home from work. All I grabbed was the dreaded frog rod. 

4 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

I plan to go in the morning for maybe 45 before heading home from work. All I grabbed was the dreaded frog rod. 

Dreaded for the fish maybe lol I can't wait for a good frog bite here 

1 hour ago, dsqui said:

Dreaded for the fish maybe lol I can't wait for a good frog bite here 

topwater is my 2nd least favorite way to fish...I'm weird I know

8 hours ago, dsqui said:

Dreaded for the fish maybe lol I can't wait for a good frog bite here 

I haven't had a good frog bite all year. 

Out slamming the ponds during the storm, zman frog & zman split tail made for a great time 

We had a breakdown at work so I wasn't able to go this morning. Maybe I'll try after work tonight. 

3 hours ago, Alan Reed said:

I haven't had a good frog bite all year. 

I've been killing them with my live target sunfish. 

 

 

9 minutes ago, frosty said:

I've been killing them with my live target sunfish. 

 

 

I'm glad to hear someone is. I bought two and haven't caught a fish yet on them. I watched a YouTube article the other day about adding some weight to them. Have you tried that?

 

13 minutes ago, Tracker22 said:

I'm glad to hear someone is. I bought two and haven't caught a fish yet on them. I watched a YouTube article the other day about adding some weight to them. Have you tried that?

 

No, I didn't do anything to them. My first one was out of an mtb box, my daughter lost it the other day, I just bought the 3 1/2" today. I was hooking up with them like crazy, I also have a jawbone one that got hit a lot but I never managed to hook up with any. 

Gotta question about river fishing in a kayak. When you are fishing by yourself or with others. Are you fishing up and down where you put in or are you floating down to another landing, ok, maybe 2 questions. 

20 hours ago, BigBassLoveSenkos said:

 

Not to mention the 6xd-choking crappie and those jerkbait-eating pumpkinseeds

Yeah, that was a slab that choked on your 6xd.  Usually get one or two nice crappie on deep cranks most trips, they don't seem to care about this size of the bait at all!  And I can't seem to keep those pesky pumpkinseed's off of anything I throw, but they definitely showed a preference for your jerk.  At least they're a pretty fish, but they can be a pain in the butt when fishing fragile soft plastics or skirted frogs.

12 hours ago, Alan Reed said:

I haven't had a good frog bite all year. 

Did you end up going to patoka? If so, how'd you do?

7 blow ups, 2 two pounders landed. Had another hooked but he came off. All on the frog. Maybe this topwater fishing ain't too bad. 

8 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

Did you end up going to patoka? If so, how'd you do?

I was planning to go last weekend but plans had to change. Going to get down there soon. 

 

The guys that did go didn't do that great. Caught an ok number but no real size.

Has anyone here fished bluegrass fwa just north of evansville? Supposedly some giants in there. 

Got out this morning to try out some new stuff that arrived yesterday. I got a tackle warehouse order and mtb on the same day, it was a good day  caught several on the Ned rig, caught 2 on my new buzzbait, and had a few blow ups on the live target sunfish. Oh, I caught one on my first (and probably only) megabass jerkbait... it was a daggone bluegill! a bluegill on a $25 jerkbait! Good grief Charlie Brown!

Ahh yes those megabass are awesome they will catch anything 

So if any of you are interested, gander mountain in Avon still has a ton of stuff. I picked up a Fenwick HMG that was 20% of, discounts vary, but most were 20%-30%

Anyone have any luck up North lately? Specifically on Wawasee or the surrounding lakes? 

Last time I was out about two weeks ago I hammered the crappie on a vision 110 they were still full of eggs

 

Second time using the wacky rig & I landed this 6 pounder, bet I caught 50 over 3 pounds using just the wacky rig, well having trouble loading pic

 

On 6/23/2017 at 5:38 PM, Midwest Fisherman said:

Gotta question about river fishing in a kayak. When you are fishing by yourself or with others. Are you fishing up and down where you put in or are you floating down to another landing, ok, maybe 2 questions. 

When fishing by yourself I always advise people to fish up river and then float back down to where you put in (less chance of you getting too tired to get home). When fishing with others, have one person park their car at the take out landing and drive both of you to the put in - float down river until you hit that landing and load up the 'yaks in your buddies vehicle. 

 

Also - went fishing with @BigBassLoveSenkos yesterday. Good day on the water despite high winds and the cold fronts that came through. As his name implies, we caught the majority of fish on senkos and a few on jigs/texas rigs. 

If anyone decides to fish with Mr. BigBass just know he will have close to 25 rods across his deck in the morning but only use about 4 throughout the day.