18 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Took my boys to a creek for a few hours Sunday afternoon. Last time we went for 30 minutes to get bait before chasing flatheads and they were disappointed we had to leave, so this time we were just focused on the creek. Ultralights with tiny jigs with piece of an orange grub worked everything over for them. 

Those kids are growing sooooo fast...How old are the now Blue?

1 minute ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Those kids are growing sooooo fast...How old are the now Blue?

8 and 5, just finished preschool and second grade.

1 minute ago, Bluebasser86 said:

8 and 5, just finished preschool and second grade.

Oh wow...How time flies.

Enjoy it Blue, my daughter has finished college and my son graduates next year. 

Enjoy it while you can. 

Got a pretty warmouth on a wacky rig under a dock tonight.

Got a warmouth on a super fluke on the first cast this morning at the church pond.

The bass didnt cooperate there today…

From my first ever Chesapeake Bay outing came my first ever blue cat, white perch, and white (?) catfish:

 

 

1 minute ago, RyAxion said:

From my first ever Chesapeake Bay outing came my first ever blue cat, white perch, and white (?) catfish:

 

 

Nice! Some healthy looking blues. Never caught a white catfish/bullhead before, but that certainly looks like one. 

Caught my first ever pike but was unable to get a pic before it thrashed around and got back in the water ?. Was somewhere between 25-30” and 4-6 pounds I’d guess. Here’s this view for consolation 

After not catching one of these guys since 2020 I hooked into a Channel Cat over 3 pounds. Great surprise and a nice fight in the tight spot I caught him in.

 

Gone overnight for stripers, End ups catching two Cat 9lb and 7lb. No stripers.

Got a couple bream while mostly bass fishing . The second one ( a very dark shellcracker, possibly a hybrid with a warmouth) ate a uv speed worm. The first was caught  with a roostertail in a bedding area…

Haven't had a lot of time lately to go fishing, the bass action has been like watching paint dry. Caught this fat little pound and a quarter crappie. We had a massive temp fluctuation last week and it had the bite patterns all messed up. Any time I'm catching this many white bass and smallmouth from usual spot/lmb shore, it usually means conditions are a little off in the lake. Been in the studio all weekend, memorial day has the lakes full anyway. Mid-week to possum kingdom or Whitney for some faster clear-water action.

29" / 5-lb 4-oz. Pike this morning on a white/chartreuse spinnerbait. 

 

 

 

I caught my first ever Lake Trout this weekend in Lake Michigan! I also caught some mini Brown Trout and some tiny Rainbow Trout.

This ambitious mutant perch thought he could eat a 4" 1.5oz Shellcracker G2.

 

On 6/1/2022 at 7:05 AM, TheBasslayer said:

I caught my first ever Lake Trout this weekend in Lake Michigan! I also caught some mini Brown Trout and some tiny Rainbow Trout.

hey, how did you catch these?

Second ever bowfin! The 40 lb seaguar held up to the craziness. My buddy caught two earlier in the day on back to back casts that were a good bit bigger. 

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Second ever bowfin! The 40 lb seaguar held up to the craziness. My buddy caught two earlier in the day on back to back casts that were a good bit bigger. 

Hopefully you didn’t try to lip that one.?

12 hours ago, MassBass said:

hey, how did you catch these?

On a little Swedish Pimple, just letting it sink down to the bottom and using it like a regular spoon.

36 minutes ago, TheBasslayer said:

On a little Swedish Pimple, just letting it sink down to the bottom and using it like a regular spoon.

Using spoons is something I need to do.  I know they work.  I've seen it plenty.  I've got a few.  But every time I go to tie a new lure on I look at them and just think nahhhh that's not going to get bit.  

On 6/3/2022 at 8:47 AM, hokiehunter373 said:

Using spoons is something I need to do.  I know they work.  I've seen it plenty.  I've got a few.  But every time I go to tie a new lure on I look at them and just think nahhhh that's not going to get bit.  

Yeah that is what I thought too until I tried it out.

First cobia out of the surf.  The  skate and stingray bite was good training for pulling bass out of heavy grass in the coming weeks.  5 rays in 30 minutes is a fully body workout.

 

 

Had a kayak tournament this past weekend and got down to the lake Thursday night, camping Thursday and Friday night, tournament was Saturday. Thursday I walked down to the ramp and made some cast around there. Seemed like there was a bunch of fish right around the ramp. Caught several crappie, a few white bass, and a handful of small walleye and sauger, all on the same Ned rig.

As usual, I'd brought my catfish rods with me so I decided to sit out and enjoy the nice night for a few hours. Thanks to one of the white bass I'd caught, I managed my first ever blue cat I'd caught from the lake. It wasn't a monster, but it sure was fun.

About an inch shy of "keeper" sized by my improvised measuring board (first board was 26" so 8" added to it put me at 34", have to be 35" to be a keeper). 

 

Had another screaming run but managed to miss it somehow. Making a weekend trip with the family next weekend to one of the best blue cat lakes in the country. Hoping to put my boys on a whole bunch of them. 

 

Nice little wiper from our state tourney.  War Eagle Finesse jig

Had a lively afternoon finesse wacky worming bass. (Thanks to @Team9nine for reminding me how effective this technique is.)  As a side bonus I picked up a couple of seriously big hybrid 'gills.