12 hours ago, MassBass said:

The small mountain resort town, even over my lifetime, has become an international tourist destination, with traffic, drive through dunkins, and shopping centers.

 

There is a lake I love in northwestern Ontario and I have had a recurring nightmare where they paved the bottom of it with cement, turning into a lifeless swimming pool, and had homes and Dairy Queens ringing it. Of course, turning a wild lake into a city lake would be some people's idea of Heaven. 

 

I'm so glad that the whitefish have resurrected your Heaven.

Man I need some of those Fallfish in my life. They look like giant creek chubs and I bet the big river blues and flatheads would eat them like candy 😂

I went to a national forest in north Florida today. My target species were mud sunfish, bluespotted sunfish, banded sunfish, blackbanded sunfish, and fliers. I caught none of those. However, I did catch this warmouth in roadside ditch.

 

 

I also found a couple of ponds, where I caught some coppernose bluegill and a dinky Florida bass. I’d like to come back soon to get my target species.

Stream yellow perch and some lake toothies in my bud's vessel

Always fun on a popper 

It definitely ain't August anymore. Fish are scattered everywhere, and everyone I've talked to is struggling to get bit. It took me about 15 hours of grinding over a couple days to come up with this little 32".

We need some cooler weather to bring 'em shallow. Some rain would be great also. We've passed severe drought and reached exceptional status, and there ain't much hope in the extended forecast.

 

1 hour ago, T-Billy said:

We need some cooler weather to bring 'em shallow. Some rain would be great also.

I am in full agreement with this.

Got my annual Musky Quota checked off this morning.

What Brute !

Thanks for the inspiration @T-Billy

A-Jay

 

Great fish @A-Jay!!! Congratulations!!!

My mother used to say that you needed a nice cedar board to cook the carp on, after seasoning well and baking it in the oven until done, you threw away the fish and ate the board !  Her famous Carp recipe !!

First keeper striper of the season this morning on a duo pencil 110. Had a head and shoulders but was dang skinny, surprising with the amount of baitfish in the water right now. Donated to one of guys bait fishing the bank for dinner vs sport.

Had another 7-8 rats on a tailspin, underspin & finesse swimbait

I took a skunking yesterday. I had ten follows, two of them nipped at the bait in the 8, but didn't hook up.

 A bit of rain and low cloud cover this morning helped their mood a bit. I caught two ( 33" and 34.5"), lost another about the same size, and had three more follows. September's been tough, I'm happy to have this pair of little slimers. 

Last salt trip of the year for me. Conditions were different, we got a lot of rain that raised the water about 2’. Grass was also starting to die back. Fish were not in the areas I found them previously so I had to do some exploring.

I found a lot of fish concentrated in a small area sheltered from the wind. Every 30 seconds or so I would see a fish boil or a back or tail sticking out of the water. However they were not biting very well. I must have cast at 30 different fish before one finally hit. Fortunately it was a nice one(didn’t have my measuring board on me but I believe it was somewhere in the 28-30” range. Overslot!).

 

 

I stuck around for a while trying to get the breaking fish to bite. I ended up with one slot fish and 4 undersized. Pretty surprised at how tough it was despite seeing fish all around the area.

 

 

No birds were harmed while making this video.

This knucklehead took a poke at my Megabass topwater Bait and I wanted it back.

Some days it just goes like that.

A-Jay

Tammy whooped me again, for the third time in four trips. I don't know how much more my ego can take!!! I may need counseling. 😂  We got out for four hours after I got off work today. We caught three. 40.25" and a 30.25" for her, 35.5" for me. We also moved another six, including a heavy mid 40's. Water's down to 71 and things are starting to fall into place up in the creeks. Some quality fish starting to show up shallow.

@A-Jay, Life's a b**ch and then you get the net. LMAO!!!

A couple rainbows were runnin:

We had a bit of a cool down mid week which cooled down my favorite retention pond with a 70 degree plus day yesterday which had the crappies up close to the shoreline 😃

Hey,

just wanted to share a few fish caught recently, hope everyone is well

Not exactly what I was after, but a decent fight.

 

 

 

Stopped Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday at my favorite pond this week with no luck Friday but Tuesday and Wednesday caught a few both days on a jig and an in-line spinner that I just started fishing with again thanks to @bulldog1935 & @Swamp Girl for reminding me of how productive they can be. I’m including the dinky bass here of which I caught 2 on the aforementioned in-line spinner. 

Slow day at the forebay but no skunk so I'm happy.

first a-rig fish of the year is not a giant. 

got a couple more of similar size

one decent fish probably 16-17" on top water. of course pinned all 3 points of the treble in the mouth with pliers in my car. had to give poor guy the kung-fu grip and run up the bank, still got a hook point in the finger for my troubles.

@Peacedivision Beautiful stripers? Congratulations on the non skunk and that stinks when you forget the dang pliers and take a hook to boot 😮 been there done that 😉

Brown trout

Got on some rainbows, could have limited out, but I guess I made the mistake of leaving fish to find maybe bigger fish. So made off with two, couldn't get a third. 

The full moon brings fun times.

 

 

Caught 8 snook on a DOA shrimp. All small, the biggest (pictured) was ~15”. It’s been a while since I’ve gone snooking and the bugs weren’t bad, so I’m happy with it.