5lb Channel Cat, 5lb Flathead, 3lb Spotted Gar, 1.5lb Black Crappie 

Those wels pictures are haunting my dreams... I would fish for those things if I had access. 

Was practicing my shakey head presentation and had this decent rock bass hit right beside a dock.

 

 

Nice size Rock Bass @Attila!

44 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Nice size Rock Bass @Attila!

 

Thanks! Surprised me, at first I thought a small smallmouth had grabbed the bait as it jumped up and into the dock but when it came out I saw it was a rock bass...fishing, full of surprises!

Fishing certainly is full of surprises @Attila...for sure, hundred%

Large Pike. Forgot my tape in another bag. One of my biggest.

4 minutes ago, MassBass said:

Large Pike. Forgot my tape in another bag. One of my biggest.

Primo looking Pike !

Congrats

A-Jay

After getting skunked for the first 6 or 7 hours of the day, my dad and my brother and I caught all these guys in about an hour before the bite shut off again.  Never know what the day will turn into!

36 minutes ago, PAbasser927 said:

After getting skunked for the first 6 or 7 hours of the day, my dad and my brother and I caught all these guys in about an hour before the bite shut off again.  Never know what the day will turn into!

Nice load of Slabs right there.

Congrats

"Cue the Hot Fat !"

A-Jay

 

Today i went, just for a quick one hour session, to a little lake near my house...  the only captures where one tiny Bass and one nice Barbel, both on a Zoom Super Fluke Jr....

 

 

6 hours ago, Jelvas said:

Today i went, just for a quick one hour session, to a little lake near my house...  the only captures where one tiny Bass and one nice Barbel, both on a Zoom Super Fluke Jr....

 

 

A barbel really doesn't look like a predatory fish but it's super cool that they will eat things other than chunks of lunch meat that the guys in the UK like to camp out with haha

I caught this before heading home for the day.

Such a cool sunfish, I think it is anyway.

Never caught a blue one before.

7 hours ago, everythingthatswims said:

A barbel really doesn't look like a predatory fish but it's super cool that they will eat things other than chunks of lunch meat that the guys in the UK like to camp out with haha

 

Oh but believe me...  they are! And, pound for pound, probably the best fighting fish we have on our waters. The fight doesn´t last very long, but, while it lasts, it´s like you´re hooked to a torpedo...

Pitched into a laydown and thought I'd hooked one of the DD bass that live in this lake for a minute, should have known.

Caught my first longear sunfish today. Unfortunately he took all 3 barbs and there was no way to get them out without serious damage to him, and I didn't figure a jerkbait would rust away so I had to put him out of his misery, to bad, he was a feisty little guy 

I caught these Yellow Perch back in June.  They were delicious, fried in butter:

 

 

 

9 hours ago, frosty said:

Caught my first longear sunfish today. Unfortunately he took all 3 barbs and there was no way to get them out without serious damage to him, and I didn't figure a jerkbait would rust away so I had to put him out of his misery, to bad, he was a feisty little guy 

Not that I would do it for a sunfish, but you could always cut one or two of those hooks protruding outside of it's mouth to remove the hooks. 

3 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Not that I would do it for a sunfish, but you could always cut one or two of those hooks protruding outside of it's mouth to remove the hooks. 

Yeah, I didn't even consider that. I was honestly trying to figure out how he got the whole treble hook in his mouth!

20 minutes ago, frosty said:

Yeah, I didn't even consider that. I was honestly trying to figure out how he got the whole treble hook in his mouth!

I've had them do that lots of time when I was younger and fished roostertails a lot. Almost impossible to remove the hook without tearing their mouths up when they're sewn up like that.

4 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I've had them do that lots of time when I was younger and fished roostertails a lot. Almost impossible to remove the hook without tearing their mouths up when they're sewn up like that.

Oh yeah, get one out, start working on the top ones and back in the bottom one goes, not to mention the other top one was ripping... oh well, I'm sure some gar has made a meal out of him already. 

On 6/28/2017 at 3:25 AM, Angealy said:

I caught this before heading home for the day.

Such a cool sunfish, I think it is anyway.

Never caught a blue one before.

That's a red ear sunfish.

We call em shellcrackers in Fla.

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Not that I would do it for a sunfish, but you could always cut one or two of those hooks protruding outside of it's mouth to remove the hooks. 

Fish fry is a more humane option

3 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

That's a red ear sunfish.

We call em shellcrackers in Fla.

Looks nothing like the redears we have here.   

Looks more like a pumpkinseed to me.

I agree. I dont think we have pumpkin seeds in Fla. What threw me off was the dab of orange on the Gill plate