Big Fish Jeff just returned from what looks like an unforgettable trip to Colombia.

Fishing for Peacock Bass on the remote Tomo River in the heart of the Amazon.

20 lb Fish are rare and saying they are hard to get to is a wild understatement.

 

Congrats my friend.

A-Jay

Limited out on holdover rainbows. Two on silver spoon, one on spinner. They were biting good in the south breeze. 

Took 7hrs to get bit, but I'm officially on the board for 25. Only 35.5" but she's a tanker. Plum full of eggs and shad.

Oh yeah it’s @T-Billy Muskie season 

59 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Took 7hrs to get bit, but I'm officially on the board for 25. Only 35.5" but she's a tanker. Plum full of eggs and shad.

Way To Go @T-Billy Bomber !

Congrats

A-Jay

They were running big last night, loads of fun on the st croix 

Good Job!!

 

 

 

 

Mike

Nice! @TnRiver46 I stopped at the river after work a couple of days ago and caught 5 in 10 minutes, but they were all little. Those look like big 'uns!

They were fatties sure, fight like the devil 

6 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

They were fatties sure, fight like the devil 

I'm supremely jealous. Oh and what reel is that?

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

on the st croix 

The St Croix along the MN-WI border?

1 minute ago, gim said:

The St Croix along the MN-WI border?

He’s referring to his rod and reel

On 3/8/2025 at 9:07 PM, Eric 26 said:

@ATA I’m sincerely hoping everything is alright with Tank and his house along with yours more importantly. Also nice looking rainbow trout the better half is holding up. 

 

On 3/9/2025 at 7:41 AM, Swamp Girl said:

 

I second Eric.

Dear Eric and Swamp Girl, Thank you for kind message. We all doing good and we had awesome trip with 20lb bag of lobster and beside so many spotty and crabs and snail in San Diego Bay

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45 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

He’s referring to his rod and reel

19 minutes ago, gim said:

It’s been a long winter for me too. 😁

13 hours ago, gim said:

The St Croix along the MN-WI border?

I wish! Although it may be frozen haha. 

13 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

I'm supremely jealous. Oh and what reel is that?

St croix GXR

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

I wish! Although it may be frozen haha. 

St croix GXR

No wonder I didn't recognize it.  I didn't even know they had reels. Wonder who makes them? Is it decent?

Yes it’s a nice reel!  The only thing I wish it had was anti reverse switch because I’m a backreeler but I’ve been using the drag and it works smoothly, has a pleasant sound to it 😂 

 

It casts a mile with 6 lb mono, I’ve got a fairly whippy rod paired with it, which is also awesome for feeling that light “tick” of a bite on top of the long bomb casts

Them dirty nippers are messing with me!!! 😂 Six bites in six hours today, and only one made it in the net. 🤦‍♂️ She's an absolute chunk of a 34" though.

Walked to Taylor Creek, there are a lot of little waterways that go in and out of Lake Okeechobee.   Since it's always Rattletrap season, I started throwing in a colorful one with a 8.2 Shimano SLX XT and my trusty BPS Tourney 6'6" medium fast rod.  Within 15 minutes, I caught a fish, and was in Mudfish city.

Catching something, is better than nothing....I guess. 

Now that I think about it, I've caught Nile Perch, Catfish, and Mudfish with this rattletrap...but no bass.  Like, none.   My lure looks like it survived the Ardennes in World War One now, but it still rattles..and still catches anything other than bass, lmao.

Got this fat bullhead on a zoom horny toad, of all things…

Nice upstate NY walleye caught a couple weeks ago, my biggest ever.

Took my boys out for a few hours Sunday evening where a creek runs into the river. Everything gathers here in the spring but all we found were little channels and drum. Nice weather and the boys were having a blast chasing frogs and cranking in fish.

On 3/23/2025 at 4:46 PM, T-Billy said:

Them dirty nippers are messing with me!!! 😂 Six bites in six hours today, and only one made it in the net. 🤦‍♂️ She's an absolute chunk of a 34" though.

Looks pre-spawn.

48 minutes ago, Further North said:

Looks pre-spawn.

Yeah. Water's currently mid/high 40's. They'll be git'n busy with the spawn here in a few weeks.