Flathead on a crankbait yesterday. My by catch game is taking off. RIP to my Bomber Square A in brown/chartreuse that I caught the cat with. Fell victim to a cast net someone got snagged and left behind. Pretty sure that color is discontinued and I can only find in store at Walmart but it catches fish so time to hunt for more.

Did a little kayak catfishing on the river Friday. I found there comes a point in kayak catfishing when you hook a fish and for a moment aren't really sure who has caught who.

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Did a little kayak catfishing on the river Friday. I found there comes a point in kayak catfishing when you hook a fish and for a moment aren't really sure who has caught who.

Dude ~ 

That's a Beast !

Bet that was fun

Congrats.

A-Jay

 

 

I'll apologized in advance for burning your retina but this juvenile Musky is The First One I've caught here.  The lake used to have a quite a population back in the day.  Recently (a few years ago) DNR began a re-stocking program.

Looks like it's working !  This specimen was fat, very healthy and quite a surprise when it rocketed 3 feet in the air next to the boat.  Seems a few years from now I may have a legitimate Musky lake very close by - I'm a fan.

A-Jay

 

12 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 

This specimen was fat, very healthy and quite a surprise when it rocketed 3 feet in the air next to the boat. 

A-Jay

 

Please tell me there is a vid on the way!

1 hour ago, NYWayfarer said:

Please tell me there is a vid on the way!

There certainly is . . .

Be up in a bit.

A-Jay

 

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

 

I'll apologized in advance for burning your retina but this juvenile Musky is The First One I've caught here.  The lake used to have a quite a population back in the day.  Recently (a few years ago) DNR began a re-stocking program.

Looks like it's working !  This specimen was fat, very healthy and quite a surprise when it rocketed 3 feet in the air next to the boat.  Seems a few years from now I may have a legitimate Musky lake very close by - I'm a fan.

A-Jay

 

Did you catch any bass as well? Looking forward to the vid of the 3' rocket! ?

31 minutes ago, MichaelCopeland said:

Did you catch any bass as well? Looking forward to the vid of the 3' rocket! ?

 

Yes - Report to follow. 

A-Jay

1 minute ago, A-Jay said:

 

Yes - Report to follow. 

A-Jay

Awesomeness! That bass looks like it did some of its own acrobats as well! ?

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

There certainly is . . .

Be up in a bit.

A-Jay

 

Awesome vid! That was some leap. I could hear the shock in your voice over the wind. 

Left the green fish alone and went after crappie with a good friend on Thursday. Kids back in school and a weekday made the lake pretty enjoyable. Catching just over 300 crappie didn't hurt anything, either. They were grouped up pretty good though as you can tell in the second picture.

 

 

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First eye I've caught in quite a while this year, on a Duo Rozante 77 jerkbait in 5' of water mixed in with a bunch of smallies.

spent the morning dragging a baby brush hog around weed edges on a local  City lake.

caught several largemouth, then this pig hammered the brush hog. 

I have caught a lot of bonus white bass in this lake, but I did not know it had wipers.

It is my personal best Wiper. 

24 inches long 7lb. 4oz.

 

 

1 hour ago, Russ E said:

spent the morning dragging a baby brush hog around weed edges on a local  City lake.

caught several largemouth, then this pig hammered the brush hog. 

I have caught a lot of bonus white bass in this lake, but I did not know it had wipers.

It is my personal best Wiper. 

24 inches long 7lb. 4oz.

 

 

I can only imagine how hard that fish pulled.

13 minutes ago, The Bassman said:

I can only imagine how hard that fish pulled.

my baitcaster drag was cranked down. cranked down there is 13.5 lbs of drag.

he peeled the line off like it was an ultra light. Never had any other fish that size fight like that.

 

Got this nice brown bullhead on a 4 inch senko !

1 hour ago, N Florida Mike said:

Got this nice brown bullhead on a 4 inch senko !

World record is 7lb. 6oz. Yours is like catching a DD bass. Good job.

11 hours ago, Russ E said:

spent the morning dragging a baby brush hog around weed edges on a local  City lake.

caught several largemouth, then this pig hammered the brush hog. 

I have caught a lot of bonus white bass in this lake, but I did not know it had wipers.

It is my personal best Wiper. 

24 inches long 7lb. 4oz.

 

 

Wyco has MONSTER wipers.

 

Waldo in the late afternoon sun & wind today ~ 

A-Jay

Friends and I had great fun loading the boat with these speckled trout near Titusville a couple of weeks ago. All were over 15". Later, we loaded our stomachs with yummy pan fried trout filets!

 

It’s been a tough fluke season for me in NJ. I’ve been catching tons of shorts and some have been painfully close. It was nice to unexpectedly run into some bluefish and stripers first thing in the morning but I could not manage a fluke for the dinner table once again. Awesome day on the water nonetheless.

 

Spent the afternoon chasing crappie yesterday...caught 'em pretty good.

 

My buddy Steve invite me to do some river fishing today and we did pretty good. Between the two of us we caught about 60 white crappie and 3 small stripers.

5 hours ago, Somd Fx4 said:

My buddy Steve invite me to do some river fishing today and we did pretty good. Between the two of us we caught about 60 white crappie and 3 small stripers.

Top fish looks like a white perch? 

 

 

Thought I caught a rock, would have rather it been a rock.

It is a perch. I have no idea why I put crappie. I'm not a fish expert.