Stopped by a little neighborhood pond on the way home that offers public fishing. I caught several small bass on a jerkbait but in one area there was a bunch of spawning crappie that would nose up to the bait but not eat it. I only had one little box with hooks basically but there was one dirty old 3" chartreuse power minnow and a 1/32oz orange jighead with a rusty hook. I cut down the power minnow and put it on the jighead and put it on the medium spinning rod with 8lb fluoro I'd been fishing my jerkbait on and went on to catch probably 15 crappie in short order before I broke the hook on the jighead unhooking one of them. They were aggressive and very pretty fish. Fun sight fishing them in clear water like that.

I did get one to eat the jerkbait before I switch to the jig.

Bass aint the only thing big on Toledo Bend, that's a 5 gallon bucket.

 

And no I didn't catch it ?

 

1 minute ago, Catt said:

Bass aint the only thing big on Toledo Bend, that's a 5 gallon bucket.

 

And no I didn't catch it ?

 

Now that's a SLAB!!

 

That thing would feed a family of four...or just me.

1 hour ago, Catt said:

Bass aint the only thing big on Toledo Bend, that's a 5 gallon bucket.

 

And no I didn't catch it ?

 

Nice size slab here for sure!

Caught these guys yesterday. About 15 in all about the size of these. Had a blast. Prior to this year, it had been 5 years since my last crappie.

 

 

 

 

caught this hen yestarday

Got in a little dock fishing. I might have caught the saMe catfish twice. And one of those pesky little green fish 

what did you get the catfish on?

1 hour ago, rod snapper said:

what did you get the catfish on?

Cut skipjack herring 

Had to stop and see if there were any crappie still biting where I found them a couple weeks ago. Still there, still biting.

@Bluebasser86, I like to bite those back! 

As much as I enjoy bass.

There's nothing like a big old crappie on the end of your line. I really enjoy catching those big slabs this time of year. Especially on a small crankbait.

Sometimes I like to show everyone that I know how to catch fish other than bass pretty well too

Put 37 of these guys in the boat Friday, along with some white bass, largemouth, and a crappie. Almost all of them were caught casting in less than 5' of water in the middle of a bright, sunny, post cold front day. They were not shy at all either, had to use pliers to get my bait back from a lot of them.

I was having a decent day catching 2 to 3 pound bass,

 

when this dinosaur hammered my jerkbait.

most exciting part of the day was trying to get my $15.00 jerkbait out of its mouth.

It weighed 7lb 8oz. 

 

On 1/13/2019 at 2:13 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

On my last guide trip, my client caught a channel cat on a Strike King KVD 300 jerkbait that was only about twice as long as the jerkbait. They're way more predatory than most people think. 

I got a bigger dink on an X-Rap once. It was at a pond that wasn't very well managed, I think they were hungry enough to go after anything. 

Here's a good one. They're actually pretty effective dink filters. 

I netted the drum for my buddy and asked if he wanted a picture. He said no so I took one anyway haha

My dad and I finally got a day on the water and he's been craving fish, so I did like a good son and put him on some dinner (and a whole bunch of other fish that were released).

Southern version of toothy critters. The sauger was big enough to ride home with me

 

PB Musky today !!!!!!

 

A-Jay

All dressed up for the dance. Colored up male black crappie from clear water really are a pretty fish.

One of 2 chain pickerel caught yesterday along with 8 LMB.  Note the telltale black bar of a pickerel beneath the eye.

Finally, got the boat out for the first time this year, the main lake was only 37 deg with skims of ice in a few spots, but we found a small river coming into a shallow bay that was 48 deg and loaded with small pike and smallmouth. No big girls, but it was still a last to have the rods bent a bit and enjoy some sunny weather. Only gonna get better from here on. 

We're real big on snakehead fishing here in SoFlo, so much so that LMB are becoming a secondary target. 

 

The last outing got us ten fish, three upwards of 9 pounds, two at 10+ pounds lost and one lost after it leaped out of the cooler after being on ice for nearly a half hour. 

 

We're heading out again tomorrow the 7th.

 

 

Pond fishing has been great for multi-species fishing.

 

Big Pumpkinseeds

 

 

Stocked Brook Trout. Amazing how they look like baby Lake Trout.