With 2023 approaching us quickly, I wanted to start a thread for everyone to post their first bass of 2023. Big or small show it off proudly! Let’s get the new year fishing monkey off our backs. I am getting out on the susky tomorrow and Monday. Hopefully I can contribute to this sooner rather than later. 

Be a while before you see anything from me. Bass season here closes before the ice on the lakes disappears - and doesn't open until the middle of May.

 

So 4-1/2 months before I get a chance to post something here.

Some people just can't follow directions.  First fish of 2022.   Jan 1 2022 around 9 am.  Hopefully I'll have a 2023 one to post tomorrow.  

I'll be spotting many of you bassheads quite a head start.

So for now, I'm just going to drop this one off as comic relief . . . 

Get one for me.

A-Jay

I’ll see y’all in April

15 minutes ago, Woody B said:

Some people just can't follow directions.

My wife says I have the same issue haha

25 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I'll be spotting many of you bassheads quite a head start.

So for now, I'm just going to drop this one off as comic relief . . . 

Get one for me.

A-Jay

How much drag did that monster pull before you got it in the net?

9 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

How much drag did that monster pull before you got it in the net?

Not sure but my thumb is really cramping right there

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A-Jay

15 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Not sure but my thumb is really cramping right there

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A-Jay

I didn't use my thumb with my 'beast' this past year...just cradled it.

I might be able to fish next week or weekend at some point 

Being a Yankee, I don't know if this thread is cool or cruel. Here's me trying to fish today:

 

1 hour ago, ol'crickety said:

Being a Yankee, I don't know if this thread is cool or cruel. Here's me trying to fish today:

Don't feel bad - the local crappie 'pond' (Black Lake) is now the Township of Black Lake.  A dozen to dozen-and-a-half 'permanent' ice-shantys are now up, and people are parking their cars next to their shanty...with the area near shore a virtual parking lot for the tent and open ice-fishers who are fishing in any open space they can find.

37 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Don't feel bad - the local crappie 'pond' (Black Lake) is now the Township of Black Lake.  A dozen to dozen-and-a-half 'permanent' ice-shantys are now up, and people are parking their cars next to their shanty...with the area near shore a virtual parking lot for the tent and open ice-fishers who are fishing in any open space they can find.

 

Yikes, I wouldn't like that. I'm picturing it as this:

 

Just now, ol'crickety said:

 

Yikes, I wouldn't like that. I'm picturing it as this:

 

Not far off....

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Being a Yankee, I don't know if this thread is cool or cruel. Here's me trying to fish today:

 

Half the susky was rolling ice on Thursday. The other half was open. I am hoping/thinking it should be cleared out mostly by now. When I bought my new fishing license the owner at the bait shop said people were ice fishing.

Much love and envy for my southern fishing brethren.
 

As a northerner that doesn’t and won’t ice fish I will have to wait a long time to contribute to this thread. 

I will be working and probably wont have a chance to fish for bass for a couple months.  Can I post a picture of my first marlin of 2023?

Just now, king fisher said:

I will be working and probably wont have a chance to fish for bass for a couple months.  Can I post a picture of my first marlin of 2023?

Odds on it being a White vs Stripe vs Blue?    I want to go to Panama for a Black....or if hit the lottery Australia for the true giants 

50 minutes ago, NYWayfarer said:

Much love and envy for my southern fishing brethren.
 

As a northerner that doesn’t and won’t ice fish I will have to wait a long time to contribute to this thread. 

Well us southerners aren’t allowed to contribute to all your tackle prep threads so we are even hahaha

1 minute ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Odds on it being a White vs Stripe vs Blue?    I want to go to Panama for a Black....or if hit the lottery Australia for the true giants 

I wont be fishing for them until mid January.  My boss wants to go to Bara De Navidad for a week around the 18 th.  We will catch, lots of striped marlin, and should get a blue or two.  Blacks are mostly gone from this part of the pacific, by the end of December.

1 hour ago, king fisher said:

I will be working and probably wont have a chance to fish for bass for a couple months.  Can I post a picture of my first marlin of 2023?

I’ll allow it haha 

1 hour ago, king fisher said:

I will be working and probably wont have a chance to fish for bass for a couple months.  Can I post a picture of my first marlin of 2023?

Only if you reel it in 

24 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Only if you reel it in 

I will be driving the boat for the marlin. I might have to reel in a tuna.

1 minute ago, king fisher said:

I will be driving the boat for the marlin. I might have to reel in a tuna.

Well got it done today. First one for 2023