I went largemouth fishing three times in October and it may have been the best month in years.  It was certainly the best month of my 2024 season.

 

Water temps dropped from more summer-like temps to fall temps, and the fish responded.  They were aggressive and hungry.  About 65 largemouth came into my boat, plus a few moderately sized accidential northern pike.  It went from a spinnerbait bite to a chatterbait bite to a swim jig bite as the water temps slowly dropped from the low 60's to the low 50's.  A sizable percentage of these fish were quality bass too - including an all-time second best largemouth I caught on Oct 5.  I've posted some of these already in various threads but here's a collection of them together.

 

 

Great Job!!

 

 

 

 

Mike

Yeah that looks like a lot of fun!  October has been a ton of fun here too - November looks promising!  👍🏻😎🎣

@gimruis: You scored and scored and scored and....

 

 

I especially like the fat bass on the bump board. Was she the biggest?

Northern Green Bass for the win ~

Nicely Done

Congrats.

Sort of surprised you allowed yourself to be photographed with a pike.

We all know how much you 'love' them.

A-Jay

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Sort of surprised you allowed yourself to be photographed with a pike.

You know it so does everyone else.

 

Every once in a while a decent esox lucious shows up.

2 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

I especially like the fat bass on the bump board. Was she the biggest?

Yes.

3 minutes ago, gimruis said:

You know it so does everyone else.

 

Every once in a while a decent esox lucious shows up.

Yes.

 

I'm not surprised. She's got it all: length, belly, and shoulders. 

Nice! You scored big time!