i caught a couple 19-inchers out of seven total on Sunday fishing from my shoreline, but I felt like I largely lucked into a school that just happened to be in front of my dock. I could only catch four yesterday, but I caught them all on a red spinnerbait, so today, I added a red craw to the spinnerbait to give me even more red and also fished a T-rigged red craw. My silver lipless, gold and silver Vision 110, and silver and gray spinnerbait all failed to catch a bass or even produce a hit today. It was red or nothing. I remember @Pat Brown saying that color doesn't matter until it does. Well, today, it did. I caught 11 total and missed what would have been my twelfth when the line broke in a laydown.

So, I felt dialed in today and that felt great. Catching some thick bass felt even better! I ended with an 89" bag:

And here are some more:

Here's a little one:

Here's another 18-incher:

22 bass in 2026.

Two 19" or bigger.

Nice! Glad to see you are back on them. I missed your write-ups and pics all winter long!

And just like that, she's back!

20 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

And just like that, she's back!

I'm fishing one more time tomorrow morning, my first 2026 morning to fish. I'll be trying a red Cut Worm and an orange Ned rig in addition to my red T-rigged craw and my red spinnerbait. I forgot to share that I had several bass jump and I also counted 18 Buffleheads and a couple ospreys. One osprey was circling and circling. I think he was fishing too.

56 minutes ago, pdxfisher said:

I missed your write-ups and pics all winter long!

Your fun write ups and pics have more than filled in the gap. I think I'm perhaps a week away from much faster fishing. Then I'll enjoy two months of 30/40/50/60 fish sessions before Mother Nature hits the brakes through July and August.

Those are some beautiful fish. I feel you with the "color doesn't matter until it does". A few years back everyone I know was struggling to catch fish on a particular lake. One of my friends who lives on the lake called me to tell me that he had found "the deal". It was a red, curly tail worm fished on a T-rig. I started fishing that and started catching. We killed them all summer when the Saturday tournament guys were only bringing in one or two fish per boat. The next summer? The fish wouldn't touch them. I've got a drawer full of them. I've kept them just in case they come back in style. LOL

Nice catches…..