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What other species do you catch while fishing for bass?

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I was out this morning for about 5 hours fishing for bass.  I was cranking with a pearl white Bomber type lure.  I caught 4 bass, 1 catfish and 1 buffalo.  The buffalo was a 3 pounder and put up a very good fight.  This bomber lure seems to be the most multicultural in the different types of fish it catches.  Yesterday I caught a 1.5 lb hybrid bass on it too.

What species do you catch while bass fishing?

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Got to love it when you get a surprise like that!  

I catch a lot of rock bass and crappie on jigs in a couple of lakes I fish.

Channels on plastic worms and even spinnerbaits.

One lake I fish has white bass in it also, seem to always catch a couple of those when I'm cranking.  

I've kept some of the white bass and channels on occasion, kind of cool to be able to fry up some fish even after a day on the water just doing some bass fishing!

Drum hit a crankbait last weekend (5 lber)

Walleye hit anything

Bream where hitting big crankbaits for some reason too

Ive caught catfish on spinnerbaits before

Bluegill and Shellcracker.

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Pickerel, white perch, yellow perch, crappie, bluegill, and yesterday, a first for me, a rainbow trout in 37 feet of water while dropshotting.

So far this year, one muskie, two pike, a few bluegill, pumpkin seeds and sunfish, a couple perch and a lot of rock bass.

Crappie, redfish, Cafish, Perch

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We usually fish deep, off-shore structures for smallmouths using the drop shot and other assorted plastic baits, like Senkos, Fat Ikas and Smallie Beavers. Last year I caught 4 salmon and 2 lakers while bass fishing. I've also caught white perch, yellow perch and sunfish! Here's what the salmon look like on the Quabbin Res. in MA:

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Pickerel, Yellow Perch, White Perch, Crappie, Bluegill

Just this weekend, I caught a Warmouth on a Chugbug.

I have also caught:

Catfish

Bluegill

Hybrid Striped Bass (I mostly fish for largemouth)

Crappie

Rainbow Trout

Drum

Carp

And I hooked into Muskie more than once without landing them.

always pikes when fishing for bass

I catch a few muskies while out cranking or running topwater. I have caught probably 10 this season so far here is one I caught last weekend on a rapala x walk13. it went 38"

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here with me not holding out to the camera. ;D ;)

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Gar (spinners/crank baits)

Bowfin (spinners/crank baits/plastics)

Stripped Bass (topwater/crank baits)

Hybrids (topwater/crank baits)

White Bass (topwater/crank baits)

Bluegill/Warmouth (crank baits/plastics)

Crappie  (spinners/crank baits)

Chain Pickerel (spinners/topwater)

Channel Cat (spinners/crank baits)

Carp  (snagged on crank baits)

Turtle (crank baits/plastics)

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Muskie

Pike

Walleye

Bowfin

Drum

Rockbass

Bluegill

Falcon

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WOW!

That's quite a muskie.

On the Tennesee River we catch a variety: Drum, gar, white

bass, skipjack, threadfin, gizzard shad, sauger, crappie, three

species of catfish, buffalo, bluegill, largemouth, smallmouth,

spots and occasionally a meanmouth.

8-)

we've pulled some decent pickerel out of the lake this year, there's musky in the lake but I haven't caught one yet.  They stock walleye, haven't got one of those either lol.  But only time I catch anything other than bass besides pickerel is when I'm using a small crankbait, and I'll get some perch and bluegill.  I've got a few crappy as well.  that's about it for me.

I have a gift for catching snapping turtles. 2 this year. One on a really nice $6 spinnerbait (avatar) and one on a jig.

Other than that, all year long only one bull bluegill and one tiny little crappie.

Twitch

Stripers, bream, white bass, ring perch, yellow perch, crappie, channel cats and flatheads.

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Bullhead, yellow perch, pickerel, northern pike, tiger musky, brown trout, lake trout, chinook, coho, steelhead, rock bass, silver bass, white bass, American eel, sheepshead, channel cat, blue gill, pumpkinseed, walleye, black crappie, bullfrogs, turtles, docks and pontoon boats.

bluegill, shellcracker, pike, rock bass, crappie, muskie(i didnt land it but it blew up on a spook!), ive had gar hit but not hookup.

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Depends on where I 'm fishing, bluegills are the most common, ocassionally a catfish or a tilapia, when I 've fished in gar country I 've caught gar, when I 've fished where there are trout then trout.

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I catch a few muskies while out cranking or running topwater. I have caught probably 10 this season so far here is one I caught last weekend on a rapala x walk13. it went 38"

That sure looks like a tiger muskie. Beautiful fish & coloration.

I caught a nice sized channel cat on a crankbaits yesterday actually. Hooked him in the back, poor ugly guy was just swimming along and got snagged I guess.

I caught a bream on a jitterbug a couple of days ago. I thought it was a bass until it darted to the bottom really fast and I caught a glimpse of it. That was a first time for me.

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