Bass Fishing

[RedTop]

Been bass fishing this spring and summer alot due to a shoulder injury that won't allow me to play golf for sometime. I've fished all my life but never much with lures. Mostly minnows or some kind of bait and a bobber or bottom fishing. This year tho I been learning lures and using artificials almost exclusivley. I'm in the process of buying a boat to fish but until then I have to fish where I can. Small "lakes"  , ponds and creeks around where I live.

Caught this one Friday Morning about 7:30 on a top water frog. 6lbs 8ozs. It's the biggest large mouth I've caught. I caught it on an ultralight spinning reel and rod with 6lb test line. Man it was fun.  

[Steve]

Nice catch!   Tell me you put it back.

[RedTop]

Nice catch!   Tell me you put it back.

Absolutley!!!! 

<----catch and release only. (cept for crappie....wife likes those)

[Getback]

Nice Catch! Just got back from a Crappy fish fry. yummy!

[mbailey]

NICE HAWG SIR!!!  That ones a winner in every sence of the word  WTG

I bet the ultralight gear made getting that one in a blast. Is your stomach still in knots?  LOL

I caught a 34" Muskie last year on ultralight gear while Crappie fishing, the thing ate a 1/8ounce jig. I know that for the 15mins that it took me to get him to the boat made my stomach twist into a knot 

Very nice catch

[1pLUs44]

Nice one, I prefer to use jigs and topwaters (oddly enough, caught a 2lb Channel Cat on one like a month ago off the San Gabriel River...oh well, that's Texas for ya) myself. I've got a picture of me holding about a 3lb black bass caught on a white roadrunner from about a month ago somewhere lyin' around.

Another favorite is (whenever you get a boat) hit up a man made lake and go trolling with bomber baits. (Hook 'em up to your pole and release 'em out the back of the boat and cruise almost in idle on the main engine) But our boat is extremely good for that since it's a lil ol 40HP 18 foot Bass Tracker. Whenever you do that, you can catch a variety of things, and sometimes, you can even see what you caught cause you'll see 'em skimmin across the lake water skiing after you hook 'em.

[RedTop]

NICE HAWG SIR!!!  That ones a winner in every sence of the word  WTG

I bet the ultralight gear made getting that one in a blast. Is your stomach still in knots?  LOL

I caught a 34" Muskie last year on ultralight gear while Crappie fishing, the thing ate a 1/8ounce jig. I know that for the 15mins that it took me to get him to the boat made my stomach twist into a knot 

Very nice catch

Yeah....it lasted all day....Now I'm looking for that bigger one though.....strange how that works.

[kamori]

You almost stretched your arms out...a little further and you would have fish Goo on the camera....LOL Nich fish

[mbailey]

 

[morfiend]

Nice fish Red.

 They rarely get that big up my way and it's more smallmouth than largemouth but I really enjoy catching them on a flyrod.

 If they wont take a mouse or popper I use a woolybugger,it's a leech imitation,you ought to try a flyrod and deerhair mouse,bet you'd have a fun day!


   

[Eagler]

nice fish - sounds like a great time - top water is the best.

[RedTop]

nice fish - sounds like a great time - top water is the best.

Yeah it is.....ya never know when it's coming!!!!

[RedTop]

You almost stretched your arms out...a little further and you would have fish Goo on the camera....LOL Nich fish

LOLOL...All I had was my phone...and the guy taking the pic couldn't see....looked like he was just a grade above that deliverance kid playing guitar....I seriously wondered if he even knew cell phones were out.

All he could say (thinnk of the backwoodsyest person in town) saying....CAN'T SEE IT IN THIS HERE SCREEN DEAL....MOVE IT CLOSER!!!!

[Blackwulf]

I haven't been bass fishing in quite a few years.  A frog was always my best producing top water lure in the area I lived in, fishing flooded quarries.
Nice catch!