Very happy to catch this guy - I’ve been on a real trolling dry streak, mostly due to me being new and still learning what the hell I’m doing. This helped the confidence.
A beautiful musky with an incredible sunset! This fish came out of a grass bed to smoke a bucktail at the boat. I had no clue this fish was following close ready to eat as I could barely see through the water at this point. Put up a great fight and jumped itself right into the net. Wish I could post the video too. Always always figure eight, especially in low light conditions!
Beating my own PB! She said “you should’ve seen me set the hook” 🤣
Summary: from this terrible photo what kind of fish could we have seen? How do we catch it?
Details below.
My son and I were fishing yesterday (we’re beginners). It was 5pm sunny and warm out (mid 70s), we were fishing the shoreline of a local stocked pond. There were lots of smaller fish like sunnies near the shore.
While fishing we came across this enormous fish we kept trying to catch. It looked at least two feet long to me. My son thought it was an enormous large mouth bass. We named it “Big Beautiful.”
We’d get Big Beautiful’s attention with bait, but it would just kind of hang back and watch other fish, like sunfish, go for the bait (we used a lot of worms: big red and night crawlers and also tried Keitech Fat Swing Impact). It did take a small bite of the baitfish.
After losing interest it would retreat to a rock not far from shore (I suspect it lives in or around this spot). If something was interesting enough to come out for again, it would get close enough to seem curious but then decide no thanks.
We went back to the same spot this morning between 7-9 am with live shiners. Caught lots of large mouth bass, no sight of this monster.
How do we catch it? It would be like winning the world fishing Olympics for us.
I don't necessarily mean biggest. Your best fight, most interesting catch, or just a fantastic day on the water.
I caught the rock bass while fishing with my dad's wife, the channel catfish was the biggest fish I've ever gotten, caught from a canoe in a tiny, shallow lake with my husband, and the 9 sunnies and bass were caught while spending the afternoon with my dad on his pontoon. All these pictures have such fond memories of wonderful times with family.
What are your best catches and fondest memories?
Mine is northern pike without a doubt, not sure what the tiny fellar was, the biggest was 8.8kg, caught the smallest about 7-8 years ago, and the biggest this fall, this is what I love about fishing, you never know what you're gonna get
The bite was slow but I got this good one!
Hooked onto 9 different flatheads in one night on the river after a small flood. Best night I've ever had by far
I recently remembered a story about my FIL. He fished local and smaller Bassmaster tournaments for years. One day he was putting in for a tournament on a single ramp and no nearby toilets. As he was backing down, his guts decided things were happening. He jumped on his boat, left his truck blocking the ramp and a bunch of other fishermen, and proceeded around the seawall as an attempt at privacy. He then re-painted a section of the seawall and had to do the walk of shame to move his truck.
Hello all. I haven't been fishing in a long while, and am leaving California in January. I'm hoping to have some fun in the Bay Area before I'm gone for good. I need me a good fight, and a big striper sounds perfect.
I've got a 6'6 medium rod with a 2500-3000 (cant remember which) spinning reel. Not ideal, but it's what I have. I was thinking live bait. If anyone else has done it, how did you rig it all up? What was the biggest you caught?
I clearly remember 3 100 fish days trout fishing. 2 were a week apart on the same river during a brook trout spawning migration. It was almost impossible to NOT catch a brookie on each cast. A fellow fly fisher who was sharing the same 100 feet of river and I were trying not to catch a fish on each cast. It was nesrly impossible. He was fishing a little white caddis patern, and I was fishing a zebra midge.
The third day was at the mouth of a small stream that flowed into a reservoir . It was Memorial Day weekend, and where we wanted to fish was still buried in snow. As the day warmed flow increased with the upgradient snow melting and washing all kinds of aquatic life downstream. It was nuts.
None of the experiences were sport, but someone had to catch them. All were released
Caught in 20 ft of water on a chartreuse reef runner ripshad. Westchester NY
I’m on a rented property, I can’t build a deck or anything, we have a wooden bulkhead. I don’t want to sink a Christmas tree (which seems to be the most common method) because I fish here and I’d rather not get snagged every time I cast.
I heard I could hang a sock with dog food in it to attract flies which would create maggots and they fall into the water which attracts bluegill. I’m down for that but just not by my house.
Someone else suggested sinking a few milk crates with bricks to create shelter for bluegill. I can do that as well
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On another note I have a kayak and one of the bayous I like going to used to have a lot of bluegill but in recent times they are only in a few areas, by cypress trees. I find that I’m not even getting bites by the cypress trees anymore. I want to attract more but I’m not sure what I can really do. I know that I can’t single handedly build their population but I’m considering going sink a bunch of milk crates along the bank, and set up some of those maggot dispensers lmfao, apparently that could help.. any advice?