Quillback

How much do those crawgrubbers weigh? They look killer for bass.

Welcome!

That creek bed looks like a potential bass highway.

Pickerel were very common in New England when I lived there, they are very good eating, but as mentioned above, very boney. Ham needs one of those for his 52 species quest.

If they eat squirrels I would be happy to have a few around my house. There's probably some out there, I just haven't seen them. I'm not a quail biologist, but the ones I have talked to all agree it's a habitat issue, not predation.

I think PowerDive put a curse on me. Ever since he said he could "predict" how many bass I would catch, I've been catching around 8 bass per day at the Big M. Yesterday I fished and caught....8 bass...This is getting spooky. I need to get over and fish Swepco, I figure that if I go fish a lake that does not contain walleye, I can remove the Curse of PowerDive. Anyway, 8 bass all on Tubes, one nice 17" smallie, the rest were 12-16" fish. There was a lot of other bassers out there yesterday - I haven't seen that many boats out on the lake since June. Water temp 43-45.

Looks like you had a good time, good to see that the 10 yo boy with that big smile!

Thanks for posting that link.

I've heard this same story - must be true.

Great day Bill glad to see you whackin 'em!

I did not go out yesterday, had some stuff to do around the house, but I think I will go today. Need to take advantage of the last of this warm weather.

On a cold winters day, you hardly ever see anyone on the Big M dock. I never fish it, but have been sorely tempted.

He just needed another 1/2 inch and I might have kept him.

Pretty much what you're saying, except 3/8 oz bullet weight and a Tube. Launched at Big M. Sounds like you have a nasty cold - get well soon!

Just finished another library book - "Shot All to Hell - Jesse James, The Northfield Raid" - Mark Lee Gardner. Interesting read if you like reading about western outlaw history. Fairly well written, it goes into great detail, too much in my opinion, about the post Northfield raid posse chase of the James and Youngers.

Darn fish, ready built luxury accommodations and they turn their nose up at it.

Looks like it would make a great flathead hotel.

Good job Ham, 32 is pretty darn good for a couple of hours.

A popular place in it's day. Everybody just seems to be standing around looking.

Still in my 7-10 fish per day rut, not that I'm complaining, it's great to get out. Started late today, waited for the ice fog to burn off, ended up fishing from 11:00 to 4 PM. Caught 7 bass, a few chunky ones, a couple of mean mouth, a few LM's and one spot. Also caught a wet sock. Got the bass all on tubes and the wet sock on a jerk bait. Bass were on deep rocky stuff, 10-30 feet down. I need to get out and start using the depth finder to find some shad and do some spooning, but just haven't been motivated to pick up the spoon. I like working those trees and rocks. Water temp was 43-45. A couple of meanies - The Wet Sock:

Sorry to hear about your loss, I hope they catch the bums and recover your stuff.

Very cool!

You can fish docks on TR.

The only thing I see out there is this Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/events/161930547282856/

I haven't done any ned fishing myself yet, but one of these days I'll try it. A few weeks ago I picked up some fish on a 5" Slim Senko on TR, but I was T-rigging it. I like throwing a weightless wacky rigged Senko when the fish are spawning.