Bass in the grass

I got out for a while sunday afternoon. I started for bluegills, but only got a few small ones. I started looking for some bass action on the deep weedline, only one bite rigging a black and blue power lizard.
as the sun went down I moved up shallow and threw a sizmec toad, buzzing it across the grass and letting it sink in the pockets. I connected with a fish on the first cast! It hit on the drop and I didn't even know I had a bite til it started going sideways with it! I pulled its head out of the water on thehookset but didn't get the hook in and it let go. I cast back and let it sink, then hopped it off the bottom a few times and it bit again, got em, about a 2 pounder.
As it got darker they really started busting the toad on top, sometimes coming completly out of the water on the strike! got a few, missed a few, nothing big, just enough for a little action.


Typical size



Auqua van! we tried to push it out but it just kept digging down deeper.
finally a pickup pulling a boat came up, and if he wanted to launch he would have to pull the van out first, which he did.



more bassin action







grass bass on the toad

Funny bugs

A little green hitchhiker

Piggyback beetles?

Hey, can I get a ride?





Climb aboard!



wheeeeeee!

Bassin in the float tube

I got out for a while in the tube chasing some largemouth bass. I got a few on the outside edge of the milfoil beds earlier on a jig with a ring-N tube, also got some on a swim shad.
Later before dark, I nailed a few in the shallows on a frenzy popper.









Takin' a break from reelin' in big uns


topwater action















I watched the storms form just to the north of me, these storms ended up spawning some small tornadoes later on.

More panfish, with the flyrod

I got out for a few hours in the tube Sunday evening for some panfish action on my 3 wt flyrod.
I started out with a bead head sinking bee pattern I made. Got quite a few on that. when the winds went down, I switched to a popper, and they really hit that thing! something hit anytime I got that popper anywhere near the pads and weeds! Lots of nice sunfish, nothing huge, and lots of largemouth bass that were a handful on that little rod for sure! A fun evening of fishin in the books!


popper ambush!
Bee fly starting to come apart from sunfish chewing on it




the bass were really smacking on top too

i wasn't the only one fishin'

funny bass



here is its tiny dorsal fin, it actually worked too. I wonder if it was a fish similar to this one that inspired the name Micropterus (small fin)


bass release, normal fin


nice gill on topwater!

Panfish action 7-26

I got out for a little float tubin for sunfish in the afternoon, got lots of nice fish, nothing huge, but some great colors for pics. i got all the fish on a 1/32 oz lead head tipped with a JRs stub grub.

nice gill on plastic


orange red



gold and green

big mouthed green sunfish



who says sunfish don't have teeth?











funny sunnie











very nicely marked pumpkinseed


nice sunfish








release those big gills to get even bigger!

got my biggest float tube fish last weekend.

I thought it was the state record bass! it nabbed a topwater sizmec toad as I buzzed it by some pads, I reared back and held on trying to keep it from wrapping around the pad stems and mabye getting away. The fish was too pwerful though, it just pulled me sideways, it felt like I was going to be pulled down like a bobber!
Then it buried deep into the weeds and I felt no fight! Oh no! I was shaking by now and hoping mr giant bass didn't get away! I slowly worked in line til I was almost right above it, then it finally came up, lots of weeds, but the big fish was still there! only it was a pike. Kind of a let down when I was waiting to see a 8-10pound bass, but still a nice fish anyhow.

Casey bags a monster toad

wow, huge fish! 5#11oz if this keeps up me and casey will make the bloggers derby a 2 man show! ok, my turn!hehe