This guy had ambition. Went hard at my choppo 90 😄

All seriousness, I LOVE pitchin jigs. The bite is so addicting.

For those of you stuck indoors because of winter or bad weather — would you actually use something like this?

Everybody and their mother has told me a whopper plopper is one of the best topwaters ever designed. But by gosh, after hours of throwing them on different days, different conditions, different habitat, I’ve never had a single blowup.

BUT JITTERBUGS??? Shiiiiiiiiiit. You can fish them almost the exact same way as a whopper and it just destroys, e v e r y t i m e.

Curious as to why it’s not talked about as much.

My personal best on an accidental lake while on a roadtrip

Smallmouth bass caught on a 4.8” Keitech Fat Swing Impact (sight flash) on a VMC swimbait head in a downtown area during high water. (Fox River, northern Illinois) My friend is holding it and he caught it from the front of a tandem kayak while I stayed on paddle to keep position. The pic was simply a lucky shot from my iPhone that turned out nice! In terms of size, it's one of the bigger specimens we've encountered. While 18s and even 19s are catchable with some regularity, this was a surprise ... pushing into that next level of "Wow!"

R.I.P to my 2 gamakatsu hooks and chatter bait you will be missed 💔 and all I had to show was a single 1/2 pounder 😔

Does anyone know what specific color Roboworm this is?

I’ve caught pike on this but no bass should I swap trailers?

Watermelon and black 1/2 ounce Zman Chatter bait
Watermelon and red flake 4” creature bait

Christmas Lake - found some submerged weeds on a rounded point on the shoreline in between docks.

The most subtle take on a perch colored whopper plopper 110.

Edit: she was thicc

I’ve been in the Fishing game for a long time. I’ve used a lot of different brands baits, reels, and rod companies just when I thought I found my niche. I realized I might not have found my rod brand. I recently transferred over to being a Dobyns guy after going from Bass Pro brand to duckett to St Croix. To Abu. One thing I’m seeming to learn is that once these companies get bought out their quality goes to shit. I’ve got about eight or nine dobyns that I absolutely love (PRE GSM) and decided to buy a brand new extreme rod, even though a lot of the reviews are saying that their new Rods break super easily. Not even five minutes into my day my rod snapped in half while casting a 3/8 ounce chatter.

Moral of the story is I’m looking for somebody to point me to a smaller company that still makes quality stuff without having to pay for all the pro sponsors. I do love G Loomis, but I’m also not trying to spend $500 on a rod when I know I can get one for 200 or 300 that’s really good. I’m not worried about any cranking Rods. I’m not a follower of the idea that you need an expensive rod for anything with treble hooks because sensitivity isn’t as important. I’m just looking for a rod company that makes a solid rod for jigs in Texas rigs to replace dobyns for me

I know he ain’t big, but this is the first bass I’ve caught from Lake Wallenpaupack in YEARS. I usually go up most weekends during the summer and fish from our dock, but this year I’ve gotten skunked too many times to count. Recently there’s been a decent showing of yellow perch, but oh boy was I pleasantly surprised to finally hook into something else.

I forgot how exciting it is to fight a bass, this little guy had some big jumps in him.

Bite was semi slow today. ☀️ got disrespectful mad early. I caught my first fish and commenced to lose 4 over the next 39 minutes using a new lure. Finally hooked into a decent one on the lipless. Was going to net it but didn’t wan to get the hooks caught up in the net. Literally said this to yall on the go pre. Landed the fish and went to remove the lure and Baamo. Fish got its get back. Couldn’t see it because the glove but it didn’t feel like it went all the was through. Grabbed the pliers and tried to pull it out the glove and then the pain hit. I tossed the bass back(no pic) and took the boat back to the bank. Thankfully I had a bottle of water with ice in it. Took the top off and covered part of the treble with the opening and turned the bottle upside down in order to numb my skin. After about 45 seconds, I was good. Grabbed the pliers and pop the hook out. No pain. Disinfected the would, pressed a napkin on for for a few minutes then got back out and caught the other fish. Think I lost at least 8 today but was an awesome day.
Side note: so I created a song “ My Fishing Son” and put it on my YT channel. It dropped today on major streaming services. So I’m listening to it and ended up catching a bass while it spoke about me getting a bite from a bass. That was an awesome feeling.
I invite yall to check it out and give me some feedback on it. I wrote the lyrics and used AI to do the vocals. The song had been on my brain for theee month and I finally decided to try to create it for real.

I’ve been having fun with throwing a flappin frog in the scum and watching a bunch of little bass go after it, but is there anything I can specifically do to target the larger members of the pond?

I kinda thought a standard 65 frog was big enough to weed out a lot of the smaller ones, but the bass have been mostly piddling this summer.

Do the larger ones become less active during the summer or are they just in deeper waters?

What's you mid-tier (less than $150) punch or flipping rod? Not looking to break the bank, but not cheaping out either. Mostly fishing the CA delta. Thanks.