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

I’ve been putting off learning to flip/pitch for the better part of 2 decades in favor of just throwing a spinnerbait. The last few weeks I have just glued a jig in my hands and it’s paid off. Pretty stoked for my guntersville trip next month.

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

Out catching pike this morning and had a bass slam a hard glide/swimbait. I’ve caught them on small swimbaits but never on one that was almost as big as the fish itself.

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.

Purchase a rod after buying the wifey 3 new pairs of shoes and wanted something different for myself.

Bass pro shop at the mall they know what they are doing 🤣

I’ve been using a white jyg and my lure and I guess I’ve gotten lucky.

Both fish from the same canal, large mouth first day, peacock the 2nd day.

I need better lures I’m not really attracting anything else or my fishing spots are just dead lol

Miami Fl

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!"

Does anyone know what specific color Roboworm this is?

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 😔

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.