frozen-fire Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 (edited) Decided to head for the last two hours of sunlight. 7pm-9pm. Since I am pretty much addicted to fishing topwaters for bass now, I start by throwing a spro frog over lily pads in a calm bay away from the wind. I miss a couple of explosions but carry on my routine. casting anywhere and hopping the frog over the pads. About half an hour in, I throw the frog about a foot away from shore. Give it two twitches and I see a wake forming from the right heading right towards the frog. There's a big splash and my frog disappears. I wait a couple seconds, reel in the slack 35lb powerpro and BINGO. I feel headshakes and it's a GOOD one. It leaps and clears the water doing a crazy flip. I get scared that it's going to jump again, but it decides to head right down into the weeds/pads. Thank goodness for PP. I horse this baby in through all the weeds and it's my best bass so far this year. Still shy of the monster I landed last year, but no doubt a 5lber at least I assume. Sorry for the crap photos, but these were with my phone. Pics don't do this beast justice. Gave my hand a nice bite that tore skin upon it's release...crazy thing! Better pics with DSLR: This was my only bass for the day, and I also managed a nice crappie on a jointed rapala. My buddy had 2 nice 2lbers and a gigantic bluegill all on topwaters. Absolutely nothing beats topwater explosions on calm water. Here's the one I had last year roughly about this time, caught on jointed rapala. Today's fish still don't beat that one I say. I always forget to measure the damn things!!! I always try to avoid weighing them with scale though cause it seems so stressful/damaging to the fish. Edited August 26, 2009 by frozen-fire
Victor Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 That's a real chunky one, must have made a crazy boil/splash when it took the frog!
Lunatic Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 NICE! i love the spro frog jr. i have 3 of them. the best one i ever had was the green one but no one in my area has it or its sold out. my black one gets lots of hits but hard to land anything on it. ive made some adjustments to it and heading out tomorrow. what colour were you using?
danbo Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Trophy! You'll remember that fish in your dreams.
Whitespinnerbait Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Yep .... Monster right there...
Rich Clemens Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Crappy photos ??? Looks prety darn good to me. That must have been a thrill for that one to smash a top water. Set the hook and hang on. Congrats on that one.
Cudz Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 That is a good fish. I remember last year's fish. It was huge. This one wasn't quite as big but a pig non the less.
Radnine Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Wow what a fish. Nice to see that you are wearing your PFD at all times as well!! The fishing gods know, that's why they send you the big bass. Nice job. Jim
frozen-fire Posted August 25, 2009 Author Report Posted August 25, 2009 That's a real chunky one, must have made a crazy boil/splash when it took the frog! You bet! Once I saw the wake coming from the right, it instantly reminded me of last years fish...similar thing happened. Gotta love topwater. NICE!i love the spro frog jr. i have 3 of them. the best one i ever had was the green one but no one in my area has it or its sold out. my black one gets lots of hits but hard to land anything on it. ive made some adjustments to it and heading out tomorrow. what colour were you using? I was using the green back with yellow belly one. I'm still waiting for the other pics to upload...theres one showing the frog inside it's mouth and it looks tiny haha. Crappy photos ??? Looks prety darn good to me. That must have been a thrill for that one to smash a top water. Set the hook and hang on. Congrats on that one. Definitely took us for a ride in the canoe! That is a good fish. I remember last year's fish. It was huge. This one wasn't quite as big but a pig non the less. Agreed. Wow what a fish.Nice to see that you are wearing your PFD at all times as well!! The fishing gods know, that's why they send you the big bass. Nice job. Jim That's how I like to think of it too. I always wear it in the canoe. Hear too many stories of preventable accidents nowadays. Why risk friends and family pain?
snag Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Well done, again! Man, that bog spot is sure shallow there. It's back must have been out of the water!
frozen-fire Posted August 25, 2009 Author Report Posted August 25, 2009 Well done, again! Man, that bog spot is sure shallow there. It's back must have been out of the water! Not a problem with the canoe! There were 2-3 other larger fishing boats in the general area... however, I guess it was just too shallow for them to get into the thick stuff. At some points, it was just 6" of water and everything else was weeds. I think next outing, I want to try the deeper east side of the lake. Hungry for another muskie.
Harrison Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 (edited) Beauti, Would of liked to have seen that hookset though. If it was me I would of flipped that canoe the way I set the hook in the junk there. I nearly throw my partner out of a 20ft bass boat. Interesting tidbit, I know exactly where you are in the pic. I released a fish identical to that one about 2 weeks ago there, I got him under a tree. Can't be 100% sure, but nice to think C&R of big fish success. Edited August 25, 2009 by Harrison
MCTFisher9120 Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Bam, nice bass man!!Definitely a high4 low 5lb largemouth! Get urself a rapala digital scale and bring it with u. 10 seconds on the scale and u got a confirmed weight. Thanks for sharing, MTBF
frozen-fire Posted August 25, 2009 Author Report Posted August 25, 2009 Beauti, Would of liked to have seen that hookset though. If it was me I would of flipped that canoe the way I set the hook in the junk there. I nearly throw my partner out of a 20ft bass boat. Interesting tidbit, I know exactly where you are in the pic. I released a fish identical to that one about 2 weeks ago there, I got him under a tree. Can't be 100% sure, but nice to think C&R of big fish success. Catch and Release works! What did you catch yours on? Yes, this fish came shooting out from under a tree
mbac31 Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Ha to funny. We have caught that same fish at least 5 times in that same spot usually on the same dam bait. There are a couple of them down right there. There is a big fallen log that comes out over the water there as well. Usually another one in there hugging the bank. Look straight down to your right where that guy has the plane. Under his neighbours dock you will get usually another nice one. Awesome to see that catch and release works.
Harrison Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Catch and Release works! What did you catch yours on?Yes, this fish came shooting out from under a tree Flippin jig, good chance it was the same fish then. Nice too see. That whole shoeline heading North is a pretty good bet anytime of the year, Good Luck.
frozen-fire Posted August 25, 2009 Author Report Posted August 25, 2009 Ha to funny. We have caught that same fish at least 5 times in that same spot usually on the same dam bait. There are a couple of them down right there. There is a big fallen log that comes out over the water there as well. Usually another one in there hugging the bank. Look straight down to your right where that guy has the plane. Under his neighbours dock you will get usually another nice one. Awesome to see that catch and release works. Right on. That fallen log is where my buddy missed one that was of similar size. For people who know, release the biggies. It's clear that you can enjoy the fight another day from the same fish.
jediangler Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Well done Frozen-fire, that is a hawg largie. I don't weigh my fish anymore either. With C&R, a measurement of length is enough for me. That extra stress put on the fish while hanging from a scale doesn't sit right with me.
PikeMolester Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Which color SPRO did you use? and 35pound power pro for bass seems like overkill to me. I guess it cuts through the lilly pads and such right?
gone_fishin Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Which color SPRO did you use? and 35pound power pro for bass seems like overkill to me. I guess it cuts through the lilly pads and such right? i don't use less than 50lb PP when frog fishing in slop/pads... some guys go up to 65 or even 80 lb braid depending on what they are using and what kind of cover they are fishing in. beauty largemouth by the way! congrats!
jaydub Posted August 25, 2009 Report Posted August 25, 2009 Nice fish! I've been wanting to get out and do some top water large mouth fishing as well but haven't found any good areas (that don't require a boat) yet. Looks like a blast!
Rattletrap2 Posted August 26, 2009 Report Posted August 26, 2009 That is a beauti Bass right there! Thanks for sharing and a great report of the catch as well!
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