[Brandon]

Well, its Fall and getting colder...while this may be a good thing for the bass bite for a bit...it is still a bit depressing signaling that winter isn't too far off. anyhoo.
Being reduced to the "weekend warrior" status (due to there being very little sunlight left when I'm off work-soon to be zero ), I got out for a few hours sat. and sun. mornings. Temps were in the upper 50's maybe inching into the low 60's later on in the morning on sun. partly cloudy both days.

sat-got sick of getting the skunk at one particularly popular weedline so I decided I would pound it until either i caught some fish or i got rained on/passed out/died of starvation etc. -i threw spinner baits (losing one ) with no luck, threw some cranks-no luck. after a few hours I switched to the small 3 inch grub and caught 2 12" bass. both hit it on the drop. both were really healthy looking. can't wait to catch them again in a year or two. I don't think i'd ever been happier catching a 12" bass. I had been riding the skunk on my last 5 or 6 river outings-so while nothing to write home about-felt like my day was somewhat salvaged.

sun-got out again and had no luck at several spots throwing everything. bite got going around 10 a.m. ish as it had the day before. Got a 2 1/2 lber on the good old shaw grigsby 5" paddleworm in salty green. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: (still love the fact that i paid 68cents for all those plastics on sale @ Dicks ) Threw the paddleworm up against some concrete - banking it into the water-immediately felt some resistance-wasn't sure if it was some weeds or what so i threw a little sweeping hookset just in case and felt the bass getting upset on the other end of the line. had a real nice jump out of the water on his way in and luckily he didn't pop off. nice fish-much darker than those i've caught downstate recently. Had two other bites-one was another 2lber-ish bass that came to the top of the water-swallowing a black w/ blue flake senko that i promptly yanked from his mouth bummer. gotta get out there more while the fall bite is good.... here are a few pics go cards

 

[scumfrog]

Nice fish, Brandon, those bass are darker than what we usually catch in the river. Maybe it's the changing of the season or the water temps. I think it's awesome that you are catching bass on those 68 cent worms you bought .

Shaw Grigsby probably wouldn't be thrilled at what you paid for them but he looks proud of the fish they caught!

 

[Brandon]

haha yeah. if i can make shaw proud, then i'd be doing something right. that guy enjoys catching fish thats for sure. his voice is funny.

B

 

[jeffhimself]

nice fish...those shaw plastics have definitely already paid themselves off for me as well.

 

[nbBasshunter]

Great job. I really like that fat one in the second photo.

 

[FishinMatt]

Thats a good deal. People can say what they want about the river, but you guys certainly pull in some nice fish.

 

[Brandon]

thanx fishin matt. yeah, a lot of people talk a lot of smack about the river. I've only been fishing it for a year now however, i think it is way underrated a fishery. a) the vast majority of it seems under fished. there are a few spots that get heavy traffic but tons of weedlines, bridges, etc. that get no pressure- and b) 95% of the fishing there (I would like to think) is all catch and release. Most everyone knows not to keep any of these fish-although you do see people keeping some and even professing to eat them from time to time. :shock: :shock: that being said..it seems like that level of catch and release has to be a good thing -possibly combating the fact that the carp population seems so big.

a lot of different species at play while most people don't even realize there are fish in there. heres to hoping it stays that way.

B

 

[Rich L]

Nice ones!