05-09-2013, 08:40 PM
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Farm pond bass report
These are the bass I have been catching at the pond near my house, during the spawn time. Most of the fish were caught with texas rigged 6 inch lizards, shaky heads with zoom trick worms, and berkley havoc pit bosses. But some of them were caught on 1/4 ounce sexy shad spinnerbaits, double fluke rigs, and zoom baby brush hawgs. It has been good at this pond, catching an average of 2 fish a day. I know it does not seems like a lot of fish, but considering the fish average about 3.5 pounds, it is a lot. I caught these bass last month, all the way up to today. I had a absolute giant break me off on a shaky head while it was spawning. Most of the fish were caught in 3 foot depth water. They were scattered since there is not structure, but will not bite fast moving reactionary baits very well. Does anyone have any suggestions of a search bait that will catch them, while moving slow? Shaky head has been the bomb thought.
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05-09-2013, 08:45 PM
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Here is some more. # 7 is a spotted bass. I wonder why it was in a farm pond. Did someone toss it in?
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05-09-2013, 09:34 PM
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Nice fish!
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05-09-2013, 10:07 PM
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Are there any creeks near the pond? If so, the spotted bass might have gotten into the pond in a flood (maybe the 2010 flood).
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05-09-2013, 10:33 PM
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Nice catches!
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05-10-2013, 06:00 AM
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Good fish man! That one is a hawg fo sho!
I am pretty sure the one in photo 7 is a largemouth though.
I have been dragging a jig with craw trailer through the shallows, parallel to the bank, etc. It has worked pretty well.
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05-10-2013, 08:10 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bd-
Are there any creeks near the pond? If so, the spotted bass might have gotten into the pond in a flood (maybe the 2010 flood).
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One creek but you can jump across it if you had to. I saw a muskrat in it though. It flooded about 2 weeks ago, and it just got clear enought to fish about 5 days ago. It has been tough since all the cold front have been coming throught.
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05-10-2013, 08:15 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blink
Good fish man! That one is a hawg fo sho!
I am pretty sure the one in photo 7 is a largemouth though.
I have been dragging a jig with craw trailer through the shallows, parallel to the bank, etc. It has worked pretty well.
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I thought it was a spotted bass, since it had a tooth patch, and the jaw extended behind the eye.
During the winter i lost a least an 8 pounder on a big 1/2 jig. It sucked very bad. I did catch one about as big as the second one in the winter on a minnow and bobber, with 4 pound test line.
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05-10-2013, 08:49 AM
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I thought it was a spotted bass, since it had a tooth patch, and the jaw extended behind the eye.
CC, this is a give away this is a large mouth Bass, the jaw on spots will not extend behind the eye, it will be on a straight line down from the eye, only large mouth's jaw's will extend beyond the eye. seems like you are having a great time with plenty of fish and nice pics to post, great fish man!!!
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05-10-2013, 09:04 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Transplanted Sportsman
I thought it was a spotted bass, since it had a tooth patch, and the jaw extended behind the eye.
CC, this is a give away this is a large mouth Bass, the jaw on spots will not extend behind the eye, it will be on a straight line down from the eye, only large mouth's jaw's will extend beyond the eye. seems like you are having a great time with plenty of fish and nice pics to post, great fish man!!!
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Another thing to further confuse, its not very common, but some largemouth will have the toothy tongue patch.
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