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Nice job out there!
Looks like a fun time and love the pics.....especially the first one of you and that bass but seems it
needs a caption above it to say..... "Heck Yeah!"
Tight lines always and thanks for sharing.

Jitterbug is the pond goat. Had so much fun on it in the late 90s-early 2000s. I feel like the new ones don't swim right and the hooks hang wrong

Great report and fish John! Thanks for posting.

Nice work!!

Thanks for the info. Maybe 3 or 4 hours of fishing the dock zone would be worth the trip. I can remember catching one or two by the dam shoreline at the last cast on the way in.

Always on the lookout for snakes, but thanks for the reminder.

Got out a little later today, since the bite in the dark hasn't been that strong and sleeping in seems like a good thing. Air was 74F, Water was 78F. Light wind coming easterly. Played about in Wilson's creek and didn't have much topwater success. Managed to lose a pompadour lure though. That's two ...

Did I hear plastics?... nice report bro it's that time to pull out the 9in 10in worms and lizards....next week should be fun and challenging

I need to see proof that you didn’t melt. Just kidding …nice job out there. Just the fact that you’re out there fishing in this type of weather proves you’re a bass fishing stud. I was once like you, but now if it’s gonna be hot, even if I go early, just knowing that I have to leave really early ...

Lake Barrett Big Bass Fishing! Stay To The End! My Biggest Barrett Bass So Far!
https://youtu.be/oNVsXEJyKLk

Hey all it is finally getting down to the wire! September Barrett fishing is here. I got a last minute opportunity to head out and meet Early Release on the water for a few hours a week ago ...

JWall wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:27 am Heck Ya!!!! Funny how sometimes letting a lure sit while curing some kind of distraction gets a nice one. Way to go

The unintended deadstick

Nice pig! Always catching them quality fish on the jig. I've caught 2 pound fish on a Hudd, but I rarely catch a 2 pound fish on a jig. It's just a quality bite time after time.


The unintended deadstick


Had that happen to me last weekend. We had just launched and blasted to the back of a cove ...

Thanks for the report, great commentary and footage Pourboy — watched this start to finish with my boys. Congrats on that beautiful fish. I’ve gotten blown up numerous times this season after leaving my lure unattended for whatever reason. Always a nice surprise!

My son and I started off in Hauser with some nice cloud cover caught a few here and there on crawler, Rapala #5, Flukes and Senkos. We had about 25 by mid morning but it started getting hot with full sun and kinda slowed down. We checked some of the steep rock walls and tried a little deeper for 1 ...

Got to the lake right before the sun came up and it was a chilly morning, meet up with Early release by hauser( I can hear his popper from a mile away 😆 ) and started picking fish off the shore went to the mid lake hoping to get some busters but there where no where in sight,so i headed back to the ...

I can hear his popper from a mile away 😆

🤣🤣

Man it’s been too long since I’ve thrown a lizard. Plum color?


I like to throw more of a neutral color when they are this picky in the beginning of the season I was throwing red , plum and black and blue... now they don't hit those colors so ...

When you look back and realize how much joy a body of water can bring

Nice job!
Using lizards eh? I forgot about those. I better go in the garage and bring some out of retirement...ha ha
I have not fished Barrett in decades and it would be nice if it was open year round especially
because so many anglers love to fish there...........or would that be a bad thing ...

Nice report and it was so funny when you cast the lizard in the middle of the lake, announcing that it was the most unlikely place to get a fish and then your pole bent over and you got that fatty in the first picture. It was a fun day yesterday. It was also pretty cool to watch that osprey nail ...

Totally forgot about the osprey that was pretty cool I thought he was gonna lose the fish but he hold on it pretty good 👍.. I think by them closing the lake it puts a bit of ease on the fish during winter especially since they got beat up during the summer.. maybe opening it up one day a month with ...

Got out on the water a little later. Steve had already gone and Chuck was loaded up and ready to go when I got to the parking lot. Much cooler yesterday morning. Actually needed the pullover. Light wind from the east with occasional breezes. The water was down to 75F at the surface. I headed to ...