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After seeing a full moon last night I knew it may be tough, but decided to go fishing anyway. Did not feel like going to Murray again, so I headed out to the SD river. I worked a couple jerk baits and a crank bait for a while and no takers and then to a spinnerbait and still nothing. The surface was ...

Great report. Better buy 2x of every color as well. You never know which color might work. And 2x of each size as well. And 2x of each brand. Sound matters some times. I got a tackle problem…

Bummer, those hurt=(
The last one is shaped like a walleye.

Another Bass, despite the Nightcrawler Lid this one was on a Crawdad.

My Dad circa. 1988

Floater at Jennings

Sorry maybe (likely) I'm dumb, but what is a "floater"


Most of the time when a bass dies it stays on the bottom, but as the body decomposes, gas forms in the body, which at times can cause
the body of the fish to float to the surface or at times when a bass is near death it floats to the ...

postspawn...what it could of been?

Had my weekly opportunity to shore fish from 4-6PM today.
Got 2.
Both drop shots.
The best part for me was I finally caught something on other than a RoboWorm or Senko.
Got one on a drop-shotted Yamamota pumpkin Kreature bait hooked once through near the nose.
I threw this one a couple times ...

my top 3-
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Found this pic of my 11.9 from Morena several years back

I glad to see that SDfish is still alive and well. Good to see so many of the seasoned anglers still posting. As some may know I am no longer in SD however I have an attachment to this thread.

Took a little trip out East to the land of the Canals today for an afternoon session.

Had a blast! When it’s good out there, it’s just so much fun.

Managed 10 or so largemouth and a couple smallmouth, including my first 2+ (don’t laugh, I’d never caught a Smallie until a few months ago lol) and ...

I kind of think bass ( maybe fish in general ) have no concept of their relative size to something they might eat. I think they basically go with the idea of "if it fits in my mouth, it was a meal".

Decided to take the cheaper fishing route(a recent new roof set me back $$,$$$$) so I headed down to the SD River for a morning session.
The last time I was there it was really stained and flooded via the tons of water being released from El Capitan. This time the water had
gone down to almost back ...

Holy Hog!

Only pay for parking. $5 on weekends. Trout stocking just started. There are bass, some good ones but very limited bank space, limited structure, decent in spring and fall.

As you know from my posts in the panfish section I've had a ton of fun recently targeting large Bluegill and Crappie on ultralight gear and micro lures. So today I decided to go after Bass on the same gear. I caught 6 Largemouths. Nothing huge but they sure felt like it on those whippy rods and ...

Two easy answers for me.
6” roboworm on a dropshot
Megabass Vision 110 Jr + 1 (or any of the 110 family jerkbaits, they all get bit)

Both of those are in my 5 “desert island” baits, along with a white spinnerbait, a 10-12’ diving crankbait, and the 5” Slim Senko.

Slow day for me today. There was absolutely NO breeze today which made it really tough to get bit once the sun got high. Managed 3 early fish on Flukes with the biggest going 4.36. Best fish I’ve gotten out of there in a while. Caught it in about 6” of water busting shad. Definitely less fish in the ...