ncstatefisher

Dammit boy!!! Great work!

Glad somebody hooked up @Garrett!! I had one 4lb or so follower within 5 minutes of the "prime time" for my area but outside of that there either wasn't much effect or the fish were on the other side of the lake, no unnatural surface activity mid day or anything fun like that. Did catch one small fish on a fluke but nothing to get too excited about

With everybody losing their minds all I can question is how are the fish going to react? With just under 4 hours or so until we get the darkness here on the east coast just curious if anybody else is gonna be out trying to see what happens on the water and if so what you'll be throwing.

That is awesome brother!!! I'd say it was a pretty good trade!!!

Well boys.. I officially jinxed her. A heavy storm was about to roll in so I wanted to take advantage of the conditions, about 10 minutes in WHAM! I bow up on a really solid fish but I could tell my hookset wasn't quite right (rainsuit kept me from following through) - When she got in close she jumped and rolled back over the line funny and pulled free. I'm not quite sure if she left a knick in the line or if the 20mph+ wind wrapped my line around my rod tip... but the ol glider.... she gone. The wind is blowing directly towards the bank heavy still so I'm holding out a small bit of hope maybe that 1-2' ROF will keep it close enough to the surface to wash in.. but in the mean time I'm on a killer bite without a bait!!! Just ordered 3 more. Don't know if this gantarel has a wide enough glide to get the job done

@namsu they aren't the 3D I don't believe just the standard line-thru with the flat tails Sounds good on the blue shad bud!

Sounds good thanks guys. Any advice on color? And pros/cons for top hook vs. weedless rigging with a weighted owner aside from ya know.. the weedlessness?

Not sure what has possessed these fish since this big front rolled through.... but I like it!!! Hate to spam the report section but this is the most success I've had in a short span and it feels great to be on a pattern. The pic in the black shirt is Saturday's Catch, the blue is this evenings. The fish saturday was one of the most exciting glide bait bites I've ever had, he blasted it right at the bank while I had my head turned and gave the full whirlpool experience. The fish had moxie, stripped a good bit of drag before I turned him and I had it pretty well set. Today was a blast. This fish swung and missed right in close and just barely knicked the tail. I tossed back up 10 yards or so past and started working it and could see the shadow come up fast until my bait disappeared. POW! She gone. Also stuck a chunky 2.5lber and funny moment of the night, around 15 minutes before it got dark I turned to my girl mid retrieve and said "Ya know as much luck as I've been having I don't deserve to get bit again tonight" - two more cranks and BOOM! Big splash as a 4.5-5lb range fish blew up on the glide and started tailwalking, she pulled the hooks but I was laughing too hard to care. I know a ton of people say the more a bait gets beat up the more it gets bit, man this thing is in FIYAAAHHH. Gaining more and more mojo daily, just need to land a true giant on her

So I kinda did the swimbait thing a little backwards. I know most people start with soft baits but I've gotten comfortable with hard baits, particularly glides and wakes, but I never spent much time on soft plastics. I've caught two and missed a couple bites on a hudd 68 and plan to pick up an 8" going in to the winter (any color recommendation here is great too, I'm kinda thinking ayu or yellow perch), but I want to expand my soft bait arsenal and try something new before then. I do have several savage line thru trout in 8 & 10" from my striper days in SC. The 50 acre pond I fish has very clear water and submerged grass beds, I get a ton of followers on the glide (lately I've been putting in work on the ones committing) but I do see a fair number of them mouth the back of the bait and spit it and lose interest once they realize it's hard. So far as baitfish there's white perch, a variety of bream, crappie, shiners, and there may even be shad but I haven't seen them yet. Given the conditions I'd love any and all recommendations on a couple baits to add to the arsenal and what size owner beast to rig them with. I've seen a lot of positives on here about the osprey and the 3:16 rising son - are these the best bets to start with or am I missing a hidden gem out there? Thanks in advance!!

Didn't want to spam another report up... But the bite is still on Stuck this biggun last night, with a lot less swollen face! Lol, fish medicine at it's finest. This Ninja glide is getting some serious mojo!!! Easily the most aggressive swimbait bite I've ever had, I wasn't looking and the fish whirpooled it on an aggressive retrieve about 10' from shore, threw water everywhere and stripped some drag. I was expecting her to be even bigger when she came up!

Love the color on that second fish

beast!!

Thanks guys. It's amazing how time on the water and a good catch can change your mood so quickly. @brrhodes when I thought it up I got a good laugh out of it haha

It's been a downright rough couple weeks, works been really stressful due to things outside my control, had to sink a bunch of unexpected money in to the car, just a real stinker. Long story short stress got the better of me in the form of a couple reactions that have my face swelled up lookin like Shrek. Well what's shrek without Donkeh!?! Even though I feel terrible I wanted to go get in a quick hourlong session with the ol' hardcore glide since that bite has been really strong. About 45 minutes in I got a fiesty 3lb football to commit on a really cool bite, he short struck and I pulled it away from him and he struck again and choked it before I could even reel in my slack. Great fighting little guy and I was content for the evening. I wasn't far from the end of this side of the lake where I know there's a little deep hole so I went over for the famed 'last cast'. Well, for once the last cast actually WAS the last cast. About halfway in on my retrieve, working slow and methodical with half cranks, my bait gets absolutely HAMMERED. The fish tried several times to dive deep on me to wrap me up in the grass but after losing a nice fish Saturday by not being aggressive enough I put a good bit of pressure on her. She came up and tailwalked twice but she was buttoned up good. That was all she wrote and my parfait loving friend was up on the bank!

This is my next thing to try... Wakebaits at night, currently have a g2 cracker and a jackall Mikey SR. that have both caught me fish during the day, and have a BBZ-50 rat in ninja on the way. Keep at it bud I'm sure you'll get a night pig soon!!

congrats on the PB!!

Thanks for the love guys! I'm still amped up 3 days later @fishdr I haven't gone out and tried to fish at night at all yet, shame on me - but it's on my short list of things to do @mountainryan at this point I hadn't had much issue with hookup ratio, of the 2 fish that didn't make it in the first never actually got the hook while she was knocking it out of the water best I can tell and the one that got off was completely my fault for letting her get in to the weeds - I should have put more pressure on her but didn't want to pull the hooks! Of course the past 2 days I have pulled off two solid (but not giant) fish shortly after the hookset, I think they were just swiping at it though because I got a couple scales back on both fish. I'll probably swap out the hooks here soon if I lose anymore. I've got a couple of the new trapper trebles I want to try out!

http://swimbaitunderground.com/forums/index.php?/topic/42931-gonna-be-hard-for-me-to-top-this/ Thanks for the advice from everybody on here... If you throw at them long enough eventually you end up in the right place at the right time

Haven't put a report up on here in a while (nor have I had a lot of time to fish) since I moved back to NC. But this one couldn't be left out! I moved to an apartment with a 50 acre sand pit that's well over 30' deep in spots, it's more or less a lake. Over the course of the past month or so I'd occasionally see fish busting and schooling out towards the middle or out of range, usually on days I was playing with a fly rod where I had no chance of getting anywhere close to them. Well, Saturday I finally was in the right place and the right time. The water in this pond is stained but extremely clear so I get a lot of followers but not a ton of commitment (though it is summer, this fall could get ugly when they start wanting to fatten up!!) I made a long cast out over a deep hole and before my bait hit the water, the surface erupted. My swimbait landed in the middle of fish busting so hard that 4-5lb fish were going completely airborn after bait. My eyes about popped out of my head and I started a quick retrieve and maybe 3 cranks in I got absolutely smashed. The fish swam right at me so I figured it was just a really fiesty little 3lber or so. Negative ghost rider, the fish turned and went airborn before I got it to the bank. Pretty sure she'd been ordering off the dollar menu too much, needed to find a treadmill. Took a quick pic and she swam off. The fish had gone back down but I knew they couldn't have gotten far, so I threw it back out. WHACK! I see my bait fly out of the water several feet.. I get about two more cranks in, the hooks had fouled up so it was up on top and the monster fish rolled on it again and missed. Heartbreaker as it was an easy 8+. Another couple casts produced nothing and I'm thinking well, that was fun but they took off. Nope. About 50 yards to the right they were at it again, I ran over and casted out and stuck a nice 4.5-5lb range fish, shook it off with my pliers still in the water and casted again and hooked up with a submarine. Never saw the fish but gave me a better fight than the first one that I caught, I got her about 15 yards off the bank and she dug down in to the grass and hung me up. I took my phone out of my pocket and started wading in to get a better angle but she shook off right before I pulled the bait free. Tough telling on size but she had some serious shoulders. Two more casts two more fish one around 4lbs one around 4.5. At this point adrenaline has me all kinds of amped up but the fish went down and didn't come back up again. In a 10 minute span I had landed 4 nice fish, missed a monster, and had another monster pull off. I was fully content but something told me to walk back to the deep hole where I had started. I made a cast started working a fast retrieve to where I could see the bait beneath the surface and about 15 feet from shore one flashed and I was hooked up again! Since the craziness was over this one got a photo as well even though it was easily the smallest of the 5 landed. I've been fortunate enough to catch a lot of bass in my life, but this may be impossible for me to beat. Easy 20lb+ bag in 15 minutes, all on a big swimbait in my backyard. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good Setup is a Loomis IMX 7'7, Daiwa Luna 253 and a Duel Hardcore Ninja Glide in Gizzard shad

been sticking a few up in the northeast part of the state on glides