Fish of the Day

Most of my catches locally are small , with an occasional decent one .
Like this morning, I only caught five fish , three small gills , a small bass , and one shellcracker that put a nice bend in my St Croix Avid Panfish UL rod .
Rather posting pics of little ones, ( unless they’re exceptionally pretty) I’m going to highlight the “ Fish of the Day” .
When the sunlight hits him just right , it seems to glow .
So here’s today’s candidate , the shellcracker . Caught on a 1/64 jighead with a 1” bluegill color curlytail with its tail highlighted chartreuse with my Zoom marker pen .

Very pretty and looks to glow as you said. I like the idea of "Fish of the Day".

Nice catch!

Nice catch.

Regards


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Very nice

Real nice fish and a good idea. I’ll probably start doing that when my pet fish come back home. River might have moved em to another county.

sure are pretty sunfish and fight like the dickens too .congratulations and KABOOM

Beautiful colors on those fish. Thanks for sharing

It was 56 degrees this morning when I left around 9:30 headed to a local water reservoir. The one that has a section of riprap.
When I arrived I found the water was down by a least three feet and most of the rocks I’ve been fishing were high and dry .
Luckily, the rocks went a little farther than I’d been fishing , but that meant I had to stand on the rocks to fish . Not the safest footing for an old guy . :)
I took two rods a 6’ TFO UL paired with a Daiwa Exceler LT 1000d and a 6’ St Croix Avid ULF paired with a Daiwa Legalis LT 1000d . Both were spooled with 2# Green mist P-Line .
I fished 1/64 jigs with different Bobby garland itty bit baits .
I tried long casts , but the six fish I caught were caught jigging the edge of the rocks that were still covered with water .
Four were small warmouth , one green sunfish, and this little fellow .
I’m not certain what species he is , but I’m thinking it’s a spotted sunfish.
This is only the fourth of these I can remember catching. All but one were this size , with one being slightly larger. I don’t think they grow very big .

I forgot to post my fall lake pic .
Trees are starting to turn around here .

Nice. Quite the variety of panfish down in your area.

Pretty little fellers. Mom and I both like the colors, one of the things we miss from TN. Glad you found some. Our river hasn’t even crested yet.

My “ Fish of the Day” today is a LM bass I caught this morning on my 6’ St Croix UL rod with 2# P-Line .
I clipped a 3/4” snap on weighted float about two feet over my 1/64 jighead with a Bobby Garland Itty Bitty SwimR to fish a shallow flat at the Town Pond .
It amazes me that a fish this size gobble up tiny offerings. But I don’t mind . :biggrin

That is a nice one, very light colors.

Two highlighted fish today .
One of the three green sunfish I caught this morning.

Another nice Greenie! Seems like plastics are getting it done lately.

Fished my green sunfish hole this morning for a couple hours .
Weather was perfect. Low 60’s when I got there , 70’s when I left . Light breeze.
Took three rods to play with . All St Croix’s . A 6’ old model Trout series , an older model 6’ Premier, and a 5’6” 4piece Triumph travel rod . All UL’s .
Two reels ; a Carbon X 1000 and a 500 size . Two pound P-line on both .
Jigs were 1/64 and the body was Bobby Garland Itty Bitty SwimR in a few colors and I ended the trip with a black Trout Magnet body .
It seems the company that makes Bobby garland lures has decided to discontinue my favorite color , the Black Cricket . So, I’m trying others to find a substitute.
I wound up fishing with the 5’6” Travel rod for the bulk of my fishing . Just felt better . Perfect length for dropping into spaces between the rocks and pulling out a green sunfish or a warmouth. I paired it with the 500 Carbon X reel .
I caught sixteen including this one , my biggest of the day .
It came out of a space just large enough to slid him out .

Nice! Sure has some dark coloration.

You’re having too much fun. Some nice fish the last couple of days.

Met up with my fishing buddy this morning at our favorite lake .
It was a beautiful morning. Sunny , light wind , with temps in the upper fifties upon arrival and low seventies when we left around 2:30 .
I managed to bring 14 specimens to hand including this shellcracker.
Caught on my 5’6” St Croix Premier/ Daiwa Legalis LT 1000 combo .
Although this was my largest of the day , I was able to land , I hooked a couple of bass that came unhooked.

Very nice cracker!

My favorite playmate! Those shellcracker are so much better than most of the rest.

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My favorite playmate! Those shellcracker are so much better than most of the rest.

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The shellcracker are one of favorites too . No other panfish fights like a shellcracker .
This one stabbed me in the palm while I was trying to get a picture. They just don’t give up .

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I forgot to post my fall lake pic .
Trees are starting to turn around here .

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“Many go fishing all their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”- Henry D. Thoreau


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Monday meet up with my fishing buddy.
We met later in the day at 11:30am , the temp had just reach fifty degrees.
It was sunny , but a little windy .
My buddy caught sixteen , including a bass about the size of last weeks . About twelve inches or so . Good UL fish .
I caught twelve , ten small green sunfish , one small gill and this shellcracker. A nice UL fish , caught on a Bobby Garland Itty Bitty slab Hunter , on my 6’ St Croix Avid Panfish paired with a Daiwa Fuego LT 1000d and three pound P-line flouroclear .
We fished almost four hours .
It’ll be a couple weeks before our next meet up .

That is a nice one.

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That is a nice one.

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Thanks , I particularly liked the yellow on this one . Picture doesn’t do it justice.
It was a really pretty fish .
When it hit and took off , I thought I’d hooked another spotted bass .

Pretty fish.

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Yes that’s a pretty yellowish gold color. Very nice.

Good one there

Very pretty fish indeed!

Weather today 49 degrees , overcast, windy with gust to 24mph .
Perfect fishing day . :)
I bundled up and figured I could stand it for an hour , made it an hour and half .
I took my Daiwa Gekkabijin Ajing 55ul-s rod , paired with a Daiwa Fuego LT1000 .
I got one bite , caught one fish ; a nice UL bass .
Caught on a 1/32 jig and Sow bug Trout Magnet .
Made the day and kept the skunk away.

That is a nice one and a good looking setup.

I’ll bet he did put a good bend in the rod, nice little bass.