South Oklahoma Sand Bass Run 2012

[mavs>spurs]

More like North Texas I saaaaaiiiiiidd. It's officially on now..or at least will be in the coming days. Creeks are full of males but not so many females yet..I anticipate they'll be there by later this week. Caught about 20-22 today..will post pics.

[thispego]

dude mavs>spurs, in my eyes, your only saving grace is that you bass fish. you bad bro, maybe we can be friends.

[mavs>spurs]

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7545/fishvr.jpg

[mavs>spurs]

those were all males believe it or not..they only showed up yesterday or today. should catch about 50 more tomorrow, between the 2 of us.

[thispego]

Fuck. You.

[mavs>spurs]

tbh sand bass are the shit with an ultra light reel and 6lb test. just throw that roadrunner, rooster tail, crappie jig, one of those small spinners with a grub on it, etc it doesn't really matter and you get one like every other cast imho.

[BlackSwordsMan]

you're top 5 on my list of people who I would save during a zombie apocalypse

[cantthinkofanything]

those were all males believe it or not..

Not surprised at all.

[mavs>spurs]

went back today and the fish were really finicky...no one was doing too well only caught 6. will catch more tomorrow..females still haven't made their way up the creek for ORGY TIME.

[DMC]

When the sandies slow down, go deeper for these guys:

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/DMCSPURS/Fishing098.jpg

Use a heavier jig head, bounce it off the bottom.

Or you could abandon the tributaries and come to the salt like me (yeah it's really me, note the chubby fingers and don't abuse the pic).

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/DMCSPURS/P0001980.jpg

[DMC]

married? you made some guy very happy
Probably you because you know I aint out fucking your old lady.

[thispego]

good one :rolleyes

[thispego]

hey nice redfish though. you look like you're afraid to touch it.

[DMC]

hey nice redfish though. you look like you're afraid to touch it.

I've never seen one, had no idea what it was, and that's an "ok" redfish. I've caught reds that could eat that one sideways.

[mavs>spurs]

ya DMC i wish i could just hop in my boat and head to the coast but unfortunately i don't have access to either..right now i am bank fishing so i'm limited to sandbass running up the creeks....btw nice fish.

Edit: that biggest crappie looks almost 14 inches..nice. reminds me of a mess of crappie i caught last year, biggest one on the right was 14 or 15 inches too. i don't usually fish for them so it was kind of new to me.

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7729/crappie.jpg

[thispego]

I've never seen one, had no idea what it was, and that's an "ok" redfish. I've caught reds that could eat that one sideways.

Bull reds? Those bitches put up a fight.

You say you've never seen a red but have caught reds that could eat the one in the pic sideways?
Ehhh

[Twisted_Dawg]

Minnows or artificial?

[DMC]

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/DMCSPURS/Sharkface.jpg

That one I didn't touch, just used hookouts and off she went.

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/DMCSPURS/fishAug08004-2.jpg

Here's a decent one, not my biggest but close.

[DMC]

ya DMC i wish i could just hop in my boat and head to the coast but unfortunately i don't have access to either..right now i am bank fishing so i'm limited to sandbass running up the creeks....btw nice fish.

Edit: that biggest crappie looks almost 14 inches..nice. reminds me of a mess of crappie i caught last year, biggest one on the right was 14 or 15 inches too. i don't usually fish for them so it was kind of new to me.

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7729/crappie.jpg
I see a bunch of sammiches.

Last year I got into some on Colorado Bend that were 16", smallest was 14" and I limited in 2 hours with a bunch of freshwater drum and some whites mixed in. They were the biggest crappie I have ever seen, and I caught them all standing in one place, on a peninsula with my back to the wind so I could cast a long distance with a light lure. I had people on both sides of me catching nothing. I had to hump those fish out about 3 miles to my truck, I was so far up the river.

[mavs>spurs]

damn sons, i'm no expert crappie fisher by any means but any time you're catching an abundance and they're all over 14 you've done good tbh. That picture is actually the first and only time I've ever fished for crappie tbh, usually stick to largemouth bass during the summer months. I'm not an expert yet just go when i can tbh, with graduation looming and some free time coming I definitely plan to become one though.

well i take that back, i AM an expert at a texas rigged worm in the summer months, traditionally the main time i get to fish :lol

[mavs>spurs]

Minnows or artificial?

never use minnows tbh, too much hassle. they were mostly caught on white roadrunners and white johnson beetle, water was muddy from all the rain.

[DMC]

damn sons, i'm no expert crappie fisher by any means but any time you're catching an abundance and they're all over 14 you've done good tbh. That picture is actually the first and only time I've ever fished for crappie tbh, usually stick to largemouth bass during the summer months. I'm not an expert yet just go when i can tbh, with graduation looming and some free time coming I definitely plan to become one though.

well i take that back, i AM an expert at a texas rigged worm in the summer months, traditionally the main time i get to fish :lol
Careful, crappie are one of the most addictive fish in the water. Many a deep sea or big bass man has hung it all up to chase those things. Cool thing is you can get a small pond buster boat or something like that and find some brushpiles and wear them dudes out. It's not hard. Cedar Creek up there has some serious slabs under the docs.

[DMC]

damn sons, i'm no expert crappie fisher by any means but any time you're catching an abundance and they're all over 14 you've done good tbh. That picture is actually the first and only time I've ever fished for crappie tbh, usually stick to largemouth bass during the summer months. I'm not an expert yet just go when i can tbh, with graduation looming and some free time coming I definitely plan to become one though.

well i take that back, i AM an expert at a texas rigged worm in the summer months, traditionally the main time i get to fish :lol
I use minnows if I am fishing under lights. Last year 4 of us boated 100 keepers (and twice as many undersized) in 4 hours under lights with minnows, we just keep using them until they won't stay on a hook. Crappie aren't sporty anyhow, but damn they eat good.

[Sportcamper]

That is quite a hall but do you actually eat fresh water bass? Large mouth fresh water bass in So Cal taste terrible…Ocean sand bass are a different story…They probably are so delicious because I catch them in the pristine Santa Monica Bay…

[CosmicCowboy]

Hard to tell from the picture but this is an 8' long sailfish going vertical from a few weeks ago in Palm Beach...on 20# standup gear...

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2923/010hf.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/195/010hf.jpg/)

[CosmicCowboy]

The guy I was fishing with took a freaking great picture of one of mine blowing up right behind the transom of the boat but hasn't sent me a copy yet. We caught/released 6 that day and had another 10 rises.

[CosmicCowboy]

He took the boat to Nassau for the summer and we are planning on going back in a few weeks for marlin and yellow fin tuna.

[Big Empty]

When the sandies slow down, go deeper for these guys:

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/DMCSPURS/Fishing098.jpg

Use a heavier jig head, bounce it off the bottom.

Or you could abandon the tributaries and come to the salt like me (yeah it's really me, note the chubby fingers and don't abuse the pic).

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l482/DMCSPURS/P0001980.jpg
hell yea nice red!!!

[mavs>spurs]

Caught about 40 of em tonight will post pics

[mavs>spurs]

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6738/42614910151401896765013.jpg

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2317/41815810151401898085013.jpg

[IWantsACuatro]

Over the weekend, I took a trip to Lake Palestine with Mavsfans to fish for sandies. We drifted off a little island and caught over 30 in an hour. We casted where the shad were popping at the tip of the water and the sandies would slam the jigs right away. One of the Mavsfans pulled up this bass we figured to be atleast 6-7 lbs.

http://i42.tinypic.com/1eqagm.png


Then the trip was cut short when I tried getting a hook out of a sandies mouth and the other treble hook on the jig was lodged into my finger when a wave broke into the boat and the fish flopped simultaneously. We tried to tie a line around the treble and yank out the hook, but the barb was already set. So we had to dock the boat and venture to the ER to get it out.

http://i44.tinypic.com/32zotue.jpg

No worries though, I was back on the lake an hour after getting out of the emergency room.

[mavs>spurs]

That's one thing I never want to have happen tbh