We were looking through old pics. This was from 2019. We were trout fishing, floating worms off the bottom. Something smacked and went nuts. Fought for a good while and when it came to the surface it looked weird, whitish. Here it was on its side. When landing, we noticed that this big ol bass had hooked itself on the gill plate.
Sent him on his way. A happy accident as Bob Ross would say!

Nice bass

Looks like a nice fish.

Catch and release confuses me.

Wasn’t in season at the time pal!

Maybe it identified as a trout?

Smash, you gotta extend your arms fully towards the camera for any fish pics! SHEESH Lady…

He was too heavy !

Nice bass! You got to get and get another one.

I hear this is a Sconie condition ,many of us suffer from it.

C&R is for those who cannot filet.
That's a nice one.

Season dates are weird for those over here.
River, stream, lake, pond, trophy, extended, blah.

Dang, ten more and we can have a trapperman calendar. Nice fish.

Also a nice fish

Never heard of a season on large mouth bass

Tatiana that’s a cute pic!!

Heard of fillet and release?

Even if it was in season, I would let it go. Not a good eating fish, IMO.
That one must have given you quite a tussle.

Look like a goodun . Years ago when I was much younger the ol timers here would call them Green Trout.

Sure is. One that size we like to smoke for great eating with a beer!

Except musky it seems. Thought I was gonna get lynched one time by a group of guys at work that were talking musky fishing. I asked them if they had any good recipes I could use if I ever caught one.

Great fish ladies!

Great photos and nice fish.

Many years ago I knew of a tributary creek to a reservoir in CA that was closed for trout until April 15, but was open for smallmouth and catfish all year.

I told a game warden one time, "... ya, I'm fishing for smallies but I can't keep these 20" rainbows off my flies,,,".

Good luck,

Pete

Beautiful fish.
And yeah, I'd be in for that kind of fishing

Really? LOL

I probably release 90% of the fish I catch. I just enjoy catching them. I’ll keep the better eating fish, crappie bass, perch, walleye. But anything out of season or anything that doesn’t make good table fare gets thrown back. Warm water bass is not a good eating fish.

My granddaughter and I catch a lot of fall fish in one of the rivers we frequent. We have a blast doing it and they run large in that river averaging about 12 inches. But they are not good eating. Why would we keep them?

Nice catch!

Does Largemouth Bass taste the same as Smallmouth?

That’s a heck of a nice bass you caught there Smash.

Got to love those big northern, nice pick Tatiana.

I don’t think so. I think smallmouth are better, but that bar isn’t very high.

All bass and fall fish are way down on the good eating list for me.

Nice fish.
Those little rainbow trout in that lake make excellent Big Bass bait
A 10" trout isn't too large for a bass that size

Great pics!

Sure. Missouri Ozark streams are closed from late February till Memorial Day for black bass. Gives the fish time to breed and get off the nest. Ozark lakes are open all year around though. Always been that way.

I wish there was a season on em here.maybe it would slow down some of these dang bass tournaments we have seems like every day of the week

Most states have an immediate release for foul hooked fish.

Very nice fish Smash and Tatiana!

Nice catch and picture.Congrats

Wowsers! Nice fishes ladies!

I think that would be cool!
Proceeds benefit T Man discretionary fund!

Those would fly off the shelves, great idea! I know Tatiana has more too.
Get the ball rolling Smash.

Angela!
Patrice!
Cathryn!
Sharon!
Kristen!
WissMiss!
And any other ladies I may have missed
(A Bearded Trapper Eric, your Ang…she’s a heck of an outdoors lady)

We need your photos with fishes

Dibs on January

Nice fish Ashley

I don't see a picture of any other fish?

I really like Smallmouth. And it seems I only catch them during the summer months lol. Just never tried Largemouth before.

The largemouth that are about a pound or a pound and a half are the best eating.
Nice fish ladies.

I just now saw this. I guess you guys went and roughed up Tatiana and she took her pic and ran.

Yep, looks like . I'm sad that I missed the pic of Tatiana's fish.

Nice fish Smash.

What if the only theme was Tman ladies? You and Tatiana can show off big fish (Im betting Patrice prolly could too) Kristen could show off a sled full of rats, Sharon sits a saddle purdy nicely and so on and so forth! Catherine could be set up road side selling produce with a big sign says tarrif free!

A T-man calendar, woman’s version, was attempted once before but there weren’t enough ladies who wanted to participate to make a full calendar.

Very nice.
Mac

no, I ran because I only wanted to show the fish and a way to hold it.

You have a ton of conventionally pretty women over there (the list above, and you forgot Kayleigh.... and Mrs Langley)))), you don't need any hideous feral slav ogres such as myself in the mix

Tatiana I don’t think I know Kayleigh! And Mrs Langley left after quite the beating…

Also; nonsense you’re a gem

Well, you live in the frozen north and I think most fish are better out of cold water. How would you say smallmouth bass rate against perch, walleye, pan fish, you know, the good eating fish? LOL

Irregardless of your apparent hideous looks..... I never got to see the fish dadnabbit! Priorities! LOL

BTW, I've seen a pic of Tatiana. I'm certain that nobody on here would have found her to be even remotely similar to the comments she made.

The fish was nearly as big as she was.

Yeah, it was a big one. It looked like a Northern Pike to me, but I don’t know if they exist where she was fishing.