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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jul 23, 2010
Subject:
Spring Pond 07/23
Message:
I had a few hours to fish this morning, so I took my little kayak to Spring Pond from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM. I knew from the forecast that there would be no wind, but the weather was perfect. It was windless and overcast all morning, and began to sprinkle at 10:00 AM. Like I said, perfect! I started in the SW corner and the first 25 yards of the W shore, but got nothing, so I paddled to the S shore, where I've never caught anything. Well, I kept the streak alive, until I got to the SE corner, where I caught a 17 inch, 2 lbs 7 oz largemouth bass on a wacky-rigged five-inch watermelon/red flake Dinger. I continued up the E shore and about halfway up the S cove, I caught a 13 inch largemouth bass on a wacky-rigged five-inch watermelon/laminated pearl Dinger. A the N end of the S cove, directly across from the S island, I caught a 15 inch, 1 lb 12 oz largemouth bass on a weightless four-inch watermelon/purple flake tube. And about halfway up the hyacinth beds on the N end of the E shore, I caught a 14 inch largemouth bass on a wacky-rigged, five-inch watermelon/red flake Dinger. I didn't get anything else as I fished the NE cove and the first 25 yards of the N shore. I had to head in and decided to troll a white lipless crank bait about 25 yards away from the E shore. About halfway down the hyacinth beds, I caught a 10 inch white perch: [img:3789c2ba92]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/4274/2010072310inchwhiteperc.jpg[/img:3789c2ba92] I didn't know that there are white perch in Spring Pond! :o I had never caught or heard of anyone catching a white perch there. They obviously like trolled baits, because I caught two more and a calico bass by the time I got down to the pebble beach and basalt boulder on the E shore: [img:3789c2ba92]http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/4617/201007238inchcalicobass.jpg[/img:3789c2ba92] All three of the perch and the calico were 8 to 10 inches long. The bucket ladies fishing from the shore would have loved them. I gotta admit that catching them on a trolled crankbait was fun. A couple of the perch hit the bait pretty hard but, then again, I was moving pretty fast when they hit it.
Author:
slimecoat
Date:
Jul 23, 2010
Message:
I'm not an expert on white perch, because I've only caught a few in my life, like you by accident of course, but by the look of that little guy, that could be a "dace" not a white perch? And you seriously need to get a new scale, because there is no way a 17 inch bass weights 1 -7. A 17 inch bass should weigh between 3 and 4lbs. approximately depending on girth of course. A 16 inch bass is almost always right around 3lbs. I have a 6 year old berkley digital handheld scale that works great. It is accurate to within a few ounces of the official digital tournament scale my club uses for weigh ins at our bass tournaments. I think I paid like $20 to $25 bucks for it back then. I don't know what kind of scale you are using, but it is way off. If it has gotten wet internally throw it away. If you have dropped it multiple times, throw it away. Just my 2 cents...........
Author:
PECo
Date:
Jul 23, 2010
Subject:
Oops!
Message:
That was a typo. The 17-incher was 2 lbs, 7 oz. I'll edit the post. Thanks.
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