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Author:
PECo
Date:
Aug 03, 2010
Subject:
Burr Pond 08/02
Message:
After reading some recent posts about topwater action, I decided to head up to Burr Pond with my daughter to fish with soft plastic frogs on weedless swimming jigs over the weeds and pads in the SW cove. Since TurtleKiss (aka Kira) fishes topwater more than anyone I know, I asked her to join us. She agreed to come along and use my little kayak, while my daughter and I fished from The Other Woman in what has become our usual back-to-back tandem seating arrangement. Here's a shot of Kira on the pond in my little kayak: [img:1fa7667156]http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/581/20100802kirainthesink.jpg[/img:1fa7667156] There was a gentle SW breeze and scattered clouds, so it was a pleasant warm day. The water was also warm. We drove up to the pond in my father-in-law's NJ-tagged Yukon. Even though I have a CT driver's license and we were towing my CT-tagged trailer, we still had to pay the $10 non-resident admission fee: [img:1fa7667156]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3065/20100802admission.jpg[/img:1fa7667156] I drove to the turn-around circle by the beach to drop off my Hobie, my little kayak, Kira and my daughter. While we unloaded the Yukon and the trailer, we spoke with the DEP guy on duty at the beach area of the park. He seemed a little bored and it was really nice talking with him. That's when I learned that there's a boat launch ramp. On the NE shore of the pond. Paved. Just a little way up the hill from the entrance to the park (i.e., NE). With parking. For free. :cry: Now, although I had been to Burr Pond a couple of times in the past, I had never paddled up to the NE shore. I had always stuck with the coves to the SW, S and SE: [img:1fa7667156]http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2563/burrpond.jpg[/img:1fa7667156] I had no idea that there is a boat launch ramp. I had never seen any boats other than kayaks and canoes on the pond before. Oh, well, the next time, I guess. The pond was weedier than I thought it would be. There are weeds covering most of the bottom. When we used sinking lures and let them sink to the bottom, we would pull up weeds most of the time. I ended up catching 5 largemouth bass and 2 little chain pickerel. Here's everything that I caught: 12 inch LMB with frog 12 inch CP with tube 12 inch LMB with tube 14 inch LMB with tube 14 inch CP with tube 12 inch LMB with tube 10 inch LMB with worm I caught the first largemouth bass with a soft plastic Yum frog on a swimming jig head slowly retrieved at a depth of about 2 feet in the open space between a few clusters of lilies and weeds. I saw the bass hit the frog and I actually set the hook. I'm kinda proud of that. Afterward, however, I got only one more hit on the frog and failed to set the hook quickly enough. I caught both chain pickerel and three more bass with a 4 inch Yum mardigras (i.e., watermelon/purple flake) tube on a 1/8 oz Arkie jig head. The pickerel hit the tube when I was cranking it. The bass hit the tube when I let it sink to the bottom. I caught the last little bass just off the cattails next to the spillway in the SE cove. It hit a wacky-rigged 5 inch smoke/purple flake Dinger. Unfortunately, my daughter didn't catch any fish. However, she caught some dragonflies, a windblown spider, a snail, a frog and a freshwater jellyfish. Yes, that's right, a freshwater jellyfish in its medusa (i.e., swimming bell) stage that was about an inch in diameter. I'll let Kira post about the fish she caught, including the lunker largemouth bass that she got in the weeds and pads. She might also post about pulling a "Jed" and dropping a rod and reel to the bottom of the S cove. I had a good time on the water, yesterday. But I can't wait to go back and use the [i:1fa7667156][b:1fa7667156]FREE PAVED BOAT LAUNCH RAMP[/b:1fa7667156][/i:1fa7667156]!
Author:
SkeeterRon
Date:
Aug 03, 2010
Message:
Peco, Nice report...
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Aug 03, 2010
Message:
So it sounds like you didn't end up with any topwater action? Even the frog was submerged when you caught the LMB right? Typically with the frogs I have to let the fish take the frog and wait a second or 2 before setting the hook. If I set the hook to soon it's usually a miss. But that is with topwater frogs. I never tried swiming them before which it sounds like you were doing.
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