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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jan 03, 2011
Subject:
Nod Brook WMA - Upper Pond 01/03
Message:
I met up with jonnyfly00 (aka Jon aka Shelly) and Cots6 (aka Mason) at 8:00 am between the ponds at Nod Brook. I got there at 7:50 am, but the sun didn't appear over Talcott Mountain until 8:00 am or so: [img:ed1c508830]http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6731/201101030750am.jpg[/img:ed1c508830] It was cold, in the 20s, with scattered clouds. There was a brisk west wind that was strong enough at times to blow our gear across the ice. The water was crystal clear down to four feet, but you could still spot a silver lure down to about eight feet. We decided to fish the upper (i.e., south) pond. The ice at the unimproved boat launch area was a little patchy because of the flow out of the pond and into the culvert down to the lower (i.e., north) pond, and the flow into the upper pond from the creek in the northwest corner of the pond, so we walked a little bit to the east before getting onto the ice: [img:ed1c508830]http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8656/201101030753am.jpg[/img:ed1c508830] The thinnest ice that we bored all day was five inches. Most of it was seven or better and getting thicker all of the time. Our holes would start to ice over within five minutes. Shortly after we got onto the ice, Jon caught a decent yellow perch. A little while later, he caught a small yellow perch out of the same hole. Mason and I didn't get even a nibble. Jon had to drive Mason home at around 10:15 am, but I felt perfectly fine by myself on the ice. I did, however, stay only in the area that we had already checked out. TurtleKiss (aka Kira) showed up at 10:40 am and Jon got back right when she was getting onto the ice. While Kira fished the holes that we had already bored, Jon and I worked our way down the east shore to the south end of the pond. We didn't get any action at all in the south end of the pond as we worked our way to the west. Finally, at about 12:30 pm, I decided to bore a hole next to a mass of debris that had frozen in the middle of the pond, thinking that it might provide cover for some fish. And, yes, it did. I caught a 10 inch largemouth bass: [img:ed1c508830]http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1601/201101031242pm.jpg[/img:ed1c508830] It was paler than the vibrantly green bass that I'm used to seeing at Nod Brook, but it was otherwise healthy looking. I ended up catching two 10 inch largemouth bass and two sunnies. In addition to the two yellow perch, Jon caught five or six largemouth bass, four of which were keepers and the biggest of which was 13 inches long, some sunnies, and a white perch: [img:ed1c508830]http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/1856/201101030256pm.jpg[/img:ed1c508830] I didn't even know that there are white perch at Nod Brook! Kira never made it out to the middle of the pond. She was too creeped out by the moaning and cracking of the ice. At times, it sounded like Shamu was trying to break through the ice from underneath. Kira ended up fishing what little open water there was from shore while Jon and I were fishing the debris pile. All in all, it was a nice, if cold, day. I'm going to start keeping my eye on the wind reports again. But for the wind, it would have been terrific out there today. I'm also going to get some two pound line for one of my setups. Jon and I fished the same ice colored Swedish Pimple jig with waxworms today, but he kicked my butt. The only difference in our setups was his two pound line versus my probably six pound line (it was pre-spooled on the combo's reel, so I'm not totally sure what it is, but it's definitely heavier). Other than the Swedish Pimple, the only other lure that we used was a flourescent green perch Hali that was baited with a waxworm and got me my two sunnies. I'll post some photos from my Nikon SLR later, but my back is sore and I need to lie down now.
Author:
SeaDog1
Date:
Jan 03, 2011
Message:
Hi Phil! OK! Admit it -> Your hooked on ice fishing :!: :D :lol: :lol: :lol: SeaDog1
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Jan 03, 2011
Message:
Nice job guys!
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