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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jan 23, 2011
Subject:
Nod Brook WMA - Upper Pond 01/23
Message:
DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek) and I fished the upper pond at Nod Brook WMA today. We met at the paved office park lot near the entrance to the park where the gravel road begins at 9:00 am. None of the roads in the park have been plowed, so we left Derek's two wheel drive car in the lot and took my wife's all wheel drive, snow tire equipped SUV. And even with that, we still had some difficulty getting out of there at the end of the day. When we got down there, we saw virgin snow on both the upper and the lower pond:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6184/nodbrook002cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/876/nodbrook006cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
We geared up and were ready to go when I realized that I had forgotten to bring the auger. :roll: Sheisse! So we spent the next half hour retrieving it from my house. We ended up getting onto the ice at 10:00 am. It was bitterly cold, but we had cloudless sunny skies and there was less wind than had been forecast. We decided to drill a few holes near the old beaver lodge on the east shore near the north end of the pond. At 10:30 am, Derek got the first bite of the day and landed a decent yellow perch:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6456/nodbrook010cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
Unfortunately, that was the only bite we got over there, so we decided to head over to the debris pile in the middle of the south end of the pond, which is deepest part of the pond. About halfway there, Derek broke through the top layer of crusty snow and took a couple of footsteps into the wet slush underneath, which prompted him to confess that he had gained some extra winter weight. :o We drilled six or seven holes in the vicinity of where we thought the debris pile is, but didn't get even a nibble. Around 1:30 pm, we decided to begin working our way back toward the culvert on the north end of the pond. Quite frankly, we were a little discouraged. But we weren't cold, and Derek said that he wanted to drill a hole where he had broken through the crusty snow and gotten his boots wet. I drilled a hole first and changed my jig. I got it into the water just when Derek finished drilling his hole. He dropped his jig into the water and, before it even hit the bottom, he yelled that he had a fish on. As his rod bent over double he yelled that it was a big one. And he began whooping when he saw the maw of a largemouth bass in the hole and bent down to lip it:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1059/nodbrook014cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
If you don't know or remember what it's like to catch your Personal Best largemouth bass, this is what it looks like:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9192/nodbrook016cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/609/nodbrook020cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
The bass was 21 inches long and weighed four pounds, nine ounces:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9593/nodbrook025cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
I think that Bluegill Terminator (aka Pete) takes the best fish photos, so I asked Derek to pose for a BTesque photo:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6639/nodbrook033cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
But Derek couldn't really keep the big smile off of his face:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3639/nodbrook032cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/566/nodbrook031cropped.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
Derek and I joked that he might have caught the same bass that TurtleKiss (aka Kira) caught in the same pond last November. When I texted Kira, I think she doubted that it was. But if you look closely at the markings on the fish, you'll see that, yes, it was:
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3848/nodbrookwma004cropped2.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
[img:0af02bda7d]http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6931/nodbrookwma007cropped2.jpg[/img:0af02bda7d]
[color=red:0af02bda7d][size=24:0af02bda7d]Catch and release, baby![/size:0af02bda7d][/color:0af02bda7d]
Author:
Bluegill Terminator
Date:
Jan 23, 2011
Message:
Haha nice report Phil and with all my pics I don't hold my arm straight out you can see that my elbow is bent. A straight arm is a dead give away that it's really not as big as it looks, but there is another way... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Author:
PECo
Date:
Jan 23, 2011
Message:
You're the master of the fish photo, Pete! :D
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