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Author:
PECo
Date:
May 24, 2011
Subject:
No Name Ponds 05/24
Message:
After discovering that Bishops Pond is already so overgrown with weeds that it's unfishable, asianfisher (aka Billy) and I headed over to a couple of nearby ponds. If I knew the names of the ponds, I'd say what they are, but I really don't know them. They're to the south and east of Bishops Pond, right next to a YMCA Outdoor Center. They're probably private, but they're not posted and nobody approached us while we were there. The north pond is small and Billy said that it used to be stocked with trout. When I walked down to the north shore of the pond, I was startled by a sudden huge splash. I had spooked a school of two foot long carp. On my first cast from the shore with my crappie rig, I landed a small sunny. Billy walked halfway around the pond, soaking his shoes with dew from the tall grass and crunching over dead snails. We putzed around for a while before deciding to unload our kayaks from the car and put into the much larger south pond. The north end of the south pond is a super shallow area of flooded dead timber. We got onto the water just after 11:00 am. I wasn't able to mount the drive fins on my Hobie until after I paddled out of the shallows and dense sunken timber. However, Billy immediately began getting hits on a spinnerbait. By the time that I got into the clear and began fishing, he had landed four small largemouth bass: [img:b927c4b84a]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3824/20110524ymcapond001.jpg[/img:b927c4b84a] They were all small, but very aggressive and feisty. They fought like they thought that they were smallmouth bass. I threw a wacky rigged five inch Gander Mountain brand soft stickbait at the edge of a bunch of lily pads and got a bite as soon as it hit the bottom: [img:b927c4b84a]http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1294/20110524ymcapond002.jpg[/img:b927c4b84a] And a couple of casts later, I landed another: [img:b927c4b84a]http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6335/20110524ymcapond003.jpg[/img:b927c4b84a] Meanwhile, Billy kept getting hits on his spinnerbait and landing fish. The action was so fast and furious that I stopped taking photos of my fish. Billy began experimenting with different lures to see whether they [i:b927c4b84a][b:b927c4b84a]didn't[/b:b927c4b84a][/i:b927c4b84a] like something. They liked everything. The bite didn't slow until the sun peeked out from behind the clouds and lit up the water. When it slowed, we explored around the pond. The deepest water that I saw couldn't have been more than four feet deep. I'd bet that the pond will be overgrown with weeds and unfishable like Bishops Pond by midsummer. Tight to shore in the middle of the east shore of the pond, I got the strongest hit that I felt all day. I couldn't get the fish to the surface; it pulled my wacky bait down to the bottom and 15 feet to my left. Just when I was getting really excited about it, the fish broke me off. I had my hook tied onto some 10 pound test Seaguar leader and the fish broke me off. Sonofab*!@# :x By the time that we got off the water at 2:30 pm, Billy had landed around 30 bass and I got 15 or more. The biggest was probably only a pound and a half, but we had a blast catching them.
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
May 25, 2011
Message:
Nice job guys!
Author:
atkins
Date:
May 25, 2011
Message:
Pretty spot, love the bluffs in the background Good to know that not all ponds were killed by the ice.
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