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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jul 26, 2011
Subject:
Spring Pond 07/26
Message:
I headed over to Spring Pond to kill a couple of hours while my son was at his Driver's Ed class this morning. I fished from 8:15 am to 10:00 am, in my Trophy 126 kayak. It was sunny and warm. There was little to no wind. The water was very murky, with only one foot of visibility. I launched at the culvert on the west shore and worked my way counter-clockwise around the south cove. I threw a frog over the weeds in the shallows on the west shore. I didn't get any hits. There was a utility crew with a rowboat on the south shore installing a float to which they attached a pipe from the shore. For what purpose, I don't know, but it was there last year. They made a bit of noise in the water, which might have affected the bite. Then again, I wasn't fishing as thoroughly as I did yesterday. I spotted what I thought was a carp swimming lazily just under the surface of the water. Then I saw that it was swimming upside down and in small circles. I unfurled my net and boated it: [img:d9e25058f5]http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/391/img0846vl.jpg[/img:d9e25058f5] I thought that it was a carp, but it turned out to be a white sucker ([i:d9e25058f5]catostomus commersonii[/i:d9e25058f5])! it didn't show any obvious signs of trauma, but it didn't look like it would survive from the way that it swam. Sorry, Flipper, but I didn't save it for you. :( I dragged a weighted Texas rigged watermelon red colored Rage Tail Rage Craw on the bottom off of the east shore. I also tried a black with blue tail Zoom 6-inch Lizard, Like with the frog, I didn't get any hits. When it got close to the time that I had to leave, I tied on a Gamakatsu size 6 Octopus Circle hook and began throwing a wacky Senko at the shore of the south island. I didn't want to get skunked! :roll: The wacky Senko got me a 12 inch keeper largemouth bass off of the north shore of the island: [img:d9e25058f5]http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/8600/img0849i.jpg[/img:d9e25058f5] It wasn't much, but it sure beat getting skunked!
Author:
watthe555
Date:
Jul 26, 2011
Message:
the other day when i was at bantam lake i saw the exact same thing. i went over to look at it and it was a baby carp. how unusual. -phil
Author:
MarkO
Date:
Jul 26, 2011
Subject:
Re: Spring Pond 07/26
Message:
[quote:b90a36bef3="PECo"]When it got close to the time that I had to leave, I tied on a Gamakatsu size 6 Octopus Circle hook and began throwing a wacky Senko at the shore of the south island. I didn't want to get skunked! :roll: The wacky Senko got me a 12 inch keeper largemouth bass off of the north shore of the island.[/quote:b90a36bef3] You caught fish, and that is all that truly matters. Who cares what it was on.
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