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Author:
PECo
Date:
Aug 01, 2011
Subject:
Spring Pond 08/01
Message:
I can't believe that it's August already. . . anyway, last night, I caught the last couple of minutes of one of those Shark Week television shows in which researchers got other great white shark populations to breach (i.e., leap clear of the water) like the ones off of the coast of South Africa. Of course, this got me thinking of Boomatt's post about landing largemouth bass with a buzzbait. So while my son was at his Driver's Ed class this morning, I headed over to Spring Pond to throw a buzzbait. Yeah, a sunny, hot, windless morning is not the best time to be throwing a black Booyah clacker buzzbait, but I figured, why not?!?! :roll: I launched in El Habaņero at 8:10 am from the culvert on the west shore of the south cove and headed across the cove to the shadows off of the east shore. I began throwing the buzzbait ahead of me as I slowly paddled north up the shore. It was nice throwing a big lure 60 feet! Just when I began to wonder how fast I should retrieve the buzzbait, I got a hit from a two pound largemouth bass about 40 feet from my kayak. It leaped into the air as I reeled it in. Somehow, during it's second leap out of the water, it shook loose from the buzzbait. Although I was a little bit upset about losing the fish, I was still laughing in amazement at how much fun it was to have a decent fish hit the buzzbait! :lol: I had only one setup with me and continued to throw the buzzbait as I worked my way up the shore. I didn't get any hits when I reached the shallows by the water hyacinths in the middle of the east shore of the north cove. I decided to tie on a wacky rigged five inch green pumpkin/red flake Senko before I reached the somewhat deeper little cove in the northeast corner of the pond. There's a spot where the shoreline drops off a little more steeply than it does in most of the pond and I figured that a largemouth might hold there. Sure enough, a fish very subtly picked up the wacky Senko off of the bottom. When I began to reel it in, it began to pull my kayak around; left, then right, then forward. When I finally boated the fish, it was a 17 inch, two pound, seven ounce largemouth: [img:e103c6c0ef]http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/9045/20110801springpond001.jpg[/img:e103c6c0ef] I kept the wacky Senko on as I worked my way across the north shore of the north cove. It wasn't until I got to the shallows in the northwest corner that I realized just how low the water level is in the pond. It's less than a foot deep over much of the corner. It's so shallow that weeds aren't even growing over most of it. I decided to tie on a frog because the water was so shallow. I paddled around the west shore of the north island when I realized that it was 10:00 am and I had to go pick up my son. But there was a thick bed of matted weeds off of the southeast shore of the island that just [i:e103c6c0ef][b:e103c6c0ef]had[/b:e103c6c0ef][/i:e103c6c0ef] to shelter a largemouth. Three casts later, I boated my "just one more" largemouth, a 16 inch, two pounder: [img:e103c6c0ef]http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7245/20110801springpond002.jpg[/img:e103c6c0ef] Thanks to Boomatt for suggesting the buzzbait! :D Although I failed to boat the fish that I hooked, I had a blast fighting it. I think that a buzzbait would be perfect there in the evening, especially since the water is so murky. I gotta get out for some night fishing soon.
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Aug 01, 2011
Message:
Not bad...a couple of nice fish!
Author:
slim2043
Date:
Aug 01, 2011
Message:
Good work! I will make it out there this week
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