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Author:
PECo
Date:
May 28, 2012
Subject:
Batterson Park Pond 05/28
Message:
I decided to troll a couple of Rapalas around Batterson Park Pond from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm, today. I thought that the weather forecast called for threatening rain all day, so I expected overcast skies. Instead, I got blazing sun and stifling hot temperatures. :roll: Even the water was really warm; it went from 71 degrees in the morning to 78 degrees in the afternoon! :shock: When I launched in The Other Woman, there were already several boats on the water. There was little to no wind and the water was clear down to four feet. I trolled a Perch SSR-7 and a Perch SR-7 up the east shore, but when I got to the first waterfront house, there were already a couple of boats fishing the shore ahead of me. So I decided to head across to the submerged island, where I found that someone had gotten there ahead of me, too: [img:ce678914fa]http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/391/img2540cropped.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] Happy Memorial Day, everyone! :D I decided that my odds of catching a walleye in the full sun were pretty poor, so I switched over to fishing for largemouth bass. I already had a white spinnerbait tied onto one of my setups, so I threw it over and around the weeds near the island. I got nothing, so I headed to the middle of the west shore. I skipped a wacky rigged black five inch Senko into any shaded water that I saw on the shore. I got more nothing. I tried throwing the white spinnerbait over the weedbed off of the west shore. I didn't get even a nibble. :? At about 9:00 am, JJay (aka Jason) paddled up in his girl's L.L.Bean Manatee kayak. As we headed down the west shore toward the ramp, I tied on a Bullfrog Zoom Horny Toad to throw over the rocky shelf along the shore. Jason boated a rock bass with an unweighted Texas rigged worm, I think, before I got even a nibble. It wasn't until we got close to the ramp that I got my first bite of the day with the frog. I set the hook on what I saw was about a three pound largemouth bass and began to pull it away from the shore when it spit the frog! :shock: Sonofab*!@# :twisted: My frogging skills are rusty and I failed to set the hook hard enough. :oops: I pedaled into the southwest corner of the pond, but didn't see anything there but sunnies. When I pedaled back out of the corner, I saw Jason boating a second rock bass. By this time, it was 11:00 am, and the blazing sun and stifling heat were getting pretty intense. Jason decided to head off of the water and I decided to switch back to trolling the Rapalas. When I got halfway up the west shore, I almost couldn't believe what I saw: [img:ce678914fa]http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7629/img2541cropped1.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] [img:ce678914fa]http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/9937/img2541cropped2.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] Argh, my eyes! :shock: Now, I'm no prude (feel free to work on your strapless tan while fishing with me, Kira! :lol: ), but there were kids in some of the boats on the pond. That just wasn't right. :roll: However, a little revulsion must be a good thing, because at 11:30 am, I finally boated a fish, which was a decent 10 inch white perch: [img:ce678914fa]http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5715/img2542cropped.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] Whoo hoo! :D And less than 10 minutes later, I caught a 14 inch walleye: [img:ce678914fa]http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/4464/img2545cropped.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] Whoo hoo! :D I headed past the beach and up to the riprap wall on the north end of the pond, where I got a small sunny: [img:ce678914fa]http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/3585/img2548cropped.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] Now, whenever I catch a few different species of fish, I always want to get more. It took a while, but I finally caught a cannibalistic yellow perch: [img:ce678914fa]http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1660/img2549cropped.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] Whoo hoo! :D By this time, it was 12:45 pm, so I began heading back to the ramp. But I had to stop a couple of more times along the way: [img:ce678914fa]http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/8184/img2551cropped.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] [img:ce678914fa]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/8030/img2553cropped.jpg[/img:ce678914fa] I'm really not liking the increasing traffic on and around the water, and I definitely prefer fishing in the rain to fishing in blazing sun and stifling heat. But what started out as a pretty slow day of fishing turned into a fairly decent day of fishing. :D
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
May 28, 2012
Message:
Not a bad day. What is it with you and nude sunbathers? lol...you must attract them :shock:
Author:
rxpxtx
Date:
May 29, 2012
Message:
Love the pond monument. Semper Fi...thanks brothers!!! Oh my gawd. The basking shiny-white assed hippy fish. I've only seen one in captivity. I keep a 3/4 oz chartreuse double willow spinner with 4/0 trailer in hopes of landing one, but the best I've ever done is some drunk biker chick peeing in the bushes...and she bolted like a deer when my bait rifled into her grab spot. Nice day out P!
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