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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jun 30, 2012
Subject:
Lakeside Park Pond 06/29
Message:
rmflint (aka Ryan) told me that he wanted to fish his local pond from a kayak, so I loaded two onto my old Saab and drove down to meet him at Lakeside Park in Wallingford. When I arrived, the sun was already blazing and the air was already freaking hot (aka in the mid-90s). Ryan and I loaded up the kayaks and schlepped them 50 yards from the parking lot to the pond. I paddled El Habaņero and Ryan paddled La Calabaza. When we launched in the middle of the west shore of the pond at 8:30 am, there was a slight south breeze. The water was murky, with visibility down only a foot at best. We headed clockwise around the pond, which is small. I'd guess that it's less than 40 acres. I threw a Bullfrog Zoom Horny Toad over some weeds on the north end of the west shore, but didn't get any hits. Ryan got a hit on a frog of his own, but wasn't paying attention and missed the hookset. :roll: I decided to slow things down and began throwing a wacky rigged green pumpkin/red flake five inch Senko. It wasn't long before it was picked up by a largemouth bass:
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It was 15 inches long and weighed one pound, 11 ounces. 15 minutes later, as we headed down the east shore, Ryan got a hit on a wacky Senko. As he pulled the fish out from the shore, he said, "It's a big one! It's staying down! It doesn't want to come up!" When he finally horsed it up off of the bottom, we saw why:
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It was a pretty good sized snapping turtle. :shock: I would have gotten a better photo of it if we hadn't spent a good 10 minutes getting the Number 4 Gamakatsu Octopus Circle Hook out of its mouth. That thing was nasty! It tried to take a chunk out of my hand several times, but I was finally able to use my little eight inch hemostat to grab the hook and twist it out. 15 minutes later, the wacky Senko got me another largemouth bass:
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This one was a little smaller at 14 inches long and one pound, 13 ounces, but it was still a keeper. About 30 minutes later, Ryan finally boated a largemouth bass of his own:
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And just a couple of minutes later, he got a keeper:
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After we went around the south end of the pond and headed up the west shore, Ryan paddled up to a gruesome sight:
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Some [i:3d4b902994][b:3d4b902994]A-HOLE[/b:3d4b902994][/i:3d4b902994] left a hoop net in the water, which killed a couple of large snapping turtles that had crawled into it and died. :evil: The stench from the rotting turtles was unbelievable. :? The bite slowed down quite a bit after that. 1-3/4 hours passed after Ryan's last fish, before I caught a short:
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The heat was pretty much unbearable, so we headed off of the water at 12:00 pm to grab lunch and something to drink. We got back on the water at 1:45 pm. I tried trolling a couple of Rapalas up and down the pond without a hit. The bite was absolutely dead. It wasn't until 3:45 pm that I finally got a hit with a Horny Toad tossed to the base of a tree on the shore, set the hook and boated another largemouth bass:
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It was a slightly bigger fish, at 16 inches long and 2-1/2 pounds. Another 1-1/4 hours passed before a wacky Senko got me another short:
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But only a couple of minutes later, the wacky Senko got me the lunker largemouth bass, which was 17 inches long and two pounds, 15 ounces:
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Whoo hoo! :D We headed off of the water 30 minutes later, at 5:30 pm. I felt severely dehydrated and was dying to find a McDonalds to get a big cup of iced tea. Thanks for showing me your local pond, Ryan. We'll hit a bigger body of water the next time.
Author:
rmflint
Date:
Jul 01, 2012
Message:
Aside from the heat it was a great day...aside from the lost fish, heat, and stench. Haha, but thanks Phil got letting me use your yak, the senkos, and lunch! Can't wait to do it again sometime!
Author:
Fishin'Fireman
Date:
Jul 02, 2012
Message:
Nice trip guys!
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