BilletHead Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Was gifted some poppers from these fine guys. I had to give them a try yesterday. Got to the water pretty late for the top water bite but did have some success before the action stopped. The block head got the award for the smallest and largest bass. Ness popper netted the most. The little bass hit and followed the Gavin bait for twelve feet blowing up time after time until getting hooked. Did not even try the coffee grinder. When to top water bite stopped used the black bouface for more bass. Had a tough time finding the bluegill but did manage a few including this nine and a half inch bull, BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
ness Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Ha! Glad you fished it and had success. That gill is a PIG! John
Mitch f Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Now that's a blue gill! "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Greasy B Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Good lord yes, that's a honker. Private water? His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
BilletHead Posted May 30, 2014 Author Posted May 30, 2014 Yes Greasy it is a private pond/lake. it started out as a family farm pond and then a few years back they built up the dam by scraping the dirt around the pond and adding it to the dam. So there is a deep original pond and then it tapers up to large flats from approx. four feet to shoreline. I took the depth finder out there once and there is 20 at full pool in the old pond center. The reason they built it up is now for irrigation. We are so dry they were pumping to water corn already. I have seen it go pretty low and so far no die off. I have seen some rather large stringers of bass go out for eating which is ok in my book but no one keeps gills. I figure us keeping some will help balance and keep it in better shape. There is an old shelter house still standing at the edge of the old original pond. Three trees still standing on the old edge too but they don't give too much cover for the fish. BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
ness Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Ahhh -- that's what we've seen in some of your pics -- the little shelter out in the water. Always wondered what the story was. John
BilletHead Posted May 30, 2014 Author Posted May 30, 2014 Yes ness it is pretty neat to paddle into there and get some shade. You would be surprised how many fish I have caught casting flys in there. Right now there is about six inches of water covering the concrete pad under it. How many times have you caught fish out of a fire pit? There is one submerged there too so at times you can catch fish in and hanging around the pit. BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Gavin Posted May 31, 2014 Posted May 31, 2014 Good for you. That's an awesome bluegill! I've never fished that bug in a pond before, but glad you are puttng them use. Look they were slurping hard.
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