Finally, I Have Something Worth Reporting.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

I went fishing this evening, had a few hours after work while the wife and kids were out at her friends house. I have a park with 3 small ponds. I know that one is stocked, it is connected to another via a overflow with a driveway going in between. I started fishing in the "stocked" pond, using my nearly new Pflueger reel, and 10 pound test P-line CXX. ( 8 was the advice given on the forum, but 10 was all I could find local, they were out of 8 and I was ansy. Not a fan of X-marts). I have not bought a decent rod, but had one that would work for the time being. I have used this setup probably a total of 4 times at 1 hour per time, and 10-20 minutes of actual fishing. I have 3 kids (4, 7, and 14), and they get lots of snags. Back to the fishing, I had one on, a small bass right about 10 feet from me. I go to set the hook, and it gets off. I am using Chompers Green pumpkin Ultra Tube Garlic and Salty. This was the only action from this pond, along the rock bank. I went to a less fished pond, it is used as a runoff pond and full of Carp. I got down to the pond around 6:15 and the carp were feeding on the top, they were not even spooked by me. I casted for about 15-20 minutes along the banks, across the pond, around some trees, nothing. My wife calls, we're talking about what went on throughout the day, then wham!, I caught one, a nice one. Been a long time since I had this kind of pull on the line. I was very happy, told the wife I had to call her back. Took a few pics and his is swimming as I type. .....tried multiple times, but apparently my pics are too large. It was right at 16 1/4" , nice fish and I hope to catch more.

[Haris122]

Sweet , I'd take a 16 1/4" fish any day. I also went out this evening and got a little fishing in at carondelet park. Caught a catfish on a crankbait of all things.