Ponds are finally bug free...

[JestersHK]

The dreaded Buffalo biting gnats seem to have finally petered out with their quest to eat me... 

Been hitting the ponds a bit with some moderate success.  My buddy has access to a pond up 61 that is just full of massive panfish and some really aggressive angry bass.  The bass hit like a freight train and you better be holding on.  This little gem never gets fished at all so you can throw whatever and they'll eat it.

I also got my buddy on a fly rod for the first time and the pan fish cooperated by just slamming a hopper on just about every cast.  I think I made another fly fisherman on that outing lol.  They were hitting a stripped @BilletHead clouser hard too!

All fishes lived to fight another day.  We're heading back up tomorrow evening to break in a few new fly rods lol.  Biggest bass was right under 6lbs and biggest pan fish was almost 11 inches and weight 3/4 of a pound on the dot. 

Buddy had a small Gill hooked on the fly rod and about a 4lb bass tried to eat him.  Was a cool thing to see. Good times indeed.

[Johnsfolly]

Looks like an awesome pond buddy! Great fish and report! That's my kind of fishing!

My largest bass in Georgia came by way of catching a small bluegill with my fly rod that go inhaled by the bass. Pond was only 1/4 acre in size, but connected to three other similar sized ponds.

 

[JestersHK]

I had to do a double take there buddy I thought you were fishing in a kilt lol.  Nice bass!  I tried not to call the fish blue gills lol

[moguy1973]

Those are some big green sunfish!

[MOPanfisher]

They look like a hybrid between green sunfish and bluegill. Used to catch some in a creek near home, I assumed they were natural.hybrids as they were few and far between.  Makes me want to go dig out my fly rod.

[JestersHK]

Blue Gill, sunfish, long ears, hybrid, bream, they're all just gills to me lol.  

I think John did say they were sunfish.  All I know is that they are a blast to catch on the long rod.  Even more so when they are hitting top water.

[MoCarp]

8 hours ago, JestersHK said:

The dreaded Buffalo biting gnats seem to have finally petered out with their quest to eat me... 

Been hitting the ponds a bit with some moderate success.  My buddy has access to a pond up 61 that is just full of massive panfish and some really aggressive angry bass.  The bass hit like a freight train and you better be holding on.  This little gem never gets fished at all so you can throw whatever and they'll eat it.

I also got my buddy on a fly rod for the first time and the pan fish cooperated by just slamming a hopper on just about every cast.  I think I made another fly fisherman on that outing lol.  They were hitting a stripped @BilletHead clouser hard too!

All fishes lived to fight another day.  We're heading back up tomorrow evening to break in a few new fly rods lol.  Biggest bass was right under 6lbs and biggest pan fish was almost 11 inches and weight 3/4 of a pound on the dot. 

Buddy had a small Gill hooked on the fly rod and about a 4lb bass tried to eat him.  Was a cool thing to see. Good times indeed.

Nice hybrid sunfish

[ness]

23 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Looks like an awesome pond buddy! Great fish and report! That's my kind of fishing!

My largest bass in Georgia came by way of catching a small bluegill with my fly rod that go inhaled by the bass. Pond was only 1/4 acre in size, but connected to three other similar sized ponds.

 

Wait -- I'm not sure you deserve credit for that bass. You caught a bluegill, but the bluegill caught the bass

[snagged in outlet 3]

4 hours ago, ness said:

You caught a bluegill, but the bluegill caught the bass

I think it's been decided by the powers that be that it's a sunfish.😁   

[MOPanfisher]

Well a largemouth, smallmouth, ntucky, mean mouth etc. are all sunfish so I would say that description is spot on.