kevin
06-06-2008, 10:20 AM
What another crazy day in the weather department for New England as well as what is going across the upper northern tier of this country. The previous day was rain all day and cool and this day was overcast with drizzle, mist and light gusts of wind. Tried for a little while and decided with the conditions to go to the deep water summer spot. I had fished all along a 100 yard stretch that was from deep water over to the other side that has a flat that comes up into a shallow weedbed. There wasn’t any activity what so ever in the deeper area so we must still be in the post spawn phase and they haven’t moved out here yet...:icon_mad:
I had to take my daughter to her tumbling class and decided to hit a small pond/river backwater area and was fortunate to even find this spot with all of the different roads it took to get there. I started fishing for bass but after covering the area they were not going to cooperate at all. I had brought along my panfish rod with T.H.E. Jig tied on and that saved my little half hour trip. Casted out a couple of times and the bobber started dancing and an 8 inch crappie came to the surface. Casted back a couple of more times and bobber danced again and a nice hand sized bull sunfish was battling. I was only there for 30 minutes and caught 10 fish between the crappies and bull sunfish. Was using an all yellow T.H.E. Jig and working it slowly along with each cast. There were a couple of other guys down the shoreline and I didn’t see them catching anything over there. There was too much brush between us so I don’t think that they seen me catching the panfish. This is not the first time that T.H.E. Jig has saved my day and will not be the last. May try and get back to this spot this weekend and take my son along as well as he hasn’t been fishing in quite some time...:party0045:
I had to take my daughter to her tumbling class and decided to hit a small pond/river backwater area and was fortunate to even find this spot with all of the different roads it took to get there. I started fishing for bass but after covering the area they were not going to cooperate at all. I had brought along my panfish rod with T.H.E. Jig tied on and that saved my little half hour trip. Casted out a couple of times and the bobber started dancing and an 8 inch crappie came to the surface. Casted back a couple of more times and bobber danced again and a nice hand sized bull sunfish was battling. I was only there for 30 minutes and caught 10 fish between the crappies and bull sunfish. Was using an all yellow T.H.E. Jig and working it slowly along with each cast. There were a couple of other guys down the shoreline and I didn’t see them catching anything over there. There was too much brush between us so I don’t think that they seen me catching the panfish. This is not the first time that T.H.E. Jig has saved my day and will not be the last. May try and get back to this spot this weekend and take my son along as well as he hasn’t been fishing in quite some time...:party0045: