kevin
02-12-2009, 03:23 PM
With only a few hours to fish and needing to get that fix of a tug on the end of the line, decided to head over to a local pond that I frequent a lot with my son. Usually we can go there and have a successful day no matter the conditions as these fish are generally in the deepest part of the lake and that is where I concentrated my efforts.
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With the warming temps the snow on top of the ice is disappearing quickly and making lake access very easy these days. This particular pond usually gets a lot of activity over the weekends and could see that people were out and had holes drilled every where. Seen some holes peppered over and around an underwater point and figured I might as well check them first and that way I didn’t have to drill any holes.
Checked at least 5 holes and there wasn’t much activity in and around these holes especially the ones on top of the point. The last couple off of the (http://media6.dropshots.com/photos/265263/20090209/122229.jpg)end of the point had some activity but was generally small fish there and it was time to move on to other areas that generally hold fish.
Moved over to a shoreline that is fairly deep near the shore and started punching holes around the area. There definitely was a lot of activity in this area and started catching fish with crappies and sunfish being caught. I wasn’t catching a lot as they would come and look at my jig and then shy away. I went to changing the colors of my jig to see if there was a certain color pattern that would trigger them to bite more frequently. A green/black started getting more fish but I also had to add a small piece of plastic to the bait as an enticer.
There were a number of small panfish caught but I know there are bigger fish in this pond so moved further down the shoreline to another area. Decided to change colors again and started catching fish with a blue/yellow colored jig and tipped this with a pink piece of plastic. Was getting the same results as fish were being caught but all small fish again and I am seeing that there is a good year class of panfish that will play into a good thing in a year or two.
Went to one last area that has been producing better quality and that area is in the shadows of the shoreline trees. Definitely had activity here as well but thankfully the size was a little better but not what I was really looking for still. The sunfish and crappies were bigger but I was also looking for a meal but never found enough of these fish to do anything with. Did set the hook into an aggressive small bass and that was fun on the small jigs that I was using. Being I wasn’t finding the sizes I was looking for, decided I might as well head out and will come back another day. Numbers of fish were caught but small was the name of the game for this outing but is always nice to feel that tug on the end of the line.
Video of the day:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFG7y-CGjUM (http://media6.dropshots.com/photos/265263/20090209/123846.jpg)
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With the warming temps the snow on top of the ice is disappearing quickly and making lake access very easy these days. This particular pond usually gets a lot of activity over the weekends and could see that people were out and had holes drilled every where. Seen some holes peppered over and around an underwater point and figured I might as well check them first and that way I didn’t have to drill any holes.
Checked at least 5 holes and there wasn’t much activity in and around these holes especially the ones on top of the point. The last couple off of the (http://media6.dropshots.com/photos/265263/20090209/122229.jpg)end of the point had some activity but was generally small fish there and it was time to move on to other areas that generally hold fish.
Moved over to a shoreline that is fairly deep near the shore and started punching holes around the area. There definitely was a lot of activity in this area and started catching fish with crappies and sunfish being caught. I wasn’t catching a lot as they would come and look at my jig and then shy away. I went to changing the colors of my jig to see if there was a certain color pattern that would trigger them to bite more frequently. A green/black started getting more fish but I also had to add a small piece of plastic to the bait as an enticer.
There were a number of small panfish caught but I know there are bigger fish in this pond so moved further down the shoreline to another area. Decided to change colors again and started catching fish with a blue/yellow colored jig and tipped this with a pink piece of plastic. Was getting the same results as fish were being caught but all small fish again and I am seeing that there is a good year class of panfish that will play into a good thing in a year or two.
Went to one last area that has been producing better quality and that area is in the shadows of the shoreline trees. Definitely had activity here as well but thankfully the size was a little better but not what I was really looking for still. The sunfish and crappies were bigger but I was also looking for a meal but never found enough of these fish to do anything with. Did set the hook into an aggressive small bass and that was fun on the small jigs that I was using. Being I wasn’t finding the sizes I was looking for, decided I might as well head out and will come back another day. Numbers of fish were caught but small was the name of the game for this outing but is always nice to feel that tug on the end of the line.
Video of the day:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFG7y-CGjUM (http://media6.dropshots.com/photos/265263/20090209/123846.jpg)
http://media8.dropshots.com/photos/265263/20090209/102650.jpg
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