DWIED and I had fun doing this despite the absence of our good friends JHAP and JWHAP…we missed you guys, I’m thinking this report would have been very different. What you get here is a brief recap followed by pics, which tell the story better than I can. We used all but two of the lures, george’s roadrunner and bruce’s wiper magic jig……..which we’d have definitely used at JHAPs pond. All lures used - except one - caught fish. That Viking spoon is awesome, I gotta get me one of those for trout fishin, but it was a bit heavy for my puddle and the dinks within….no one would commit to it.
We’ve had a late, cold, and fairly wet spring so the pond is still near full pool, the water quality is excellent, and the wildflowers are still going. this time last year the pond was down a good 3 feet or more and the landscape a dead golden brown. Our traveling lure fellowship helped me to briefly survey the pond and whats goin on…....my first quality time on the pond this year. all the fish appear happy and fat, but man do I have a lot of little fish. We soon quit counting after about 10 fish…my guess is we looked at 50+ fish over a couple hours. My biggest greenies, BG, and RES (if there are any left) played the trophy card……..hard to get……none caught……but since we didn’t start until the crack of noon, and fished through arguably the worst part of the day, I am not too surprised. At one point tho I caught 6 fish in 6 casts, which led to 10 fish in 15 casts before I quit counting that…..so couldn’t complain about the action. I usually fish my pond w/ a sissy stick and baited fly, but it was a hoot dragging that jointed rap away from the weed line and getting slammed by BG and GSF. In the end, survey shows the pond is still a fishin hole but needs some human intervention.
as i did a preview of this post, its clear i got too many pics. the first ten show, the rest are links. i'll post this anyways, then break out and show the linked pics in a few more posts. if the mods want to delete those feel free, i dont want to hog all of the site's bandwidth.
Sit back, scroll through, enjoy the amateur photography with some scenery and lil (but purdy) fish pics.
since randy added the southern rock, burger added the two nice small jigs and stubby steves, I was obligated, so in went a packet of replacement stubby steves (thank you stacy) and a nice little quartz crystal dug out of a quartz vein now buried beneath 8 ft of pond water. ….significance?......none really, I just like finding quartz crystals and there wont be any more from where this came from………..enjoy the el dorado trinket and cheers.
Good luck esshup, looking forward to hearing about yer adventure.
