Well after stocking in the rain Thursday and working through sunny 60 degree days all weekend, I finally was able to get back down to the pond today. Woke up this morning and went to get some food for the fishes, came back and took a little pail down to the lake. I threw a couple handfuls in, which wasn't easy with the wind blowing nonstop at 20-30 mph and I could see some of the golden rainbows swimming around below where I was standing on the spillway but they didn't seem to notice the food. The wind was blowing it back towards the shore pretty quickly and with the surface being so choppy I figured they either weren't catching the scent or couldnt see it that well so I threw in a large quantity at once and a few rainbows shot up a few seconds later and started eating the pellets. As I kept adding more more kept coming up to eat but a lot of the pellets got missed and ended up washing up on the shore. Hopefully I'll get better results when it's not so windy. Then I started to fish some which was also a chore with the wind blowing like it was but I caught two more bass and one rainbow. As I was bringing the rainbow in it started raining so that was the end of my fishing. I was planning on releasing but it really hammered the Kastmaster I was using and got a hook in the gills, so I ate it for lunch. I got a few pics but as the weather was iffy I left the camera at the house again, tomorrow it's supposed to be nicer so I'll try to get some better ones then. Here are the pics:
I've caught 5 bass total from the lake, one that was probably about 8 inches and the 4 posted in this thread. They look a little on the thin side to me, what's y'all's opinion on them? I have yet to catch any sunfish although I've seen 3 decent sized ones and one small dead one that washed up on the bank. I haven't really fished for them yet though, still need to get some worms and do that. Based on the size of the bass and the lack of cover in the lake, I'm guessing there are very few sunfish and the ones that are in the lake are probably big enough to avoid being eaten. There is a pretty good quantity of branches down around the property due to the snow we had earlier in the year and the high winds of late. I'm going to talk to the landowner and see if he would be opposed to me putting a few piles in some of the shallower parts of the lake to provide more cover for young sunfish. Also, I'm hoping that as it warms up the sunfish that are present will start taking the pellets as well.
