Originally Posted by Jason D
Originally Posted by catscratch
It's unfortunate that bird was a non-target victim of that conibear. I suppose accidents happen. smile


A trotline set in an appropriate location of a pond probably would be a fun fishing adventure right now. Fun story. I grew up fishing the Arkansas River. It's shallow so we always waded it. Best place to set a trotline was behind an underwater sandbar. One fall we had one set in about 2ft of water and had been doing well with 1-2lb channel cats on it. One morning we showed up and there were a couple of pelicans hooked on it. THOSE ARE BIG BIRDS! And they can beat the living crap out of a 10yr old with their wings. We eventually got them unhooked and they flew off seemingly no worse for the wear, but holy crap I was bruised and sore!

The Arkansas river used to backflow into my pond.. That is until I blocked off the inlet pipe.
Bunch of nasty fish got in over time


I grew up in Ark City near a large pond called 6th Street Pond (it's now called Veterans Pond). When I was a kid the Arkansas would flood into it once in a while. It would get large schools of gizzard shad (as well as drum, gar, and carp). Bass fishing around the schools of shad was some amazing fishing!

19 acre watershed pond
LMB, BC/WC, Bluegill, Crawfish, GShiners