Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Pond Boss Some things just don't make sense.

Ok, here's what has me scratching my head:
I've been striper fishing in West Point Lake lately, and since 95% of the shad were killed, we are using 3-4" bream. I have plenty in my pond so I go catch 30-40 when a trip is at hand.

When I fish for the bream, I use a tiny piece of bread or a piece of Stubby Steve 1/4 the size of a pencil eraser. Often, while I'm fishing for the bream, a 2.5# trout will swoop in a grab said bait. I get mad because he usually breaks my light line.
Still with me?? So I ask myself, "what's wrong with this picture"? Here I am fishing in my pond to catch some small bream to go to a big lake (60 miles away) and catch fish that are not much bigger than the ones I get mad at for stealing my bait. Also, catch many 10" hbg. Am I crazy?

Randy -- I'm not sure this is the crowd where you can get a reasonable answer to such a question. Except maybe for you and me, how many others here fit under the bell curve?

With that said, just going out somewhere else is fun. You probably wouldn't want to eat donuts for ever meal. Every once in a while you might want some chocolate.

It is a terrible dilema to be faced with such choices, but you'll just have to live with it.

It's not what you're fishing for. Personally, I like surprises. I like to find something I didn't know or think was there. Or think would ever take my presentation. But I also know what it's like to fish for something and sometimes constantly be stuck catching something else. Usually, it's not me fishing for something small and "unfortunately" getting something big.

Randy, get a bluegill trap. It will cut down on the decisions you have to make.

"Am I crazy?"

Yeah. You are.

The whole appeal for me in fishing is the possibilities. Every time I fish I learn something new. During the spring and summer I fish at least 5 times a week on several different BOW.

Just when I think I have it figured out things change and I'll end up with a "What the %^&* moment"...

8" YP on a 1/2 ounce spinnerbait




Rmedgar perhaps you need to go to the dark side...Fly fishing is lethal on pressured bluegill. Big trout on the fly isn't too bad either

Either you or Catmandoo is crazy.

I can't tell you two apart so I'm not sure which one it is.

One of them got quite upset when I told them that, but I couldn't figure out which of them it was.

Must have been Ken, I would have been flattered!

TJ likes this photo

There is one sure fire way to tell them apart in person.

As for a marinade recipe for Monito Del Monte.

The one that asks whether you prefer your marinades sweet or spicy is probably Ken.

All right, enough! Every since my 1973 lobotomy, I've been nearly perfectly sane. Somewhere I've got papers to prove it -- signed by a Dr. John Spivey and a Nurse Mildred Ratched.

Jeff -- I know you can tell us apart. Are you going to tell me that the live skunk you put under my chair was intended for Randy? I may be paranoid, but I don't think so! Randy was sitting next to you and Ricki. Lynda and I were sitting across the table from the three of you! I've got pictures to prove it. Don't make me make them public!

Hmmmmm... April in Richmond Mills might mean black and white striped kittens in addition to Mom! I hope they learn their manners quickly.

I have no problem telling them apart. One is from West Virginia, and the other is from Georgia.

One is a hillbilly and the other is a redneck. I can't tell them apart.

I think we can see who has good map skills here.

Yeesh! Randy, I think we need to form the Pond Boss Grey Beard & Bald is Beautiful Society (PBGB&BIBS). We may have to protect ourselves with a hostile takeover of the GSA and all of their assets, especially the DeathStar for use against the blasphemers.

Actually you have the skunk incident entirely wrong. I instructed the skunk to follow TJ around. Apparently to skunks all humans look alike, that stupid skunk meandered all around the pool area.

Oh and who was it that pet the skunk at the conference? (And no Brettski, that is not a euphemism for something naughty).

Dave, this comment scares me!!! One of the nicer descriptions of me is a Redneck Hillbilly....

Hey, I certainly don't consider either of those terms derogatory.

I wish you had time a couple of months ago to go see my White Trash Trailer house.

And here I thought this thread was going to be about JHAP!

Never mind me. I'm waiting on my application to the gray-bearded bald headed hillbilly club to arrive in the mail. Hear that they are including a genuine decoder ring with the application!

Well that a fine howdy-do. I slip out in pursuit of some HSB and come back to find out that
Burger & Dave are even smarter than I thought. Carry on......
As for the stripers, zero, none, nada & zippo. What a sad display of angling...

Sorry to hear that, Cat.

Not Bruce. All he did risque was to handle his first longear.

I did a Google Images search for "bald headed hillbilly with beard" and what did I get?



It said they both like to fly airplanes. Both like to fish. Both are famous in their lines of work. But only one is reported to be a bonafide Pond Boss.

So, then I google "BALD POND BOSS" -- and what do I get?

Not rmedgar. Not Catmandoo, but . . .





















Some things do come true!