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Tried a new lake today - could not believe how easy it was to cactch fish!
It's not often that I find a lake that, though more like a pond than a lake, I hook so many fish in such a short period of time.
Once the car top boat was launched, the first three casts produced a perch, a pickerel and a sunfish. Not knowing the bottom, I cast to open water and along parallel shorelines that have mostly overhanging brush. In the last few days, the area has gotten 3" of rain and maybe raised the water level higher, important considering the deepest area was only 7' (9' according to a depth map.) The water was clear down to 5' with weed beds 3' beneath the surface and many large rocks strewn in different areas.
Though a permit-only lake , locals probably left the bobbers I saw stuck in trees, seeing as there was few areas to fish from shore.
When I find a pond like this one, I start experimenting with lures I've lost confidence in to see how well they work under ideal conditions. The bass jig with trailer didn't get a sniff, but the Zoom Fluke on a weighted hook did get a few. Zip on the suspending crankbait or bent spoon tipped with plastic worm, but a 3.5" fat tube did get bit by a few bass.
The lures I knew would work were my own hand poured minnow-grubs rigged on 1/16 or 1/8 oz ball jigs. Color wasn't important as all colors worked for large perch and sunfish and medium size bass and pickerel; only one small crappie. A 2" tube worked well also and much better than a double tail grub.
The biggest surprise was the quality of pan fish in a lake with many pickerel. Genetics? All I know is that the hits were strong and obvious and at times a sunfish felt like a bass on the line.
I'll be returning soon and fish until the ice forms, though I can assume the lake is incredible for ice fishing and one I'll fish if cabin fever is bad enough.
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Those lakes/ponds are nice confidence boosters. I took my kids fishing at a pond at the end of our block. Just fishing worms under a float but man were they hitting. My daughter caught a bass in about 10 seconds! We landed 10 fish in about 30 minutes. Bass and bluegill but i was talking to a neighbor who said there are some huge crappie in this pond. May have to return with my crappie gear soon.
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I have fished ponds of different descriptions most of my life. Golf courses, cemetery's, roadside, and private to name a few. I have a friend in TN that has an 8acre pond that he stocked with bass and gill of several different kinds about 12 yrs back. I got permission to bring a friend and we hit it early, and released all we caught. I used a topwater Chug R and he used a small crank, mostly white with a stripe of chartreuse on the belly. All the planets were in line, or the Gods liked us, or something. I released almost 40 LMB in just over 2 hours and told John to count his own, I was busy. He stopped counting at 30. His son had put a 6lbLMB in and as I was casting I saw a wake in the shallows way bigger than any other I had seen that morning. Sure enough, that was it. The braided line let me set the hook at distance and cast lots farther than mono, and this was at the end of a really long cast. The fight was tough, the fish hard to control and the line of stumps running the middle of the pond had me worried but remember that I said the Gods liked us that day? That fish decided to go shallow as it came over the stumps. I fished that pond many times but never had another day as good as that one. I live in FL now and miss not having it to visit, and the friend that lived there and thought enough of me to let me fish his pond whenever I chose to. Folks like that are rare in my life.
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