Thread: Saturday morning change ups

Paid a visit to the town pond this morning.
I found a stagnant looking pond about two feet lower than I remember on my last visit .
Fished the bridge about ten minutes without a nibble .
Packed up and went to the closest reservoir with the big dock and found one end of the cove the dock is located in , was a pea green color . That’s usually the end I fish .
These waters are just too warm . We need some rain and some cooler nights or I’m afraid we’re going to start losing fish .
I was using a Dragontail Kaida ZX320 pack rod . A two length Tenkara rod that adjusts from 9.4 feet to 10.46 feet . It collapses into a compact 17.87” .
I used a 9’ floating leader with about 8’ of two piece tippet .
I’m not used to longer rods and didn’t like it at first , probably because of not being use to it ,because after a few minutes of casting I appreciated the extra distance I was getting on my casts .
The fish school wasn’t where they should be so I made a cast next to a post and let it sink with a white rubber spider. The line twitched and I hook a good size bluegill of about 6-7” I estimate, because it came unhooked before I could get it in .
I shortened the upper end of my tippet and changed to a chartreuse spider and moved to the other side of the dock , fishing from the dock toward the bank.
I found the schoolies and wound up landing 10 in the next half hour . They varied in size from tiny to about six inches .
One , the largest , looks like it has some shellcracker in it , has the redear , but the body color doesn’t look normal. It fought good and put a nice bend in the Tenkara rod . I had adjusted the rod to its longest position to get me closer to the bank . The longer rod helped today .
I guess Tenkara is like golf , you carry around different rods to match up with the situation .

I have to try one of those, neat fish.