Thread: Fishing with Algae

I got to the pond this morning and the wind was in my favor , but within thirty minutes it shifted and the algae mats and pond slime shifted too .
I took my 5’ St Croix Premier UL moderate today , paired with a Daiwa Exceler 1000 , spooled up with SOS 2# .
I started fishing with a chartreuse/black Trout Magnet on a 1/32 chartreuse jighead.
I was thinking of changing lures when I got my first hit , that turned out to be a nice bluegill . One of the biggest I’ve caught lately .
It was several casts later before I caught a beautifully colored shellcracker.
After that it was dead and I started trying different lures . Finally went to a 1/64 jighead with a bison TM and picked up another gill , smaller but nicely colored up .
A couple of small green fish helped with the catch today.
By the time I left , the pond slime and algae was up and down the entire side I was on , 40-50 feet out . My lure was coming back with algae and my line had changed colors from the slime film on the surface .