Making lemonade with new rod

[gillchaser999]

I received my new rod a couple days ago and have been anxious to try it out .
My shortest rod with the exception of an ice fishing rod I bought a couple of years ago to try jigging docks in the winter .
This one is a 3’8” Major Craft Finetail glass rod that I paired with my lightest reel , a Shimano Soare XR500sspg .
The weather today was partly to mostly cloudy, still getting over the tropical storm with winds at 12-27mph .
I knew fishing was going to be tough .
Lake Macintosh was at full pool with evidence that it had been to the top of the dock . And the color of chocolate milk .
I was trying to cast a 4mm tungsten jig . I finally got the skunk off when a small warmouth couldn’t resist my jig twitching across the , now covered riprap.
After about thirty minutes of listening to some young kid’s birthday party and fighting a wind blowing from my left to my right at about ten o’clock . I decide to move .
Thinking , and hoping the 10” of rain we had had flushed the town pond I decided to give it a try .
At least I could position myself to fish with the wind there .
The pond was full and looked the best it has all year . And had a nice color to it.
Casting the jig alone, I was getting about 30-40 feet depending on if I caught the wind right .
I decided to try using a float . A 3/4” weight snap on styrofoam bobber .
In the next hour I caught four bluegills and lost one of the bigger ones when it wrapped an old bridge support that had several lines on it , including a bass spinnerbait.
My 4# Floroclear was holding up and I was able to pull fish , spinnerbait, and a glob of line with a float away from the wood post about four feet and the spinnerbait line wouldn’t let go and I had to break off my fish .
Under the conditions I was happy with my trip , beats a skunk .
My opinion on the little rod ……… Well , I think it’s a little too short for what I was trying to use it for , but I was able to get it slimed .
It’ll do better fishing a small creek , what it was designed for .