Found some Gills

[gillchaser999]

I’ve been missing the gills this winter at the Town Pond .:
I’d catch one or two every once in a while on warm sunny days , but I knew they were there . I just needed a method to reach them .
After thinking it over , I decided to downsize and go with the drop shot .
On my 5’ Major Craft Aji do rod paired with a Shimano Soare XR500 spg and Daiwa J-braid and a 4# Floroclear leader .
I make my drop shot weights from 1/16 jigheads that I clip the hook off . I loop tied a size 14 spider fly about 18” above my weight .
My first cast , which went farther than any casts I’d been getting, produced a small gill about six inches.
I also used a 5’ Daiwa Presso UL rod paired with a KastKing SFS 1000 reel and 2# Floroclear.
The lure was a size 12 micro woolybooger about 18” above the 1/16 weight .
Both worked well and in just over two hours I caught 10 gills, 3 bass , and three shellcrackers .
I lost my woolybooger because my casting finger hung up on the line and the 2# line snapped. I’ll probably put braid on this rod next trip .
I lost my spider on an underwater hang up .
Weather was nice , sunny , low to mid fifties, with light winds .
Rain and cold temps coming back tomorrow until next week .