I wanted to chase green sunfish at one of the local water reservoirs that has riprap with my Little Tarkara rod , but when I arrived , it had people too . Bunches of them .
Guess the break in the rain this morning and the threat for the next few days brought everybody out .
So, I headed to my creek spot at the Mill .
When I got there the water was chocolate milk and way too high and fast .
It’s a twenty five minute drive back to the town pond , but I wanted to get at least an hour in .
When I arrived at the pond , it too was busy with folks out for a walk or bike ride . But nobody was fishing. Water level was still low .
I started out at the bridge as I usually do and there was a group of five women enjoying feeding the turtles and the fish .
I managed one small gill before giving up and heading to the dam where I haven’t done much good lately , but at least they’re not being fed .
Working the shoreline with a size 12 woolybooger, I finally hooked into a decent bluegill that gave a pretty good fight on the 6’ ultralight wand .
My time was about up , so I thought I’d give the bridge another shot before leaving .
About my fifth cast I hooked into a nice bluegill , over 9” .
I decided to work the shoreline to my right and halfway up I hooked a small LM about 7-8” long .
He was a disappointment, no only did he not put up as much of a fight as even the smaller bluegill, but he flopped off on the rocks , and three flops later , back into the water .
Crazy morning, but I caught four . Better than watching TV .
