Cloudy day at the Pond

After the poor showing yesterday at the creek , and wishing I’d fished the Town Pond , I decided to give the Pond a try today even with a cloudy day predicted with temps rising into the mid fifties. I don’t think it dropped below freezing last night for the first time in a couple of weeks.
And with rain for the first three days this week followed by cold windy days again .

I took my newest addition , a TFO 6’6” Trout and Panfish II UL paired up with a KastKing SFS 1000 reel , the newest edition. Spooled with 2# Floroclear.
And I can tell you now , I miss fishing with my Daiwa J-braid .
Even with the light winds we had today the light Floroclear was blown around almost as bad as the braid .
I miss feeling not only every little thump and bump , but i miss feeling every kick of the tail when I have a fish on . Just adds to the fight , even the little ones.
I had an issue with the super thin Floroclear today , it got under the spool and when I took the spool off , it’d wrapped about thirty times.

Now to the catching . I caught twelve bass and five 5-6” bluegill. Finally I found a few gills .
I swear the bluegills put up a better fight than the larger bass did . I actually thought I had a decent size bass a couple of times .
Lure today was a 4.6mm beadhead tungsten jighead with an olive colored mini Trout Magnet .
I tried black and caught a couple, but they seemed to like the olive green better today .
I like the new rod . I already owned a 6’ one , and think I prefer the shorter one , although the longer one is a nice rod and cast and performed great . When the wind wasn’t blowing I was getting some nice long casts , 75-80+ feet . Which is a good distance with a 1/32 jig .

Most likely won’t get another chance to go again until next Saturday if the weather is as predicted.

Nice. Bluegills do fight good.

Good Day, thanks for sharing

Another successful trip, Good Job! I worked on the house all day yesterday.

Looks like you had a great day at the town pond. Love those close trips where you can be fishing in a matter of minutes. Do you know how big your pond is? I live close to two city parks and both have two lakes at each park. A 2 acre and 5 acre at both parks. Been fishing both since I was a little guy, over 60 years.

Beautiful coloration in your last image! Thanks for sharing