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More challenges at the pond
Made a trip to the pond this morning.
Got there right at 10 and left at noon .
The , now normal, snot algae was there of course , but today the maintenance guys decided to cut the grass around the park . The banks were cut with a weed eater and all of the cutting were in the lake making it a challenge to find a hole to drop my trout magnet into .
My first fish was a tiny LM bass about four inches long.
Then I hooked what I think was a shellcracker , judging from the way it pulled drag and made several runs . Then it wrapped around something about ten foot out under the surface . I tried feeding loose line hoping it would free itself but it broke off .
Ended up catching nine, that I brought to hand . I had five or six get off right as I was trying to slid them onto the bank .
These are my two best of the morning.
Today I used my five foot Rosewood Ultralight paired with a Shimano Nasci 500 FC , spooled with my favorite line , 2# P-line .
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Fishing with the Algae 05-13-22
Got to the pond a little after 10 this morning. Rough morning, didn’t sleep well last night .
Temp was 68 degrees on the RAV4’s dashboard.
Overcast skies and light winds . Should be a formula for success.
I had to run the geese off the bank where I’d been fishing lately .
Armed with my 5’ Rosewood/Nasci 500 combo but spooled with 4# Original P-line because I ve had one wrap me underwater and break off this week, and two that broke off after I got them in . One was a small 5-6” gill . I’ve been lucky with having to drag my fish up a grassy bank .
I started with a BG Itty Bitty slab Hunter , caught a small gill after several casts .
Switched to a bison TM and and the bites picked up including a couple of chunky shellcrackers.
When the bite slacked off I switched to a sow bug TM and picked up a few more including a nice LM around a couple of pounds that was a blast on the little five foot UL .
One end of “ my side “ of the pond was plagued by floating patches of green snot . I guess it depends on which way the wind blows .
I never know what the Town pond is going to give up . That what keeps me going back.