3-minute fish!

Lately LV has been blessed with daytime sprinkle, which inadvertently brought down the mercury a tad. After work yesterday I saw my hour of opportunity to see some multispecies of fish this pond been known to hold. Armed with something a little unconventional (pun intended): a home-made ultralight casting rod attached to a Abu conventional baitcaster, just for kicks. Caught 6 Bluegills, 8 carps, 1 green sunfish and 7 channel cats....AND 1 feline, that took 3 minutes plus to land! Attachment 467296Attachment 467297Attachment 467300Attachment 467301Attachment 467302Attachment 467303Attachment 467304

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Looks like time well spent.

Nice !
Interesting rod build .
What kind of baits were you throwing?

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Originally Posted by gillchaser999

Nice !
Interesting rod build .
What kind of baits were you throwing?

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Size 14 dry flies for Bluegills and green sunfish. Then tip piece of squid for carp and catfish for scent.

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Gill, the rod is only 3ft long and came from a spare top section of a cheap Chinese ultralight spinner....Attachment 467305

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Gill, the rod is only 3ft long and came from a spare top section of a cheap Chinese ultralight spinner....Attachment 467305

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I have a couple short flyrods that i converted over casting.

Definitely some nice catches

Very nice! Love the ingenuity in the rod.

when you "have an hour, and squeeze 2 hours out of it":ThumbsUp

Interestingly odd looking set up , nice ketches, kaboom is the word

Interesting….nice catches.

Regards


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This outing was specifically meant for post spawning sunfish, LM bass, and some dinky carps...lol. The home-made rod was really meant for them and micros, like club, shad, and minnows if present in my home waters. Who'd known the catfish would hit size 14 elk hair dry fly as well...haha.

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I need to throw the drop shot more . It’s been awhile since I’ve used it .

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I need to throw the drop shot more . It’s been awhile since I’ve used it .

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It's very effective for fish with tiny mouth. Trout magnet also good, since only type of jigheads I have at the moment. However lately I'm deterred because of lake algae growth....I lost too many..lol.

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....for this reason alone, top water cranks and long dropshot is more preferable for now, Gill.Attachment 467414

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That is an od build but pretty is as pretty does, and it’s beautiful. Good mixed bag. Glad you got out and didn’t melt.

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Originally Posted by skeetbum

That is an od build but pretty is as pretty does, and it’s beautiful. Good mixed bag. Glad you got out and didn’t melt.

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Skeet, at the pond it was only 96 degree again yesterday evening so I went and try to find couple more fighters for these Xxul home contraptions. I brought 2 rods this time to play and ended up with handful of fast running carps and a few other honorable mentions...Attachment 467623Attachment 467624Attachment 467625Attachment 467626Attachment 467627Attachment 467628

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