Steve826  07/04/2008 - 11:26  Trip Reports  Impoundments  Roll Your Own    Me and my dad headed over to a local pond this mornin to celebrate the holiday by doin some fishin. We brought 2 dozen nightcrawlers so we'd have our largemouth bait plus all our lures. Well it turned out that no matter what we did we could not get our worms past the bluegill. Every cast, literally, a bluegill would at least nibble down the worm. We caught and released a total of 9 bluegills. They werent big but they sure are fun to catch. I did get one hit right when we got there that hit like a freight train then let go..it was probably a bass but it didnt take the bait. Oh well, 9 bluegills isnt a bad day at all. We did try bass fishing for awhile, I was using a weightless rigged Watermelon Red Flake Senko and my dad was using a suspending jerkbait. Eventually I got frustrated because all the algae and slop got on the Senko so I just went back to bluegill fishing. Well we didnt get any bass but there's always next time, and like I said a day with 9 fish isnt bad no matter what kind of fish they were.

Have a good 4th everyone, and like TooBigToYak said, thanks to every soldier for keeping us free.

Steve