Farm Pond 5-16 (click Read More to see pic)
Steve826 05/16/2009 - 11:48 Trip Reports Farm Pond Roll Your Own
This morning my dad and I went fishing at a farm pond that we have access to. My dad did some work for the land owner so they gave us permission to fish here. We fished for around 3 hours from 8:30-11:30. On my first cast I hooked a decent bluegill on a 1/16 ounce Floating Rapala in silver, but he threw the hook. A few minutes later another bite and I brought my first fish of 2009 to hand. It was a bluegill about 8 inches long. He swallowed one of the treble hooks though and we could not get it out so we had to release the fish with the hook stuck in its throat. It did however swim off and we didn't see it splash on the surface so I think it survived. Anyway over the next three hours we caught and released 10 fish, a new record for us. We each got 5. Only 4 total were largemouth, the rest were BIG bluegills. The average bluegill was about 8 inches. The largemouth were all pretty small, in the 9-12 inch range. Not too big I know but it was fun. But there was a real lunker waiting for me at the end of the day. I caught this citation size bluegill at 11:15 AM. About 11 inches long and I would guess about 1.5 pounds. A lot of fun, I was really excited since its my NPB for bluegill.
We caught the fish on a variety of different lures- 1/8 ounce Hula Popper, 1/8 ounce Rebel Hellgrammite, 1/16 ounce Floating Rapala, and Berkley Gulp! Nightcrawlers. The big producer was the Hula Popper, which caught about half the fish for us today. We did have some problems with the treble hooks. A few fish took the trebles real deep, only once did we have to leave the hook in and I think that one survived. But one dink bass my dad hooked on the Rebel Helgie took the treble real deep and we don't think he made it. We tried cutting off one hook from each set of trebles and that seemed to help. Do you guys seem to have problems using treble hook lures?
The weather was perfect for fishin- cloudy w/ rain showers, and about 70 degrees. Per my hand touch I would guess water temp was around 72. I had a great time catchin' a mess of fish with my dad, it doesn't get a lot better than that.
We caught the fish on a variety of different lures- 1/8 ounce Hula Popper, 1/8 ounce Rebel Hellgrammite, 1/16 ounce Floating Rapala, and Berkley Gulp! Nightcrawlers. The big producer was the Hula Popper, which caught about half the fish for us today. We did have some problems with the treble hooks. A few fish took the trebles real deep, only once did we have to leave the hook in and I think that one survived. But one dink bass my dad hooked on the Rebel Helgie took the treble real deep and we don't think he made it. We tried cutting off one hook from each set of trebles and that seemed to help. Do you guys seem to have problems using treble hook lures?
The weather was perfect for fishin- cloudy w/ rain showers, and about 70 degrees. Per my hand touch I would guess water temp was around 72. I had a great time catchin' a mess of fish with my dad, it doesn't get a lot better than that.
