Steve826  06/20/2009 - 12:50  Trip Reports  Farm Pond  Roll Your Own    This morning, my dad and I went fishing at a farm pond in Frederick County. Fished from 8:15-11:30 AM. In short, this was the best day of fishing I have ever had by far. The weather was great for fishing, not so much for being outside, but we dealt with it. Heavy rain showers, clouds, etc. I started out with a topwater and landed the first fish of the day within five minutes, a 13 inch largemouth. Soon after, my dad hooked up a decent one on a grub, and then another that was real nice, around 16-17 inches long and maybe 2.5 pounds. It didn't take long until I put down the topwater rod and got the soft plastics rod out, and the real fun began. Within the next hour and a half, I caught three nice largemouth on wacky-rigged Senkos and a fourth that released himself as I reached down to lip him. We took a short break from plastics for a bit and switched to Berkley Gulp Nightcrawlers. The citation bluegill I caught at the same pond a month ago was on the Gulp, so we thought we'd see if there were any takers this time. I casted next to an algae mat a few feet away from shore. All of a sudden, my bobber went straight down underwater, and stopped. I set the hook to feel a heavy weight, then it moved. Keep in mind I was using my light rod/reel with 6 pound test. After a great fight, with lots of thrashing around, I reached down into the pond and lipped my new personal best largemouth bass.

We measured her, 19.5 inches long, didn't weigh her but I would estimate between 4 and 4.5 pounds. She was carefully released. After that my luck ran out, no more fish today, but it didn't matter, that hog was all I needed. My dad took over the show for the rest of the day, landing two on Senkos and his NPB! His NPB was 18 inches long and came on a grub. We wrapped up around 11:30, final count, 9 bass between the two of us including 2 NPB's, plus two decent bluegills. Overall, it was an awesome day, lots of great fish and a great time with my dad.

Steve