Small Pond - Big Bass
Apr 22nd 2008adminFishing & N. Georgia
We had a day that all fishermen live for on Sunday! We hit a small local pond (about 10-12 acres) Sunday afternoon, and scored about 40 to 50 fish in four hours. Mostly in the 1 to 2 pound range, but as you’ll see below, there were a few good bass too.
Conditions were mixed… We checked the solunar tables the night before, which told us we were hitting the biggest feed pre-spawn that we could hope for. So me & Wilson showed up at about 11:30 to find big wind gusts and mostly clear skies, which we thought might dampen our afternoon. Not to worry though…. We tied the canoe up near the spillway, and I was off and rolling with three fish before Will hooked up with his first. It would be a pattern leading to a top five fishing day for yours truly!
What worked:
I started off with red and black zoom worms, carolina rigged, with a 3/4 oz. bullet on the front end. Through out the day bass of standard size ripped swim baits in the green and blue shades, as well shallow and medium depth crank baits (2-5 ft.). All the sizeable fish were caught on the green (bass colored) swim baits - maybe getting territorial before the spring spawn???
What didn’t work:
Spinners and top water. I was hoping that the aggressive nature that the fish displayed, and the chop that the wind produced would compensate for the sunny midday aversion to top water baits, but no dice. We tried a couple chartruce colored inline and outline spinning baits, but no luck there either.
The Proof:
All in all it was a very good day. PS- we had a man overboard:
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BassDem on 27 Apr 2008 at 6:49 pm #
Better a man overboard who can swim back than gear gone overboard that sinks straight to the bottom.
Sounds like days I’ve had when they don’t bite on spinnerbaits. Downsizing to the Strike King Mini King will draw a few out for me on those days. Almost every day on the water here consists of big wind gusts and clear skies. I don’t risk it getting tossed around in a canoe, although I’ve been blown around in a pedal boat. Loads of fun. Honest.
Tom Sorenson on 30 Apr 2008 at 5:20 pm #
Awesome! We should be having days like that for smallies coming up in a little better than a month here on Brownlee on the Oregon/Idaho border. (Not that size, but high numbers) Sounds like you guys had a blast.