The Drought Strikes Again!

Last Wednesday I had the day off so I called up Russell and we hit up butte pond. I hadn’t been to butte pond since earlier this year so I was excited to have some success. Well guess what, the drought strikes again! 

Remember "slice?"

The areas we used to fish were probably 1-3 feet deep. While these COULD hold bass, they certainly weren’t biting on our offers. We threw out spin baits, buzz baits, topwater frogs, poppers, popping frogs, crank baits, pretty much everything but nothing was biting! I was beginning to think we were going to get skunked.

With that we had a few beers and hung out in the shade. While exploring I ended up finding this “Slice can.”  I didn’t pay attention to when they stopped making this soda but I know it was a while ago. This is the type of thing you do when you aren’t getting any bites.

view from the tree

A view from the tree

So after a while I armed myself with Bonecrusher (my 8 wt.) and we went for a walk.  We ended up going to a creek area that we had seen before but never fished. I knew it looked fishy and still want to catfish it because it is rushing water.  There was a fallen tree over the the creek so we went to the middle and cast a black wooley bugger in both directions. On the upstream side I got a quick strike but no takers. 

Lm on a san Juan Worm

a little gill action

Later on I got off of the log and cast from bank close to the log. At one point I got a strike. I kept casting but nothing. I then switched to a san juan worm under a bobber. My buddy Russell was saying if we didn’t get one with a WB we wouldn’t get one with anything else and as he was saying it, boom! A small largemouth but also a skunkbeater and a validation fish! I love being right! Lol

A bit later we switched to the old worm and bobber and ended up getting into a few more gills and largemouths. 

last and largest LM of the day

Between both of us it was a seven fish day.  It really stinks that my first time at butte pond this summer was not a good one. I’m sad that another spot of ours bit the dust and we definitely need to pray for heavy rains and snow in the hills!  

Total Fish: 2 Largemouth bass + 1 Bluegill = 3 fish.