Another Bulk Report!

Once Again, in order to catch up, I will be doing this in bulk.

5/16/15 – Ol’ Pops finally picked up his license so we took our river rods out to the Sac. A year ago I was slaying them in this exact spot but this year it was considerably slower. Only two came to hand. One of them being 15 in. or so. My dad ended up catching a shaker as well.

Total: 2 Striper

5/19/15 – We ended up going to check the pits to see how the fishing was. The water was indeed lower and I was able to land my first bass this year out of the pits. Although he was a little guy, he was proof that soon enough the spot will be ready for the crazy action we were having last year.

Afterwards we went to Legendary pond and had another legendary day. We used spinning and fly rods to yank a good number of bass out of there. In addition, Jeremy (along with some fine coaching from yours truly) was able to get into his first bass on the fly! I was pretty proud!

Total: 16 Largemouth Bass

5/25/15 – Bored with the same spot and curious about what else was at Legendary pond, we decided to access another side of Legendary pond. So after a good walk down some hills we went to work on the south bank of Legendary pond. It turned out to be even more legendary that the opther side. Watermelon and Chartreuse worms did the trick with the spinning rod and as it got darker, they weren’t touching anything but purple and white wooley buggers! Needless to say I got some nice ones on the fly!In addition, here is a picture of one bass that I caught which was either deformed or something took a big bite out of him at a younger age!

Total: 27 Largemouth Bass

5/29/15 – I didn’t end up making it out to Ditch pond in March/April when the fishing is best but I made it out on this day and brought moises along. We have caught bass there before and Moises is only into bass fishing. He managed to get into a couple. Meanwhile nothing was biting on my minnows and that was a pity. In fact, most of them ended up dying. I did get into a small bass and as the night wore on I tossed a minnow over to a rocky bank and finally got into a nice size crappie. Bites were scarce after that.

Total: 1 Crappie + 1 Largemouth Bass = 2 Fish

6/2/15 – We hadn’t been to walter pond in a while so we paid it a visit. The moss is getting pretty thick on top in our regular spot so we decided to walk around the pond and explore some different areas. I did manage to hook up with a couple bigger bass that I couldn’t drag across the mats so they got away. Another spot had less mosss so I went to work there. Once again, purple wooley buggers got the job done and I was able to get into 4 bass.

Total: 4 Largemouth Bass

 With this report I am all caught up but I have one trip from this weekend that I will report on soon and it was a fun one! 

Total Fish:  2 Striper + 1 Crappie + 48 Largemouth Bass = 51 Fish!

Bulk Reports on Legendary Pond

In order to catch up I need to do this in bulk! If I don’t do this I will never catch up! I have a trip to Nebraska in there as well, but ill post it up later. We are simply slaying them at the pits. Some days are a little better than others but we never get skunked. 

 

4/28 – a little bit slower of the day at the pits. I started with the fly and eventually switched over to the spinning rod. I caught one on a black wooley bugger and then the bite stopped. Its seems that the first few casts will get them on the fly and after a while they stop falling for it. Then I have to cast out further to get them, which is why I am always armed with the spinning rod. Anyway, we had a couple of doubles on throughout the day so Jeremy is really loving the spot. As for the dorky pictures with the buff on my face, that was a running joke that we have with some of my buddies about looking like a “pro fisherman” with the buff on. lol

Total Fish: 7 Largemouth Bass

5/05 – While in Nebraska I purchased some cool looking poppers and a white “cloth” worm. I am not sure what ele to call the thing, but it is essentially a cloth worm on an offset bass hook. When I saw it I loved it and thought it might work great for bass. Sure enough, the worm has a fantastic action to it and looks great swimming in the water. Even better than that, it produces fish! 

Total Fish: 10 Largemouth Bass

 

 

5/8 – 3 days later I went out again with my buddy Art. He isn’t much of a fisher but he was visiting so I figured I would take him out on the water and hoped to get him into some fish. This trip was only a spin fishing day since it was pretty windy. Did happen to catch a nice one, which looked kind of slim hipped so I figure it was a post spawner. Art did happen to get into a couple of fish so we were both happy. 

Total fish: 5 Largemouth Bass

 

5/11 – Another super windy day so I only brought along the spinning rod.  Not a lot of big ones but a good amount of fish. 

Total fish: 12 Largemouth Bass

5/12 – The next day was windy but I brought along the fly rod anyway. We fished off of some steep cliffs and sure enough the bass were very active in this untouched area. I walked around and made my way back to the spot with the cattails to use the fly rod. I managed a couple of quick ones on the Golden Oriole again. Caught them on both the Fly and the spinning rod. 

Total Fish: 14 bass. 

In all some great trips out at Legendary pond. Like I said, much better to cover these trips in bulk so I can catch up! Hope you all enjoyed the pics! Another benefit it makes it look impressive when I finish off like this:

Total fish: 48 Largemouth bass

A Nice One for Brian

4/27/15

Jeremy had the day off so we made a quick afternoon trip out to Legendary ponds. My main intention was to revisit a spot that I had found a few days prior and attack it with the fly rod.

Upon arriving I went to work with a black Wooley bugger and caught my first bass of the day on the fly.  I continued and landed another, but then the bite went dead for a while so I switched to the spinning rod.  I caught a couple more. Jeremy fished and on a couple of occasions we had double hook ups which was pretty great. 

At one point I switched back to the fly rod but they were no longer wanting the WB. I looked through my flies and tossed out some streamers with no success. It was then I found a fly that I had yet to try. 

Last winter Bryan Dale tied me a couple Golden Orioles, his personal creation.  As he often did. The guy tied them for me for no charge, even though I offered repeatedly to pay. It is a heavy fly which is kind of difficult to toss out at first. Once I got a hang of it, I tossed it out and BAM! A nice little bass was on my line, thanks Bryan!! To date this is the largest bass I have caught on the fly. I was excited and as I tossed it out a couple more times I got a couple more strikes. Finally while playing what felt like a good sized bass, he won the fight and swam off with my fly in its mouth. 

 

I had one more but I didn’t want to lose it so I switched back to my spinning rod. I ended up catching a couple more to end the day. Not a bad day at all! 

Total fish: 10 Largemouth Bass

Another day at Legendary Pond

Although my previous trip to Legendary pond was weak, I got together with Charles and Moses and tried the opposite bank of the one we were fishing. This spot has kind of a walk but nonetheless we made the trip and tried out the North bank. 

According to Moses, this was the bank where they had slayed them a day before our last trip here. I put that thought to the test and cast out my spiining rod with a swim bait and after my second cast I had the first bass of the day. 

A bit later Charles got into a fish as did Moses. It was a windy day so I didn’t bother to bring along my fly rod. Even with spinning rods it was difficult to fish on a windy day. The wind just happened to be hitting in a different direction from where we were. Same bank, just a spot that was not accessible. 

Even though the wind stayed consistent, we continued to catch fish. At one point the bite died down and I decided to take a walk to a different side of the pond and ended up finding a bunch of cattails. In a small cove area. I found a cool looking area amongst the cattails where the surface was covered in weeds with the exception of a few spaces. I dipped my rod in one of those spaces and fish on! I knew it would be a good spot! I cast towards the cattails and caught a few fish until the sun went down. I thought to myself that this would be a great spot to try out the fly rod because of its steep drop offs and vegetation so I figured I would bring it along next time. 

All in all Charles ended up pulling out 14 bass, Moses pulled out 12 along with the biggest one and I finished the day in last place but still had a fantastic day. 

Total Fish: 9 Largemouth Bass