The cards, calls, and emails have been coming:
"Holliday, the suspense is killing us - what have you been doing on the fishing front?
please....please write of your exploits, or we shant be able to go on."
. Okay - I got a moment in-between exploits.
Well, let's see - where was I?......
.. Oh - It took about a week and a half to recover from the sun poisoning.
..but I had decided earlier in the year to explore the localish ponds for Largemouth Bass.
I mentioned the Ridge Pond
.but there were a couple on the AT I have passed many a time hiking that I wanted to check out.
It's easy to overlook these tiny ponds but they can hold good sized Bass and as I say - they often go little disturbed.
I had ordered a medium action 2 piece casting rod on ebay
action was a little light considering the 8-20 Lb spec
but I mounted a vintage Calcutta 101 XT on it and it has worked out well as a pack rod.
My first trip was to a tiny farm pond.
Weedy, I displaced a Great Blue who then waited in the adjacent field.
Little pond but many of birds including Green Heron, and also Otter visit.
Caught a shorty LMB on a Silver Minnow (gold one)
with a Nikko trailer. (this is a very productive weedless lure)
then a 2 1/2 lber and a 2, plus another 5 dinks in 30 minutes.
Got results at 2 other ponds.
These can be hard to fish at this time of year due to the undergrowth - many thorns
.but I had a 2.5/3 lber in front of me on a tiny roadside pond - Which wouldn't be enticed.
Caught a couple of his grandfish though.
All in all - on my 3 hike-in trips - 4 ponds 18 Largemouth in abooooout 3 hrs fish time - and that is in the early afternoon, which is the worst time to fish.
Got one for this week - I see a vague trail in on the satellite map, to an off-trail pond me and a buddy got sliced up trying to reach a cupla years ago.
Gonna bring the trusty 2 piece Shimano rod/Calcutta, Pad Crasher frog, 4" Senko worms, and Silver Minnow + Nikko.
It's Catamount country - so if I do not post again..
nice knowing some of you.