I've been fishing some ponds in Yukon. If anyone is in the area of Yukon to Edmond and interested in teaming up some weekends, hit me up. I'm badly out of practice, and wondering if my tough luck is down to that, poor ponds, or just an odd year.
How to do approach a new pond? Do you test depths and somehow map the pond? If so, how? This seems especially challenging for me, and it might come down to me not committing to it, or not really understanding how. All of the ponds I've been fishing have salad (moss and sometimes vegetation) a little ways offshore and only a few feet under the surface making it difficult to use even a squarebill without just pulling in green constantly. The wind has been such that it is difficult to line watch and count down how long it takes for anything to stop sinking.
I've seen a method of a bullet sinker with a bobber on the very end of the line. Then you pull the bobber to the sinker. Once there, pay out the line until the bobber hits the surface and you just got the depth. Given that this is fishing time spent NOT fishing, I have not even come close to trying it, lol. Is this something you do? Is it worth the time? These ponds do not have obvious structure or features, so casting off-shore is basically random guess-work for me so far.
The weather here just hit our first sustained cold spell. I think this has slowed the fish down, but, slow baits are hard to use because I cannot cover much water and don't have any idea where will be my high percentage spots.
