Thurs Afternoon, Amazing Time

[scfox11]

I went out to my favorite pond thursday from 4-8.  I managed to catch around 30 bass and missed around 8 of them.  Caught a couple on paddle tail swimbaits, jerk baits, spinnerbaits, but most were from a Senko texas rigged and weightless.  There were times where I would change out a senko and throw it in the water and go to adjust my reel and a fish would have it in its mouth already.  It was insane.  I could throw to a pile of timber and call a bite.  I had a lot break off in the timber before I switched to heavier braid.  Biggest was 4 lbs with several 2 and 3 lber's in there as well.  I will post pictures later.

 

*Note- i normally don't keep fish but the pond owner wanted me to keep fish that were around 1 lb or less, so I kept 8 of them.

[scfox11]

 

[CRANKENSTIEN]

GREAT DAY.....   Good job.

[*Hank]

Sounds like you had a great day! Congrats!

[Darren.]

Wow, nice catch. I just can't bring myself

to keep any fish, LOL. I'm a softie for the 

scaled creatures. But if I had to, I would.

[Bankbeater]

That is a busy 4 hours, Congrats!

[scfox11]

Wow, nice catch. I just can't bring myself

to keep any fish, LOL. I'm a softie for the 

scaled creatures. But if I had to, I would.

Yea I am the exact same way.  They told me to throw them on the bank if I didn't want to keep them.  No way I could do that.  I understand why they want smaller fish gone everynow and then but there isn't enough people to fish it to do the dirty work other than me.

[geo g]

Those are the days that keep us coming back for more, even after weeks of slow fishing. Those are magical days for sure. Congrats buddy!

[Mccallister25]

Those are the days we all love. I'll come do the dirty work of helping you pull out some fish!!

[MaineBassMan]

Congrats!! sounds like a good time. I don't like killing bass too, but you want to keep the owner happy so you can always go back

[Senko lover]

Nice job! Don't feel bad about keeping fish. One of the ponds I could fish could really use that and I may have to do it at some point. It's a private pond, I'm about the only one who fishes it (with occasional visitors), and the owners don't care about it because they're busy keeping up with funerals (it's a cemetery pond). The only thing they use it for is looks. Because of that, it has a ton of small bass and about 4-5 big (4+) fish.

[Bluebasser86]

Looks like a good day. I don't like eating fish, but a pond like that certainly needs some fish removed from it once in awhile. I usually just look for the 12-15 inch range fish and keep all those unless I get one that looks particularly healthy, those are spared in hopes they're a future monster in the early stages. I know lots of people that like to eat fish, so giving them away is never an issue.