I love fishing new ponds.

[Swamp Girl]

I've fished six ponds this summer and have another four in the queue. I love fishing new water. Sure, the ponds I've already fished tug at me since I know they're full of fine fish, but lawdy, the unfished ponds plumb yank at me! I don't just want to fish them. I want to see them. Explore them. I spend so much time reading the DNR's PDF files about the lakes and studying them with Google Earth. In a few minutes, I'm going to go scout two, new ones. I like knowing the approaches and especially because I love morning fishing and will be launching for the first time in low light. 

[Dogface]

Of all the waters I fish I prefer ponds and small bodies of water. 

[Skunkmaster-k]

Sounds fun. 

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                                           

[fishhugger]

you must have some nice ponds near you.... if i had underwater topo maps of a new pond, i'd be a lot happier fishing with that aid, rather than 'blindly' fishing.  i prefer, as another responder noted,  small lakes or ponds, over larger lakes. i'm a bankie.

[Basser2021]

4 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I've fished six ponds this summer and have another four in the queue. I love fishing new water. Sure, the ponds I've already fished tug at me since I know they're full of fine fish, but lawdy, the unfished ponds plumb yank at me! I don't just want to fish them. I want to see them. Explore them. I spend so much time reading the DNR's PDF files about the lakes and studying them with Google Earth. In a few minutes, I'm going to go scout two, new ones. I like knowing the approaches and especially because I love morning fishing and will be launching for the first time in low light. 

I love fishing ponds because you never know what's in there. Usually the best lakes and ponds are the hardest to get to.

[Swamp Girl]

I scouted the two ponds and secured permission from the landowner to cross her land to reach the second one. The first is an old mill pond, shallow and weedy, but with a nine-foot deep canal running through it. The other is surrounded by woods with no cabins. I'll fish one Saturday evening and the other Sunday morning. I'm soooo excited!

[TnRiver46]

The only ponds in my area are private property. Used to fish them as kids, always got in trouble 

[Bankbeater]

There are 2 ponds near me that I have known about for years, but never fished.  One pond is about 3 acres in size and one is about 5-1/2 acres in size. I decided this year I would fish them and see what they have.  I think I have caught close to 100 bass out of them so far.

[ironbjorn]

If you can find them. All the water is being bought up and posted private. They're making it as impossible as they can to fish unless you're a boater. It's ridiculous. 

[TnRiver46]

26 minutes ago, ironbjorn said:

If you can find them. All the water is being bought up and posted private. They're making it as impossible as they can to fish unless you're a boater. It's ridiculous. 

Yep. That’s why I have more boats than some marinas 

[gim]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

The only ponds in my area are private property. Used to fish them as kids, always got in trouble 

Lol that’s because you were trespassing.

45 minutes ago, ironbjorn said:

All the water is being bought up and posted private.

They’re buying the actual lake? That doesn’t make any sense. Lakes are public property here unless one person owns the entire property around the lake.

[ironbjorn]

2 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Lol that’s because you were trespassing.

They’re buying the actual lake? That doesn’t make any sense. Lakes are public property here unless one person owns the entire property around the lake.

The thread is about ponds. Ponds are all bought up and posted private. Access to rivers is becoming more and more difficult because of private property to get down to them to fish. As far as bank fishing an actual lake, that'll never happen for me. Boat only. The odds of being able to be in the right spot for bass on the bank of a lake are slim. Sounds miserable honestly.

[gim]

5 minutes ago, ironbjorn said:

Ponds are all bought up and posted private. Access to rivers is becoming more and more difficult because of private property to get down to them to fish.

I’m still slightly confused by this. Are they buying all of the land that is surrounding the pond or are they actually buying the pond itself? I had no idea there was a real estate market for ponds.

 

I hear what you’re saying about river access, especially from the bank. Most rivers here are private property too, so I either wade them or float them.

[Bankbeater]

Around here they are buying up farmland with ponds on them.  The developer then uses the pond as a retention pond to catch the run off from the new parking lots.

[ironbjorn]

2 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I’m still slightly confused by this. Are they buying all of the land that is surrounding the pond or are they actually buying the pond itself? I had no idea there was a real estate market for ponds.

 

I hear what you’re saying about river access, especially from the bank. Most rivers here are private property too, so I either wade them or float them.

Land, and building on it and fencing it and posting it.

[TnRiver46]

It is refreshing when I go up north and see natural small lakes and ponds. The only ponds that exist in the south are on private land (or golf course) and dug with a bull dozer or backed up by a beaver. And people don’t like it when a beaver floods their land so they tear out the dams 

 

there is only 1 natural lake in the entire state of TN and it’s 6 hours from my house one way 

[Swamp Girl]

3 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

There are 2 ponds near me that I have known about for years, but never fished.  One pond is about 3 acres in size and one is about 5-1/2 acres in size. I decided this year I would fish them and see what they have.  I think I have caught close to 100 bass out of them so far.

Whoa! That's good fishing!

2 hours ago, ironbjorn said:

The thread is about ponds. Ponds are all bought up and posted private. Access to rivers is becoming more and more difficult because of private property to get down to them to fish. As far as bank fishing an actual lake, that'll never happen for me. Boat only. The odds of being able to be in the right spot for bass on the bank of a lake are slim. Sounds miserable honestly.

Maine lakes are called ponds unless they're a mile or more long.

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

It is refreshing when I go up north and see natural small lakes and ponds. The only ponds that exist in the south are on private land (or golf course) and dug with a bull dozer or backed up by a beaver. And people don’t like it when a beaver floods their land so they tear out the dams 

 

there is only 1 natural lake in the entire state of TN and it’s 6 hours from my house one way 

Yeah, Mr. 46, I love the abundance of water in Maine. Wisconsin was that way too. So is Minnesota. 

[MN Fisher]

25 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

So is Minnesota. 

Ya, you betcha....

 

Especially considering I live on an island - truth...cut two bridges and I'd need to use the boat to get groceries when there's open water.

[Swamp Girl]

Sweet, Mr. Fisher!

[GRiver]

20 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I've fished six ponds this summer and have another four in the queue. I love fishing new water. Sure, the ponds I've already fished tug at me since I know they're full of fine fish, but lawdy, the unfished ponds plumb yank at me! I don't just want to fish them. I want to see them. Explore them. I spend so much time reading the DNR's PDF files about the lakes and studying them with Google Earth. In a few minutes, I'm going to go scout two, new ones. I like knowing the approaches and especially because I love morning fishing and will be launching for the first time in low light. 

I love fishing new areas too, the excitement of “this may be the spot”….