Casting in the pool

[Cbump]

Anyone do this? Mom has a pool and I was bored so I grabbed my baby bucca shad and headed over. Man, I’m going to run all my baits through It now. Pretty awesome watching the bait action. 
 

I’m probably way behind on doing this but It changed my life lol

 

Got a sweet video of the baby bull shad too. 

[gim]

You ever catch anything in there? 

[A-Jay]

Sort of - - 

A-Jay

[optimator]

I did when my sister had a pool 

[steve carpenter]

I do. Interesting to watch the action and sink rate

[Cbump]

I just threw a Yamatanuki around in there. I can’t believe a fish would bite that thing. Literally looks like a hunk of solid plastic just sinking. 

[J._Bricker]

13 minutes ago, Cbump said:

I just threw a Yamatanuki around in there. I can’t believe a fish would bite that thing. Literally looks like a hunk of solid plastic just sinking. 

I thought the same thing about the Ned Rig, and we all can pretty much agree it catches ‘em.

[casts_by_fly]

I do all the time with new lures or when I change something. Great to check the action on stuff. 
 

also, grab the pool skimmer pole and put it across the pool as low as it goes. Put a couple inflatable pool loungers around it but leave some gaps. Practice skipping. 

[Columbia Craw]

Fishing for the elusive chlorine carp, are you.  Fortunately my comfort height toilet is deep enough to check a lures rate of fall.?

[KP Duty]

No, but I had a 'bait tank' several years ago....a 20 gallon aquarium to test fall rate, action, suspension, ect.  Want to get another 

[scaleface]

I wish I had a pool to tune all my crankbaits once and for all.

[Big Rick]

Yep. All the time. I'm forever tuning, testing and tweaking baits. Soon as I get a new order in I'm standing on the diving board giving the new baits a test run. I have really honed my skipping skills standing on the diving board. My pool is 42 ft long, so I can get a pretty good skip going. 

[PhishLI]

22 hours ago, Cbump said:

Anyone do this?

Yup. My brother has a long, rectangular, above ground with a deck. My niece hasn't used it for years, but he keeps it open to test baits. I'm amazed the liner hasn't been perf'd yet.

[camman]

Reminds me of when I was a kid.  My buddy had a next door neighbor who had a pool but didn’t use or keep it maintained.  It was all green and filled with rain water.  My buddy asked if he good grow crawdads in it and they said no problem.  I remember helping him catch a dozen or so and toss them in.  He would throw in some food and we had a good supply of crawdads for a couple years until they tore it out.

[padon]

i have a built in pool that i spend hundreds of dollars dumping chemicals in every year. hardly anybody gets in it. i test lures in that thing all the time. jerkbaits, practice walking a frog you name it.

[jminer79]

Yep, we saved for years and put in an inground.....after I make a batch of baits from a new mold I always test in the pool.