To All My Memphis Pond Hoppers!

[Mr. Ranger]

2 hours ago, BrushHog1906 said:

Good Morning Guys,

This past weekend I had a chance to check out some of the famous spots.

Friday, at Chickfila I caught a nice pounder on a creature bait, only bite of the day.

Saturday I checked out Daycare Pond and the pond behind LifeTime Fitness in Collierville. However, no catches on that day. However, I did get one hit on a buzz bait at Daycare. The water was too perfect not to try lol.

Sunday turned out to be my best day. Checked out Shelby Farms right off Trinity road. Caught 3 bass and a crappie. Not bad for my first time out there.

Keep casting guys!

Good to hear the buzzbait got a hit.  It's about time for that bait to get hot.

[Gstewartutc]

Hey Guys, 

Haven't been on here in a million years but, since I've been away I've had some luck. All these fish were weighed and released.

The picture at night was at Chickasaw Gardens. 7lbs 2ozs

 

This one was at Cordova Country Club. It has been reopened as a soccer golf course and I have yet to be spoke too while fishing there. 5lbs 4ozs

These two were in south haven behind the McDonalds near Snowden grove. 5lbs 11ozs and 6lbs 10ozs

Also, Memphis National golf club has huge bass in it, 7+, but they are usually caught on large swimbaits. They don't mind if you fish, just stay out of the way of golfers.

 

[MFBAB]

Nice job Gstewart!!

 

I got lucky this morning early, caught 2 good ones on back-to-back casts, I mean the exact same cast too!  That's about 12 lbs. of bass combined, 5.5 and 6.5 lbs   These fish were both pretty skinny, I assume they just got through laying eggs. 

[ttime118]

7 hours ago, Gstewartutc said:

 

 

 

These two were in south haven behind the McDonalds near Snowden grove. 5lbs 11ozs and 6lbs 10ozs

 

Anyone give you any problems fishing there? I live real close to there.  How do you think the pond is?

[Gstewartutc]

9 hours ago, ttime118 said:

Anyone give you any problems fishing there? I live real close to there.  How do you think the pond is?

No problems at all, just put the fish back pls lol. Also, that same day my friend caught a 7lber. Also, what do you mean by how the pond is?

[ttime118]

Thats awesome!  My question meant to be how is the pond, meaning are there a lot of fish in there?  Trees, rocks, things to get hung up on??  Also, it looks to be a pretty big pond...what part did you fish?  Are you able to walk around the whole thing?

 

Thanks man

[UFpwrLifter]

Has anyone fished Halle pond lately? If you fished there recently and forgot a rod on the ground, send me pm with ID of rod and I can meet up to hand it back to you. 

[Gstewartutc]

You can walk around most of it. There are rocks on the side closest to kroger. That is the better side. If you want to meet up and fish there we could!

[Mr. Ranger]

Had a really good day on Saturday; all caught on a SENKO.  First time fishing a Senko, and it did awesome.  3 and 4 pounders. 

Big thanks to @roadwarrior and @MFBAB for the tips.  This good day of fishing is a DIRECT result of being active on this board.

[MFBAB]

Sounds great, glad you're having some success!!

The local ponds are on fire right now, I've been trying to run as much new water as I can lately.  I feel like the best time to find (and evaluate) new places is when you know they are biting good.  Even w the heavy rains/dirty water the last few days, it seems like the fish are pretty much wanting to eat right now everywhere I've been. 

In March they were all cold and lethargic, but they are fighting hard and jumping a lot now.  The landing percentage may go down a little but it's a lot more fun too  

[ttime118]

2 hours ago, Gstewartutc said:

You can walk around most of it. There are rocks on the side closest to kroger. That is the better side. If you want to meet up and fish there we could!

I went Sunday and it looked like a tough pond to fish.  A lot of high grass over by the mcdonalds/eye care side.  I had on shorts so I didn't bother getting in there but next time I will wear some jeans and work my way around.  

 

The kroger side does look a little easier to fish as well, like you said. 

 

Hopefully I can get back out there and do some fishing and if I do I will let you know. 

[Mr. Ranger]

On 4/26/2016 at 3:03 PM, Backlash said:

Mr. Ranger I've always thought Pine Lake was private/resident only so I've never tried it. 

I'm interested to hear how you do on the one at 385 and 70, always been curious if it was any good but never tried it. 

Good Luck!

 

Pine Lake in Arlington is indeed Private.  Couldn't fish it.  The fishing report I read incorrectly listed it as public.

 

385/70 is where i caught the 3 and 4 lbers.  Looks like it is fished some; there's evidence of people fishing therebut I was the only one there on Saturday.  If it truly is OK to fish it, then it's a good spot.  There's nothing posted about no trespassing or no fishing.   Wear your boots and long pants, it's not groomed for shorts and flip-flop fishermen.

[MFBAB]

I was told by an Arlington city official that the pond at 385/70 is private property, this was about a year ago when I was thinking about fishing there myself. 

I haven't ever actually gone down there to look at it other than passing by while driving, but I called the Arlington parks dept. to ask about it and that is what I was told so I just forgot about it-it looks like a great spot though!  I never looked into finding the owner or attempting to obtain permission after that, so I have no idea whether they care about people fishing there or not. 

Anywhere there's a highway project there are always a lot of those little borrow pits around, but they are almost always on private property so be careful.   

 

[Mr. Ranger]

52 minutes ago, MFBAB said:

I was told by an Arlington city official that the pond at 385/70 is private property, this was about a year ago when I was thinking about fishing there myself. 

I haven't ever actually gone down there to look at it other than passing by while driving, but I called the Arlington parks dept. to ask about it and that is what I was told so I just forgot about it-it looks like a great spot though!  I never looked into finding the owner or attempting to obtain permission after that, so I have no idea whether they care about people fishing there or not. 

Anywhere there's a highway project there are always a lot of those little borrow pits around, but they are almost always on private property so be careful.   

 

Did some research with the Shelby County Assessor- it's private property. 

[UFpwrLifter]

Has anyone tried the pond in youth villages near the 5 way stop (actually 6 way stop) in Bartlett? It's off of Memphis Arlington near appling rd. 

Also, where is the daycare pond in Collierville? or what is the name of the daycare that is near it?

[MFBAB]

Ranger - yeah, that's what I was told.  The Arlington parks office told me that they had actually tried to acquire that Hwy 70/385 parcel/pond for a park but it didn't work out.  It may be worth trying to contact the landowner for permission, it doesn't cost anything to ask. 

 

UFpwr - I don't know about the Youth Villages pond, but here is a map with the Daycare Pond circled.  That's another one that I'm not sure about the ownership on, but I know a lot of guys fish it.  The Daycare building would be to the left of the circled pond, not sure why it didn't show up in the Google map.  I think there's a fire station right across the street also. 

 

 

[MFBAB]

1 hour ago, mkeeler3 said:

what part of chickisaw gardens lake was that

I'd be more concerned about the city ordinance against fishing there than the area of the lake that the fish was caught, but that's just me

 

[BadBradBassMan]

Is it considered post spawn in the midsouth right now? I'm having the hardest time catching anything in the usual great spots. I did well at the Daycare pond 3 weeks ago on a buzzbait, lost maybe a 4lb'er at the bank cause I wasn't willing to get my shoes muddy; but overall it's been bad. I've barely even gotten a bite the 2 times I've went to Grove; I don't see how anyone catches anything there.

I've been using big baits: buzz, spinner, and swim. Some texas rigged worms, and crawdad crankbaits. All kinds of colors. I switched to smaller lures and slower retrievals but that isn't working either.

I never seem to do good when the water is high, and there has been a lot of rain lately too.

Any help appreciated,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave1017]

 

3 hours ago, BadBradBassMan said:

Is it considered post spawn in the midsouth right now? I'm having the hardest time catching anything in the usual great spots. I did well at the Daycare pond 3 weeks ago on a buzzbait, lost maybe a 4lb'er at the bank cause I wasn't willing to get my shoes muddy; but overall it's been bad. I've barely even gotten a bite the 2 times I've went to Grove; I don't see how anyone catches anything there.

I've been using big baits: buzz, spinner, and swim. Some texas rigged worms, and crawdad crankbaits. All kinds of colors. I switched to smaller lures and slower retrievals but that isn't working either.

I never seem to do good when the water is high, and there has been a lot of rain lately too.

Any help appreciated,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memphis Pond Hoppers - I relocated to Memphis from Colorado (for work & family) back in November and being that this is my first spring, I'm not sure what to expect.  I've had the same bad luck as BadBradBassMan and am hoping that it's just a short-term seasonal issue! 

I've tried all of the baits listed as well, as well as live minnows and have had little to no luck. 

Any help appreciated here as well! I bought a 10' kayak as well and had a great time paddling on Herb Parsons last weekend but no luck pulling any in. Thinking about trying some drop shot rigs this weekend but hoping for some advice!

Thanks - Keep Castin'

[Mr. Ranger]

2 hours ago, Dave1017 said:

 

Memphis Pond Hoppers - I relocated to Memphis from Colorado (for work & family) back in November and being that this is my first spring, I'm not sure what to expect.  I've had the same bad luck as BadBradBassMan and am hoping that it's just a short-term seasonal issue! 

I've tried all of the baits listed as well, as well as live minnows and have had little to no luck. 

Any help appreciated here as well! I bought a 10' kayak as well and had a great time paddling on Herb Parsons last weekend but no luck pulling any in. Thinking about trying some drop shot rigs this weekend but hoping for some advice!

Thanks - Keep Castin'

Senkos on a texas rig worked for me last week, and it was my first time using it.  I'm sure it was beginner's luck. 

I used Black with blue flake so that it can be seen in muddy waters.

[MFBAB]

Sorry to hear some of you guys aren't catching much.  I do think were in post spawn for the most part now, and from what I've seem they are eating, as should be expected.  This is arguably the best time of the year to fish, things will change when the water gets boiling hot around mid-June, but it has been pretty good for me lately on a variety of baits.

I'm not doing anything special, I do try to fish early and late when I can but you should be getting bites on T-Rigged plastics of your choice and if you've got low light or a breeze the moving baits are effective right now as well, and don't forget a fluke or something to imitate yoy baitfish-fry are everywhere right now and bass will feed "up" a lot this time of year to capitalize on that opportunity, if not straight-up topwater then something worked just below the surface can be effective. 

I would recommend trying as many different ponds as you can right now, some of them are giving up 10-15 bites an hour right now in the 1-2 lb range, some of the real dink-holes are giving up twice that but they'll almost all be tiny-you just have to fish around some of these places to find out what they hold.  Grove isn't known as a "Numbers Lake", although I have averaged a few more bites than normal the times I've fished there in the last month-mainly because everything is shallow right now, and active. 

This was first thing this morning at Grove, I had a bite from one about twice this size that got off too....

 

[Dave1017]

21 hours ago, Mr. Ranger said:

Senkos on a texas rig worked for me last week, and it was my first time using it.  I'm sure it was beginner's luck. 

I used Black with blue flake so that it can be seen in muddy waters.

I'll give it a shot!  I was using texas rig last weekend too, I'm going to try out some drop shot and see if I get some beginner's luck on it too-

Thanks-

[UFpwrLifter]

Skunked at the daycare yesterday. Did see 4 snakes slithering across the surface. 

Skunked at Shelby farms until I caved and put on a small fish bait then it was all the dinks you wanted. Maybe I should've done that at daycare also, but been searching for quality vs quantity lately. 

Hope you all did better than me. 

[roadwarrior]

Two From Grove

Started around 10:30 AM with no bites until 11:00.

Gear: MBR844C/ Chronarch 50Mg/ #40 Smackdown/ #15 Tatsu leader/ 1/2 oz Rage Blade (white skirt)/ Rage Structure Bug (white with the tail stained chartreuse using JJ's Magic).

Cast and retrieve near, but not on the bottom.

First bite, first fish at 11:00 on top of the ridge at the second culvert. I thought I was caught up on the jig magnet that you all know so well! Initially lifted the rod softly, but when the line jumped I became Bill Dance with my hook-set!  The fish inspired me and another guy fishing across the pond in the snake & tick forest. Estimated weight 6 1/2 lbs. A few more casts and back around to the walkway.

Second bite at 11:15 just beyond the second bench. I caught this fish several times last year and a few members here also landed what we believe is the same fish. Last year it was officially weighed at 7 1/2 lbs. I hope one of you catch and weigh her, I think she will go 8 or maybe even a little better.

Please be careful with our pets. Take a quick pic and release them gently.

-Kent

 

[JDJ]

Pics or it didn't happen Kent!  JK -- nice catches and great details!!