I was fishing fishing in the pond whenever I could the last week in November and the first day of Dec. for about two hours on  one day and 3 hours on two other days in the afternoon from 1 – 3:30 or 4:30 PM.  The fish were responding mainly to spinners, especially the one shown here, a Storm Wild eye on a pin spinner,  It was the only color(green perch) that the bass would respond to.  One bass was caught on a pin spinner/curly tail jig in dark/light  blue, the 18” bass shown here.  Using the spinner was the key if you dragged it just on the bottom with enough speed for the spinner to have some spin on it.  Looking at the tip of my spinning rod for vibration I could calculate just how fast to move it to get hit.  Faster or slower would get no response.

The crappie were hitting on the storm wild eye as well as the flies.  The bluegill I caught on the olive color and the white color wooley bugger fly #6 fished with very small jerks with the hand doing the work, not the rod.  The fly had to sink to the bottom to get the attention of the crappie and the bluegill and a couple of small bass to boot.

Another observation, the fish were hitting on clear sunny days and were not responding to any bait on the dark days with a few small crappie as the exception .  The wind also created a different pattern, when the wind was up-nothing, but a calm wind-hits, as long as the sun was shining brightly.  And, the best times were the last hour of  bright sunlight.

The majority of the bluegill were in the 8 – 9 inch class, the crappie were mostly 8 –9 inch with the exception of the one shown here at 14 1/2 inches.  The bass are 18” and 15”.  They were the biggest bass but I caught a few more smaller bass with both the fly and the wild eye rig.  I also lost several larger fish because of poor hookups.  I guess I caught 40 fish on the good days and maybe 15 on the bad days, a mixture of all the the fish shown here.  Whatever, its always fun to be out there trying to catch the “Big One”.

Tight lines

JIm