Another trip to River Bend and fishing the pond evenings May 2010
Whoops, wrong picture! I just found out that my camera cartridge is not working properly. Well anyway, My subsequent trips to River Bend and to the pond have been more or less a repeat of my last outings. The fish at River Bend are running between 12 and 15 inches and they are very active. There I’ve been hooking up with nearly 50 bass on each outing and landing a fair number of those.
The pond, however, has slowed down considerably. The bass have just about finished their spawn, although I have spotted a few still on their beds; I prefer not to catch them. The bluegill are still spawning and in some places so are the crappie. With the wooly bugger I have caught and released several 1/2 lb bluegill and I caught a nice 14” crappie on a clouser minnow in green and white.
The bass you see above was caught last week and was posted, this was a mistake on my part but the fish are all about this size and with a few a little smaller on the pond. I did manage to catch another yesterday this size on my Zoom trick worm “Wacky Style”.
On River Bend I tied on half of a Trick Worm wit a circle hook on my fly rod just to see what would happen. The bass hit the worm but when the bass jumped, they got off. I could not get a good hook set. Next time out I’ll try it with a Mustad thin wire worm hook and see what happens. In fact I’m going to set my rods up for a different approach before I go tomorrow. I’m going to try for the bigger fish by using a shaky head worm set up and set another rod with a drop shot. I believe, with the spawn over, and the weather getting much warmer, high 80’ and low 90’s the fish will be getting deeper. I’ll keep working the various depths until I , hopefully find the bigger boys.
In the pond I’m going back to the Yum crawdad, that usually does the trick if I fish it very slowly. I’ll let you know.
Tight lines
Jim
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I never thought that the fish would be that large in the pond or in the river bend. I thought you had to go into deep and large bodies of water to find anything that big.
Good luck with the rest of the springs’ fishin!
Unrelated topic, I was watching a film and a character on that film was a fishing enthusiast and he mentioned the wooly bugger, and thanks to your site, I understood. I had to smile.