Stayed home and missed the storm but got a few on the pond 6-18-10
I was about to go to fish at River Bend but thought I’d check the weather on the computer first: “40% chance of thunderstorms and high winds for the afternoon”. I looked outside and didn’t see a cloud in the sky. But, knowing Illinois weather, I decided to stay home and fish the pond instead. I’m glad I did because 40% turned into 100% by six Pm. And the winds were very strong. I got off the pond pronto. When I fish at River Bend I like to stay until dark around 8 Pm so, I would have been caught up in a very bad storm on the far end of the lake where I like to fish for bass.
And I had a good three hours on the pond anyway. I caught four bass, two of them were dinks, but I’m glad to see them; it means that there is some spawning and there are some healthy survivors. I also managed to catch 10 nice bluegills, eight and nine inchers on my fly rod using a #6 black and white clouser minnow. In fact three of the bass were caught on the clouser . The one shown however, I caught on the Yum craw, you can see part of it in the picture. This fellow is about 2 1/2 lbs. The bass and the bluegills were all in the same area. Where I usually catch bass I zeroed. The Yum craw, for those who read my web site, used to be my favorite lure on the pond. Then suddenly, they quit hitting it. This was the first bass that I caught with it in a long time. I think that maybe, just maybe, the pro’s are right, “After a bass has been caught on a lure they tend to recognize it as “not to be eaten by fish”! as the bass grocery package might say. I rigged the craw Texas style with an offset worm hook. I’ve tried to rig it with a jig hook but, I find I miss many strikes that way or get bad hook sets. Texas style is better for me.
Now they seem to be going after it once again…new generation of bass? You decide.
Tight Lines
Jim
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