Bobby and I went out for a short hour and a half session at "the original" pond. I landed a feisty 1 pounder on a popper as soon as he got there.
Bobby spent over half an hour trying to catch a bluegill for bait, but to no avail. I was having subtle takes, so I started slowly pulling my zudbubbler along the surface as a wakebait. A fish slurped the fly then took off fast. The first fish ever to take me to the reel on an 8 weight. It rocketed its way out of the water twice. This fish was big, but somehow it still got its entire body a foot out of the water. After a few minutes of tug, the big bass was mine. I could have fit my entire fist down its mouth.I brought it over to Bobby for the scale. It weighed 5 pounds and 14 ounces. Almost a 6 pound bass! Thats the biggest I've ever caught, and it was on a fly rod! Not only that, but its the biggest bass we've caught out of this pond in years!!
I released the beast then grabbed my 6 weight to get some bluegill for catfish bait.
Bobby got a couple nice fish on a frog.
I caught a bluegill on the fly rod, and Bobby went to work cutting it up and distributing the pieces among the catfish rods. At about 10:00, something started slowly taking the bluegill head. At about 10:10, Bobby set the hook, but it ended up being a 2 pound bass. We were both pretty upset about that one. The bass wasn't actually hooked, it just swallowed the bluegill head.
We're going back to the grass carp pond tomorrow. Bobby made a dope edit from the last grassie. Check it out here.
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