A Cold Day of Fishing

Yesterday I went out fishing again.  It was hardly any nicer outside, still a cold 50 degrees with chilly wind.  It has been raining so much that you can see where the real bank should be, but water is up 6 to 8 inches.

 I called up Bobby and Charles and had them come to my pond.  They hammered jerkbaits and jigs while I stripped black jig buggers, but with no results.  Charles had a few fish come take a fancy black jerkbait fly concoction he dreamt up.  The action is there, but the hooksets weren't.  Might have to make one with a mini octopus trailer hook.








We walked across the street to the carp pond, which was muddier than expected.  We actually saw a few carp as we walked around.  I cast out the jig bugger and hooked into something.  Upon further inspection, we found it was a white crappie.  Interesting catch in a pond, but both species of crappie reside here.  Charles caught a "bass" that was about 12 inches.  Later in the evening, I moved a big 3 pounder close to the bank, but never hooked up.

We moved back to the other pond, and Charles had a nice bluegill tail-slap his jerkbait and get snagged.

After Bobby had to leave, Charles and I traveled to some other ponds.  Charles has caught a 6 lb 14 oz bass out of one of them before.  Unfortunately, I think all the ponds were just too high, muddy, and cold for the bass today.

Hopefully next weekend.