Another trip to the bass pond

[Adam Grace]

After kicking my cold I have resumed the torment of my local bass population.

I fished my pond earlier tonight. I caught a bunch of bass AND bluegill. I caught more large bluegill on poppers tonight than I have in a long time. I had to tie up some more foam poppers and restocked my fly box after using up all of my previous poppers.

Here are some pictures from tonight.

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The sunset over the pond and my neighbors.

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One of the nicer bass tonight.

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One of the larger bluegill caught tonight.

I love the surprise of landing large bluegill like this, especially after it crashes onto my popper.

The bluegill and bass would grab my popper before I stripped in any line. As soon as the pooper hit the water I would have a fish, very fun. Gregg had a similar experience about two months ago. He caught nine gluegill on nine consecutive casts without stripping in the popper. He relly enjoyed himself, as did I tonight.

The summer is a great time for warm water fly fishing.

Enjoy yourselves!

[Gregg Machel]

Very nice! I may have to road trip up to where you are and pay you a visit one of these days.

[Adam Grace]

Gregg, you and your son are welcome.

[Hairstacker]

Very nice Adam! I just can't get over the size of the bluegill you regularly pull out of there. . . . TOO cool! 8) 8) 8) The one picture makes the pond look much bigger than I had thought it was, like a small lake. It'll be interesting to see how it evolves over the summer and whether it develops big weed beds. 8)

[Adam Grace]

Mike, I really hope the weeds mat up a so that I can get in some mat fishing. It's always fun to watch a bass crash through those heavy weeds to slam your fly.

The weeds started growing quickly before the last series of cold weather storms. I think the colder weather and high water has killed off some of the weeds. Or maybe the grounds keeper of the lakes treated the water to keep the weeds down :?: I hope they come back a little bit but I don't want the lakes to become overgrown.

About those bluegills, I cannot believe they I am still catching them on poppers. I understand it when I am using a woollybugger down deep but this is crazy.

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I'm loving it!