Great warmwater fishing

[Adam Grace]

I experienced one of my best days of warmwater fishing today!

I spent some time to fish the smaller decorative concrete ponds at the front of our community today. There are two small ponds and they are FULL of bluegill, and green perch. I also found some medium sized bass there too.

Below are some of the fish I caught in those little ponds.


Green Perch, there are many more of these large sunfish in those ponds.




This bass was caught on my Sage SPL 7'3" 3wt. My little 3wt was bent in half because of the this bass.

I fished those little ponds from 12-3pm today. Around 6pm the conditions were too nice to not go fish the evening as well.

I caught many more large bluegills in the evening. Below are some of those large "gills."









All I fished tonight was a size#8 foam popper. They are great for bass and big "gills"

I love this place

P.S. The total length of the grip and reel seat combined is 10" long. These "gills" are long and fat!

[Hairstacker]

And I had thought the Delta was the place to be. Amazing Adam, you have indeed moved next door to a gold mine.

[Darian]

What a bunch of PIGS.... Those are some great fish and photo's.... I'm jealous

[David Lee]

Adam - The fish in the top photo in a Green Sunfish/Bluegill hybrid ..... Not super rare , but also not very common .

You can tell because of the body shape , a Green has a more Bass-like shape , and a 'Gill has a higher , rounder shape . The mouth is smaller on a 'Gill and much larger on the Green , also .

Same story with fish #4 - look at the fin edging , classic ice-cream orange/yellow .... Less Green Sunfish genes in fish #4 than in fish #1 , but still not a pure Bluegill .

Just thought you'd want to know . David

PS - They are very nice fishes !!

[Hairstacker]

Hi David! Thanks for clarifying the nature of these fish. I thought that first one looked kind of odd with the vertical light markings -- have never seen that before. Must be the influence of the green sunfish genes? Do the greens get as big in the local, unnamed pond you mentioned when we went fishing at the unnamed sweetest pond?

[David Lee]

Hi Mike !!

Greens are not in the "sweet" pond , just 'Crackers , 'Gills , and Bass and Shiners . Green Sunfish can stand very low oxygen levels and extreemly high water temps. The eat anything that they can fit into their large mouths (including each other) .

The "Lonestar" ponds had the biggest I've ever seen .... I landed two that were in the 2 1/2 lb. class (record fish , for sure !) . Those two hit SO HARD I almost lost the rod !! No kidding , just pants-crappin' hard yanks .... I'm still suprised that they didn't pop my 2X tippet !! By the way .... #6 Brown/Orange Clousers did the trick . David