Man and my father-in-law played golf while I worked today.
Then man decided he wanted to try and fish in one of the ponds at the country club.
They waited on me.
We got there and started with the buzz baits.
Caught a couple each and then they kinda turned off so I checked things out to decide what to use. The water was relatively shallow and pretty clear. I also noticed quite a bit of algae in the water so switched to a shad colored fluke.
I went with no weight to keep it out of the mess, plus I like as little weight as possible with all my plastics.
If there was a way to tell the difference I would have sworn these were Florida strain bass.
The biggest I caught weighed maybe a pound and a half but WOW how they would fight.
Beautiful coloration and every one of them was THICK.
The wind was pretty rough and casting into the wind made me backlash a bit once.
I cast then spent a few minutes digging the mess out.
Then as I reeled up the slack I felt something "heavy" on the end of my line.
I hated it but the fish had scooped it up and swallowed it.
I cut the hook as far down as I could and let it go, maybe he will be ok.
Ended up catching 17.
Man caught 6 and my father-in-law caught one.
Funniest part was I only moved a total of about 15 feet the whole time. They circled the pond like 4 times while we were there.
Only fished about an hour and a half and had a blast.
I can see us going back again soon.
Didn't take time to take any pictures. I wish I would have though because some of the bass were simply beautiful.
Good day.
Oh yeah, the fish are gonna be in trouble when I get that electric fillet knife.
Then man decided he wanted to try and fish in one of the ponds at the country club.
They waited on me.
We got there and started with the buzz baits.
Caught a couple each and then they kinda turned off so I checked things out to decide what to use. The water was relatively shallow and pretty clear. I also noticed quite a bit of algae in the water so switched to a shad colored fluke.
I went with no weight to keep it out of the mess, plus I like as little weight as possible with all my plastics.
If there was a way to tell the difference I would have sworn these were Florida strain bass.
The biggest I caught weighed maybe a pound and a half but WOW how they would fight.
Beautiful coloration and every one of them was THICK.
The wind was pretty rough and casting into the wind made me backlash a bit once.
I cast then spent a few minutes digging the mess out.
Then as I reeled up the slack I felt something "heavy" on the end of my line.
I hated it but the fish had scooped it up and swallowed it.
I cut the hook as far down as I could and let it go, maybe he will be ok.
Ended up catching 17.
Man caught 6 and my father-in-law caught one.
Funniest part was I only moved a total of about 15 feet the whole time. They circled the pond like 4 times while we were there.
Only fished about an hour and a half and had a blast.
I can see us going back again soon.
Didn't take time to take any pictures. I wish I would have though because some of the bass were simply beautiful.
Good day.
Oh yeah, the fish are gonna be in trouble when I get that electric fillet knife.
