I usually don’t fish the town pond on a Saturday, but I got a chance to go this evening and told myself on the way there , if it was crowded, I’d turn around and go back home .
It was surprisingly few people there when I got there . I think the overcast sky , combined with cooler than yesterday temps , with a little breeze , kept them away .
About forty five minutes after I got there the sun came out and so did the evening walkers . But still not bad for a weekend day .
I think it was crowded earlier today as the gills were well fed .
I fished a spider fly on a drop shot rig for the first half of my hour and a half trip without a nibble .
Then I tried a Rapala F3 for about ten casts , hoping to tempt a small LM. No luck .
Finally ,I switched to a black 1/80 woolybooger jig on the drop shot and caught a small gill whose belly looked full of duck food pellets .
I worked my usual spots over with my latest acquisition, the 5’ UL rod and Daiwa Revros LT 1000s combo and and on my last cast caught an old friend as the woolybooger fell on the cast .
It was the same nice size gill with the puffy mouth that I’ve caught at least three other times .
It’s gotten where he knows the routine and didn’t flop around while I took his picture beside the rod and then slid him back into the water .
I’m sure he’s living off the duck pellets folks are throwing off the bridge.
He looks pretty healthy except for a puffy mouth .