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Got to visit the town pond again this morning. Got there a little after 9:30 and left at noon .
Water looked a lot better this morning, but two of the nine fish I caught today had sores on them .
I took my 5’ Rosewood Ultralight rod paired with a Shimano Nasci 500fc and of course 2# P-line .
Weather was almost perfect , upper 60’s to low 70’s by the time I left. With just an occasional breeze that would make me time my casts using 1/64 jigheads and mostly Trout magnets . Sow Bug was the most popular color this morning. I started out using 1/32 jighead but was having trouble keeping the bottom slime off my TM .
Most were small , one 8 incher in the group.
Here’s three of them , including my last catch that came on a Bobby Garland Itty Bitty slab Hunter .
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Fishing with the Algae 05-13-22
Got to the pond a little after 10 this morning. Rough morning, didn’t sleep well last night .
Temp was 68 degrees on the RAV4’s dashboard.
Overcast skies and light winds . Should be a formula for success.
I had to run the geese off the bank where I’d been fishing lately .
Armed with my 5’ Rosewood/Nasci 500 combo but spooled with 4# Original P-line because I ve had one wrap me underwater and break off this week, and two that broke off after I got them in . One was a small 5-6” gill . I’ve been lucky with having to drag my fish up a grassy bank .
I started with a BG Itty Bitty slab Hunter , caught a small gill after several casts .
Switched to a bison TM and and the bites picked up including a couple of chunky shellcrackers.
When the bite slacked off I switched to a sow bug TM and picked up a few more including a nice LM around a couple of pounds that was a blast on the little five foot UL .
One end of “ my side “ of the pond was plagued by floating patches of green snot . I guess it depends on which way the wind blows .
I never know what the Town pond is going to give up . That what keeps me going back.
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5-16-22 Pond trip
I put todays trip report under this thread because the algae came into play .
With the wind this morning and the direction it was blowing, it blew the floating mats over to the side I prefer fishing at this time , making fishing difficult.
I was picking snot off my lure almost every cast .
I would attempt to cast in between the mats .
Today I started off with a spider fly on a drop shot , which yielded one small bluegill fairly quickly , but nothing after that .
I switched over to a Bobby Garland Itty Bitty swimmer on the drop shot and caught two small shellcrackers and a small LM bass .
I was trying out SOS 2# again today on my Shimano Stradic 1000 , so I switched to a 1/64 jighead and a Sow bug Trout Magnet and on my first cast caught a nice size bluegill , but it was extra slimy. Looked sick , but put up a good fight on the 5’ Rosewood .
The wind keep picking up speed , so I had to switch over to a 1/32 jighead just to get any distance .
Caught two more bluegills before it was time to head home .
Here’s the two best bluegills including the extra slimy one and the best shellcracker of the day.
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Good report, too bad about those conditions, and those are some nice size fish.
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" I was picking snot off my lure almost every cast ."
That is what my wife and I have found, very frustrating when out for your day of fishing every week or two.
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Fighting the Algae :)
I got to the pond this morning and the wind was in my favor , but within thirty minutes it shifted and the algae mats and pond slime shifted too .
I took my 5’ St Croix Premier UL moderate today , paired with a Daiwa Exceler 1000 , spooled up with SOS 2# .
I started fishing with a chartreuse/black Trout Magnet on a 1/32 chartreuse jighead.
I was thinking of changing lures when I got my first hit , that turned out to be a nice bluegill . One of the biggest I’ve caught lately .
It was several casts later before I caught a beautifully colored shellcracker.
After that it was dead and I started trying different lures . Finally went to a 1/64 jighead with a bison TM and picked up another gill , smaller but nicely colored up .
A couple of small green fish helped with the catch today.
By the time I left , the pond slime and algae was up and down the entire side I was on , 40-50 feet out . My lure was coming back with algae and my line had changed colors from the slime film on the surface .
