Thread: I may have cheated a little :)

I went back to the Town pond again this morning.
What a difference a day can make .
In over an hour and half fishing with my St Croix 5’6” UL Triumph Travel rod , I managed to catch two small gills .
I was checking my casting distance with this rod using 2# P-Line Crystal Clear .
The line performed great with this rod and a Daiwa LT 1000S Revros
The nasty film on the water surface had shifted from the dam side of the pond to the bridge side .
The temp got up to 80 yesterday , that may have turned the fish off , with the low water conditions .
The last half hour I switched to my 6’ St Croix Avid Panfish, 1/64 jighead with a 1” chartreuse curlytail grub . With this rod I was trying out 2#P-line Flouroclear and a Daiwa LT 1000S Legalis.
The thin line didn’t cast as far as the Crystal clear at first , but after a few casts it started casting good also . Maybe a few feet farther . Maybe it needed to be wet .
Now , to the almost cheating part .
Two little kids were feeding the turtles duck food off the bridge .
When they finished , I shifted over to where they were throwing the food in and made a cast . First cast , I caught a nice gill . A few casts later I hooked another .
Then I lost my jig on a old bridge post that the wind blew my line over .
It was time to go as another group of little kids were at the duck food vending machine .

Good lookin gills. If I had a dollar for every one of the jigs I’ve thrown in that size and color, I’d probably be fishing from a new Phoenix! One of my favorite combos and it works almost as good on a beetle spin type frame. Fun stuff!