06-10-2005, 11:16 AM
Great day on the water at Pineview ! Thanks Petty4life !
To fill in a few more details of our fishing day, I'll add that even though it started a little slow, it picked up as the water warmed and we chilled in the shifting wind and relocated to the side of the pond where the fish would respond to our offerings.
We found Brown bass(Micropterus D. - they're green sometimes because they can change color according to environment) holding in the customary kinds of habitats.
At the very first, we arbitrarily chose to toss some top waters into the submerged brush by the put-in just past the "No-Parking" sign in the water. We didn't park. We also didn't get any action on them - no surprise really.
As Petty changed to a Road-runner jig, I went to a Rapala on one line and to a plastic skirt jig'n'grub on the other. With those, we tried along the bank in the scrub going toward the dam and had no more success.
It didn't take too long for us to realize that we were on the wrong side of the lake for what we were doing and we relocated to a more favorable location. That's where the bit began.
Our first fish came on of my 4 inch plastic salt and pepper colored skirt grubs that I had tipped one of the home made Road Runner jigs that Petty4 life had given me to try out - it turned out to be our biggest fish at 1.4 lbs and 13.5 inches. Right after that, we went to the chartruese spinner baits and got several hits without hook-ups. Two of our fish came from verticle structure(newly submerged Quakies(populus trembloides) and small Box elder maples(Acer Negundo) and the rest came from bounding off horizontal structure(under larger submerged fallen tree trunks and brambles) or casting into the thickets - it's a potentially costly tactic as petty4life found out - but that's where the bass hang out. I was kind of surprised(but not really) that we did not encounter any Microterus Salmoides(Black Bass to me - Bucketmouth to y'all) because we were fishing in very typical Largemouth territory for part of the time.
My best almost hook-up happened on a wild cast that came within inches of foul-hooking a large specimin(250 + lbs of primate(homo sapien sapien) )called Jason. Again, sorry for the shower and scare - dude.
BTW - great photos !
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To fill in a few more details of our fishing day, I'll add that even though it started a little slow, it picked up as the water warmed and we chilled in the shifting wind and relocated to the side of the pond where the fish would respond to our offerings.
We found Brown bass(Micropterus D. - they're green sometimes because they can change color according to environment) holding in the customary kinds of habitats.
At the very first, we arbitrarily chose to toss some top waters into the submerged brush by the put-in just past the "No-Parking" sign in the water. We didn't park. We also didn't get any action on them - no surprise really.
As Petty changed to a Road-runner jig, I went to a Rapala on one line and to a plastic skirt jig'n'grub on the other. With those, we tried along the bank in the scrub going toward the dam and had no more success.
It didn't take too long for us to realize that we were on the wrong side of the lake for what we were doing and we relocated to a more favorable location. That's where the bit began.
Our first fish came on of my 4 inch plastic salt and pepper colored skirt grubs that I had tipped one of the home made Road Runner jigs that Petty4 life had given me to try out - it turned out to be our biggest fish at 1.4 lbs and 13.5 inches. Right after that, we went to the chartruese spinner baits and got several hits without hook-ups. Two of our fish came from verticle structure(newly submerged Quakies(populus trembloides) and small Box elder maples(Acer Negundo) and the rest came from bounding off horizontal structure(under larger submerged fallen tree trunks and brambles) or casting into the thickets - it's a potentially costly tactic as petty4life found out - but that's where the bass hang out. I was kind of surprised(but not really) that we did not encounter any Microterus Salmoides(Black Bass to me - Bucketmouth to y'all) because we were fishing in very typical Largemouth territory for part of the time.
My best almost hook-up happened on a wild cast that came within inches of foul-hooking a large specimin(250 + lbs of primate(homo sapien sapien) )called Jason. Again, sorry for the shower and scare - dude.
BTW - great photos !
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