This past Friday, because it was Memorial Day weekend, I got a short day at work. What a great opportunity to get some fishing in. Lonny, Nick and I went to the Bass pond around the corner from work. Lonny and I started out with some poppers and Lonny started catching blue gill left and right. I wasn’t catching anything, but I kept going with my popper.
I started kicking a little closer into shore and got what looked like a small take. I pull up to set the hook and the fight was on. The fish pulled the line straight down and then went shooting straight out of the water. The belly of the beast was like Santa after a long night of whole milk and chocolate cookies. The pond had a lot of weeds so I wanted to make sure the beast didn’t get wrapped around anything. I put two hands on the rod and just hooped that the line or rod would not break. The fight when on for what felt like a 5 minutes. Once I got it in it was hands down, it was the biggest bass I have caught (picture above). I was able to get a few more bass throughout the day. One on a Clouser and one on a flashy zonker. Nick caught one bass and Lonny caught one bass and enough Blue Gill to feed a small family. All in all the pond has been good to us this year and we can mark this one down as another successful outing.
I started kicking a little closer into shore and got what looked like a small take. I pull up to set the hook and the fight was on. The fish pulled the line straight down and then went shooting straight out of the water. The belly of the beast was like Santa after a long night of whole milk and chocolate cookies. The pond had a lot of weeds so I wanted to make sure the beast didn’t get wrapped around anything. I put two hands on the rod and just hooped that the line or rod would not break. The fight when on for what felt like a 5 minutes. Once I got it in it was hands down, it was the biggest bass I have caught (picture above). I was able to get a few more bass throughout the day. One on a Clouser and one on a flashy zonker. Nick caught one bass and Lonny caught one bass and enough Blue Gill to feed a small family. All in all the pond has been good to us this year and we can mark this one down as another successful outing.
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