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GETTING AWAY FROM THE
CROWDS CAN MEAN SUCCESS!
By: Ron Wilson
June 7, 2005.... Where do you go on
Memorial Weekend for peace and quiet in the outdoors. Private land of
course, that is if you're lucking enough to have some to go to!
I belong to a private fishing club so
that's where I took Dave Wilson Saturday. The overcast was nice to have as
the bass would be on the bite. We soon were reeling them in one after the
other nothing of any size to speak of just nice 2 and 4 pounders.
I had told some hunting friends about
honkers building nests in trees but they just laughed at me. So I needed
to supply them with some proof! I eased up into one of the coves on the
pond and took out my camera and sitting about 80 feet up in a tall pine
tree was a goose on a nest and her mate standing on a limb. Like they say
a picture is worth a thousand words so I took a few shoots for evidence.
We finished the day with 27 bass for me and
about 20 for Dave, Sunday morning Bass Pro Norval Pimentel and I went back
to the pond and we had the same conditions with overcast skies. The
fishing was a little slower but the bigger fish were on the bite. Norval
used a watermelon black flake senko while I used a special pour Keeper
style brown and chartreuse sinko.
 By
9 a.m. we had several nice fish in the boat with 3 over 5 pounds and a
busted line or two. We got to one point where I hooked a real nice bass in
the eight pound class, we knew immediately as it cleared the water like a
sailfish and headed for 30 feet deep water.
As Norval was watching me, he had a fish
nail his bait and when it bowed his pole double heading for deep water I
knew he had a good one also. It a couple minutes I had my in hand and went
back and lipped Norval's. His was in the 10 pound class. What a morning I
had caught lots of doubles with Norval but nothing like this in my life
where you boat and 8 and 10 at the same time! By 10 a.m. we had 7 fish
caught and released over 5 pounds along with several other smaller 2 to 4
pounders.
I saw Tim and Mary Paes launch their
Stratos Bass Boat and head our way. They exclaimed as how they had had a
great pancake breakfast and we explained that they had just missed one of
the best morning bass bite I had seen in quite a while.
To celebrate our morning success I
suggested lunch and Norval was only happy to comply but I think in his
heart
he would have rather stayed and try to hook another HAWG!
We returned and picked up a few more bass
and decided to call it an early day and try it again on Monday.
Hey it was an early morning bite as the fish had been active each morning
I was there.
Monday Dave, Norval and I arrived at 6 a.m.
but no overcast sky with the sun already shining on the water. The fishing
was tough and got tougher. By 10 a.m. Norval had 8 fish while Dave and I
just had 3 apiece along with a couple should have been pne!
On my last cast of the day a little after
10 as we wanted to beat the traffic back don the hill I hooked another
toad. It took me all over the channel I was fishing and then dove into a
heavy clump of weeds to hide. I pulled up and just as the weeds gave the
fish busted threw the batch of grass and headed out the other side busting
my line. What a great weekend and what a way to end 3 days of fishing! |
