7/22/16
Today I took my son along with a friend and his son to a small fishing pond to enjoy some fishing and relaxing. We had a great time talking and catching fish.
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| A view of the pond |
Having fished in many other places recently, I decided it was time to return to this beautiful pond to see how the fishing would be in the middle of the summer.
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| 2nd view of the pond |
There was an enormous amount of aquatic vegetation growing in the pond which brought with it some fishing challenges, but we were able to cope with the situation.
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| Another view of the pond |
The weather was extremely hot with a temperature approaching 100 degrees. The barometric pressure was 30.00 with a UV index of 9!
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| Catfish |
The wind was blowing at twelve to fifteen miles per hour.
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| Largemouth Bass |
We caught three decent bass. They were just shy of being keepers.
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| First Crappie |
We caught three crappie.
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| Channel Catfish |
We caught six catfish. Most were big enough to filet, but we released them all so they could get bigger.
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| Catfish |
We used minnows, night crawlers and even some stink bait to catch these fish.
A couple of the catfish were rather small, but a fish is a fish.....right?
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| Catfish |
As the crappie started biting I began placing them on a stringer. Upon catching the third crappie I pulled the stringer from the water to find that the first two had been mutilated by turtles. One was completely gone except for its lips and some of the skin around its facial area. The other had about one half of one side destroyed. Once I saw this, I decided we wouldn't be attempting to keep any more fish. It is better to catch and release than to feed the turtles.
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| One of many turtles |
In all we caught twelve fish and two turtles, but in the end.....the turtles won.
- Any day in the outdoors is a good day (even when the turtles are stealing your fish)
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