[PECo]

When mep21 (aka Mark) and I went to check out the ponds at Nod Brook WMA, last weekend, we found that the entire area was closed for a dog club to run field trials. I had a few hours to kill, this afternoon, so I decided to take a kayak and check out the lower (aka north) pond. It was raining lightly when I arrived, but pretty much stopped when I launched in El Habañero near the culvert in the southwest corner of the pond at 2:35 pm. I tied on a Bullfrog Zoom Horny Toad on a Number 4 Gamakatsu Offset Shank Worm EWG Hook and headed counterclockwise around the pond. It wasn't long before I got a hit on the frog in the middle of the south shore:



Whoo Hoo! I know it was just a 13 inch long largemouth bass, but it was a keeper. And I made a new little friend:



I headed up the east shore and banged it with the frog. I never get much action along that shore, so I wasn't surprised that I didn't get anything. However, as I worked my way around the shallows in the center on the north end of the pond, I was surprised that I didn't get even a swirl on the frog. When I hit the north shore and turned to enter the shallows in the northeast corner of the pond, it began to rain:



I suspect that the sound of my paddling frog got lost in the noise of the rain hitting the surface of the water, because I got absolutely nothing with it. I headed south along the east shore and swapped out the frog for a wacky rigged Green Pumpkin/Red Flake five inch Senko as I entered the canal. It wasn't long before I caught a couple of more largemouth bass. The problem was that they were getting smaller and smaller. The first was 12 inches long and the second was only 11 inches long:



I worked my way all the way to the end of the canal, before the rain stopped falling. When the rain stopped falling, the fish started biting:



This 16 inch long, 1.96 pound largemouth bass ended up being my lunker for the day. 10 minutes later, as I was making my way out of the canal, I got a 13 incher, too:



Almost as soon as I got back to the shallows in the northeast corner of the pond, the rain began to fall, again, but even harder than before. I decided to just paddle straight back to the culvert and get off of the water. It was still pouring rain when I put out at 5:20 pm. If it rains during the kayak fishing tourney on Saturday, I'll have no chance at all to win.
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[Michael]

Nice job as always Phil!

[DirtyDawg10]

Cool little turtle!

[PECo]

[DirtyDawg10]

You know what they say about guys with big hands...






















...they wear big gloves!

[Jeff]

Ha! Sweet hat, I don't know how I haven't noticed that before.

[nelsonloo]

1. I need to know kayak can loading anywhere?
2. Can I use kayak fishing at river and lakes, also can I launch my kayak at boat launch area?
3. Any one know which website to apply fishing lisence.thank .

[PECo]

[fishing123]

throw the turtle on the hook