[PECo]

My daughter went apple picking with a friend and my son went out with his buddies, so I had some time to go fishing today. I thought about heading to Burr Pond, but decided to stay closer to home and fished the upper pond (the south pond) at Nod Brook WMA. I was itching to get back there anyway, after being excluded from it yesterday. I took my Hobie and fished from 12:45 pm to 4:30 pm. I'm not sure what the air temperature was, but it was warm enough to feel terrific. The sky was partly cloudy and the water was like glass when I arrived. I got a slight south breeze after I launched, but then a steady north wind started to blow. The water temperature hung around 61 degrees. It was beautiful out there.

I caught a little nine inch largemouth bass on a wacky Senko in the northeast cove. But I didn't want to catch just little bass, so I decided to put the wacky Senko away and began throwing a big black spinnerbait and a little white crankbait. I got nothing on the crankbait, but the spinnerbait got me a 13 inch and an 11 inch largemouth bass in the south end. I pedaled around the shallows in the south end for a while, but saw nothing through the crystal clear water but dead weeds on the bottom. So I decided to try fishing deeper and threw the spinnerbait toward the center of the pond in 11 to 14 feet of water. I retrieved it vey slowly to let it run deep and got a very subtle bite from a decent fish. It wasn't until I got it within five feet of the boat that it began to pull back. . . hard. It dove and bent my rod over double, but it was hooked cleanly through the center of its top lip. It was the biggest largemouth bass that I've ever caught at Nod Brook. It was 20 inches long and weighed three pounds, seven ounces:




My Hobie has an 18 inch ruler on one of its grab handles and I get really excited when I catch a fish that's longer than the ruler. Boy, am I glad that I stayed closer to home today!
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[Cots6]

Wow nice fish, and sounds like a great day

[PECo]

I'm still looking for the 22+ inch largemouth bass that I saw a guy pull out of the lower pond a couple of years ago on a Texas-rigged worm. I met another guy who also might have caught it on a jig. He showed me a photo on his digital camera. There are some nice bass in there. There are also some nice chain pickerel. I once caught three 18 inchers within 20 minutes on the lower pond in the rain. But I landed the biggest one on the upper pond. It was 23 inches long. 18+ inch pickerel put up a good fight. They'll tow your boat for sure.
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[DirtyDawg10]

Great looking fish!

[PECo]

Thanks, Dawg. I had to get the image of those sickly looking pale largemouth bass from the Farmington Reservoir out of my mind. All of the bass that I caught in the upper pond this weekend were very healthy looking. The 11 incher did a pretty good imitation of a smallie when I reeled it in.
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[SkeeterJim]

Congrats Phil!!

Jim
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