Just drilling holes...

[notime]

Fished a small "secret" local pond this afternoon. The pond is near my office and I've always had good luck catching perch and pickeral during lunch or while taking a break. Well, I arrived at 2:00 to find the pond full of kids playing hockey. Maybe it's not so secret after all. Unfortunately they were playing hockey in my favorite area so I went to the other end of the pond to check it out. Not very deep, probably 4-5 in the deepest spots. Given one foot of ice and one foot of weeds, gave me about two feet of fishable water. Drilled 7 holes, fishing with 5 tip ups, in a searching pattern. Nothing. Kids finally left so I made my way over to my "special" spot. Drilled two more holes. Fished the spot for another 45 minutes with 2 tip ups, nothing. Totals for the day: one cup of coffee, one+ mile of walking, 9 holes, zero fish.

[bluefishercat]

sounds like you hit Par ;)

[Bob Parsons]

Fished A1 today. Waited to the temp got above zero before heading out. Plenty of flags put only 1/2 doz fish landed. An even mix of pickeral and bass. Pickeral averaged larger than the bass.

[bdowning]

notime,

The persistent ice cover may be starving some of these smaller ponds of oxygen resulting in fish kills, from what the biologists have told me. Sounds like good excuse anyway ;) .

-bd

[notime]

I was wondering about that very topic. This pond is so shallow I'd think it would have an oxygen problem. Of course, that doesn't explain the weekend before when I was on a lake and got zip.


The water smelled when I pulled it through the hole and I couldn't tell if it was septic or due to all the dead vegetation. Maybe it was the fish, though it would have to be a lot of fish to stink up the water.