farm pond fun 9/26

[RangerRob]

The cooler temps and rain had me goin' crazy at work yesterday. I knew that I wouldn't have time after work to hook up the boat and make it to the lake with any reasonable time to fish, so I went to a friend's pond.

I got there and there was a steady breeze blowing and misting rain falling. I fished for about an hour and a half and caught five with the largest being about a pound +. All were caught on top, 4 on a homemade popper and 1 on a buzzbait. Threw a t-rigged worm a little, but no takers.

The shoreline of the pond was COVERED in deer tracks and I kept hoping to see some, but no luck.

 

[polo-dog]

I love to fish resiviors but thinking about fishing farm ponds brings back lots of great memories. Some of the best days that I had growing up were fishing strip pits and farm ponds in the area where I grew up. My Dad owns a farm pond and I just love to walk around the edges, fishing and looking at all that I cand find. Turtles, snakes, toads, anything else. The great thing about farm ponds that are just a few acres in size is that you can really know about most if not all of the structure and cover in them. When I look at the map of Chickamauga and all of the area that is out there it's overwhelming, a farm pond is much less so.

 

[RangerRob]

Well said, polo-dog. I had about 5 ponds within walking distance of my house as a kid and I use to fish them every single day. Most all of my best memories from fishing come from those ponds and they did nothing but fuel my passion for bass fishing. I caught some huge bass from those ponds too. One day alone I caught 8 bass in about 15 minutes that all weighed between 3 and 6 pounds. I was probably about 14 then and I knew that I would probably never duplicate that as long as I lived.

One day I hope to buy some land big enough to dig a "custom" pond on that would be somewhere between 3 and 5 acres. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

 

[polo-dog]

When I was in college I thought that it would be great to have my own pond, stock it, feed it, and make it a fantastic fishing hole. My Dad had a pond that he had impounded and set up and I really thought that I would do that too some day. We lived in the midwest and I never got a great impression from the resovoirs(sp) in the area. When I moved here and found out how wonderful a fishery the TN river was I just had to try the lake living and have been loving it ever since I moved here in '90. Living on the water has been incredible. There is so much incredible stuff happening all the time. Fish movement, deer swimming across the creek, snakes, beavers, muskrats, lizards, incredible stuff. I was a Biology/Zoology major and this area is a blast to be in. Fishing with shad/minnows you can catch huge numbers of species and they all have different patterns when they are in the creek vs in the river. I'm in sensory overload almost every time I am outside or out on the lake. The river is unmanagable from my perspective and a pond would potentially be manageable but if I had a pond I would probably spend too much time on the management and not enough time enjoying it.