Pacemaker Fishing Forum

i spend most of my time in the area these days, so this is the water i fish

been a slow spring, i know there are some big fish there, as i have caught them in the past, but havnt hit anything over 3 # in 2 years

it has been a minus1 year for me. wind on the water usually means active schools when i can find them.

lucked onto a good pocket of fish the other day. i had downsized to a small grub on 4# line.
reason: 97% of my catch is 14" or less. What fun is towing in dinks on a baitcaster @ 12# line?

so in a 4x4 zone on a windblown point, I start hitting them, most on the drop.
Big bluegills that pull as hard as a 5#'r on heavier tackle, taken almost successively  on a wind enhanced cast-- from across the way.

here come the 8 to 13" bass, then a big warmouth.
I turn 90 degrees and swim the grub along a rocky bank.I catch a few short bass and a punk bluegill.
back to the hotspot and it's on again for a few more casts

the young bass clear the water like cartwheeling acrobats.
The big bluegill put a heavy bend in the light rod, and throb like a sodium headache.

times are good as i have the place to myself.

today a mammoth snapper surfaced like the red october. the head was the size of my fist.
two goslings trail their parents away from my presence. I startle when frogs!! leap off the bank.
A hawk screeches an echo off of short hill.
  All is well as i stare at water i have fished literally a thousand times-yet this pond is not the same.
Each year it is a different body of water that gives away new prizes, and sequesters past victories outside my reach