Fairfield Lakes South Pond 8/13/2009

[Slartybardfast]

Had the itch to go fish after work today so I hit the small south pond at Fairfield lakes around 4:00pm with my canoe. Dustin met up with me after school and we were killing em. My truck said it was 89 degrees and it felt like it. The bass were aggressive today! Throw a medium sized popper under some foliage at the shore and blam. Dustin twice had two bass on his line at the same time with a popper and an ant. I had two bass that looked over 13 inches but they shook themselves free due to angler error right by the side of the canoe. I caught one bass that had an old hook in its gut with the shank in its gills. Felt good to help the little guy out and remove it. I stopped taking pictures after a while. We had a great time.

[barryl]

Radio can you help these guys out maybe shrink thier hands or something. Thanks for the pic's guys

[trent]

I'm hoping the fish are equally amenable tomorrow at the picnic. Looks like fun and I think I recognize one of the flies Dustin taught us at the last tying session.

[phishphinder]

Where did that smallie come from.

[Slartybardfast]

I forgot to mention the crayfish minnow fly that Dustin tied. That worked really well yesterday. We caught several smallies in the south pond yesterday. Weird! I also forgot to mention that we fished the western edge of the pond that had some shade under overhanging foliage. Also, the very southern edge has a lot of rocks and lots of bass were waiting to ambush.

[reelteacher]

Good Pics John. Thanks for posting them. That was an incredible evening. Nearly every cast yielded a strike if not a hook up.
The smallmouth and a few other species were able to get into that pond during the floods when the wildcat overflows her banks.
There are carp, long ear sunfish, green sunfish, and smallmouth bass in that pond. I've never seen any of those species in any of the other ponds. In a few years, there should be some large smallmouths in there, granted they aren't caught and taken home by other anglers. I usually catch a smallmouth or two from that lake every year, and they are getting bigger.