Great escape

I took a day off today. I had a headache last night, and I was feeling bad this morning as well. However, I did go fishing anyway.

I first caught a small bass with a Gilmore Large Jumper before the sun rose. The bite was almost the same as the lure got to water.

 

I fished with a headache, and was thinking to go home as soon as I finished fishing this pond. I may have been lacking in concentration, and dropped this fish!
 

As you can see in the last slo-mo part of the video, this fish showed a great escape. It shook the head over the water, and admirably unhooked. The fish won, and I lost.

I caught a few more bass, but all were small. I couldn't continue fishing due to the headache, and I took a snap in my car. Now, I'm feeling much better.

Today's tackle: ABU Ambassadeur 5000C, Phillipson 3M B7L1 custom, Stren Clear Blue 12lb, Gilmore Large Jumper, Heddon Chugger Spook, Zara Spook, Zara II, Lucky 13, CCBO Wiggle Fish, etc. 

BF=30/40/80

Too many fishers on Sundays

I almost always try to go fishing on Saturdays, because I see much more fishermen on Sundays. Most ponds I recently fish in are so small that I don't like to fish together with strangers at the same time.

I had some chores yesterday (Saturday), and couldn't go fishing. Today, I decided to go fishing and got up early in the morning. When I was trying to start fishing in a pond and inflating my floating tube, cars of fishermen came to the same pond one after another. I was discouraged and made up my mind to head my car to another one. I visited the second pond for the first time in these two months, and in the meantime a lot of Canadian pondweed were growing there. I had only a few weedless-type lures with me today, so I had a hard time to fish there.

I caught a small bass with a Chugger Spook in the half-light, but no fish followed after it. And what was worse, one of my fins was broken. I left the pond before 07:00 AM feeling so frustrated.

 

 

Today's tackle: ABU Ambassadeur 5000 De Luxe, Fenwick Boron-X X-953 M (customed), Daiwa Sight Surf #5, Heddon Chugger Spook, 210, Snag Proof Moss Mouse, etc. 

BF=29/39/77

Two days in a row

It was too hot and humid last night, and I couldn't sleep well. We had some rain in the midnight, so I decided to go fishing again early this morning. Due to the typhoon, I expected stormy weather and I put more prop lures than usual in my tackle box.

When I started fishing, it was calm and windless. Nevertheless, I used prop baits most of the time today. When it was still dark, I chose a Wounded Spook in black shore color, and it worked fine.

About 30% of the pond was covered with floating vegetation, and I also fished with a weedless mouse lure (Snag Proof Moss Mouse). Another nice bass grabbed the mouse deep in its mouth. I had a hard time to catch it, as the fish dived into weeds, but I could finally caught it.

Some more small bass entertained my lures, Heddon SOS, Pico Slasher, and so on. I could get my kicks from today's fishing. Unfotunately, I left a SD card of my better camera in my house today, so I had to use spare ones, but I can remind all the blow-ups in my brain. 

Today's tackle: ABU Ambassadeur 5000 De Luxe, Smith Super Striker GO-103 w/ STTS grip, Daiwa Sight Surf #4, Heddon Wounded Spook, SOS, Lucky 13, Pico Slasher, Snag Proof Moss Mouse, etc. 

BF=28/38/76

Another typhoon

Another one is now approaching, and according to the weather forecast it may hit our area.

I have chores today, but I could spare a couple of hours and went daytime fishing. Fish were too slow, and I got no reactions at all. I almost gave up catching a bass today, and decided to go home before it got dark.

Then, when I shot a look shallow area from a distance, I found something like a caudal fin on the water surface. I thought it would be a carp, but quietly long-cast a pencil bait just in case of a bass. I waited until all the ripples went out, and slowly started a dog-walk action. All at once, my bait got snatched away, and I set a hook before I knew it. The fish soon jumped out of water, and it was a bass, not a carp! It was bigger than I thought, and fought hard. This totally unexpected bass made me so happy today.

Today's tackle: ABU Ambassadeur 5000 De Luxe, Fenwick Lunkerstik 2053, Daiwa Sight Surf #4, MH pencil, Legend Eyepopper, etc. 

BF=27/37/71