Presidents Day Fishing

[PADavid]

Monday February 18, 2008 - warm and windy was the story of morning and early afternoon. At 10 am the temp reached 68* according to the outdoor digital thermometer outside my front door. I knew there was only one way to combat such sub-tropical temperatures, GO FISHING!

Met up with Ethan (Leibs16) and we started at an area that I will hereinafter refer to as Pond X. Ethan put on one of his new Wingman Lures and I started with a senko. After my second or third cast I looked over at Ethan and saw him tugging on his line, I thought that he was snagged, but then realized he had a fish on.

Here you can see the white wingman bait in the fish's mouth. This fish was caught near the Famous Pennsylvania volcanic rocks!


Another view of the same bass with Ethan posing near the beaches:


I manged only a dink at Lake X. Bassaddict should be proud of this one, I caught it on his baits!


We made a move and headed inland for some dry climate fishing at Lake Z (No not a ZJ Lake)

Lake Z proved fruitless, I know it holds nice fish, but they had turned off by the time we got there. The temps had started to drop and with that the bass shut down for us!

I am not sure what Ethan is doing in this photo, but I hope he brought toilet paper! (He did not)


We stopped at a very small pond (Pond Q) but the wind was howling and the fish were hiding.

Because our thirst for fish was not yet quenched, we headed back to Lake X with earthworms. The panfish contest was on, Leibs conceded defeat to me with only 8 bluegills and one golden shiner. I nailed about 18 bluegills and a monster golden shiner!

The bluegill action was insane, they bit as fast, if not faster, then they do in the summer - I forgot how much fun they can be.

Here is Ethan with a Golden Shiner - he named this fish Bronski becuase of the O-shaped mouth:



And here is my giant Golden Shiner - possibly a record for desert fishing



As we headed home the rain started , cold and damp after a great day or warm weather. I am now stuck waiting for the next warm spell.

[Fishslime]

nice going guys - looks like the camera was working better - must be that desert air-still have ice where I live

[FishingLTJ]

Looks like you got some nice largemouth while surf fishing the atlantic?