Monday, November 18, 2013

Fantastic Evening, 11-16-2013

What started out as a morning with hail and rain, turned into a decent afternoon of light scattered rain mixed with sunshine.  By late afternoon, the air temps had reached into the lower 60's, and the wind wasn't too terrible.  I had to go fishing!

I visited a local pond where I hoped to flyfish for Bluegills.  With the recent cold weather, and this day's rain, sun, and warmer temps...its hard to predict how the fish are going to react.  I hoped they liked the warmth, and it seemed like they did.

I ended up landing at least 15 Bluegills in 2 hours of fishing.  The bigger surprise was that I also landed 8 Crappies, and lost a couple others!  Now...I know there are crappies in this pond, I catch a few every year. But they are fairly rare.  I would guess that most years I don't catch 8 crappies TOTAL from this pond, so catching 8 in a couple hours this day was as amazing as it was unexpected!  They weren't real big...all probably 10" or less, but they were really healthy-looking, and fought well.

Most of the bluegills hit earlier in the evening, and were caught on a Brown "Rubberlegs" nymph with yellow legs.  The Crappies hit later in the evening, and were all caught on a red microjig with a chartreuse tail suspended under an indicator.

Other than the willing Bluegills and bonus Crappies...one more thing made the evening pretty special.  The sky.  It was absolutely beautiful and ever-changing all evening...so I kept snapping pictures of the sky in between catching fish.
Enjoy!











And then later, my family and I went to see the movie "Thor" in the theatres.  When we got home, the moon was playing with the clouds, and it was pretty cool! Hopefully this GIF file works:

3 comments:

  1. Great day! Way to take advantage of those last chances at water that isn't solid. I can see it coming on the horizon...it won't be too long .

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    1. Exactly! Looks like ice-up may start as early as this coming Friday!

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  2. Hi, Dave. Can't beat two hours on the pond when results are that good. Very nice evening of fishing. Good looking Bluegill and Crappie. I would enjoys two hours like that for sure.

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