Puddle Pond Report
Yesterday was one of those days that you just wish never to happen. It's when your so excited to be fishing some water that holds big brook trout due to the location and lack of pressure but the fish just would not cooperate for nothing.
We walked 2.5 miles in the dark with the last .5 only guided by pure knowledge into a desolate 5 acre brook trout puddle pond.
While this pond has no reproduction it does hold some very large brook trout due to it great depth. It gets very little fishing pressure and it's known location by only less then a handfull of hardy anglers.
When it's on it's on but yesterday it was absolutly dead..
We get to the water just after day break to see a giant splash out in the middle of the puddle. We are like, yea baby it's going to be a great day.. Well that was the last of our excitement for the next 7hrs.
On go the waders(you need them to access the raft)and up go the rafts. Upon entering the water I check the temp. and feel my heart sink.. 71 degs.. Oh well the fish are here so what else are we to do.. Just as we shove off the dots in the water make it apparent we may get a little rain, a little is ok so the rain gear stays on the shore. Wasn't 15 min.s and we were heading back to shore as the skys opened up and the heavy stuff came down in buckets. Gonna get wet in that stuff no matter how good your gear is.
Back on the water we trolled, trolled and trolled some more. 2 hrs and about 30 laps around the puddle and not 1 bite. Not good, back to shore to dump the water out of the rafts and try to figure our next move.. Maybe some streamers, cast a few spinners and even try some plugs. Nothing worked at all. The rain stopped and 2 more very large fish splashed to the surface, the newts were starting to feed and the little hopes we had started to rise. 5 more hrs of giving everything we had proved fruitless. No fish were in the mood to take anything, not even a sniff... Tough day indeed, and my toughest of the entire year. It was a bust !!! Complete Skunk...
Looks like the Ponds still need some cooling to do before the fishing get better.. My only hope is to be able to fish them again before the season ends...
At day break on Puddle Pond
What you see is basically the whole pond
100 & 10 % effort
post edited by hot tuna - 2009/09/13 09:04:52