Here is a pic of my granddaughter with her first fish! She caught more bluegill and a small bass, and missed an even bigger bass.



She was one happy little girl! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

great pics tom..... nothing like spending a day fishing..... what did you catch the bass on

Plastic worm cast right near the shoreline, and slowly crawled toward the boat. My son in law's catfish was also caught on a plastic worm. The three lures that work best on my pond are beetle-spins, plastic worms, and zara spook lures. My son really tears em' up with the zara spooks! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

okay. for bass i like my bright green mepps spinners and rapala husky jerks. i come from a family of fisherman and love the challenge of getting a big bass to bite on a fake lure.

I always liked Mepps spinners and "stick baits" when fishing up in Minnesota and Wisconsin, but they would get hung up too easily in my pond. I need another trip to the North Woods! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

yeah pond fishing in the summer requires lots of weedless set ups. my fav i you take a yum frog or similar and put one large weedless hook in. then you take a treble hook and cut off one barb and insert the shaft and eye of the trebble hook up the frogs bum and put the weedless hook through the eye of the treble and they are hooked together and the frog is really good for weeds and such.

My pond fishing partners have gone home. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> I have lily pads around the pond this year, and a frog would have been a good choice as has been proven in the past. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> Topwater action is great!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Yep

ahhh... another morning of fishing!

or as I'm going to start calling it, "tossing every lure you own in the middle of the lake or up into a tree somewhere, or find random things you cant see under the water to snag you line on over and over and over again, or break another brand new rod and while your at it be sure to catch absolutely nothing while watching fish activity pretty everywhere that you aren't."

fish roll right up to the bank and hang out all day just to watch my fails like its that show wipe out. not even afraid of me cause they know I couldnt catch them if I was to dump the whole lake through a giant strainer.

so yup, another great day of all that... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/paperbag.gif" alt="" />

so thinking I'll be heading back first thing in the morning... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Alright, just a typical day of fishing then. Beware though, for one day you will catch a catfish, and you might get horned! Or you will go to grab that nice bass or crappie and get stuck with the dorsal fin. All fun and games called fishing.

When I was stationed in Idaho, I jumped in the snake river to recover a crappie that was as big as my hands put together. I be that sucker was 8 inches top to bottom, close to a foot long and thick bodied! Boy was he tasty!

Sounds like a lot of crappie to me!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />............................... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />