Boddies Millpond, 9/7/19

Debbie and I decided to take the Jon boat to a new spot (new to us) called Boddies Millpond. You can find it on Google. It's located in Nash County NC, has a nice ramp (no gas motors allowed), and is a beautiful spot. We caught several fish, and had a great time exploring. You can navigate about 2 miles up in the feeder / head in skinny water, fairly easily.  Here's a few pics from the day & first trip...

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Pond Hopping in the Rain, 9/5/19

Today, Debbie and I decided to a little pond hopping / bank fishing in the rain. We started off at the Airfield, then went to Murdock's, and ended up at the Cow Pasture. We got wet and enjoyed the cooler temps, and caught a few fish. here's a few pics from the morning...

Secret Pond, 9/1/19

Debbie and I headed over to the private spot we call the Secret Pond for a while today. The temps were nice, and the sky was overcast in the morning. We had some pretty good luck, and lots of fun. Here's a few pics from the day...

Barrett's Farm Ponds, 8/31/19

Debbie and I headed over to Barrett's Farm Ponds on 8/31 to get a little fishing in before dark. We put the Jon boat in pond #2, and began to poke around a little. Didn't catch anything big, but had fun putzing around the pond and enjoying the afternoon. Here's a few pics...

Cow Pasture, 8/25/19

Today was another cool and overcast day, with temps in the mid-70's. Unusually cool for August, but very welcomed :-) After dinner, Debbie and I decided to do a little fishing, so we first stopped in on Moccasin Creek. The creek was very high, and very muddy...probably from all the recent rain. We had a few hits, but didn't land anything. As it neared dark, we loaded up to head home. On the way back, we stopped in at the Cow Pasture pond for a few minutes. This pond is at least 18" lower than usual from irrigation of the surrounding crops. We fished about 30 minutes, and Debbie landed this large mouth bass on a 5" YumDinger...

Airfield, 8/24/19

Today was overcast and much cooler than recent days... a high of about 75 degrees, overcast, and light rain. Much better than the recent weeks of 90's with 80+% humidity and bright sunshine! We've been busy, unmotivated, and I've been under the weather a bit to boot. We ran over to the Airfield a while this afternoon in a while. The pond is still overrun with hydrilla from the pond being pulled so low for irrigation usage. We managed to catch a few among the spunk, and still had a good time. It was great to get back out fishing again! I was fishing top water with a Ribit Frog, Debbie was fishing sub-surface with 5"worms rigged weightless and weedless. Here's a few pics...

Airfield, 7/18/19

Debbie and I headed out to the Airfield today, between afternoon thunderstorms. We found the Airfield pond in sad shape...the owner needed to irrigate out of it this year due to a long dry spell that was hard on his crops. The pond is pulled down quite a bit, lots of the pond is under 3' right now. As a result, the hydrilla BLEW UP and has choked over 50% of the pond since we were last there on 7/6/19...only 12 days ago. I suspect the dissolved oxygen is low, because most everyone was slow, and not interested in biting at all. We had to paddle most of the pond, as the trolling motor would constantly get hung up in HUGE piles of hydrilla. 

Despite all that, we managed to pull off a few catches. Debbie was using a 5" soft plastic worm, I was finesse fishing with a small 3" stick bait. Even had one bluegill to hit my 3" worm! We got several on the hook that would get all wrapped up in the Hydrilla and get off.