Pond Hoppin

Matt — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:46:00 +0000

While I haven’t been posting on a regular basis, I still have been able to get out to do a little bit of fishing here and there. The past few weeks have been focused on hitting smaller bodies of water around Dupage County. Almost all of these waters were being hit for the very first time. It was a good challenge to pull bass out of some fresh bodies of water. Here are some of the locations I have been fishing: Hidden Lake, Lake Foxcroft, Lombard Park District Ponds, Addison Park District Ponds, Westmont Ponds, and Willowbrook Park District Ponds. To make this short and somewhat sweet, here are some of the results:

This fish was caught in Lombard on a red, 4-inch Senko. It was only about a foot of water in front of a flowing drain.

This fish was caught in Glen Ellyn in about 2 feet of water on an F5 gold Rapala.

These two fish were caught in Glen Ellyn (a differnt day) on a wacky rigged, 4-inch smoke w/black fleck Senko. Both were fairly shallow, and preceded a storm front pushing through.

The storm front:

This fish was caught in Addison on a small, purple and white, Bomber crank bait. I am unsure of the depth, as it gave me a great jolt pretty far from shore.

I did manage to get one fish on a purple buzzbait from a Willowbrook pond, but I did not get a picture of it.

While I was at Hidden Lake, I had multiple hits on a white Spro popper, but was unable to bring in any fish. One of the fish would have been the largest fish of the summer by far…but so it goes.

Year to Date:
35Trips
15 Keeper Perch (Largest 11 inches)
45 Largemouth Bass (Largest 15 inches)
3 Coho Salmon (Largest 18 inches)
29 Crappies (Largest 10 inches)
3 Bluegill Family Fish (Largest 8 inches)

Matt's Fishing Journal» Hidden Lake

Pond Hoppin