New secluded retention pond - swamp fed

[Fishnngolfn]

I got out for just a bit on the way home after work. About a couple of weeks ago, I found a very secluded retention pond in a neighborhood that is not completed. The pond is around 40 feet wide and around 200 to 300 feet long. It cannot be seen from any road and is only accessed from the neighborhood on on side. To access the other side you have to go through a very large and dangerous swamp. I cut a small (yet still unseen) path from the silt fencing and climbed down about 5 feet to the bank. Someone else has cut out another path since I noticed last night a small tree that was blocking my cast to the right has since been removed.

Bait - cotton candy Zoom 6" lizard with chart. tail
Hook - 3/0 reg EWG gammy hook, t-rigged
Line - 30# orange Suffix braid with a 3' 15# CFX Pline fluoro leader
Style - cast across to the other bank, no weight, let lizard slowly sink to the bottom, slooooooooowly drag across the bottom with some intermittent pauses (15 to 20 seconds each). Feel the bump-bump, see the line move, cross the eyes.

And when I mean slowly, it took me around 4 to 5 minutes to reel back in a 40 to 50 foot cast.

I had about 3 to 4 bumps without taking the lure. But I did land 3 decent size largemouths. The first two were below 1# each, the third was around 1.5# (sorry no pic on the 3rd fish, camera batteries died). I called it quits when it started to get too dark to see my line (around 5:15 to 5:30pm).

Interesting side note - all fish landed were top-mouth hooked.