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Old 11-13-08, 01:17 PM   #1
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Talking New secluded retention pond - swamp fed

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.
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Old 11-13-08, 08:49 PM   #2
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Old 11-13-08, 10:07 PM   #3
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hey f&g. do ya think if you were to thin out the fish some the others might get some more size to em? just a thought. i have read and heard that too many fish would keep the sizes small. depending on the pond and such. might wanna check it out. and hey, again, ya cought some fish. i ain't had that much luck here lately,lol.
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Old 11-14-08, 02:06 PM   #4
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hey f&g. do ya think if you were to thin out the fish some the others might get some more size to em? just a thought. i have read and heard that too many fish would keep the sizes small. depending on the pond and such. might wanna check it out. and hey, again, ya cought some fish. i ain't had that much luck here lately,lol.
I have heard that but I can't bring myself to just kill the fish to kill it so the others will get bigger. Now I have thought about cutting up the fish and throwing it back into the water. Would that be alright? Would the other bass and fish eat the "chum" or is that wasting the fish? I will not eat any fish that comes out of these retention ponds. The ponds have too much fertilizer in them from the home development.
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Old 11-14-08, 02:29 PM   #5
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Are there catfish, bream, etc. in the ponds, also? If yes, then they'll eat any pieces you throw back in. On the other hand, could you transplant the little ones? There are some laws you may have to be aware of, but that might be an option to killing them.
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Old 11-14-08, 02:30 PM   #6
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a turtle will find the cut up meat and take care of it.
I'd never try to control any body of water that way tho, I'd think if you had permission I'd take them to another body of water, transplant them or just take them home to eat.
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Old 11-14-08, 07:01 PM   #7
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We transplant a few here and there rather than kill them just move a few to a bigger pond .

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