Opening Day On Long Pond NEW PB!!!!
The day started off with no intention to go fishing. I sat around the house and was going to just hang out. Well by 11 i was all filled up with doing nothing and decided i would try long pond and go elsewhere if it was just way to crowded. Last year was bumper boats and it was just crazy. When i rolled up the launch was full, but i only saw 4 boats on the lake. Well thats just about how it was from 12 to 6 PM when i left. Have no idea if the trouters limited out and left or what, but it was not the mess i delt with last year. I launched and started working the flat right off the launch just out of range of the shore casters. No miracle first cast, but on my third i had a 3lb10oz LMB. I was supper excited as it was my first quality fish of the year. What a start, i worked my way down the shore line and nothing happened until mid lake. I had a monster hit. I began reeling, but unlike the bass it started peeling line off my reel. My drag was not locked down but it was stiff to say the least. I was wondering if i somehow was going to get a teener today, but then it jumped. What, at this point i believed i had a left over salmon, from the stocking last year. Five min later i had a 4lb 12oz brown trout in my YAK. Best fighting fish of my life and a new personal best. These large brown trout up here seem to like crankbaits as my last large brown came on a #10 flatrap. I took a few min to calm down and continued to work the shore. I nabbed a few pickerel and made it to the large bay on the right near the dam. I got a 14" LBM on the green carpeted dock, my first jig fish of the year. Feeling good i fished the bay and made it around to the big rock that sits opposite of the bay, and then it happened. I hooked into a large pick and he swam away with my favorite squarebill and only fish producing lure of the day. Considering all that happened and the great fish i had caught, i called it even. I tied on my shad squarebill and fish my way back to the launch with no other fish.