rttaylor619

Sorry for the long post - just wanted to include details in case someone cares. Hoping to put the guide together for some scouts that visit my pond year round, some weekly. I have a newly acquired 2.5 acre pond, in North Carolina, and I want to put a guide together of general year round pond fishing for bass and catfish - specific to the southeast. Hoping those here may have some tips I can use in this guide. The purpose is mainly for the many visitors I get to the pond. I am a scout master, and have young men coming to fish on the pond weekly. While I have only been fishing for 2 years, most of my catches have been limited to the post spawn season and fall(to a much lesser degree). The pond is shaped like a rounted triangle, with the northern two corners being shallow and the southeast corner being shallow. The southwest corner is the deepest, with a drop off going down to ~12 feet. General pond depth after the dropoffs is about 5-7 ft, and the level stays within a foot of the top of the drain all year round, even in droughts. No major structure except a dock on the east side of the pond. It has lots of bluegill, black crappie, sunfish, and LMB. Also yellow/red painted turtles and some snappers(want to shoot them all) Plans: Get aerator installed (3/4 HP), started feeding the brim(getting a feeder setup), likely buying some more channel catfish if I cant locate them in the pond better this year. Bass: Neighbor has put in some 5+lb fish he caught up at lake Kerr, but no one has ever caught them. Nothing we have caught was over 17 inches, and the majority of fish are 10-15inch skinny LMB. Catfish: Previous owner used to feed them and they came up to the dock, so the legend goes. We have caught two by accident, and I have tried with stinky baits and worms year round with no success from the dock area(4 ft deep). Most of what I catch has been in the shallow areas, along the edges of the pond, and mostly right now in the year and then in the fall. Dead during the summer and winters. I've never caught anything in the deeper water. Any tips that you guys can fill in for locating/catching year round (all times of day) which I can pass on to guests and scouts using the property? Spring Pre-Spawn: Nothing biting, except a random bass on a worm when fishing for brim with a bobber. Different lures in front of a nesting female with no luck at all. Spring Post-Spawn: Top Water, Texas-rig worms, spinners, suspended broken shad, all work well - in the shallows. Mostly just Dawn/Dusk success. Summer: Dead Fall: Similar to post spawn success, just not as much of it. Same lures/same locations... Winter: Dead