Ray Russell

Nutria rats. About the size of a beaver with the head and body of a beaver and the tail of a rat.

Today I should be getting those Doomzday turtles, going to see how they react to those. Unfortunately due to the ground cover on the bottom using anything with treble hooks is very tricky.

So my buddy and I fish during lunch Monday to Friday and we try to find good spots. We went to a park pond a few times that has a lot of bass, ducks, turtles, and nutria rats. People go their for lunch and sit on the benches feeding the ducks and rats, fish for tilapia to get them out of the pond, walk and run around the park, and just enjoy the quiet scenery away from the turmoil of Houston. The problem that we are having is that we haven't caught a single fish out of the pond, not 1 bite from a bass moving our lures out of the bed, nothing. You can walk along the edge of the pond and spook bass out of their beds, some of them are so shallow that the dorsal fins are out of the water. The bass will school together in groups of 10-20 and just swim along until you leave then they'll return to their beds. You can drop a lure right into their bed and they'll swim away until you retrieve the lure and then they're back. There doesn't seem to be any aggression with these fish. We tried switching up colors, going from crank and jerk to jigs and rubber, nothing. We are somewhat concerned that due to people feeding animals in the park it has somehow made the fish in the pond act "abnormal" when it comes to lures. We are going to wait and see what happens after spawning season but I was just wanting input on what to try or if we should just wait. We've just never seen bass so not aggressive before.

US Army 101st ABN 1BCT 1STB 2004-2012 21B Combat Engineer 63B Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic Iraq 2008-2009 Afghanistan 2010-2011