Hello there, so today i went fishing at a pond that i usually go to. The pond generally has 2-3 lbers maybe a 4 lber here and there. Nothing humungous but its always fun to fish there. Today was so slow fishing, but the fish the were very active- just not active in feeding. They were all gathered up in their beds. This one bed, that was very shallow and contained a nice male, about 2 lbs, and a nice female, which was 2 lbs 8 oz. So we were tossing everything at them and they were just emotionless, sometimes an occasional interest but nothing significant. The lures were right under their noses and they had no reaction. As we were packing up, my friend took a final cast with a flipping jig. At this time the male and female had gathered on the bed and were circling around next to each other on the bed. My friend reels the jig right past them and out of pure reaction of the lure's movement, the female instinctively nails the lure! It was insane. All of a sudden there was a splash and the sound of drag being pulled. We landed the fish and she measured 17 in, and weighed 2 lbs 8oz. 

 

 

Here is the fish : 

 

Here is the spawning bed:

 

To catch those unemotional spawners, try sneaking a wacky rig or jig up on them and then knock it into them. That will really p#$@ them off and most of the time they will react immediately and eat it. As soon as they have it in their mouth set the hook because often they will try and spit it out within a second or two as they aren't really feeding, but defending.

Yea it had a nice wacky trailer on the jig and we pushed it into its nose and it striked