5 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Just looked it up - I’m about an hour and a half from there. Looks like a big, open lake. I’d have to watch the wind forecast closely to risk a drive like that in the small aluminum. Thought I’d seen reports though that it had a good population of fish in it. 

 

You should fish in Woody's boat! I'd love to see two of my favorite bassin' buddies in the same boat. 

34 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

You should fish in Woody's boat! I'd love to see two of my favorite bassin' buddies in the same boat. 

He's welcome anytime.  I'd probably just sit back and learn.  

57 minutes ago, Woody B said:

He's welcome anytime.  I'd probably just sit back and learn.  

 

You're two of BR's most consistent anglers. I'm sure you both have tricks to swap.

Full Moon? ✅

Unseasonably warm rain? ✅

'bad time of year' for bass fishing? ✅

 

What's a boy to do?  😏😏😏😏

 

Maybe mess around and stick a 9.3 on the red eye shad!

 

🎣🎣🎣💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲❄️❄️❄️

 

New PB at the ole Pressured Pond®™

 

 

Good day to go fishing after work 🌝🌝🌝😎😎😎🫡🫡🫡

 

LET'S STINKIN GOOOOOO!!!!!

@Pat Brown tank! Awesome fish 

7 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Full Moon? ✅

Unseasonably warm rain? ✅

'bad time of year' for bass fishing? ✅

 

What's a boy to do?  😏😏😏😏

 

Maybe mess around and stick a 9.3 on the red eye shad!

 

🎣🎣🎣💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲❄️❄️❄️

 

New PB at the ole Pressured Pond®™

 

 

Good day to go fishing after work 🌝🌝🌝😎😎😎🫡🫡🫡

 

LET'S STINKIN GOOOOOO!!!!!

Killer Big Bass !

Congrats.

Pretty sure I called this for you just recently in fact.

My PB green Bass also choked a RES.

Those SK guys make a decent bait.

We enjoy the High.......

A-Jay

 

 

3 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Killer Big Bass !

Congrats.

Pretty sure I called this for you just recently in fact.

My PB green Bass also choked a RES.

Those SK guys make a decent bait.

We enjoy the High.......

A-Jay

 

 

 

 

I still think this pond holds a DD yet to match my lake PB of 11.5 from last July, but for now...the hunt continues 😎😎😎😎

 

Today...we celebrate!

 

🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆

@Pat Brown  Awesome fish brother!   Congrats!!!!!

10 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

@Pat Brown  Awesome fish brother!   Congrats!!!!!

 

Just trying to do you proud!  We all know who the master is dude!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Pat, I love that photo.

 

That bass.

 

Your joy.

 

This day.

 

The challenge met of catching that beast on the ole pressured pond.

 

I love too how you gave Alex his due. 

Say, Pat, you know how I love the story of a fight and you're a top tier storyteller. When you have time...

 

Jr needed a haircut and it was raining so I said why don't y'all drop me and my lipless off and pick me up after his haircut and we go to the grocery store.

 

I got there at 4 pm and walked the banks and casted with no bites for one hour and got to the rip rap wall adjacent to the dam and saw piles of shiners in the dead flooded vegetation.

 

I also saw the dirty water here and I knew it was game time.

 

Made 3 casts.  She hit on the third.  I thought I hung my lipless on a log and then the log started swimming away from me and then back towards me and then started to really pull the drag out.  I kept the tension on her like I learned from ole David Fritts and when I got her in my hands the skies erupted and I let out a howl at the top of my lungs all by myself!

 

Meagan and Jake got there just in time to say goodbye and she swam away with vigor and fervor!

 

She was NOT the half tail monster of legend and as such has renewed my vigor for pursuing the giants of the Pressured Pond®™ just in time for the inevitable move to spawn coming next week!  

 

Beyond grateful to have made this beautiful ladies acquaintance and set her on her way to feast on shiners, put another pound or two on, and make beautiful bass babies!  🥹🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️

 

I'll be out there at the crack of dawn tomorrow you better believe it!

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Meagan and Jake got there just in time to say goodbye and she swam away with vigor and fervor!

 

I love that the got to share your joy and that the big girl thundered away to fight another day.

I'm out of likes y'all but this place is the best most supportive and thoughtful fishing community the world has ever known!  Thankful to call you all friends and co conspirators in pursuit of big bass dreams!

Last day of our trip from CT, we headed to Kenansville lake.  Fishing was slow but we got a couple decent ones.  It’s probably the steepest ramp I’ve ever seen, however the road in wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone made it out to be.  We got this one on a 12” finesse worm.

 

@Pat Brown Nice red lipped beauty bud. About time for a DD, I’m thinking. 👍

 

@Jamesg0418 Been a looooong time since I was last at Keenansville - back when you could get there from Blue Cypress via Big M canal. Used to be full of barbed wire fencing. Nice pig.

Ho and oh, that's ANOTHER big one! Well done. Thanks for the road pic. You should see the logging roads I used to drive in northwestern Ontario. I wore my Muck boots and every time I encountered water, I'd walk through it. It I found mud under mud, I turned around. Rock under mud and I drove on.

Just now, RipzLipz said:

@Pat Brown Nice red lipped beauty bud. About time for a DD, I’m thinking. 👍

 

@Jamesg0418 Been a looooong time since I was last at Keenansville - back when you could get there from Blue Cypress via Big M canal. Used to be full of barbed wire fencing. Nice pig.

If I had let her eat for another hour or two before I caught her, she probably would have been a DD.  I'm happy with the one I've got under my belt, but another one would hang the moon for me, especially from the Pressured Pond®™ 😎😎😎😎

 

Thanks for the kind words and here's to some giants for you when weather permits.  

8 minutes ago, RipzLipz said:

@Pat Brown Nice red lipped beauty bud. About time for a DD, I’m thinking. 👍

 

@Jamesg0418 Been a looooong time since I was last at Keenansville - back when you could get there from Blue Cypress via Big M canal. Used to be full of barbed wire fencing. Nice pig.

Today was our first time there, we drove down from Connecticut for a two week fishing trip.  Seems like an interesting place.  I’d assume the barbed wire and fence posts are long gone but I could be wrong.  It’s interesting the lakes down here are like one big spot.  Up north, you have a couple of features on lakes that count as spots haha.

12 minutes ago, RipzLipz said:

@Pat Brown Nice red lipped beauty bud. About time for a DD, I’m thinking. 👍

 

@Jamesg0418 Been a looooong time since I was last at Keenansville - back when you could get there from Blue Cypress via Big M canal. Used to be full of barbed wire fencing. Nice pig.

The first 5ish miles of the road has been rough paved, the rest of the road, I’d honestly say is in better shape than the road into headwaters a few days after it’s been graded.  

21 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

If I had let her eat for another hour or two before I caught her, she probably would have been a DD.  I'm happy with the one I've got under my belt, but another one would hang the moon for me, especially from the Pressured Pond®™ 😎😎😎😎

 

Thanks for the kind words and here's to some giants for you when weather permits.  

You’re on ‘em for sure, especially if you keep pounding on ‘em through the spawn. That fish looks like she still has some filling out to do in regards to eggs. Might still be a month or more away unless photos are deceiving my eyes.

 

We dipped into single digits & big lake was frozen solid, last report I had. Last 3-4 days have been overcast, drizzling rain but 30s-50s so hoping big lake will thaw. Forecast is calling for mid-50s late next week with low winds. Will probably have to make a scouting trip to make sure lake is thawed. My fingers are crossed. Line will be respooled with fresh fluoro & drags rechecked. Jigs, spinnerbaits, A-rig, jerkbait & RES will be tied on.

 

13 minutes ago, Jamesg0418 said:

Today was our first time there, we drove down from Connecticut for a two week fishing trip.  Seems like an interesting place.  I’d assume the barbed wire and fence posts are long gone but I could be wrong.  It’s interesting the lakes down here are like one big spot.  Up north, you have a couple of features on lakes that count as spots haha.

Fencing was on the south end (away from ramp) & ran across the lake at an angle. I’d be surprised if it was removed but has probably sunk. You take that canal near the ramp (in Kenansville Lake) east & you used to be able to get from there all the way into Stick Marsh/Farm 13 as well as continuing on into Ansin/Garcia. Now it’s a completely ridiculous out of the way drive around to all those lakes. All have giants in them - shiners were best bet but that’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Blue Cypress is a big bowl surrounded by cypress tress & Kissimmee grass. I believe it’s a natural lake. Keenansville is an old ranch that was levied & flooded (IIRC). Stick Marsh was an old orange farm, Farm 13 was old radish farm. Both were levied & flooded. Can remember watching them build the levies from Big M canal. Interesting how that area has changed over the years. Used to be able to pick wild yellow grapefruits off the banks of the canals. Lots of gators & nature to see for sure. Giant panfish in those lakes too.

@Jamesg0418 Those sand roads can be bad if not maintained. Road back to Headwaters/Stick Marsh will probably be horrible until Headwaters cools down from the pressure. Stick Marsh was the hot place down there in the 90’s. The ramps were dirt & after launching, you had to get your launch vehicle & trailer strap towed back up the ramp by a waiting local with a 4X4 who’d charge you $5-$10. Whole area was sand & dirt. No concrete anywhere. They’ve improved it all greatly except for the access roads over the years. Those can be like a washboard if they haven’t been graded recently.

I only had free from 5- dark, figured I would give it a try on my offshore magic zone. Haven’t had much success there this winter like normal. Finally got a SMB there on a damiki but it was decrepit looking one 😂. I was treated with a lovely sunset at 6:30, days are getting long 
 

 

Good to see some areas of the world are still living and not just existing.  lol

 

I hadn't been here in a bit - no fishing here.☹️  But I just paid for my boat insurance and that's about the only bill I can pay that makes me smile.  Good to know it's all tucked in here, ready to go when the weather gets warm.  I'll hopefully get out on Lake Ontario in April for the early catch and release only bass season, and catch some monster pre-spawn smallies. 🤞

Topwater in January? ✅😎

 

Pat's a scrapper. And fearless. Pat really does Pat, deviating from dogma to go with his gut.

 

@The Baron; I'm pining with ya. I too miss fishing, but our three coldest months are December, January, and February. January is almost done and February is the shortest month. I've been studying the first bog I'll fish using Google Earth, zooming close to look at rocks, spending time following the feeder streams to see how big of an area they'll drain and infer how much warmer water they'll deliver, and so on. They I plot my path in my mind, where I'll fish in sequence and what I'll use. So, in a way, I'm already on the water again, already fishing.