Back at Wampus with friends!

Got onto Wampus Pond at 8 AM this morning (despite the website saying they open at 7 AM).
 

Around 7:30 I walked over to the lake to look around and my friends had their rods put together already. I use a travel rod so I put it together when I got in the jon boat. Just about as soon as they cast out they both hooked up, one of them a nice-sized bass.

I was so worried that they would be skunked and was extremely happy that within five minutes they both caught. Eventually I caught two small bass and the horizontal one in the picture. One of my friends drove an hour from Jersey to pick me up in NYC and from there it was an hour and a half drive to Wampus.

My brand new 5 pound mushroom anchor worked perfectly to stop the drifting, though we did our share of that to cover ground.

They don’t have a sign saying “catch and release“ but that’s what they are. And the pond is not stocked yearly. So please put the fish back if you go there ?