Visited a friend's pond in Dinwiddie County, Virignia this morning and caught a lot of beautiful bass.

The largest was 5.88 pounds.  

Others weighed:

4.44

4.00

2.97

2.97

3.91

2.41

Caught a lot of one and one and a half pounders, too.

I misses six beauties; had to use the paddle boat to retrieve my SPRO Bronzeye frog, a spinnerbait and an expensive jig and pig out of the wood; had three break off causing me to lose one of my Cavitron buzzbaits (another line in water that I did not see cut my line with the fish on it), a pink trick worm and a Senko.

One hit my Rage Tail crawfish on the first cast.

Another took the minnow swimbait on the second cast.

When one hit my pink trick worm I set the hook, slipped and fell in the mud.  I was covered on my left side from my shoulder to my shoes with mud.  It was funny, I must admit.  And I missed the fish, too.

All together it was a great morning.

Tried to take photos and will send them to this post if they came out.

Later  

You did good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice job Sam!

Man, that's one heck of a day!

8-)

Sounds like a good day, I look forward to seeing the pictures.

Wow. That's a great day. That's a great pond! What do you attribute this day to? Besides your flawless erudition and amazing skills...

Paul,

Luck????  ;D

Can't post the photos until I figure out how to get them smaller.

Rondef, I will send the photos to you via e-mail.

Thanks.  

Yeah, I wonder just how much luck plays a role in our fishing, or maybe better, how much fish aggressiveness plays. Likely, it's a big chunk of the story a lot of the time, for all of us. I'd like to think otherwise, and sometimes I feel like I did something special. But, much of the time, I'm at the mercy of the fish and conditions. It's nice when they help out some.

MAN! It's great when you find a pond like that!

As far as the LUCK thing goes. IMHO when you get to a certain level of experience and knowledge, luck plays less and less of a factor. Personally, I still depend on it a LOT !!!

                         As Ever,

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When the gentleman who build the pond put it together he pushed a lot of wood into a part of the pond and it is still there today.

And I mean lots of wood.

We always fished the wood under the water and of course, we caught a lot of beautiful bass and lost a lot of beautiful baits, etc.

Now, with the pond so low, we can actually see the wood. And it is massive.

The bass just swim up to the wood area and stage.

I see them just sitting there, minding their own business, and throw out to them and wham! the hit the bait.

I also cast all around the wood, left, right, far and short, and they seem to love everything I throw.

I caught them on these lures:

Buzzbait

6-inch Senko

3-inch Senko

2-inch Senko (special order from GYB)

Pink trick worm (drove them nuts)

Rage Tail crawfish

Jig and Pig

Spinnerbait

Various Zoom finesse worms in different colors

*** worms

I was going to throw a Chatterbait but it got too hot so I left around noon.

Plus the fact that I was covered in mud from falling down.

Sorry about the pics.  I sent them to rondef as requested but  I can't seem to get the hang of posting them.

Will go back after we get some rain and the pond fills up.  Or, just go back and have some more fun.  

Thanks for all of the nice comments.