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Took a buddy out to a private pond for some big bass. This pond has always been a good one, producing big bass year after year. He has been dying to do some pond fishing all year, and finally the stars aligned in both of our schedules and I got him to a good pond. He really wanted to fish Gurglers, Sneaky Petes and various other top waters, but not here. No my friend, this is Hawg Callin’ water; big streamers for big fish. We started off by the beach, and worked our way counter clockwise around the lake. I wanted to try a new streamer out and it was the only fly I fished all day. I caught my first fish on my third cast, and the pattern for the day began.

This pond is an old rock quarry, so it gets really deep really fast. The fish were hanging just on the edge of the drop off ambushing bait fish, which in this pond are schooling shad. It took my buddy a while to figure this pattern out, mainly ’cause he wanted no help. I like his style. I caught bass on 3 of my next ten casts, all about the same size.

After I sent that fish home we continued walking around the pond, catching a few smaller bass and some bluegill. Then all hell broke lose for about 30 minutes, with us catching four, four pound bass and countless others.

Pete started off with the first one.

This fish was fat as all get out, these pictures don’t do the fish justice.

Then I caught one, I wouldn’t have know the fish was there if Pete hadn’t caught a smaller one and it chased it in.

Pete then worked his way around the cove, and I hooked another good fish, Pete was around to get the photo-op so I had to improvise.

He then casted out a test pattern and quickly found out it worked… Well.

We finished the day walking around the lake catching smaller fish, but nothing real big.

I will post up the secret fly later this week. Getting a new job has put a crimp in my fishing and blogging.

I had left last Thursday For Spring City, Tennessee to spend the Fourth with family. Destination, Watts Bar Lake. From what I could find out about this lake, there was tons of good fishing to be had. But I found tough conditions, from the lack of rain, then sudden amounts of rain.

Fishing could have been better, but for me it was amazing for simple reasons. I got my uncle and cousin onto their first fish on the fly. Both of them caught hoards of bluegills. There weren’t many bass to be taken, but in the two days we fished, we got 10 bass. All of them were spotted bass. For me this was a fish I haven’t ever caught, and would be glad to catch them again. They are fierce fighters on the 4wt. They seem to be like smallies in the fact they never give up, even when you net them. The average spot ran about 15 inches, which I understand is a big fish for that specie.

I will call this post to an end, for the lack of pictures(dropping the camera in the water the first day will do that). I hope to return rather soon and slam them, this time with camera in hand.