Middle Fork Resevoir 5/24/2009

....Well, I came to visit family and friends for the Memorial day holiday. While I was in town a one of my old fishing buddies wanted to know if I wanted to go fishing.....Well to be honest I called him and said " Let's get'em ", to wich he responded, " OK, Catfish or bass?", I said, " Whatever you think is best.".....This was gonna be a night bassing trip to the local watering hole here in Richmond, Indiana. We didn't head out till after 10pm on his Ranger. Fishing was slow, bass are on the beds, females are deep, still recovering. But the night was perfect, no wind, cool breeze. I caught a few that night, nothing big, threw a crank at them, a beaver bait(reaction innovation), a tube bait, and a skirted twin tail grub on a jig head, all fish hit the jigs. 3 bass by 2am, very slow night, but what the hell it was fun, and I hit the bass and my buddy walked away skunked.......gonna go hit' em again this weekend.

Lake fishing 5/17/2009

Talk about great weather, it is one of those perfect late spring evenings. A cold front has come thru and left the place perfect. Cooler, blue bird skies, lots of sun. I talk the person I am with into driving by this lake, it's a 5 acre pond really. Deep, strip pit. Sits in a metro park with a soccer complex nearby. One side is deep and clear, water hitting jagged rocks, coming out of the water. The other side splashes up next to mature trees, not as deep but awesome looking none the less....To bad I only have a little bit of time.....I grab my rod, and tie on a double tail skirted jig. Kinda a mossy color, been using this color this spring and has been producing lots of fish.....on this evening I pull out to small Large mouth in a matter of 15 minutes. If I was alone, and able to switch up baits I probably could land a few. These post cold front bass are a bit finicky. Not to mention I thing they have spawned, females not bitting. ....Lot's of fun anyways. No way would I complain about a great evening like this. Best part, a group of kids from the soccer park watched as I hit one of the bass and got really excited, and my son was there to see it all. How great is that. Awesome.

Little Miami River 5/12/2009

Wow another good morning on the River. Here is a nice pick of a largemouth I pulled from the river. I also watched a small deer cross right in front of us today. Was great. Blue bird skies, not the best day for fish, but a great day to be fishing.

Went Fishing 5/11/2009

Well, what can I say? I was correct today was a great day for fishing. Now I know, there are no bad days for fishing, just some are better than others. .....I ended up going to John Bryant State Park, to get into The Little Miami River. That ended up being a great choice, although I could not fish as much as I wanted,it ended up being great anyway. I started walking down the trail next to the river and it was stunning. Just as pretty a early spring day can get. I walked past the first couple of holes and fished the third, BAM second cast, I nail a smallmouth. Great fish for this river, a solid 2.5 pounder. Whole lotta fun. .....am going back tomorrow. The weather looks perfect. GO FISH.

Thinking About Getting The Line Wet.

This should make for a fun day. I need to entertain my 4 year old today. Make my girlfriend happy. Go to WalMart, etc. .....and somehow Head out to this a part of the river I have my eye on....It's been raining off and on for about a week. A cold front has come thru, putting a chill on things, some bass have already spawned. Pretty much a shitty time to even think about fishing. But for some reason, I am, and I think I will end up trying to hit a smallmouth, or whatever is in the part of the river I wanna hit. .....I sure hope luck is on my side. Will post later what happens, I will be lucky to even get out there. But I know I can make it happen. The question is, "Can I get a bite?".....well, I will find out. But it's gonna be an adventure just getting out.

Park Pond 5/4/2009

Not much going on out there today. Perfect weather, picture perfect some would say. My 4 year old son and I went out today to catch a few fish. He caught a few bluegills. I caught a couple small bass. But the males are on their nests. So they females have moved deep to recover from laying eggs. Bite was slow. Almost off. Not much to report on.

Wishing I Was Fishing

I didn't have any time to go out fishing this weekend. It rained most of the last few days. Plus, I had to work. My job gets in the way of my fishing time. It sure is a drag. But I may head out tomorrow to a small farm pond and see if I can tear them up.

I will tell ya, I have been using a couple of new jigs/baits this year and have been doing really well. One is the Smallie Beaver bait by reaction Innovations. This is an awesome bait, and they have a crapload of cool color choices to choose from. they other I have been using a lot is from Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits it is their 4" D/T H-Grub(spider jig?). Really awesome as well. Both these baits can be rigged a few different ways, on a jighead, texas rigged, as trailers, or whatever. But they have worked for me in the lakes, and rivers. Check em out.

Last night(4/29/2009) I went out to a pond, a large 10(est.) acre pond. Next to Westwood lake in Fairborn, Ohio. I showed up at waters edge at 7:20 or there abouts. It had been a little rainy earlier in the day. But the evening was beautiful. Very cool, sunset was awesome. So, I went on down and thru some woods to the pond I wanted to fish, and no one else was there. On the backside of the lake, there are very large rocks coming out from the water. This is and old strip pit. So the water is deep and clear. Not sure if this is park owned or not. Don't really care, I have had my eye on this place for a number of years and don't see people down there. around the pond, lots of ATV tracks and paths. Some debri is scattered here and there, signs of humans about.
I decided to pitch a little beaver bait, brown, green, and black color, on a slider head jig. Turns out this was the trick. I caught several small bass. About 7 in an hour or so, It was awesome. water was perfect, not a ripple anywhere. .......

After some time I knew I had to get outta there and meet my ride which was gonna meet me about a mile back after 9pm........

Adventure Fishing

As I go out fishing, usually in Waders, heading into a stream. I always think to myself, "What kind of adventure will this turn into?". You see, I like to fish. I like to go out and hit the rivers, and streams. I like to hit ponds, lakes, strip pits, honey holes, creeks, and if I am close, even salt water. There is no telling what stuff I can find while out walking the rivers. Some good, some not so good. But going out is always and adventure of sorts. Hence adventure fishing.

I look forward to blogging and getting others to join me in this like minded attempt to share stories, reports, and what not. As long as it is fishing related.