Desperate Times.......

[Lawdwaz]

Call for desperate measures!!

 

Bored out of my gourd due to this weather do I decided to go to my buddies in Arcade late this morning and do some fishing and visiting.  I thought I'd stream fish but figured just for giggles I'd hit the big pond, it has all kinds of pan fish in it.

 

Ice was on the edges in some spots but I had enough open water to toss some jigs tipped with red worms.  A few fish were caught before I numbed up from the cold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pygmy]

......YUM !!.....

[grampy]

Nice! Did you keep any for the pan? My Grandfather called yellow perch, poor mans shrimp!

[DirtTime]

Nice! I love yellow perch, one of the best fish for a chowder IMO. Looks like you had a good day Law.

[Paula]

Nice view

[Lawdwaz]

Nice! Did you keep any for the pan?

 

No, not today.

[philoshop]

Looks like a fun spot for a fly rod and some poppers.

[GreeneHunter]

Nice to get out there !

[Lawdwaz]

Looks like a fun spot for a fly rod and some poppers.

 

Yes but from shore there are only a few spots that don't have a ton of brush RIGHT behind you so casting there could be a chore. 

 

A boat or some spey casting from land would be the ticket. (that or a couple hours with a hydro axe to open things up)

[wolc123]

That perch is built similar to one I caught near the end of February, thru the ice up at my in-laws Adirondack camp, while fishing for lake trout.   She had swallowed my minnow-tipped jigging Rapala deep, putting her survival in doubt, so I filleted her, along with a fat laker I had caught that morning.  I felt a bit sad after finding that the perch egg sack was larger than both of her fillets combined.  I probably should have fried up those eggs, as I hear they are not bad eating.  I imagine that the one you caught, that much closer to spawning, would have an even larger percentage of body weight made up of eggs.      

[philoshop]

Yes but from shore there are only a few spots that don't have a ton of brush RIGHT behind you so casting there could be a chore. 

 

A boat or some spey casting from land would be the ticket. (that or a couple hours with a hydro axe to open things up)

 

Hydro axe would turn it into a golf course hazard. Or a view from a subdivision. No good. :-]

Just some little 10 or 15 foot loops, side-handed and parallel to the shoreline. It's not purist fly-fishing form but it's a lot of fun when they're in the shallows.

[ny hunter]

Nice won't be long before you can kill a morning by the pond.........

[Lawdwaz]

My buddy would hydro axe my butt if if I cut brush with rose pruners, hence the smiley. 

 

It would be a ball with a fly rod, absolutely.