First Bass

[dopderbeck]

Popped over to Shepherd Lake (pond) this afternoon and caught this nice fat healthy bass from shore on a rubber baby pickerel.

http://www.tgdarkly.com/bass1.jpg

[AndyS]

Nice healthy looking bass, I like that rocky shoreline also.

[UglyStick]

Nice early season fish - keep 'em coming...

[NJ219bands]

outstanding

[420*NightCrawler]

I went there for the first time in 20 years at the end of last season and got skunked. We didn't even so much as see a panfish, baitfish or bass. I've read good reports from there before, so I know the fish are there, I guess I'll have to try it in the spring and not the end of fall. The place can get busy on weekends, too, which is kinda a pain. If I'm up that way, I usually just continue on to Monksville. I did pull a nice bass out of Ringwood Mill Pond a few years go, right around Shepherd's lake, too. It's worth a few casts if you're ever passing it.;)

[FASTEDDIE29]

Nice LM! Keep em coming!!!

[dopderbeck]

I've had some pretty good luck there, usually from a small John boat using live bait. One evening in the John boat I noticed a school of something breaking the surface. I thought it was trout sipping bugs, but as I got closer I could see it was the backs of the fish breaking the surface and that they were chasing something just under the surface. I chased them around and finally landed one on a rapala -- the biggest bluegill I've ever seen. They were schools of huge hump-headed bluegills. Never seen anything like it.

I went there for the first time in 20 years at the end of last season and got skunked. We didn't even so much as see a panfish, baitfish or bass. I've read good reports from there before, so I know the fish are there, I guess I'll have to try it in the spring and not the end of fall. The place can get busy on weekends, too, which is kinda a pain. If I'm up that way, I usually just continue on to Monksville. I did pull a nice bass out of Ringwood Mill Pond a few years go, right around Shepherd's lake, too. It's worth a few casts if you're ever passing it.;)

[bigfishy]

hump headed bluegill?lol:confused:cool story

[dopderbeck]

Yeah, when they get big, bluegill get sort of a hump above their heads

hump headed bluegill?lol:confused:cool story