Just another day at the office..

[goodfishin]

Had a couple hrs to fish and was trying to figure out where to go. Got thinking about the earlier thread about not underestimating small bodies of water and decided to go throw a line in the tiny pond in front of a local office building. I thought it was mainly there for landscaping purposes and probably had scarcely more than some sunnies and a bass or two but boy, was I wrong.

I ended up pulling out about 7 or 8 bass mostly in the 14-16" range and then saw a fish that certainly didn't look like a bass take a swipe at a soft bait. Threw the kitchen sink at him, hooked him and lost him and then on my second pass through that section of shore, I finally nailed him on a creature bait. Turned out to be a pickerel that measured just a hair over two feet. That dramatically beats my previous personal best of, we'll, never catching a pickerel before.

Good times. Now I have to scout out some more small water.

Mike

p.s. I know holding him with the towel is not ideal and it looks like have a Vulcan death grip on him but my hands were all slippery from three doses of bug spray (damn Mosquitos were fierce). Actually got him back in the water lickety split in fine shape to make someone else's day.