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Diamond Pond 2-20 & 2-21-2009
Diamond Pond 2-20-2009
I fished from the road for about 1.5 hours and lost 2 nice Pickerel and landed these 4 small Crappie . Winds were wicked and the fish didnt want to play much . Took me an hour to get a bite and for a moment I thought I'd get Skunked .. NOT
!!
Diamond Pond 2-21-2009
Met up with surfphishn at about 6:30am .. Loaded up the canoe and made some coffee and we were on the water at about 7:45am . It was bitter cold with a bit of ice and very sunny with winds from the SW at 5 to 10 MPH .
There was 1 other boat out there with 2 guys and they were on fire .. Crappie , Yellow Perch and they must have an ALL time record for total landed Pickerel .. No joke they must have been targeting them and I am sure they landed 20 to 30 a piece .. WE landed a good 25 to 30 between the 2 of us and lost about half that many .
So we set up and ..
Yepp the Pickerel were feeding hard .. Just how hard .. Keep reading
We found some Neds and we landed more than I ever have for Diamond Pond but most were males that averaged 10" .. They are SPAWNING ! Some of the Male Neds were oozing "white stuff" .
The sun came up really bright and almost on Cue I said they's shut down soon and sure enough the bite slowed to a crawl .
I got about 4 Gills with the largest being 9.25"
These guys were relentless .. Seemed to be no end to them ..
This Pickerel was caught 2 times in an hour by Sporto .. There is no doubt it is the same fish .. It has a 9" Bluegill in it ..
We caught Neds sporadically the rest of the day and mid afternoon Spoto finally gets his Live Release Citation fish
WTG Bro !
I got 1 LMB ..
The Crappie bite didnt really start till almost 4:30pm .. By that I mean the real SLABS .. The little guys bite here and there all day .
The Pickerel never stopped biting and even at dark they bite ..
A few for Sporto's Mom
I am glad someone was with me today as no one would believe the amount of Pickerel caught today .. Not just by us but all 3 other boats that came out .
Wagamons & Diamond Ponds 2-22-2009
With winds at 10 to 15 MPH and rain expected all day and snow later on this afternoon I figured I go to Wagamons and check the tide for Seaford . The tide was HIGH on the Broadkill at 7am so I dismissed Seaford .
Wagamons Pond
The winds were dead calm and had overcast skies with light rain so I decided to see whats biting .. Since this is connected to Diamond Pond and the Neds are SPAWNING in Diamond I figured they should be here in Wagamons also ..
I caught about 8 YP from 10 to 13 inches but no signs of spawning .. I also got a Red Ear and about 10 nice Crappie .
My friend Dave shows up and the winds start but the rain has stopped and even a bit of sunshine broke through the clouds .
I went to get the camera and ruler
First "photo op" was .. Go figure
He had a missing LIP !
The winds picked up and slowed the bite a tad but they still bit ..
Caught 2 LMB .. This one and a small 10" ..
This was the last fish as soon as I let it go the sky broke lose and it poured ..
There was a total of 6 guys fishing and no one but me caught anything and we ALL ran when the rain hit .
I talked to Dave and told him I was waiting it out and may just hit Diamond since the wind was right in our face and ALL the fish were 50 yards out .
Dave told me there was 3 guys fishing the bank at Diamond so I went to see if they left because of the rain .
On my way I saw Scotty and his Pop Leonard and knew they were 2 of the 3 at Diamond but they said they only got a few Pickerel .. Didnt matter to me as I knew better
No one was at Diamond and while I waited out the rain Dave and Scotty and his Pop also waited .
Diamond Pond
After 15 minutes the rain left up enough for me to give it a go and dont ya know it .. I get 4 Crappie in my first 4 casts
Yepp I rubbed it in to Scotty and his Pop
So now by this time I look over and see Josh and his daughter too fishing near the spillway .
It was still raining and I wanted to take some pics especially of the larger Pickerel and Crappie but I decided not to until I got this 10" Red Ear for my Live release
Got another one at 9.5"
Seems the "Day of the Pickerel" continues ..
He has a STY on his EYE
I landed 10 Pickerel from 15" to 25" , 7 Crappie to 14" , 2 LMB at about 12" , 2 Red Ears 9" to 10" and 3 small Bluegills .
Dave got 1 Pickerel and lost 2 more and landed about 8 Crappie .. No one else caught a fish .
Everyone left by 1pm and I stayed until the snow started at about 2pm .. First time the snow let me down .. I could not find a bite for the last hour and called it quits at 2:45pm
2-24-2009 Broadkill , Wagamons , Diamond & Seaford
Had plans to fish Seaford today but wanted to do an "ICE" check at a few spots first ..
Stopped at the Broadkill and saw NO ice and was about to pull out but I saw fish breaking .. I had to give it a shot
Caught 10 Crappie like this ..
Then 3 Otters and 2 Diving Ducks came and spooked the fish .
I then stopped at Wagamons and saw very little ice and the same went for Diamond . I tried both spots for about 40 minutes a piece and got this at both ..
Yepp NOT 1 bite ..
At 11am I was at Seaford and it was dead low tide so I hit the back island and they were there .. I got 3 nice YP before 2 guys and a bucket of minnows came down on the other side and put 2 rods out a piece .. I didnt want to show my hole card anyways so I walked under the green bridge and fished the 2nd hole from the 1st island . The fish were bigger and I got about a dozen before a man and 2 kids came down and started chucking nightcrawlers out for Gills.
I moved over to the spillway and set the camera up and took a video of me that lasted 36 minutes before the batteries died . In 36 minutes I landed fish on almost every cast .. All YP and LMB nothing else .
So anyhow I thought I had a treat for you guys but I cant edit it and its too big to upload (1.5GB) . SUX !!
So anyhow I stayed until 5pm and nailed fish until 4pm and nothing in the last hour . I got into a few pods of nice YP but 85 percent were 4 to 8 inches .
If anyone knows how I can put up this video then please let me know .. Its a Quicktime movie .
2-25-2009 Seaford , Broadkill and Diamond
Had some issues so got a late start but I was in Seaford at 9:15am .
Bait was ..
Tide was outgoing and water clear .. winds were calm with very sunny skies .
I started out in the same spot I left right near the spillway but got no bites so I moved to the center and nailed about 3 dozen like this ..
I moved to the 2nd island and caught 2 small YP and that was it so I went back to where I was catching and just like I left them ..
Thought this was funny
Saw a lot of these little Gills ..
And also lots of tadpoles but I couldnt catch one .
I caught fish until about 11:30 am when the tide bottomed out and it was very LOW .. No water = No fish .
Caught about 60 fish in 2 hours with a 50/50 on Males and Females .
No Crappie or Gills but got 4 10" LMB also .
At Noon I left and went by Diamond Pond and watched a man and woman launch a small boat and break ice the whole way out . I went by Wagamons and it was twice as bad with the ice covering 75% so I went to the Broadkill and found Gene fishing alone so I joined him for about an hour and landed 4 YP , 3 Crappie and 1 Gill .. Nothing over 8" .
At 2pm I headed over to Diamond Pond and on my way Wagamons was now 50% ICE .
Diamond was pretty much wide open and I found Dave fishing alone .. He said he'd been there an hour without a bite and we both fished for another hour with NO FISH !!
Before I left my Friend Scotty and his Pop Leonard had been out in a boat all day and they had Zero fish at 4pm .. 5 hours and NOT 1 Fish
At 4pm they both landed 1 Crappie and 1 YP .. WOW 4 fish in 6 hours .
2-26-2009 Diamond Pond
Drove over to Diamond at 5am for an ice check and found it clear of ice so I head home to load up the canoe and wake the woman so she can drop me off . I am on the water by 7am .
Went to the spot and ..
Found the YP minutes later ..
3 hours of nothing but YP with a Pickerel about every 10 YP ..
At about 10:30am I landed a Crippled Crappie (1st of the day) ..
So now the YP are done and Its Crappie , Gills and Golden Shiners .. Oh and PICKEREL
What funny is about noon I landed this same Crippled Crappie
Dont know why this happened ..
Pickerel , All in all I landed over 40 Pickerel with 3 bite offs and many fish that just popped off .. I had 4 over 24" and 1 at 26" . Scotty and Leonard got about 20 Pickerel between them with about a dozen bite offs and lots of fish that pulled off .
YP , Got about 2 to 3 dozen this morning and picked up 3 more throughout the day .
Gill and Golden Shiners , Too many to count .
Crappie , From 10:30am to 3:30pm I landed a few dozen Crappie with only about 6 being over 12 inches .. At about 4pm the bigger Crappie bit good till 5pm with the average fish being 12" .
Big fish of the day .. 26" Pickerel
The YP have not dropped their eggs .. YET
Diamond Pond 2-27-2009
Got a late start but ended up in the canoe at Diamond at 7:30am . Winds were 20+ MPH and very sunny .. Too sunny
I tried for YP but I guess the bite was already over as I got ZERO .. Got to get up earlier
So anyways Scotty shows up sometime around 8:30am followed by fishforever (Josh) .
I fished for 3 hours with only 4 of these to show for it ..
Atleast they were nice healthy Pickerel
Josh hooks up and loses it at the kayak ..
Josh hooks up again and land this one
After 4 more Pickerel I finally manage a small Crappie
With nothing else playing Scotty heads home and I head to the truck for another rod to toss spinnerbait and maybe Traps .
Josh and I head to the bend (2nd cove) .. That was a ***** .. Worst part was trying to get off the shoreline .. The wind kept grabbing the canoe and spinning me "about face" .
Plan was to drift back and toss lures for Pickerel and LMB but it would not have been drifting but "trolling" instead so I had to deploy the anchor .. That too was a PITA because when I pulled it up it would have massive amounts of Grasses and slime .
We fished almost back to where we normally fish before Josh hooks up but loses the fish and I believe a spinnerbait . I land one right after and after retying so does Josh .
Back to square one .. Josh and I both have a few more fish that bit us off or just popped off and we also land a few as well .
I am not sure what time Josh left but he should have stayed not long after he left I got into CRAPPIE and of course more Pickerel ..
The difference was this
And it made ALL the difference today
Even got a small LMB ..
Lost another about 3 pounds after 2 nice aerial jumps
Eagles were soaring high today
So the winds increased around3:30pm and I had to scat or I might not have been able to get back .. Stuck it out for 30 more minutes and called it a day at 4pm .
Make sure you listen to this .. You can hear the wind howling .. Had "white caps" by the time I left .
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Diamond Pond 2-20-2009
I fished from the road for about 1.5 hours and lost 2 nice Pickerel and landed these 4 small Crappie . Winds were wicked and the fish didnt want to play much . Took me an hour to get a bite and for a moment I thought I'd get Skunked .. NOT
!!
Diamond Pond 2-21-2009
Met up with surfphishn at about 6:30am .. Loaded up the canoe and made some coffee and we were on the water at about 7:45am . It was bitter cold with a bit of ice and very sunny with winds from the SW at 5 to 10 MPH .
There was 1 other boat out there with 2 guys and they were on fire .. Crappie , Yellow Perch and they must have an ALL time record for total landed Pickerel .. No joke they must have been targeting them and I am sure they landed 20 to 30 a piece .. WE landed a good 25 to 30 between the 2 of us and lost about half that many .
So we set up and ..
Yepp the Pickerel were feeding hard .. Just how hard .. Keep reading
We found some Neds and we landed more than I ever have for Diamond Pond but most were males that averaged 10" .. They are SPAWNING ! Some of the Male Neds were oozing "white stuff" .
The sun came up really bright and almost on Cue I said they's shut down soon and sure enough the bite slowed to a crawl .
I got about 4 Gills with the largest being 9.25"
These guys were relentless .. Seemed to be no end to them ..
This Pickerel was caught 2 times in an hour by Sporto .. There is no doubt it is the same fish .. It has a 9" Bluegill in it ..
We caught Neds sporadically the rest of the day and mid afternoon Spoto finally gets his Live Release Citation fish
WTG Bro !
I got 1 LMB ..
The Crappie bite didnt really start till almost 4:30pm .. By that I mean the real SLABS .. The little guys bite here and there all day .
The Pickerel never stopped biting and even at dark they bite ..
A few for Sporto's Mom
I am glad someone was with me today as no one would believe the amount of Pickerel caught today .. Not just by us but all 3 other boats that came out .
Wagamons & Diamond Ponds 2-22-2009
With winds at 10 to 15 MPH and rain expected all day and snow later on this afternoon I figured I go to Wagamons and check the tide for Seaford . The tide was HIGH on the Broadkill at 7am so I dismissed Seaford .
Wagamons Pond
The winds were dead calm and had overcast skies with light rain so I decided to see whats biting .. Since this is connected to Diamond Pond and the Neds are SPAWNING in Diamond I figured they should be here in Wagamons also ..
I caught about 8 YP from 10 to 13 inches but no signs of spawning .. I also got a Red Ear and about 10 nice Crappie .
My friend Dave shows up and the winds start but the rain has stopped and even a bit of sunshine broke through the clouds .
I went to get the camera and ruler
First "photo op" was .. Go figure
He had a missing LIP !
The winds picked up and slowed the bite a tad but they still bit ..
Caught 2 LMB .. This one and a small 10" ..
This was the last fish as soon as I let it go the sky broke lose and it poured ..
There was a total of 6 guys fishing and no one but me caught anything and we ALL ran when the rain hit .
I talked to Dave and told him I was waiting it out and may just hit Diamond since the wind was right in our face and ALL the fish were 50 yards out .
Dave told me there was 3 guys fishing the bank at Diamond so I went to see if they left because of the rain .
On my way I saw Scotty and his Pop Leonard and knew they were 2 of the 3 at Diamond but they said they only got a few Pickerel .. Didnt matter to me as I knew better
No one was at Diamond and while I waited out the rain Dave and Scotty and his Pop also waited .
Diamond Pond
After 15 minutes the rain left up enough for me to give it a go and dont ya know it .. I get 4 Crappie in my first 4 casts
Yepp I rubbed it in to Scotty and his Pop
So now by this time I look over and see Josh and his daughter too fishing near the spillway .
It was still raining and I wanted to take some pics especially of the larger Pickerel and Crappie but I decided not to until I got this 10" Red Ear for my Live release
Got another one at 9.5"
Seems the "Day of the Pickerel" continues ..
He has a STY on his EYE
I landed 10 Pickerel from 15" to 25" , 7 Crappie to 14" , 2 LMB at about 12" , 2 Red Ears 9" to 10" and 3 small Bluegills .
Dave got 1 Pickerel and lost 2 more and landed about 8 Crappie .. No one else caught a fish .
Everyone left by 1pm and I stayed until the snow started at about 2pm .. First time the snow let me down .. I could not find a bite for the last hour and called it quits at 2:45pm
2-24-2009 Broadkill , Wagamons , Diamond & Seaford
Had plans to fish Seaford today but wanted to do an "ICE" check at a few spots first ..
Stopped at the Broadkill and saw NO ice and was about to pull out but I saw fish breaking .. I had to give it a shot
Caught 10 Crappie like this ..
Then 3 Otters and 2 Diving Ducks came and spooked the fish .
I then stopped at Wagamons and saw very little ice and the same went for Diamond . I tried both spots for about 40 minutes a piece and got this at both ..
Yepp NOT 1 bite ..
At 11am I was at Seaford and it was dead low tide so I hit the back island and they were there .. I got 3 nice YP before 2 guys and a bucket of minnows came down on the other side and put 2 rods out a piece .. I didnt want to show my hole card anyways so I walked under the green bridge and fished the 2nd hole from the 1st island . The fish were bigger and I got about a dozen before a man and 2 kids came down and started chucking nightcrawlers out for Gills.
I moved over to the spillway and set the camera up and took a video of me that lasted 36 minutes before the batteries died . In 36 minutes I landed fish on almost every cast .. All YP and LMB nothing else .
So anyhow I thought I had a treat for you guys but I cant edit it and its too big to upload (1.5GB) . SUX !!
So anyhow I stayed until 5pm and nailed fish until 4pm and nothing in the last hour . I got into a few pods of nice YP but 85 percent were 4 to 8 inches .
If anyone knows how I can put up this video then please let me know .. Its a Quicktime movie .
2-25-2009 Seaford , Broadkill and Diamond
Had some issues so got a late start but I was in Seaford at 9:15am .
Bait was ..
Tide was outgoing and water clear .. winds were calm with very sunny skies .
I started out in the same spot I left right near the spillway but got no bites so I moved to the center and nailed about 3 dozen like this ..
I moved to the 2nd island and caught 2 small YP and that was it so I went back to where I was catching and just like I left them ..
Thought this was funny
Saw a lot of these little Gills ..
And also lots of tadpoles but I couldnt catch one .
I caught fish until about 11:30 am when the tide bottomed out and it was very LOW .. No water = No fish .
Caught about 60 fish in 2 hours with a 50/50 on Males and Females .
No Crappie or Gills but got 4 10" LMB also .
At Noon I left and went by Diamond Pond and watched a man and woman launch a small boat and break ice the whole way out . I went by Wagamons and it was twice as bad with the ice covering 75% so I went to the Broadkill and found Gene fishing alone so I joined him for about an hour and landed 4 YP , 3 Crappie and 1 Gill .. Nothing over 8" .
At 2pm I headed over to Diamond Pond and on my way Wagamons was now 50% ICE .
Diamond was pretty much wide open and I found Dave fishing alone .. He said he'd been there an hour without a bite and we both fished for another hour with NO FISH !!
Before I left my Friend Scotty and his Pop Leonard had been out in a boat all day and they had Zero fish at 4pm .. 5 hours and NOT 1 Fish
At 4pm they both landed 1 Crappie and 1 YP .. WOW 4 fish in 6 hours .
2-26-2009 Diamond Pond
Drove over to Diamond at 5am for an ice check and found it clear of ice so I head home to load up the canoe and wake the woman so she can drop me off . I am on the water by 7am .
Went to the spot and ..
Found the YP minutes later ..
3 hours of nothing but YP with a Pickerel about every 10 YP ..
At about 10:30am I landed a Crippled Crappie (1st of the day) ..
So now the YP are done and Its Crappie , Gills and Golden Shiners .. Oh and PICKEREL
What funny is about noon I landed this same Crippled Crappie
Dont know why this happened ..
Pickerel , All in all I landed over 40 Pickerel with 3 bite offs and many fish that just popped off .. I had 4 over 24" and 1 at 26" . Scotty and Leonard got about 20 Pickerel between them with about a dozen bite offs and lots of fish that pulled off .
YP , Got about 2 to 3 dozen this morning and picked up 3 more throughout the day .
Gill and Golden Shiners , Too many to count .
Crappie , From 10:30am to 3:30pm I landed a few dozen Crappie with only about 6 being over 12 inches .. At about 4pm the bigger Crappie bit good till 5pm with the average fish being 12" .
Big fish of the day .. 26" Pickerel
The YP have not dropped their eggs .. YET
Diamond Pond 2-27-2009
Got a late start but ended up in the canoe at Diamond at 7:30am . Winds were 20+ MPH and very sunny .. Too sunny
I tried for YP but I guess the bite was already over as I got ZERO .. Got to get up earlier
So anyways Scotty shows up sometime around 8:30am followed by fishforever (Josh) .
I fished for 3 hours with only 4 of these to show for it ..
Atleast they were nice healthy Pickerel
Josh hooks up and loses it at the kayak ..
Josh hooks up again and land this one
After 4 more Pickerel I finally manage a small Crappie
With nothing else playing Scotty heads home and I head to the truck for another rod to toss spinnerbait and maybe Traps .
Josh and I head to the bend (2nd cove) .. That was a ***** .. Worst part was trying to get off the shoreline .. The wind kept grabbing the canoe and spinning me "about face" .
Plan was to drift back and toss lures for Pickerel and LMB but it would not have been drifting but "trolling" instead so I had to deploy the anchor .. That too was a PITA because when I pulled it up it would have massive amounts of Grasses and slime .
We fished almost back to where we normally fish before Josh hooks up but loses the fish and I believe a spinnerbait . I land one right after and after retying so does Josh .
Back to square one .. Josh and I both have a few more fish that bit us off or just popped off and we also land a few as well .
I am not sure what time Josh left but he should have stayed
not long after he left I got into CRAPPIE and of course more Pickerel ..
The difference was this
And it made ALL the difference today
Even got a small LMB ..
Lost another about 3 pounds after 2 nice aerial jumps
Eagles were soaring high today
So the winds increased around3:30pm and I had to scat or I might not have been able to get back .. Stuck it out for 30 more minutes and called it a day at 4pm .
Make sure you listen to this .. You can hear the wind howling .. Had "white caps" by the time I left .
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