Glenelg Pond Fishing
Submitted by Mark Burchick

"Dan Betz and I went fishing for the last hour of daylight and caught several fish each. 
It was warm and the bats came out at sundown to feed over the water. 
Three species of frogs were cranking too."

	Dan started with a YUM lizard, which was an effective bait.  It was clearly pre-spawn, no bare areas in shallow water, no nesting, no fish with banged-up tails.  Most of our fish came from shallow flats, some far out, some hitting just as the lures hit the water, and a few right up close to the bank.  Bluegill nipped on the plastic worms, lizards and crayfish, sometimes running with the bait but never large enough to take a hook.
	Dan got a great hit using a buzzbait, but both of us lost a good few fish hung-up in the goose protection fencing.  The kevlar wire fencing protects shoreline vegetation from goose grazing.  It's hard enough to get your lure up and over the fence line out in the water, and even harder when you have a fish on.
	We both waded into the water to release a fish and/or get our lure back.  Dan got a good few fish using a Zoom Ultravibe Speed Craw.  I did equally well using a 5-inch green pumpkin, Senko worm.
	Dan got this fish with the Zoom Ultravibe.  We switched to frogs in the dark, using the light of the half-moon.  Dan used a Mossy and I used a black Bronze-eye SPRO.  I did get a great strike on the SPRO, the bass missed and came right back, and I set him good on the return strike.  I got him to the bank, but lost him in the tangle of the fencing.  I waded out to salvage the frog lure.

"This string of temperatures in the mid 70's has warmed up the water,
and the fish are getting turned-on and lively."

Mark Burchick