GLENELG POND FISHING
MARYLAND
"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."
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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."
Submitted by Mark Burchick
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