SUMMER FISHING
'07
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EVENING
POND FISHING Damascus, MD 8/23/07
Mark Burchick
My company did a pond
retrofit for a land
developer (Winchester
Homes) that included
shoreline planting,
goose protection
fencing, pond aeration
and fish stocking.
I went to check out the
post-construction to see
how the plants were
doing in the drought,
and took in a half-hour
of fishing. The
pond is groundwater fed
and the normal pool
elevation of the pond
has not dropped very
much at all, with only
about four-feet of
shoreline being exposed,
and occupied by annual
and opportunistic
smartweed and beaked
spikerush.
Blue Lobelia
(Lobelia siphilitica)
was near peak bloom
throughout the
shoreline edge of
the pond. Blue
lobelia is related
to cardinal flower
and both are native
perennial
wildflowers found in
moist thickets and
swamps. The
blue or great
lobelia flowers in
late summer and
fall.
Mark, Jeb and I
caught about 30
largemouth bass in
20-minutes, nearly a
fish on every cast.
Every fish was about
a half-pound and
nearly a foot long.
We stocked the pond
in March and in
six-months the bass
have grown from
fingerlings into
youngsters. It
never ceases to
amaze me, how
aggressive
largemouth can be,
and willing to go
after bait nearly
their own size.
We used a buzzbait,
a tube and a
creature bait.
I think these fish,
probably having
never seen a hook
would have fed on
nearly any easy
pickings. I
trust the population
of feeder/prey fish
(bluegill and
minnow) are doing
well too, in order
to sustain the
predator game
fishery. Our
Bernese Mountain Dog
absolutely ignores
the bass we
catch/release.
EVENING
POND FISHING
