Hey guys! Sorry for not posting for a while. It has been some hectic holidays, but now I am back and ready to fish!
About a week ago, my Grandad, dad and I loaded the car with all our winter Bass gear. Then headed to Big Foot Texas, where a friend of ours has some land and gave us permission to fish in his private pond! We do not keep that many fish, but when we do, we always eat them, so they do not go to waste. Our friend told us that the pond has been taken over by small Bass, and to keep as many as we wanted, because that is not healthy to have a pond full of tons of tiny Bass. You see, when Bass take over ponds or lakes (normally small private ponds, because there are usually less Bass-eating species in small stocked ponds) they take up a lot of room in the small body of water.
When there are a lot of fish in a small amount of water, it stunts their growth, which means they will probably not grow bigger than a pound or two. This will not hurt the fish, but affects the eco system. If there where fifty five pound Bass in a five acre lake, they could each eat a normal amount of food per a day and grow bigger and healthier along with the eco system. But if there are two hundred one pound Bass in a five acre lake, they all fight for food, eat it all, don’t have enough, and over time grow skinny. This affects the bass, fisherman, animals and eco system. The more small Bass you take out, the more room and food there is for the few Bass you leave in, so they can grow stronger, bigger, and healthier!
Of course you do not want to take out too many bass, because then they can not reproduce and that will also affect the eco system in a bad way. Basically a healthy amount of fish equals a healthy eco system! So as I mentioned before, we need to keep a lot of these Bass, and like I said earlier, we are not going to waste the fish.
We got to the lake at about ten thirty in the morning, and I had till’ three before I had to leave. We started working the edge into the wind. The water was pretty muddy, and there were so many Cat Tails (a type of large weed about six feet tall that grows on the edge of still lakes and ponds) that it was hard to cast. After about the first thirty minutes we caught three fish and lost about four lures! Not a great start in this pond. See part 2 for the rest of the story! A little teaser, we got into a LOT of fish!
Check out the video below on my YouTube channel @ Hudson’s Fishing Adventures on another day we fished this pond!
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Until the next fishing adventure….