OK Boys and Girls, time to start a new Fishng thread for all your fish photos and fish tales....

OK, I'll begin ....

Wednesday night air temp in low 30's, early Thursday near surface water tem 43 degrees and fish had lockjaw.
Noon water temp warmed to 45 with sparse activity.
4:00 pm near surface temp 48 degress and fish turned on.
Air temp near 80 degrees.

This morning water temp 48 degrees with moderate feding.

Caught at least a couple of dozen BEAUTIFUL CNBG beween 8 - 10 inches and 6 or 08 1 1/2 - 2# HSB.

Trees are budding out and woods are full of Robins.
Supposed to get get cold tonght and next week.
Can't wait to see CNBG in full spawning colors.

Beauty day, eh, clerk?

Wow, that makes me want to get out and wet a hook. Those are some beauitiful fish George, especially those CNBG. It looks like the share-cropper is doing just fine.

George those are some really nice CNBG (chunky). Hopefully i will have some pictures and a story some time this weekend. I am going to go and try to catch a couple of cats tonight. Tell then happy fishing everyone.

awesome george!
as i've mentioned before, those CNBG of yers give me nightmares....good ones....those guys are real piglets....

i hope to post some el dorado sunfish pics soon....

Thats it George, I am tired of you Southerners sticking it in our face how you can fish without a full set of Coast Guard survival gear to keep warm.

Tomorrow I am getting out my chainsaw and cutting through my 2 feet of ice and checkin on my fish. I have spent the last three days snowblowing a foot of snow off the pond just so I can see the ice.

Hey those CNBG must be kin to mine !!

My CNBG are the prettiest fish West of the Mississippi River and yours to the East...

George how old are the cnbg? They look awesome! I had to work today and tommorrow is supposed to be cold.

Go George Go! I love your post and pictures. Your BG are great looking, keep it up!

"Trees are budding out and woods are full of Robins."


Jeez, now that's rubbing it in! We're looking at two days of snow up here this weekend....sigh.

George, what type of fly were you shootin for the HSB and Gills? By the way, they are beauts! Keep the pics coming, please...we poor souls up North can live vicariously thru your exploits in open water!

TJ

George got a jump on all of us!! We ought to be ashamed, the rest of us all huddled up against our computers while the pondboss patriarch of ponds hurls his flies at trophy CNBG!

Shame!! Shame!!

Way to go George, nice pics of very nice fish.

I am jealous, pretty CNBG and a fine looking HSB as well! I can't wait for spring!

James, I’ll start a new thread to address your question so we can keep this a fun thread about fish tales and photos.
http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=146225#Post146225

TJ, I'm not much for written records so I have created a"photo journal" to documemnt growth of OTS CNBG over a period of time.
At present I have monthly photo records since stocking.

Fly used for sampling in November was a foam pellet fly and they would not touch a "Purina Nymph".
Yesterday in cold water they wanted a sinking PN.

Great photos George. We haven't even seen our pond since November and now it it unlikely that we will until April withdrawl is getting to me.

George

Thanks for the feedback - two more questions for you....

1. If you ever have time, do you have any photos or instructions on how to tie the PN or FPF? I tried to look this up and am still sorting through the posts for pictures.

2. Do your pellet trained fish ever take natural patterns like nymphs, streamers, poppers or are they attracted to pellet patterns only?

thanks in advance George!

TJ

1. TJ, I tie the Purina Nymph ( PC name for my version of Cecil’s “panty hose” pellet fly) the same as foam pellet, but use actual AQMX 600 pellet - no need to tie and glue on hook - just run hook point thru PH material and go fish.
Link below is materials list and photo instructions:
http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthread...ite_id=1#import

2. Our pellet-trained fish readily take wiggly leg surface foam bugs and subsurface flies as well - probably larger fish, not hook shy from pellet flies.
http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=8273&Number=85790#Post85790

Perfect - thanks George. Looks much easier than tying a #20 PMD!

Just got back from the Florida Keys. Here are some Pics from the trip. For anyone with extra time on your hands (you all must have some if you are reading this post to begin with) a full account with tons of pics can be read on my Fishing Blog

Some fine eating fish there! Mmmm...

Very impressive.

Learn how to smile, Freak!

He's the James Dean of fisheries biologists.

Dark and brooding.