I went out to a couple of ponds and did alright.I have been catching some fat lmb.I have been using jigs,frogs and senkos.I have also been doing good on the huge blue gill and crappie!I will now start to keep some fish for my traditional good friday fish fry!

That's great Roddy, wish that were true with the ponds I fish. Last year at this time I was tearing 'em up in these ponds. This year they seem to be devoid of fish entirely. No movement even with Blue Gill which usually are in the shallows all the time.

I went out to RO yesterday for an hour or so. No luck, but last week I caught a three pound chunk there. I went to my ol standby afterwards and caught 5 for total weight of 12 pounds all of which were released to catch another day.

ME and my son went yesterday and caught several ranging from 1.5-2.lost something really big(snapped my rod,going into the drainage tunnel)all we saw was a pretty wide tail.

Roddy

Bowie? I know the tunnel your talking about last fall i got a great hit at the mouth of that tunnel big lmb. I fish with a short polke so i can put it in my kayak so i couldnt man handle him and he made a couple of runs and then spit the lure.....May see you out there some time....

Ok... is anyone going to let us know where this drainage tunnel is? Come on guy's, don't hide it divide it.

Bowie pond- South Arlinton-next to bowie high school.(green oaks) I went yesterday and caught 3 lmb in the stump area.fished about a hour.(hey Dosparks,time to go in the kayak and pick up some spinners and lures in the stumps).
There were a couple fishing for perch and catfish.(they had a bucket full)

Roddy

I already pulled a couple of lures last sunday...I ll have to wait till the pond goes back down alitte so the stumps are exposed....Where the catfish /perch very big??? I also saw a nutrient(spelling?)/beaver in the pond...

I hear ya!! We have been hitting 6 large tanks with Walmart worms and doing great on bream.

Already had one fish fry and need to fillet a mess for another.

I caught 18 palm-size gills from a single downed cottonwood trunk. Will go back there in a day or two!

Chuck:)

CHuckwagon

If you dont mind where the ponds at????

I need to find me a pond out here in my neck of the woods

Good deal Roddy!

Texas Sensation, go to Google local http://local.google.com/local then cut and paste this to the search bar, 32.593576,-97.37998 and press search button. In the upper right hand corner of the map there are three buttons, hit hybrid button .There is alot water around you. There is a pond off of W.Cleburn Crowley rd. on the east side of the road. If the power line road is not posted,,, there is a good sized pond back there. Let us know...

FIshed this morning at bowie caught four lmb and missed one all on the back side of the pond using a broken minnow. starting by the lot where the fence is part rope and worked my way around. I got skunked in the stumpy area(roddy do you throw a green rubber frod?) Then went tothe pond on green oaks by arlington golf course on fished 45 min caught 1 missed 4 or five

another spot to try around arlington is papy elkins in dwg behind the police station. on the bank under the trees they hit pretty good. that pond by the golf course fished good the other day. I go to college in marshall but live in arlington so everytime i am home i fish the ponds around the house.

Went this morning only caught 2 lmb missed 3 more not to bad. The wind really picked up so i left

Dospark
what do you drive?I saw one parked by the drainage hole and another parked in the trees.I drive a green f-150.
Also I do use a yellow frog,senkos and spinners.
what do you use there at bowie?
go ahead and give me a call(817)726-2569. I will let you know where there are some more nice ponds. maybe we can meet some time and fish there!

Roddy
I drive a black nissan frontier with tool box. I usually throw a top water(buzz bait or popper) on the end closer to the drainage hole on the back end of the pond i have been using a broken minnow and a rubber 2 inch minnow. I'll try to give you a call this week.

Me and my son went again and caught two small lmb.we had several misses and lost a couple by the bank.

That family so said you saw a week or so ago i saw them sat they had 2 cats and 1 lmb in a bucket i think they keep every thing they catch the cats and lmb where all pretty small. they said they have been fish there for a while now back when they where building all of the houses to the left of the pond.

Not to the left to the rightis you are facing the pond

Me and my son went on saturday,he was trying out his new birth day gift(abu garcia 5600 combo) and we seen the dad catch that small bass and he dropped it in the bucket.he was using a chrome rattle trap.we see them mainly on the weekends.

I left sat around 10am. i try to keep my trips short so the wife will let me go every weekend.

FIshed this morning caught 2 lmb missed 2 more and found two nice spinner baits...

Grandson and I hit 4 of our fav tanks this morning and did real good with curly tail worms and Rebel crawdad mini lure. Grandson caught 5 bass from a single stick-up one right after the other.

Nothing we caught went over 3 pounds, with most in the 1.5 to 2 pound range. Lots of fun.

We brought home 8 big bream grandson caught on Walmart worms.

Chuck