A fun part of fishing a new creek or pond (new to us) is to try and find out how old the pond is or the age of a creek and whether it's spring fed or runoff fed. Online topo maps are easy to view/find and google maps have fairly current map data to reference. I know it sounds nerdy but the older to pond the more possible interest that it has a good established population. Now even old ponds can be drained while development is done in a area, then a newer dam is used to refill so the age of the buildings around it can tell you a lot too. So we found a old pond and this is what we found. Oldest map we could find it on is 1960. Also we caught a surprise species. To be honest I didn't caught the surprise species, my buddy Doc landed it. See if you can spot the odd man out.

Is that one of those zebra mussels I keep hearing about?

Those are some nice Bluegill! Also nice looking pond. Awesome post.

Beautiful Bluegill...Has me yearning for next spring...

As stated above...beautiful bluegill

Those are some good looking grease stainers.

Plus #1.

nice ones

Nice bluegill!

Nice Gills.