We decided to go back to the pond this evening, but only with my oldest son and his daughter, hoping that maybe the crappie were still biting. After about 4 or 5 cast and a little waiting my grand daughter did get one bite and caught her bvery first crappie, it was small but to her it was huge.
Just like your motto, A Great Day For Fishing, only it was in the evening after school at the small park inside the city limits of Leesburg. Right after getting there me, Eric , and his uncle spotted crappie swiming around, so Eric hurried up and got a line into the water, it wasn't long before Eric caught the first of 7 crappie, 3 sunfish, and one very large largemouth bass, his uncle caught 2
Id like to submit the town of Leesburg Virginia as an ultimate fishing town. We have no major rivers or lakes in or close to town, the closest river is the Potomac River, the closest inpoundment is Beaverdam, the closest Lake is Lake Anna. The reason im submitting Leesburg is because of the ponds in and around Leesburg, although one was closed by a HOA. The ponds here have catfish, largemouth
Sorry that I haven't had a post in a little while, I had shoulder surgery and haven't been able to do to much lately. My Grand son has been getting bored and wanting to go fishing, even thought my son did take him, but do to the way he works it wasn't enough for Eric. Do to my surgery I have even had to cancel fishing with the FLW/BFL this year. So yesterday I told Eric lets go fishing which he
Not to much to say about fly fishing, except for I have watched my grandfather fly fishing in very skinny streams surrounded by trees on each bank, when I was a kid. It always amazed me on how he could keep hitting the watcher and not the trees. After getting out of the service I did buy a fly fishing rod and reel and tryed for many years to learn how to reel up the backing, join the backing to
Eric plus others trying for that smallmouth
Eric doesn't want to give up
a new found friend on the short pier
everyones still trying for that bass
JP talks about the gear setup you need to target redfish in shallow waters.
Live Target has released a wake bait that looks exactly like a mullet for saltwater anglers to use while targeting inshore species like redfish and snook.
Bill Boyce talks about the great features available in Tuf-Line's braided lines.
just a short video of me pulling a nice cat into shore. she played hard to get but i knew she come around
Here is a little video trailer i put together on my IMovie
In this episode the anglers fought wind, rain, waves and long hours in an attempt to take home part of the $70,000.00 in cash and prizes. This short snippet will show some of their toils and triumphs... Stay tuned in the 4th quarter of this year all the exciting action for the 2012 season will air in HD on WFN.
JP goes over the gear you need to be successful while using the strolling technique.
Mark Zona goes over the features that made the G-Loomis GL2 the top freshwater rod at ICAST 2011.
all three fishing but Eric caught a sunfish, and as luck would have it eric caught a bass but the cameras batteries died, harley and her dad didn't have any luck so Eric did catch 1 bass and 3 sunfish
All 3 fishing at the pond hoping to catch something before it gets covered
The small pond in town, as the weather gets warmer the alge comes up and by mid summer the pond will be covered totally
A quick video from Twin Valley Alberta in the Jackson Coosa
JP showcases the new features of the redesigned, technique-specific Shimano Crucial rod and Citica reel.
Live Target has released some new baits that look like young brown and rainbow trout.
Cutt and rainbow trout....lots of them in a few hrs. Ice fly I tied tipped with Meal worm! First time with go pro hero2 and iMovie. Enjoy
lots of thumps and hits but no hook ups, even 2 blowups on erics popr lure
eric and uncle on the newly built long pier
eric at beaverdam using a popr lure
Perch is a main food source for many species in the Northern States and Canadian lakes. Live Target has released a new perch jerkbait that will drive these fish crazy.
JP explains how to best use the "walk the dog" topwater technique.
Chad Hoover and friends take advantage of the favorable solunar times and fish for some hungry bass.
photos from 2012
Pictures of the 2011 season
Pictures of grandson fishing
Im a 66yo guy that loves fishing in any body of water I can get too. Im also a member of FLW and fish with the BFL. I've taken great pride in teaching my sons and daughter about fishing and the outdoors, now I'm teaching my grandkids about fishing and the outdoors. Have finally got my oldest grandaughter back to fishing again after a couple years of not going with us, which makes me happy to have her back. I also now have 3 grandkids that Im trying to teach them about fishing and the outdoors.
