Well today flat out sucked. Fished from 1pm until 8pm. I think I caught 7 bass total, one right at 15" and the rest between 12 and 14. Couldn't keep the damn pickerel off my spinner baits. I actually had one hit a terminator so hard that it drove the trailer hook through the front corner of its eye, up into its brain and killed it instantly. Fish locked up bent sideways like a boomerang and never even twitched. I unhooked him, put him back in the water, and he even floated sideways and bent at a 50 degree angle or so.... strange.

The crappie bit, the pickerel bit, I even caught a ring perch on a 3/8oz spinner bait (thats optimism.... or gluttonany). I tried drop shot rigs with senkos, jig'n pigs, crankbaits, big spinner baits, small spinnerbaits, blue, black, charteuse and white, willow blades shallow, indiana blades deep, topwater baits... I jigged jigs, swam jigs, let jigs sit, pitched jigs, flipped jigs, said the hell with jigs.... I jerked jerk baits, swam swim baits, stuck stick baits, blew my who-honker and beat my flu-fussler....and finally decided that The Grinch had given up on Christmas and stolen the spawn instead.

Josh and anyone else who has an opinion: The pond I am fishing doesn't have a lot of depth change. Its about 1000-1200 yards long and averages about 250 yards wide. Once you get away from the dam, where the water is around 10-15 feet deep, the creek channel averages about 6-8 feet deep and is not much wider than a sidewalk. The flats around it vary from 4-6 feet deep. The bank is a very gradual slope and attains on average 2-3 feet of depth when going 30 yards out, then slinks down easily to the middle of the old creek channel.

The upper half of the pond is a consistant 5-6 feet deep, very slowly inching its way up to about 2 feet deep. The main fish holding features are old stumps and a few blow downs. In the summer time, the whole pond is lined with lily pads, and these pads have started to grow and in some places have emerged already. You can see them spreading out about a foot under the surface.

The bottom is generally covered in a thick grass that varies from almost millfoil to almost green used motor oil consistancy. It makes working anything on the bottom, or anything with treble hooks a royal pain in the hindparts.

I have google earth on my computer, and I'm going to see if I can't find a map or satelite image of the place and point out a few key features so I can get some opinions from y'all. Most of my bass fishing is done in the post spawn (late April at the earliest, usually not til May, then through the summer). I've done a bit of fishing on the beds, but I haven't really noticed any beds just yet.

I'll put something together and post it up.