Submitted by Pski's Angling Adventures (ip 69.0.9.56)

Date Fished: 11/22/2003
Water Temperature: 47
Water Clarity: 4 feet or greater

Hit Congamond, Midle Pond, with my son Jonathan today from 11:30 to 4:30. Jonathan has been kicking my butt lately in all of our fishing trips and I figured today was the day to turn it around.

Started on the deep flat outside of the ramp and was drifting a Lunker City, Grub, a small boottail grub of 2.5 inches. This was rigged on a 1/16 oz ball head jig and 6# test line. The wind was only blowing a couple miles per hour from the north and was pretty much a great set up to work the small bait in 15 to 22 feet of water. First fish to the boat was a fat 3.5 lb largemouth. After getting no more bass bites but lots of bluegill bites, decided it was time to move to the narrows area of the lake. Though there was plenty of fish marking in 25', there were no takers.

Off to the "Ridge". From this spot came a very nice 3# smallie. I threw out a marker buoy thinking there might be a school located off the little drop were it went from 15' to 21 feet. Sure enough, more smallies started coming in. Picked up another three all between 2.5 to 3.5 pounds. Also got a nice 3 lb largemouth from the same area.

I was working this grub dead slow in the calm wind and deep water. With the 1/16 oz head, I was able to just give the bait small, subtle shakes floating it just slightly off the bottom. Most every bite was just weight.

Seeing that Jonathan was getting the spanking he well deserved, he asked to move to the "Smile face" and around the nearby point. The sun was going down by this time and the cold shadow of the afternoon was on this spot. I continued throwing that little grub and started to get some very nice crappie. Ended up getting three, with two of them being nice 16" slabs. Also picked up another 14" largemouth in this area. Jonathan finally had a strike on his grub but missed it on the hookset. Come to find out afterwards that he insisted on throwing the grub on a 1/8 oz head rather than the lighter one I was using. It definetly seemed to make a difference today that the fish wanted a small, very slow, bait that the 1/8 oz head just wasn't able to do.

My boy now had a very hard slap back to reality with my 10 fish, 7 bass, (4 smallie, 3 LMB) and 3 crappie to his zero fish. Best five went all of 15 pounds. We were joking all week long how this would be the weekend he got spanked. Well, it was pretty funny as I was fighting a fish and giving my teenager some freindly spanks on the butt. He took all the ribbing pretty well though, and realizes that you can't get them great everyday you go out. Very nice, pleasent day on the water. Looking forward to heading out tomorow also.

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