Ky farm pond fishing

I have enjoyed some great fishing the past two evenings. One was a farm pond that is clear water with lots of weeds. {coontail, I think}. I had a blast catching 1.5 lb bass and small to med gills. Caught some on gills on a dry fly but most of the bass and gills on "gurgle pop". This pond has a good bass population but only average gills.

This evening I fished a very fertile farm pond (dark stained water) with an excellant gill population 9 and 10 inch fish. Overpopulated with small 10 and 11 inch bass. Tried different flys such as "gurgle pop",
popper/dropper and wooly bugger. Must have caught and 20 bass and 5 big gills. The gills were in "bedding" areas. I have noticed that the ponds that I have been fishing (in July) with big gills (9" or better), you can only catch a couple of fish and they get spooked. Here iin KY gills have been bedding since early May. Has anyone else noticed this? (Big gills getting spooked late in the season)

Hope you like the pictures from fertile lake.

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Originally Posted by crappiecrazy

Overpopulated with small 10 and 11 inch bass.

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That is some fine fishing alrighty! And sounds like time for a fish fry to get that small bass population down.

The local pay-to-play lake is like that. Earlier in the season, around April, I could catch 20+ fish off of the deep edge of the beds. Last weekend, I had trouble getting 2 or 3 from the same place. Of course, the water is down about 2 feet in that time, so that may be playing a part, too. I ended up moving on around the lake and catching a few gills and very small bass, so it wasn't a terrible day. Honey-do did out-fish me drowning worms, tho.:(

Kirk