It's been pretty rough lately as I'm currently taking a full load of extremely compressed 6 week (normally 18 week) winter intersession classes plus work. Anyways, I finally get a break and have some time away from the "real world." Which means no more thinking about my second set of midterms when class just started 2 weeks ago.. just think fishing!

So I call up Tsunami to go fishing he's like the 1000th Brian here in Calfishing so I'll call him by his nickname =). He was kinda busy but had a couple hours off, which meant that we weren't cruisin down to Perris or anything like that. So instead, we settled for some puddle fishing.. OH YAY! :/ Fishing is fishing I guess.. and it's much much much better than studying or working thats for sure!

So now the question was where to fish? We get on the puter and do a quick search on Yahoo! and fortunately found a couple local O.C. spots. We couldn't make up our minds as to where to go, so we just threw a dart at the dart board and off we were to this little park somewhere in O.C..

We get there in the mid afternoon hours and scope the so-called pond. "Hmmmm.. it doesn't look much like that beautiful picture on the website does it? and boy is it puny.. look at all them barbeque'rs and picknickers and exercisers... ooh and those kids throwing rocks and trash in the water... and that dude casting a 10 pound shot putt on a 5 foot tuna stick.. oh boy! we're truly in fishing heaven!-- bah..no big deal.. Lets just fish!!"

We start off with finesse jigs and managed to yank out a couple fish.. We'd pull em out of the water and say "awww look how cute that thing is.." They were nothing but shorties. The water was kinda dirty but not freezing, probably because the pond was so ridiculously shallow and it being a warm day. We do a couple laps around the pond casting here and there and finally chill out on a little bench situated on a point. The sun is now pretty low and we're just shoot'n the sh*t.. I decide to tie on a slammer that I just got from BWW to see how it swam.. (btw.. thanks CJ for that exchange!)

I cast the "nun-chucks" out and continue on with the conversation with Tsunami.. After a couple winds I see a huge swirl where my line disappeared into the dingy water and Booya! there's suddenly nothing but tugging weight on my rod.. Shocked and completely taken off guard, I wind recklessly faster and harder--mindlessly bulldogged the poor thing in.. I just thought to myself "I have 20# triplefish camo on with the drag buckled all the way down and besides.. how big could this fish really be anyways??"

It felt pretty good and fought pretty hard in the begginning but it was just weight after that.. and it never really broke the surface either. hmm.. might have been the reckless style of fishing I was demonstrating to Tsunami.. =) I would "highly" not recommend the "bulldog technique" (most of you guys probably already now this..) ..I later found out that I almost ripped the hook out as it was barely hooked on the front trebles.. =) Another lesson learned. Thx fo' da extra hand Tsunami!

Anyhows.. here's the result seconds later:


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Not exactly a trophy class fish but pretty surprised to catch something this big under the conditions--especially in such a tiny little pond.. on a slammer.. I definitely wasn't expecting it. We had a pretty good laugh after that too. It was hillarious! I guess I might be taking a couple more "bait-testing" breaks to this lil puddle from now on.. just to see what else swims under that murky wattah =). SHAKA!

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where in OC are are you fishing....wanna swap spots? ....email?

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Nice! Got an official weight? Slammers can do some damage in ponds like that where the fish aren't used to seeing meals that big. They'll get stupid on em sometimes.
-Brian

Thanks Brian. Heres the official weight (7.2):

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Grom, its not really that much of a secret but email me anyways.. ;)

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Bitchin. That fish has crawdad mouth too. You guys throw jigs at all?

Yeah, we fished jigs for the most part of the day (mostly Yamamoto hulas and skinny bears).. just dragged em on the bottom and hopped them throught the leaves. We managed to pull in some shorts this way but nothing else really..
I also casted the rago (flat top version) a couple times but being that it is a little heavier than the others and a tendency to nose dive, I had to reel a little faster to prevent picking up leaves n twigs n stuff.. I'm thinking about putting a couple weight in it so it will sink horizontally.. I really want to try out that sidewinder on the next visit.

nice fish keep it up!

Shane

"Nun-Chucks" LMAO. Nice fish!

Good job again Evan on that fish, kinda funny, that pond is really really small and weve always kinda known about the place but we never fished it. I was telling Dakine just before we fished that place that i walked into a sportmart and up in the tackle section there was a few pics of some guy w/ some good fish, when i looked behind the counter i was suprised that it was the guy working. After a little conversation and some exchange of some spots, he let me in on the place and we decided to try it. Like Dakine said we got a pretty good laugh when we got there and especially after. Over all it was some fun fishing. You just never know and you can never judge a spot, cuz you never know........ Good fishing to everyone.

Tsunami

Is that Carbon Canyon ? It's not Yorba, nor Tri-City and not Clark. Where is that ? Nice fish dude.

Thanks Eagle-eyes! oh.. I mean muskyman. lol! your pretty observant.. need I say more?