Little Sandy Bottom Pond Fishing Report

Little Sandy (First Trip On The New Kayak

Yesterday's trip started out annoying, got good for a quick second and then immediately went to annoying again. First of all, this was my first fishing excursion on my new kayak so I knew there would be some kinks to work out. The kayak didn’t blow off my car on the way to the pond so that was a success but before I got to the water I hit my first two snags. My anchor system (which I expertly assessed should be stowed inside the body of my sit on top) decided to slide all the way to the aft of the body cavity, open up AND get caught on some of the foam... It was annoying but I wasn't about to let it ruin my day... I got my gear set up, scootched in to the water and wait... what is this my legs are wet. I had forgot to remove the two scupper plugs and they had apparently popped out on the ride over, another minor setback but whatever, I'll be making a trip to home depot soon.

Now for the fishing part, I paddled across the calm waters to one of my favorite areas to fish. It's getting kind of windy at this point but nothing I can't handle right? Start casting a mid depth crank bait and lone behold I hook up with my first fish of the season about 10 feet away from my kayak. For those of you who have never fished out of a kayak before, landing your first fish is pretty awkward (where does my rod go, whoops paddle just fell in the water, crap my pliers are all the way behind me and in the mean time I have a fish flopping in my lap)

In the span of about 5 minutes the wind had really picked up. Now I have chop coming over my bow and I've drifted about 200 yards from where I hooked the fish. I decide that I'd better call it a day. I proceeded a half hour power struggle head on into wind and chop. After getting to shore I managed to get my anchor out of the body, which was a plus at least. All in all I got casts in, I was on the water and I got a fish on... Not bad.

• Added By: pale_folklore on 03/21/12 07:47 AM
• Location: Little Sandy Bottom Pond
• Report Date: 3/20/2012
• # of Photos: 1
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