Farm Ponds and Good Memories!
Oct 17, 2020 09:45:09 #
I don't know how many of you fished farm ponds as a kid, if you didn't you missed out on a lot. As a kid in Loosian as Spirit 27 called it, there were farm ponds just about everywhere. I cast my first Lucky 13 on Morgan's pond and later caught a bass. I caught it on rod and reel I bought working all Summer saving my money. Took a lot of cast and backlashes before I caught the fish. Two years prior I was playing with my friends fly rod on a farm pond and managed to catch my first bass, talk about luck, I was one excited 7 year old. Well yesterday I decided to fish a farm pond with my fly rod and managed to catch and miss quite a few fish. It brought back some good memories for me. I would like to thank this site and the people that post the different topics for reviving some of those memories and inspiring me to go fish a farm pond. If you haven't fished a farm pond you need to give it a try.
Oct 17, 2020 09:50:07 #
Sterba43 wrote:
I don't know how many of you fished farm ponds as ... (show quote)
I would do that Donald, but nobody stocks there ponds around here. I might just as well fish in my back yard from my deck.
Oct 17, 2020 09:57:57 #
flyguy wrote:
I would do that Donald, but nobody stocks there ponds around here. I might just as well fish in my back yard from my deck.
Sad for sure. Now a days, a lot of people won't let you fish there ponds because people litter and disrespect their property.
Oct 17, 2020 10:07:26 #
Sterba43 wrote:
Sad for sure. Now a days, a lot of people won't let you fish there ponds because people litter and disrespect their property.
I'm not sure how it is out East but it use to be as soon as we got to TX. we could tell when we crossed to boarder, plastic bags all over the roadside, but they have cleaned it up lately. There is quite a difference than what it used to be. Don't get me wrong, I love TX. but it was dirty. In MN. we have the "Sentance to Serve" guys pick up the roadsides. It make quite a difference.
Oct 17, 2020 10:21:01 #
Back in the fifties me an my grandma would walk to a small pond in Blacks Field (now an industrial complex) and catch small sunfish. We kept anything over an inch, sometimes hand size (a lunker to a 4 year old). She would scale, gut, and fry um. I got the big ones and she ate the little ones bones and all like potato chips.
Thanks for the topic and memories.
Thanks for the topic and memories.
Oct 17, 2020 10:56:56 #
flyguy wrote:
I'm not sure how it is out East but it use to be as soon as we got to TX. we could tell when we crossed to boarder, plastic bags all over the roadside, but they have cleaned it up lately. There is quite a difference than what it used to be. Don't get me wrong, I love TX. but it was dirty. In MN. we have the "Sentance to Serve" guys pick up the roadsides. It make quite a difference.
It’s bad here too. My wife and I were sitting on our front porch talking to our son and someone threw and empty beer can out of there truck. Just lack of respect anymore.
Oct 17, 2020 11:00:33 #
Mustang66 wrote:
Back in the fifties me an my grandma would walk to a small pond in Blacks Field (now an industrial complex) and catch small sunfish. We kept anything over an inch, sometimes hand size (a lunker to a 4 year old). She would scale, gut, and fry um. I got the big ones and she ate the little ones bones and all like potato chips.
Thanks for the topic and memories.
Thanks for the topic and memories.
With the way the world is today, I’m glad for the memories. It’s good to have a site like this to share with others. My age is making me sentimental I guess!
Oct 17, 2020 12:24:43 #
The biggest bluegills I've ever caught came out of a little pond out in the middle of nowhere right around where I live right now. I met the owner of the land out there and he let me know that he didn't mind me fishin there just as long as I didn't leave a mess. I went back out there a few years ago and it's all fenced off and posted now. Guess he got tired of people's crap.
Oct 17, 2020 12:43:07 #
That’s the way it is today unfortunately. But, your right on the big blue gills out of farm ponds, been there.
Oct 17, 2020 14:42:54 #
My first experience with the farm pond wasn't so nice. The farmer that owned the property next to our place told me about the pond and all the fish in it. He said he couldn't take the time to go fishing with me but he said he'd tell me how to get there. He said you see that cow path. Right I said. Well you follow that path through the woods. When you see the clearing you're there. I got my pole and can of worms followed the cow path and sure enough I came to in my mind the most beautiful pond. The west side had bank just right to sit on to fish. I didn't bring a stringer but I was really catching Sunfish, Bluegill and cats. When my worms ran out I thought I'd better get home. At that point I started to look for my cow path. To my surprise there was 9 paths that left the pond and an 8 year doesn't think to mark a path. So I wandered down paths all over that woods and medows till I saw a small plane coming in for a landing remembering across the woods from my house was a grass runway airpot. It was getting late so running to the airport down the runway to the hanger buildings. I told a guy he hollered to a woman she can out and I had to go thru my story I was lost! She asked if my parents had a phone at home. We did, she called my mom and I sweated and waited. I was in trouble. Haw mom pulled up thanked the people at the airport. We got in the car and not one word all the way home. Got out of the car and mom asked. What did you learn. I told her don't get lost! She shook her head. Mom bought 2 load whistles she gave me one and told me I couldn't go any further than I could hear that whistle and respond.
Oct 17, 2020 15:11:14 #
FinFisherman wrote:
My first experience with the farm pond wasn't so n... (show quote)
LOL on the whistles and the lesson learned. Kids today have missed out on a lot, there is nothing greater than exploring Mother Nature on your own.
Oct 17, 2020 15:19:24 #
I was a little older than eight when I encountered the pond I was talking about. That was around twenty years ago so I would have been about 50. It had bass and catfish in it also, but I was concentrating on the bluegills which were (I kid you not) averaging around a pound apiece. I took home a heavy stringer of around twenty of em, cleaned em up and we feasted.
Oct 17, 2020 15:31:45 #
It’s hard to beat Catching and eating fried blue gills and I wouldn’t turn them down unless I had the choice between them and sac-a-lait (crappie), they are my favorite fresh water species. Halibut is my favorite salt water.
Oct 17, 2020 15:40:35 #
Sterba43 wrote:
LOL on the whistles and the lesson learned. Kids today have missed out on a lot, there is nothing greater than exploring Mother Nature on your own.
I taught both my kids when they were 5 & 6 how to whistle using 2 fingers. They devloped their own distinctive tones when my son would get lost in a store I'd ask my daughter find your brother. It didn't matter how big or crowded the store was my daughter would cut loose the whistle. We would hear the return whistle. Had a woman look at us and I said beat smoke signals. She smiled.
Oct 17, 2020 15:42:36 #
FinFisherman wrote:
I taught both my kids when they were 5 & 6 how to whistle using 2 fingers. They devloped their own distinctive tones when my son would get lost in a store I'd ask my daughter find your brother. It didn't matter how big or crowded the store was my daughter would cut loose the whistle. We would hear the return whistle. Had a woman look at us and I said beat smoke signals. She smiled.
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