Beautiful Day

As mentioned in my earlier post, the destination Saturday was a beautiful pond north of Atkins for an afternoon of fishing. And what a beautiful day it was...plenty of sun, but not real hot and a gentle breeze.

We were only able to spend a couple of hours on the water, however it was very enjoyable and also quite productive. We started off with small spinners and picked up a few large bream and nice bass here and there for the first hour and a half. I switched to minnows and the action picked up, too. The crappie started to bite and I ended up with a couple of bass in the 3-pound range. Obviously not monsters, but very nice and a lot of fun on light-weight tackle. My buddy tried a topwater as the sun fell from the sky and the bass really liked that. I think that there are few experiences in fishing that match watching bass attack a topwater bait.

With disappointment we were ushered out by the threat of darkness, so we called it a day and headed back to Little Rock.

I also took some of my own advice in the last post and put my game cameras back out on my property Saturday morning. I placed them over my mineral plots that seem to be very popular and am anxious to see what visits. I purchased a new Remington Ghost game camera with Infrared flash and am curious to determine if I can find any concrete results that the deer are less wary of those than the traditional, incandescent flash. Since I now have both, I think an experiment is in order.