Belle Grove Remains Miserly

[Mark]

On the fly and I fished the Belle Grove Ponds this morning for three hours and left with one fish between us -- a crappie that hit a size 6 olive wooly bugger. We both fly fished exclusively.

Here's On the fly. His first outing of the year.

B.jpg

The fishing was poor but the nature watching was good:

A.jpg C.jpg

I also saw two deer but they disappeared before I could photograph them.

It's amazing that you can see these creatures so close with a highway nearby and the sounds traffic in the background.

I remain impressed with the fish habitat at Belle Grove. I believe the water is still too cool for the bass to be active. I imagine fishing will improve greatly in May.

[J.A. Veil]

Good job Mark. You remain the local champ -- even catching one fish/trip is more productive than the others fishing with you.

[freshstripes]

Shoulda dunked some cutbait

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

[Mark]

freshstripes,

I think that fish would have pulled me overboard.

I'll stick with flies!

Congrats on your catch.

[freshstripes]

Haha.

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

[BassMoore]

ive only been able to muster fish out of there close to structure and deep.

they havent come up on the banks yet.

[Runnin]

On the fly and I fished the Belle Grove Ponds this morning for three hours and left with one fish between us -- a crappie that hit a size 6 olive wooly bugger. We both fly fished exclusively.

.

What? You boys didn't get abused enough on Saturday? I admire you persistence.

[whiskerfish]

Shoulda dunked some cutbait

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Man that looks like a big channel cat! Did you weigh it?

[freshstripes]

Didn't have my scale. guessing 14ish

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

[Mark]

Runnin,

We don't take defeat easily.

Mark