"Charles B. Summers" wrote in message
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Since I'm boatless for awhile, I've been driving around looking for places
that might hold fish that can be caught from the bank. What I have
recently
found is a very nice little lake/pond with a grassy area for the kids and
wife to sit and catch some catfish/bream... but also has some great
laydowns
and coves along each side and across the back sections. I don't know how
deep the water is yet, but from what information that I've gotten out of
others that I see fishing there, that there are some nice fish in there.
It
looks like a Bill Dance pond... I'm going to find out this weekend if it
fishes like one!

Watch out Alwaysfishking... lol. Maybe we can start pulling off some long
distance betting?

Funny. I'm glad you are truly discovering the possibilities in bank
pounding. So many bassers or would be bassers around here just won't take
the effort to find the fishing opportunities that avail themselves from
terra firma. One fellow I have drawn a couple times as a back seater asked
me to show him some bank side fishing, so I did. I went many miles out of
my way on the way home from a tournament to demonstrate the relatively large
numbers of places one could fish from the bank and catch bass without taking
more than a half dozen paces from ones car or truck. Canals, ponds, little
pools in odd places. Water recover ditches and sump ponds. Out here in the
middle of the desert there are plenty of places one can feel a tug without
throwing any money into a floating hole in the water.

The first bass I ever caught was out of a main irrigation canal standing on
the road. We caught and lost several that day. The largest number of bass
I have caught in a single day was in another one canal. The biggest bass I
ever caught came from the bank on a local recreational fishing pond.

My "friend" still hasn't tried any of those places many months later. He
does call me periodically trying to talk me into loaning him one of my boats
or taking him fishing. LOL.

Give me a bucket of minnows and a medium power spinning rod with a fast tip,
a bag of water balloons, and a pack on non snelled bait holder hooks and I
can go out and catch a few bass any day of the year from the bank. Make it
a hot late summer afternoon and I'll catch numbers of them. Sure, I'll have
to run from spot to spot in my truck to catch a bunch, but I'll never have
to take more than a dozen steps away from it to do it. Heck, with a little
thought I bet I could do it in a few places without even stepping out of the
truck. I would have to open the door... well atleast the window. LOL.

Throw in a float tube or a little walking or wading and the possibilities
are endless. On a recent morning outing in my little jon boat in an
un-named backwater we piled on some good fish. Its so much a backwater that
we have to push the boat off the trailer half the time, and sometimes get
out and walk the boat down the channel. As we were motoring back towards
the "ramp" we passed a half dozen guys in their float tubes heading out.

--
Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com