On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:42:40 GMT, "rb608"
wrote:

Adding to the
anticipation is knowing I'll be staying on a fairly decent pond for wild
smallmouth (& stocked brookies).

Don't know much about the bass, Joe, but when I fished *very* remote
ponds north of where you will be, I used a canoe and the brook trout
where close to shore under bushes that hung over the water. Drop a
dry fly (goddard cadis) close to the overhanging branches, and I got a
rise on almost every cast. But, that was on the remote ponds (had to
fly in to some of them) and the fish were wild. I'm betting the
brookies would be in similar water on the pond you will be fishing.

Dave