In article , ArnSaga
wrote:

riverman" BRBR
I hear that in most course ponds, there are some lunkers that spend their
lives in the deep brush (especially if there is an overgrown island) and who
have never been fished for in their lives. How does one get permission to cast
in a golf
course pond? BRBR

I used to sneak before first light. One course by a river had a different
range of species in its ponds after each flood. Caught a couple of very large
bass and the largest pickerel of my life from the same pond in successive
years. Never caught anything of the same size in the adjoining river.
GKT

My grandparents on my fathers side retired to Sun City Center near
Tampa circa 1973 or so and bought a small house on one of the golf
courses (for $18,000 as I recall) As soon as I hit the door to visit it
was over to the course to fish on the 12th hole (later melanomas will
be blamed on this) . My grandfather was an avid fisherman but his
arthritis was so bad he only fished with spincasting rods because he
could only close his hands around the reel and grip together. The only
lure he fished with was a grape plastic worm unweighted and man could
he fish with that! His last day on earth he caught an 8 1/2 lb
largemouth, commented to my grandmother he was going to take a nap
before cutting the grass and laid down on the sofa and died of a heart
attack (some 14 years after his first heart attack) I continued to fish
there as long as my grandmother lived in Sun City and as long as I
fished early or late and stayed out of the way of the gophers :^ the
course marshalls were always tolerant. I never caught any that size but
caught them up to 4 or 5 lbs which were damn big fish in my eyes.
Allen
Catonsville, MD