Weather: Hot/Sunny
Water Temp: 84-86 Degrees
RHINEBECK, NY — Met up with a few guys from nybass.com for a mini-get together at Long Pond. The day overall was slow, however steady. There was no solid pattern other than most of the fish hitting along weed lines. The fish were feeding mainly on dragon flies of a reddish/orange color. I tried to “match the hatch” and pulled out a hula grub of pumpkin seed color to attempt to mimic the appearance of the dragon flies.
The fish were simply launching out the water to catch those darn dragon flies. All my fish were caught on all kinds of presentations including spinnerbait, grub and crankbait. Even the pickerel were biting but they were very small in size, as were all the fish I was catching.
My biggest fish was 2.5lbs and came on a spinnerbait along the weedline.
We all fished until about 1pm, packed up and headed down the road for some grub. We had lunch together, discussed our day then headed out for our long trips home. I definitely wouldn’t mind getting together with the guys again as it was a fun day. I caught about 8-10 fish in total including bass, pickerel and one big fat ugly blue gill.
