I made a quick trip to the pond on Thursday after work to get some more practice in with my new Shimano and was disappointed when I started seeing dead bass floating in the pond.
It's a little hard to tell by this picture, but I estimate the one above at about 6 or 7 pounds. I soon saw another one that was too far away to get a good picture of. But it was half way out of the water stuck in the reeds. That tells me it probably wasn't something wrong with the water that killed the fish, but was probably some thoughtless fishermen or some kind of predator. Between those two options it seems more likely that it was fishermen since a predator would have taken the fish once it had caught it.
This one was smaller, maybe 1 1/2 - 2 pounds, and had it's middle eaten away.
I saw a total of 3 decent sized bass floating dead in the water. It's likely there were others that I couldn't see. It's unfortunate also because this little pond doesn't have a large quantity of bass, which makes fishing here more challenging. A small pond this size can't really afford to lose so many bass all at once.
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