It’s amazing how sometimes time is always something you never have enough of.  You find you find yourself at work or school (or in my case both) for the most part of the day, then you come home and take care of whatever it is you need to do there, then it is time to go to bed and get ready to do the same thing again the very next day.  Well I finally made some time to visit one of my favorite private ponds last week, and it ended up being very productive.  The day was a little overcast and windy, but hey, when I had finally made time to go, I was going, fair weather or not. 

I went with a friend of mine and I started off throwing a spinnerbait, which was not productive, while he was throwing a green pumpkin colored jig.  He had great success with the jig, and it did not matter if it did or did not have a trailer, he caught fish both ways.  After watching him throw that for a while I decided to tie on a jig, not the same color of course because I didn’t want to use the exact same thing as him, but I used black and blue and had similar results.  Next I decided to throw a lizard, which ended up working fairly decent as well.  We fished all afternoon and into the early evening and the final tally between us were about 15 fish, 6 of which were 3lbs or more, and after the bass bite seemed to die off I pulled out my ultra-light and tied on a slider grub and had a ball catching what seemed to be every brim in the pond.

Spare time is a luxury, and I believe it is something many of us undervalue, use it wisely. All of mine will be spent on a body of water and a reel in my hand.

-Mark Tate