Nick Church If you ask anyone close to me they'll tell you that fishing is my first love. But another sport I try to do often is golfing. So it's no surprise that somewhere along the line these two sports intercede. Over the years since I have played I have golfed some very nice courses and a very common thing that all courses have are “ponds.” I have driven the golf cart past some huge ponds in my time and it never fails I see bass swimming around the banks. It amazes me how fish get into ponds, wether they were stocked when they were put there or if it was mother nature herself. It always amazes me to think that fish can get in the most unlikely places in water by all kinds of ways like past high flooding or a simple bird that picked up a fish with eggs in it and then dropped it in another water system. The possibilities are limitless when it comes to how fish get in ponds but on this trip we found them for sure in some golf course ponds in Beau Chene in Mandeville, LA. This trip I was contacted by a local Northshore teen bass angler who told me that he has fished this pond for many years and wanted to know if I would come and film a episode of us fishing this pond. With the summer heat upon us we decided to hit this pond very early. Bailey Madere has been fishing for quite some time and it showed when he decided to out fish me very quickly on the morning we made this trip. Between the 16 or so fish we caught he had majority. This is definitely something I am enjoying just as much in fishing is watching how others have learned the sport and seeing them put it into action. Bailey has fished this pond for probably 5 years he says, as his dad dropped him off early that morning, and it showed. I like to see parents that support a passion that their kids have whether it be in local school sports or in this case recreational sports. This pond was not very big but it had plenty of bass for us to catch. We simply put the GoPro’s up and just walked the bank and fished till it was just too hot to fish anymore. My choice of baits was a white chatter bait and my favorite pond fishing rig, the wacky rig. Bailey fished soft plastics but shared with me his secret for catching so many fish that day, but he shared it with me of course after the fact when he made sure he had the most catch of the day :) My next trip again I have been contacted by another Northshore Bass angler who is going to take me to a pond where we can go out in a little pond boat and hit some deeper waters. You can follow my journeys on Facebook or YouTube (Nick Church Fishing) or on Instagram at NBSANGLER. Be on the lookout for my next episode of Pond Hopping with Nick Church Fishing.
