Nick Church Technology these days is a great thing. Especially now for fisherman as we can go out and prove our catch instead of telling the old fish tale story. I can just imagine back in my day as a young fisherman going out fishing in my johnboat and taking a huge tripod and set that big old VHS video recorder upon it and fish away. Funny thinking about how far along things have changed as now you can record your whole entire fishing journey on a camera smaller than the palm of your hand. I am very thankful for the progression of today’s technology that enables us to make great films and keep some awesome memories on video. But for those that are into filming every adventure in life, we all know how it feels when we want to show someone that huge bass we caught and we slip in the video card that we are sure we captured it on, only to find that it is gone. Yep, the look of disgust and the frustrations come out in different forms and maybe words, but we have all been there. And so this happend with my last pond episode as I went to make the video only to realize I had kept all the talking parts but erased the whole entire videos of me actually fishing the pond. So time was pushing because I knew an upcoming trip to Michigan was coming close that I had to leave for and I really wanted to film that same pond where I lost my footage. So Labor Day was my only day to get up early and head to a place that is off 434 in Lacombe, LA where my friend had text me some pictures of some water that looked fishable. Well I ran back there that morning in hopes to catch at least 1 bass because that is what I had caught the last time and I was just going to keep all my talking footage and use that same videos. This body of water is really a run off ditch for a future subdivision that is going to be built in Lacombe and I was excited to throw and see if there was any bass in there. You never know what you can catch out of those little bodies of water. I pulled up to the very beginning of the ditch because there were 4 culverts so I figured bass would be in that area for sure waiting to ambush anything they could eat. I took my faithful wacky rig out and started casting getting little nibbles here and there. I usually don’t take phone calls when I am fishing but a call came in and it was important so I took it and wouldn’t you know while on the phone call I hook a good bass and my drag starts pulling. I actually yelled to the person I was talking to that I am hooked on a fish and they started yelling for me to get it on the shore. I got it close to shore and it came off and my adrenaline was pumping cause it was a nice bass.
I wanted to get on on camera so I cast back out there and hooked a little dink. That is exactly what I caught on the footage I lost but I was happy to catch a little bass out of what I thought is a ditch. I loaded up the poles and saw a rod in my truck that was rigged with a zman chatter bait and I like to use the Shu-Shu marsh minnow as a trailer so I decided to take ‘one more cast.’ Boy am I glad I did cause instantly I hooked up with the bass that I think I lost earlier. It was a nice one and that made my day. To be able to pull a bass that size, let alone any bass, out of what looks like a ditch I call a success. There is nothing better than finding a body of water and casting into it and pulling out fish. What a blast! I have been doing a lot of studying on Google earth and I have found a lot of ponds lately that I am going to be trying to get to here very soon so please continue to follow my Pond Hopping adventures and make sure to subscribe to my youtube channel at Nick Church Fishing. Until next time…
