Spent last week in Kansas fishing private farm ponds. I'm from New York which is where I left my Float Tube. We fished this beautiful 5 acre farm pond that was perfect for the float tube. The fishing from the shoreline was great, plenty of lm bass, big crappie, and plenty of channel cat. However I couldn't stop thinking the whole time how much better it would have been with my tube. Well now I am back in New York needless to say, waking up every night in a cold sweat thinking about what might have been. Moral of the story is NEVER LEAVE YOUR HOME WITHOUT YOUR FLOAT TUBE!! EVER!!!
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[cool]Hey that sucks that you didn't take your tube with ya. How was the fishing, otherwise?
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To me farm pond fishing is the best. Most ponds in Kansas are less than 3 acres, but you'd be shocked at how big the fish get. They are all private so they don't get much pressure. A friend "Roadkill Mike" caught a 44 LB. flathead in one pond that was just a monster. Make sure you get permission before fishing any ponds. Some farmers will actually shoot at you for fshing without permission. With the increase inhousing developments in Kansas the ponds are getting harder to come by.
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[cool][#0000ff]I have heard it said that lessons "hard learned" are "well learned". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Once you succumb to the tubing bug, you tend to look around you wherever you go, wondering if you can dunk your donut. If you are both lucky and creative, there are a zillion different places to fish from your flimsy dinghy. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Farm ponds have always been considered prime spots for tubing. If you live in an area where there are flooded quarries (gravel or stone) they can also produce some good tubing potential. And, depending upon regulations and restrictions there can be decent tubing action in park ponds, golf course waterways and even in the cooling ponds from power stations. Many of those have warm water fishing for bass all winter.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I once worked with a real estate office in the "foothill" country of California, where we sold a lot of land and acreage. We were always getting new listings with farm ponds or cattle tanks, dammed up on seasonal streams. Many of these had fish that had been originally planted generations before, but had been fished little or not at all. We got into some prime angling on a lot of our new listings.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We had a set of office rules. One of those rules was that all agents had to keep their tackle in ready condition in their trunks or pickup beds at all times. Failure to investigate new potential waters and to report back to the other agents in the office was almost a firing offense. Of course, my tackle included a tube and an air pump. I could be launched and conducting "R & D" within a few minutes whenever I came upon a likely pond. Sometimes interfered with work, but what the heck.[/#0000ff]
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