Did my gun clubs derby yesterday. Been awhile since I have done a derby. Had to spring for a 1 day NH license as this one was in Newton nh at country pond. Pretty well run derby.....$250 top pickerel, $175 top white perch, $75 top yellow perch $50 largest "other". No bass entered. What's with the no bass entered for NH Derby's by the way?
Anywho.....I'd never fished country pound before so my brother and son and I got there real early .looked at the map and picked a spot with different attributes all within walking distance.....a point....a shallow cove....a steep drop off......an inlet.....and a deep spot of 25 feet. All easy to get too. We set tips in each of the areas and found the steep drop and the shalllow cove we're hitting picks and perch so we moved all the tips to those spots. Flag after flag after flag......we the through 3 dozen shiners by 1pm .nothing big though.....couple of picks over 2 pounds but the leading pic was 3.51. then it slowed off at 1pm and we moved everything to deep water 25 feet with 2 hours left. Three nice bass over 4 pounds then my son lands a 5.1 pound bass.....can't enter any of em so we packed it up at 2;15. A stinking 3.51 pound pickerel won $250. I pull 3.5 pics out of my regular haunt all day long. Anyway.....good time.....good company.....not the best results for us but we had a blast.