Piedmont Park

[Milton]

Has anyone out there ever fished the lakes in Piedmont Park? I was down there jogging a couple of weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon when someone had apparently been chumming up fish with breadcrumbs or something. I saw a zillion bream, mostly very small, but there were also some pretty decent (12-14") bass.

-Milton

[jeffg]

You know, I am thinking, well hell I am heading down there tonight after work. I live in MidTown so it is walking distance. I will "issue a report"
JeffG.

[Rod]

Jeff, you the man!
There's this pond by a Fuji dist. warehouse in duluth---you can see it from 85 and there's this pond infront of Mary Kay headquarters on sattelite...wooooohooooo

Poaching has never been this much fun!

seriously, these little parks around down usually have decent fishing...i've posted about several near my hous...many of them hold nice/big fish.....mmmmmhhhmmm
rod

[jeffg]

Report on Piedmont Park:
Caught lots of bream, lots of them. ON poppers, yellow humpies, small buggers, hare ears, you name it.
Caught some crappie on the same stuff.
Landed about 6 b****most of htem in the 8-13 inch range. Mostly on a size 8 popper, and 2 on a black bugger. Hooked and lost a much bigger fish, and pulled my minnow pattern out of the mouth of the biggest b****I saw that evening (typical fishing story eh?)

But there were a ton of fish, and seeing it is essentially in my backyard, it gives me a fishing option when I come home from work.
My girlfriend calls it fishing for stinky city fish, since the water aint the cleanest in those ponds.

But hell, it is fishing, and sometimes that is all that matters.

[Rod]

Jeff I repeat my previous lauding:
YOU da MAN!

An article in FRR from a few years ago stirred my interest in unlikely fishing spots...this guy fished "ponds" all over NYC...got stranger looks than you got I'm sure....

Awesome that you caught any fish...crazy that you caught so many...were the bream and crappie of any size?....was anyone else fishing?

[jeffg]

None of the bream were of any real size. Lots in them I would consider bait size, you know the 3-6 inch range, couple of the bluegill were bigger, and man are they fun to catch.

The crappies I caught where about 5-9 inches...

Yeah there were a ton of fish in there. Couple other people catching, keeping (yes keeping out of there) fish. One guy kinda was fishing near me and took 3 nice b****in the 15'+ range on a jitterbug. He told me he makes it a point of throwing'm back, cuz he likes catching them again.

Someone also tossed a couple old X-mas trees in there for some structure. The one pond also has some cyprus trees growing along the banks, and that is where I caught the majority.
The bigger b****I caught were around this elevated manhole cover about 20 ft from shore. Structure is structure I guess.

But it was fun, and I am def going to fish it again....
(did get a couple of strange looks, and almost caught a rollerblader on a backcast. Now that would have been a fight, and if I didnt have a girlfriend, the rollerblader would have been a keeper!)

[Milton]

Jeff-

I can't vouch for this, but I've heard that those ponds are spring-fed and surprisingly clean. They look yucky right now, though, with all the pollen on the surface, not to mention the abundance of trash.

I know what you mean about the rollerbladers. I've seen some gliding goddesses there.

-Milton
Urban Adventurer

[The Professor]

Take it from a 2 time loser when it comes to women--C&R is a safest way to handle that quarry http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/wink.gif