The Delaware Invasion - Volume 2: Becks Pond
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2024
- The state of Delaware borders New Jersey directly to the south. Most people drive through this small state without thinking much of it. Tax free shopping, a couple Malls and Jewelry Shops. Despite the state's small size, there are many ponds and a couple rivers that drew my attention.
Delaware's more southernly latitude is attractive in the Winter as well. It may not be Florida, but my compass is pointed South and I'm seeing what a longer growing season can do.
In this episode, I hook up a local Delaware angler and artist Lvon Yoder. Lvon and I take a trip to Becks Pond near Newark, DE to see what kind of fish live there. I had researched the pond and found it to hold largemouth bass, snakehead, pickerel, bluegill, black and white crappie. The max depth according to topographic maps was about 9 feet. The deepest we found during this trip was 7 near the dam area. The boat ramp is extremely steep and care should be taken when pulling up to it and backing in. The curb on the passenger side of the tow vehicle makes things especially difficult.
Check out Lvon's artwork here: / makinmoves420
I took a drone flight over the lake prior to fishing to get the lay of the lake. Lots of pads were emerging in the shallower areas of the lake. Water clarity was about 2 feet with a heavy brown stain. Some areas held clearer water than others. Much of the lake bottom is covered with a black algae that we call "Black Death" in New Jersey waters. It is like gorilla hair and smells terrible. This makes bottom fishing baits very difficult to use. Shoreline access is somewhat limited to the one side of the lake and several anglers were fishing the bank as we fished on the boat. During this day, we were the only watercraft on the water. Several kayaks pulled up as we were leaving but we were surprised that no other boats ever showed up on this nice weekend day.
I tried force feeding fish with a spinnerbait for most of the morning with only one half hearted bite to show for it on the southern side of the lake. All of our fish came from the northern side of the lake. Those included largemouth bass, black crappie, and a rare for me redear sunfish. Bass came on all sorts of baits including a Jackhammer, crappie tube, Wacky Rigged Old Creek Lures stickbait, Megabass Dark Sleeper, and a Rattlin Rogue jerkbait. All panfish ate the crappie tube. I didn't see or raise any snakehead during this trip although several people asked.
After fishing, we stopped at a nearby pizza place that specialized in authentic Mexican food. CARNE ASADA TACOS!!! While there, a Delaware Oldtimer stopped in the parking lot and told us to throw all the lures I highlighted above. He said "Snakehead are worth $15 a head and I catch them like a Champion. Forget work! Just catch snakehead like me!"
Delaware sure is different than Jersey.
Nice job great footage
My Go Pro card was full when I started the day and I ran out of memory. I did my best with the phone to try and get decent content.
Great drone shots!
Thanks! Everyone is digging the flight
Very cooo drone shots! That was pretty awesome! I appreciate the share!
Thank you so much! I'm an OK pilot so I might as well use the skills for something.
Awesome vid. Nice location!
Thanks! I wish I had more footage from the day but made do after my camera died.
Nice bass👍The shooting of the drone was also great！
Arigato!
@@AdamMiharaFishing ☺️👍
Great video and nice that you could be joined by a local. Love the drone footage.
Did you like the flip moves? Been flying for a while now.
Nice video Adam! Gotta love that pre fishing wawa stop in the morning. It is necessary! Nice catches you both had.
I stopped at the Wawa in NJ for gas and some Sizzlis. Meanwhile in Delaware there was a Wawa 500 feet from the lake with gas prices 10 cents lower. I could have brought Lvon a warm Sizzli had I known haha!
@@AdamMiharaFishing That’s hilarious Adam!!
Great video Adam!!! Nice day on the water, I'll have to try to go down there sometime. Great drone footage!
The drone shots looked awesome live. I'm glad they came out well for the video. Delaware has some pretty good fishing. So far so good!
hello bro..waow i really like your video, you can get a big fish waow incredible .. nice to meet you bro
Wow thank you for watching!
Nice adam
Good stuff Adam and L'von! Appreciate the little shoutout too lol. Adam, you did pretty well for your first time out on a new body of water 👍
Traveling to a completely different state and new body of water can be intimidating. We figured out a little bit but never found a real big bite. Always happy to shoutout my DE buds!
@@AdamMiharaFishing Gotta come to southern DE next time 👀
@@Orange22Fishing Trap Pond is next. Hoping to get there later this month.
Hey Adam, good video man. Looks like you had a decent day out and some good tacos.
Delaware fishing has certainly treated me well. Next stop will be down your way.
Great video Adam! The Drone footage was really cool - especially seeing it fly under that sign! 😎 👊 🎣 ✈
I'll have to keep up the fancy flying for future vids! Hopefully the next lake or river has a sign too.
You always were talented at fishing bro I remember losing alot of tournaments to you hahahhh
Thanks! It isn't about winning or losing anymore. It is about having as much fun as possible. More fish = more fun!
@@AdamMiharaFishing bro so true....in my old age I'm targeting everything! We should hook up one day and fish man!
Keren keren spot y mister
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Nice video new here
Did you happen to see all the lure decorations on a wire above the dam? A drone with a line cutter could come in handy.
Funny enough Lvon and I talked about that off camera. I recently bought a tool for cutting stuff like that down