Lake Ovid (7/5/10)
Made plans last night with Sandwich, Matt Pantone, and Lunch Box to go hiking and fishing at Lake Ovid today. When I got up at 8:00 this morning it was already 82F outside. I my fishing stuff and a lot of water into the car and headed to Sandwich’s house. We picked up some worms and arranged for a boat rental at the store at Round Lake on route to Lake Ovid at Sleeping Hollow State Park. The boat was an eight foot aluminum job with some messed up oars that had failed us by the end of the day. It leaked a little bit, too.
Lake Ovid Bass
Lake Ovid’s fairly big. We had been provided along with the boat rental with a contour map of the depths, but the size of the lake and wind really restricted just how much ground we could cover in the rowboat. We managed to row out against the wind until the island was just to our windward side and could sit calmly there and fish. I caught a bluegill and a very small bass. Sandwich spotted a deer on the far shore. We moved after a while into some weeds, where everyone hit on some bluegill. They were even taking Sandwich’s bare hook (he also got a bass here). We ran out of worms and the action slowed a bit on plastics. Then we rowed back to the island, where I caught a decent largemouth on a chartreuse mister twister.
We’d been out on the water for about four hours when we called it quits; never did any hiking. Got some decent sun and had a nice day. On the way home we spotted two sandhill cranes in a fallow cornfield on Shepardsville Rd.
Tags: bass, bluegill, boat, ovid, sleepy hollow
This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 10:57 am and is filed under fishing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.