I wasn’t planning on doing much this weekend other than celebrate Ross’ 21st birthday over in Tampa. But as fate would have it, and as a duck’s drawn to a pond, once I got there I started talking with one of Ross’ good friends and he was telling me about all the bass in the lakes in and around the USF area. So Monday morning I called and woke the mighty guide of the duck ponds-- resident “Capt. Jack The RA BlackBass”-- up after his late-night bender with Ross and company; he graciously picked me up at my hotel and took me to a small pond by his dorm. Just as a side-note, it was 0900 the morning after Ross’ “midnight- bringing- in- his- birthday party” and I’m not sure I should have been riding in a car with Jack just yet; maybe I should have let him sleep it off a little bit more. Anyways, he’s a champ!
I’ve always known that the ponds at UCF and USF had fish in them but I’ve never fished them due to the fright of being harassed by the ever present campus security. Yet, there at USF they really didn’t care. I don’t know if it was because it was a holiday or they just really … don’t care, but the security was all over and no one ever shuddered at the idea that we were fishing their fountain flowing ponds. We fished for about an hour or so, throwing nothing more than “June Bug” plastic worms and did really good for practically fishing in a puddle. We landed I think around 7-8 1-2 pound bass. And, if nothing else, it was pretty neat fishing between a bunch of big buildings and catching fish. Thanks, Jack.
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