Chatfield Res.

With a few hours to burn me and the boy decided to give Chatfield a go.   Our first time at the park we had heard there are some small ponds to the south of the lake that were decent fishing.  We loaded up the poles and took off in search of some evening fishing.  This is a state park so if you do not have an annual pass you will have to pay to get in.  We found the a parking lot by the first pond and started fishing.  It looks like it was used mostly for boating so after a few minutes we decided to move on.  With a couple casts into the Dog Training pond we caught this.

Hoping for some bigger fish we decided to move on.  I saw some other people fishing, but looks like they were after catfish.  After a bit of a walk and alot of Poison Ivy( it was everywhere so consider yourself warned),  we came upon another pond with alot of weeds.  With the first cast I managed to catch a nice sized Bluegill. 

This pond turned out to be very productive.

Nice Bass the boy caught on a popper!

Did that bluegill really manage to get that gigantic popper in his mouth?

 All in all I would rate this area very good for fishing. All fish were released.