Hardy Pond

[tkpolasek]

I fished Hardy Pond friday with my 3 and 5 year old for a few hours and we managed to catch 15 perch and 1 walleye. The perch ranged anywhere from 8" to 11" and the walleye was 17". We caught all of the fish with minnows on the bottom. There was about 6-7" of ice out there. I think we are going to give it another try saturday morning. We are fishing on the north end of Hardy, the water down by the damn is still open.

Good Fishing
Tim

[ifish4eyes]

Tim, were you up by bucks and how deep? The walk at brower is murder on the bad knee. My buddy may be up there this morning. Thanks;)

[tkpolasek]

I was fishing the long straight stretch of the river between Bucks and Brower. I caught all of the fish in 32 FOW using minnows.
I fished it again sat. morning and only caught 1 perch and 3 undersized walleye, it was really slow.
The area I fish isn't a very far walk at all, but you have to go down a steep hill to get to the river.

Good Fishing
Tim

[ifish4eyes]

Thanks Tim. My buddy is at Lake Caddy/Mitch as I'm typing. I called him and he says it's slow and only and few gills and one perch.

[tkpolasek]

We fished Hardy again this afternoon from 2-6 pm. We didn't do any good on the perch at all so we moved in close to the drop off about 4:30 until dark. We had about a 20 min. active period where the walleye moved in and were feeding we caught one legal one and a few 13-141/2 inchers. We lost a couple of nicer fish in the holes also. We took all of our hits on #5 jigging rapala's in blk/silver or perch color patterns.

Good Fishiing
Tim

[reeldeal3]

where abouts can you get on the ice where you were fishing because i may head up there tomarrow with gomer. pm me if you want.

[tkpolasek]

I just sent you a PM Mr. Topwater. If you don't have any luck there I heard they are doing really well on the perch on Croton pond thats probaly where I will be tomorrow morning.

Good fIshing
Tim

[tkpolasek]

Did you make it up to Hardy Mr. Topwater? I was just wondering I think I might give it another try tomorrow night for the evening run.

Thanks
Tim

[IceDaddy]

How much Ice is on Croton? I heard that on Hardy,By the dam it's all open water and people are still fishing out of Boats.let me know. Thanks

[tkpolasek]

Yes it is all open water down by the dam. The only ice on Hardy is above Big Bend park. I have been fishing above Brower park and there is 6 inches of ice up there.
Croton is all open water on the big side of the pond and the small side has about 6 inches of ice also. I seen a lot of guys fishing the small side of croton sunday, but have no reports. The only thing I heard was from the bait shop in croton, he said that they were catching a lot of perch out there.

Good Fishing
Tim

[IceDaddy]

Thanks for the Info, maybe I'll have to drive up there and try my luck this weekend.

[tkpolasek]

We hit Hardy tonight for a chance at one more walleyein 2002. We managed to catch 6 walleye but only one legal one in the bunch. We caught all of the fish on either perch or blk/silver #5 jigging rapalas. All of the action came the last 45 minutes of daylight. Hopefully tomorrow I can start on my walleye log for 2003.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!
May 2003 be a great fish catching year to all..

Good Fishing
Tim