The world’s greatest fishing show, the ICAST 2011 has ended and now back to my usual fishing report. This week, I went fishing with our new Lucky Craft employee “M” and it was her very first fishing experience. We went to El Dorado East Regional Park near our office to challenge on her very first Bass fishing.

Since it was M’s first time, I had her practice on making knots prior to our fishing day, and now we are ready to start!! The field is big so it was a perfect place to practice casting. Although there are many accidents in casting so you really need to check behind you before you throw! I mentioned this to M in the beginning and had her work on over casting for the day since it is the easiest for beginners. Since she practices OO, the casting technique is very similar to OO and just the position of the rod before throwing needs to be modified a little… M surprised me with her skills. After practicing couple casts, within an hour she quickly learned the technique and moved on to actual fishing. I had M use her favorite lure (Skeet Reese – Redemption Spinnerbait) and go around the entire pond. Unfortunately there were no catches today. As for me, I used lures that I normally don’t use such as the Sammy and Fat Smasher Mini. I continued to practice using topwater baits, but caught nothing also. From now on there will be more reports on fishing with M and I would like to patiently brush up my skills also.

El Dorado East Regional Park
http://www.longbeach.gov
This park has a lot of areas that perennial plants, bushes, and Bass favors and it is very similar to Okappari (shore fishing) in Japan. Of course there are no other obstacles and it seems like just a vast park pond, but it is a nice location for family fun.

Sandy
The Daily Flash Minnow

P.S. Next time I am planning on going boat fishing with M.