| KILLENSSome of the best ponds during the heat, | | | | to shallow water at night in the upper end. |
| day or night, have been Millsboro, Killens, and Canal | | | | Buzzbaits are best, but Tournament Frogs work |
| pond.First of the closest ponds to both upper and | | | | well also, in the day and night. Several bass have |
| lower Delaware is Killens in Dover. Killens is located | | | | been caught in the three to six pound range in the |
| right off rt.13. Turn left onto State Park Road, | | | | past at night, using the frog and Senko's mostly in |
| follow the road around the curve, past the main | | | | the day. Cast the buzzbait wherever possible at |
| park entrance, and about a mile and a half down | | | | night, it is worth removing the grass. Use Senko's |
| the road is the pond. It has parking for about six | | | | by the lower end of the lake in deeper water in |
| to eight trucks with trailers, with an adequate | | | | the day, and do not forget to let them sit a long |
| launching ramp. Killens is a state park, and they | | | | time, raise the pole once or twice, and then cast |
| also rent boats and cabins, but you will find little | | | | again. Use these techniques and bring plenty of |
| competition for bass except on the | | | | insect repellent, and you will connect with some |
| weekends.Most of Killens is one to five feet deep | | | | lunkers, and many others in the two to three |
| at the shoreline, except in the extreme upper | | | | pound range.CANAL PONDCanal Pond is located |
| end, where it is just inches deep. The lake has an | | | | by the railroad bridge in the C&D Canal area. Turn |
| Island in the center with some wood cover and | | | | right under St.Georges Bridge and follow the road |
| grass. It drops off to six feet quickly on the | | | | to the pond. It has beautiful structure, pads, and |
| channel side (main lake), and is about three feet | | | | has a deep shoreline with a deep hole. This was |
| on the right side. This is a particularly good area | | | | where a few years ago, the thirty pound |
| to work in the day with "Senko's" in four and five | | | | landlocked striped bass was caught. There are |
| inch sizes in black and watermelon on a 3/0 WG | | | | some real Lunker largemouth's still there also. You |
| hook, with eight and ten pound test line. In | | | | will need a small cartop boat to fish it, but it is |
| addition, clacker type buzzbaits produce bass in | | | | worth the trouble of getting in. It is about thirty |
| the three to six pound range many times in this | | | | acres of real good drop-offs, and structure, |
| area, even in the bright afternoon sun. A | | | | where bass up to nine pounds have been caught. |
| Tournament Frog, or "Sumo Frog" is a good | | | | Please remember to practice Catch, Photo, and |
| choice for the pads especially in the daytime heat. | | | | Release so we can all enjoy the bass fishing there |
| The action will be slower, but you can connect | | | | for a long time to come. Senko's and four inch |
| with some big explosions through the grass and | | | | straight tailed worms work best throughout the |
| pads at times. A Tournament Frog is the best | | | | year in watermelon and green. At times |
| choice of topwater, and a 1/2 ounce in black | | | | spinnerbaits and frogs will work, but this is a |
| works best all around. Vary the retrieve, both | | | | plastics lake.Noxontown LakeNoxontown has long |
| day and night, sometimes letting the frog sit after | | | | been known for producing big bass. In the late |
| hitting the water, as long as thirty seconds, then | | | | seventies and early eighties largemouth of seven |
| use a few quick hops. If this doesn't produce, try | | | | and eight pounds were not uncommon to hear of |
| working it very fast and pausing only once, on the | | | | each week.Since that time, with all the recreational |
| way back to the boat. This is especially effective | | | | and tournament pressure, its big bass numbers |
| in large pads.Jigs in black and blue take their fair | | | | seem to have declined, or have they?The answer |
| share of nice bass from here also, but you must | | | | is no! They are still there, just older and wiser. |
| be extremely accurate and quiet in your | | | | This was proven when I caught a 10.16 pound |
| presentations or you will not connect. The bass | | | | largemouth bass in 1999 in Noxontown, just |
| will be in the heaviest of cover, lying in wait for a | | | | ounces short of the state record.That bass was |
| slow moving, crippled bait to come overhead."GO | | | | featured in a full page article in the News Journal |
| AT NIGHT"Fishing at night when the water cools | | | | paper, in Bassmaster Magazine Lunker Club, North |
| to seventy or seventy-five degrees, is the best | | | | American Fisherman, and Bass Pro Shops Master |
| time to connect with bigger bass now. Explore the | | | | catalogs.The trick to getting these larger bass to |
| shallow water right at the drop-offs on the left | | | | strike is to fish the lake at low pressure times |
| side of the lake with buzzbaits cast to the main | | | | during the weekdays, and employing some |
| channel edge. Do not be afraid to experiment with | | | | western techniques such as swimbaits off the |
| some older, forgotten baits, such as a "Devils | | | | deeper points. Just because they are northern |
| Horse", or similar prop baits. They work wonders | | | | strain bass and aren't 20 pounds, it doesn't mean |
| sometimes in highly pressured lakes.MILLSBORO | | | | they don't want a big easy meal.Follow these tips |
| PONDMillsboro Pond is in Sussex County, | | | | and tactics in these Delaware Lakes and Ponds |
| Delaware, in the town of Millsboro off Isabella and | | | | this year, and you will catch the trophy of a |
| Main Street. It has room for only a few boats, | | | | lifetime!The swimbaits and other big bass baits are |
| and the launching ramp is very shallow, you can | | | | available at Delaware Tackle in Wilmington, or on |
| get off all right, but getting back on the trailer can | | | | the web at is the 1998 Big Bass World Champ/De |
| be real tricky. Most of the lake is shallow, with lots | | | | and in the NAFC Hall Of Fame. His site is where |
| of grass. It has several Islands, but the bass go | | | | you can talk with him live. |