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