JOHNSON MILL POND

March 6, 2008

Back to normal today low 50°and overcast.

Helen went to her art class today while I sat home and kicked back. I thought about trying out the fishing on the dock below our RV, but it was a little breezier than I like. Helen got back and we decided to travel the country side again to see if we could see any homes for sale that would be of interest to us. Found one, but there was no place to park our RV or build a garage for one. Pretty nice view, but still not isolated enough for us. We decided to go down and find the Johnson Mill Pond that is located between Myrtle Point and Coquille. It’s actually only about 3 miles East, along hwy 42 out of Coquille.

JOHNSON MILL POND

The pond encompasses about 200 acres. I guess it was donated by one of the lumber companies many years ago to Coquille as a recreation lake for the local public. From what I noticed about the lake it does indeed look like a good spot for bass. I hear it has lots of good bass structure. Nobody was fishing when we got there, just looked it over. Will try it out later, but at this time I think the water may be too cold for bass. Interesting thing about this pond, it is adjacent to the Coquille River and when the river floods it overflows into the pond. God only know what fish get in there. Since the Coquille River has a large variety of different fish it could possibly have shad, trout, stripped bass and maybe even a stray salmon or two. They do plant the lake with catchable trout for the kids which are great...

We will have to try the pond out and see how it is. Maybe tomorrow if the weather permits.

I finally figured out why I am doing do poorly with fishing in this area. There are just too many areas to fish and so many species to catch I am over whelmed. Need to change my plans around and get real serious with fishing and stick with just one type of fishing for awhile.