Thursday, June 11, 2009
OMNI GOLF COURSE TUCSON, ARIZONA
So. Lets. Talk. Golffishing. A little bit, shall we. Golf course water hazards in my opinion (depending how there managed/irrigated etc) can be some of the best warm water and sometimes freshwater fishing in North America. Complete solitude. Zero percent fishing pressure. And possible trespassing, once again, depending. ha..
Omni National Golf Course in Tucson Arizona has been home of several professional golf tournaments. I even believe Tiger himself has putted these kept lawns. I had a friend who worked for the pro shop who randomly decided to tell me one day that he's seen BEASTLY BASS dart from the banks.
So I gave it a whirl.
The rest is history.
You take La Cholla until you hit a water tower then whenever you can pull over in the dirt after the tower is where your going to park. Then walk across the dusty barren field appraching the gold course.
You'll come across 2 ponds. One smaller. One way larger. The smaller pond sits near the green so be careful not to get nailed with a golf ball, but if you go an hour or two before dusk, there won't be a single golfer anyways so that solves all those problems. In the smaller pond I've caught and released (can't stress enough how importante it is to catch n' release. thx.) over 50 or more nice 1-5lb largemouth from shore texas rigging a 6 or 7in Power Worm or soft worm of your choosing with a 2/0 hook and a conehead weight dragging the bottom. They'll usually crash wreck the crap out of it a couple of seconds after it plops in the water. Cast tight to shore they don't like the deeper water for some reason.
The larger pond is a mystery. I have caught a couple small bass here, but the real catch is the elusive White Amur that reside here. If your not familiar White Amur were introduced from Asia as a nasty means to rid ponds of over vegetation problems. The catch is they have the shortest throat to anus tract of any animal. So they shit out everything and it floats. Its vile. Tons of fisherman want to slaughter these fish. I agree. They don't help, that's for sure. They are insanely spooky and I have spent hours trying to hook one with a fly rod. There HUGE. 20+ lbs easy. Some people put blades of grass on a hook, or bread, because there vegetarians they only eat plants. Recently this was the case. White Amurs floating the surface and banks. No bass. There has been a fishkill in this pond for some reason. Could be the oxygen supply or irrigators etc of common urban lake facilities.
If you walk down the entire fairway you'll come to a bridge. Cross it. You'll immediately see a pond. Pass it. It's no good. Fishkill. Go past some white houses. Wham, there's a big pond. That pond has the LARGEST and BEST FISH POPULATION of the entire course. And quite possibly Southern Arizona.
Legal Strategy:
Say you didn't know you couldn't fish there. This always works. No one can get angry at someone who will leave peacefully. I have fished here a hundred times and no one has ever said anything. Go before dusk, No golfers. No security. No problems.
Fishing strategy: Texas and Carolina rigged worms 6-7in plastics that smell or not. Huge poppers, streamers, for fly fishing. It's not really that specific. There not used to fisherman so they'll bite. But... I have never caught anything using buzz baits, spinners, dry flies etc. And. NOOOOOOO BAIT. Com on guys.
Thx.
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