Small pond popper fishing

Visited another small pond yesterday across the road from the pond where I caught some green sunfish on my flyrod a week ago or so.  This second pond is a bit smaller and I wanted to see what it had to offer.

Once I got out in the water in my kayak, I realized I had strung up my fly rod with the wrong spool of line.  Normally with poppers I would use a floating line but the line I discovered on the reel once I got out on the water was a sink tip, which would drag the popper down below the surface after a few seconds.  Well, I decided to go with the sink tip for a little while and see what happened.  Turns out, it worked pretty well.  A couple of largemouth bass came up and smacked the tiny popper I was using just after it splashed on the surface.  Then other fish, including some green sunfish, attacked it once it had sunk down below the surface a few feet.  So the sink tip line actually worked out pretty well.

This pond is quite small.  In fact, I circumnavigated the whole thing three or four times in the course of the morning.  Nights have been cool lately, so the water temperature in the pond was 70 degrees.  Had it been in the upper 70s, maybe some of the larger bass would have come to the surface to check out my popper.  All in all, though, it was a good morning.

Here's a link to the video:   http://youtu.be/barMEvcqNZI  I shot it with my iPhone, instead of my camera.  At one point I held the phone upright instead of sideways, which is why the image goes from "landscape" to "portrait" and then back again.