I headed out to wards lake in the afternoon and stayed till night.

During the day I was targetting some of the largemouth bass that were hanging close to shore and guarding their beds.

I caught 4 largies and ironically they measured 8 9 10 and 11 inches.
Started with the 8 and each fish got an inch bigger.
The last fish that measured at 11 was fat and registered just over 1 lb on my scale.

I caught that one using a Storm Wild Eye Sunfish.
Since the bass are constantly getting annoyed with the pumpkinseeds and chasing them out, I figured this would be perfect.
I began jigging this close to the beds and she hit it and hit it hard.

The others I caught using misc lures and just jigging them around or swimming them by their face until they got annoyed.
Those lures consisted of a Red Ratl Trap, just a size 6 hook with a small berkeley gulp honey worm, and soft plastic worms.

We then proceeded to fish until night time and an officer came.
He simply asked if we were done and then told us that he was locking the gate.
He sort of smirked and told us to take it for what it is and that the park is closed and he took off.

So I decided to stay a little longer and the catfish action heated up.
Caught a ton of Brown Bullhead Catfish on the bottom using worms.

Then I got my unexpected surprise!
A 14 inch Fat Largemouth that registered on my scale a little over 2 lbs!
I was only using a size 6 hook with a piece of nightcrawler when I caught her too!

I didn't target pumpkinseed sunfish but if you ever want to take a child fishing, take them to wards because you are guaranteed to catch sunfish all day long without any effort whatsoever.
A bobber and a worm is all you need for this.
Just try to use a small size hook because the pumpkinseeds have small mouths.