The pond with the landlocked has at least 6 large fish. On 5/16, I got there at 2:30 and the worms were already going and the fish were piled up in the back NW corner. I was able to watch these large fish gently sip worms and cruise around in broad daylight. Truly an amazing experience. Of course I couldn’t get any to eat a fly.
It did confirm my theory that trying to cover a rise like one would for trout fishing during a worm hatch isn’t a great idea. When the fish rose, they were cruising through, and not returning to that location, so where you just saw a fish rise is the one location you know that fish is not. It’s possible in more current they would hold on a spot, but in this location at this time, they most definitely did not.