Nice Bass from No-Name Pond off Highway in Rockland County

[logs22]

So I was working out of our office in Purchase, NY and was planning to fish Rye Lake after work. Unfortunately a meeting went over and I only had about 20 minutes to fish so I called an audible and decided to try a pond I eyeballed from 287 every time I am headed for the Tappan zee bridge. I know nothing regarding the ownership of this body of water or weather it even had fish in it but decided to give it a try since it would require a minimum detour maximizing fishing time. I only had two poles already rigged and no other tackle (baitcaster with a spinnerbait and Med-light spinning rod with Texas rigged/weighted zoom brush hog). I think the pond may have been a quarry of some sort because there were rock piles and sand along shoreline. The pond is basically a square so I going a corner and then just cast parrallel to both banks trying to keep my lure 5-10 yards from land about where I could no longer see the bottom. Caught the fish pictured below with the brush hog. He snapped my line as I was pulling him on to land but I reacted quickly and jumped into the water and basically pinned the fish into the muck with one hand while I searched blindly for his mouth with the other so I could lip him. I ruined a nice pair of loafers but the fish was worth it! A few other hook ups but wasn't able to land anything.