NHBASSMASTER

Hello all! I'm back and catching up on what I've missed on the forums this winter! Putting away all the winter toys and getting ready to slay the Buckets this year! I cannot wait! Where is everyone fishing? Boat is registered and I'm ready to put it in the water!

Yeah, that's what I figured. d**n. Oh well. What about Hubbard Pond in Rindge? Anyone fish that? Shows warm water fish on the topo.

Nice walleye! I would love to catch one of those. Quick question, there is no public way onto Baboosic Lake correct? Looking for a lake to fish this Sat with bro in law.

I've been staring at the topo for awhile and I figured I should ask here. Anyone know of any good fishing locations near the Milford area? I'm moving to Milford this week and I can start looking maybe a little farther west than the Nashua area. Any ideas? Thanks.

Yeah, no desire for a war here either. I was responding more to the comment by UNHBass that there's no reason to kill a bass period, and he would have voiced his opinion. My point was that bass fisherman don't need the stereotype applied to them that a lot of trout fisherman have (condescending, nose in the air, etc.). If someone wants to keep a fish, regardless of motive, I say (like you did), "To each his own." The fact is that most people don't keep them, and those that do are doing extremely little to effect the population (as evidenced by how many there are around). I do agree. It's the rights we have as being outdoors men. It just hurts a little seeing such a large bass being taken out of the environment for who knows what. Again, as I said, I was assuming he wasn't going to eat it.

Thanks! We tend to fish a range of lures, I used to be more of a hard plastics / top water guy, though BassMaster has recently got me hooked on soft plastics. I've been fishing soft plastics almost exclusively lately, however I did slam that decent large mouth on a top water hard plastic in the picture in the above post. I've also been fishing a swim jig lately, no real success on it yet but I've yet to really get to fish it in water thats more suitable for it. BassMaster has been cleaning house with his spinner baits lately, he about doubled my accumulative weight last weekend with two good 5lb'rs I only had that one respectable 3lb'r or so on that top water all day, the other few were only 2lbs or so. Not dinks but surely nothing to write home about. d**n you Bucket! Giving away our secrets! > J/K! ;D Throughout the past few months, with the serious lack of rain we have been having around here, we've been throwing T-Rigged soft plastics of whatever matches the body of water. The wacky rigged Senko in the Baby Bass and white flecked colors have also produced quite well. The spinner baits I'm throwing are usually Double Colorado bladed, and a color that'll match the bait fish in the body of water.

otternic is a million times better than it was two years ago. it used to be 2/3 weeds and you couldnt even run a prop out there. i havent got skunked there yet since the weed kill. i caught a 3.9# two weeks back. i bet the fishing will improve over the next few years now that the water is open. where did you see the millfoil? to the left of the launch? i have my best luck from the right of the launch to the trailer park. look for the dropoffs. It seemed to be all over. I couldn't even see 6" down in the water, really murky. There was floating coontails and milfoil all over the place. I caught a yellow perch, a pikerel and a small dink bucket and that was it. In the location your talking about, from the right of the launch to the trailer park. The white caps on the water weren't helping my case either.

spin king, I'm going to have to agree with the others who posted. I didn't write that post to start a flame war about keeping or not keeping a LMB. You are 100% correct in saying that if someone wants to keep a big LMB than they can. I agree with that completely, but more along the lines of if they are going to eat it. You said that occasionally you like to keep one and grill it, thats great, I have zero issues with that. If the person is going to get it mounted, then I don't agree. With the technology now, all you need is a picture of the fish on both sides, the length and the girth of the fish. From that they can create an almost EXACT replica of the fish. They no longer need the actual fish to get it mounted. A fish of that size takes years to mature to that size in this constantly changing weather we have. All that said, I only meant to portray my opinion on someone keeping a bass of that size. You don't see a lot of people eating LMB.

Great work so far! I just picked myself up a 1966 Starcraft 12' tin boat and I was planning on doing some work this winter on it. Great to see this!

Shane, as I said in the other posting, I'm moving this week so it depends on how much we get done this week. We both really want to go and if we can then we'll bring my boat. I'll keep you posted.

Funny you say that, me and my brother in law said the same EXACT thing. It's pathetic. If you were going to eat a bass for some reason, that is a different subject. As far as I could tell, there were no intentions to eat it. Also, as we were riding back to the launch, there was a couple in a boat, he saw our rods and knew we were fishing. He pulled up about a 3lb largemouth that was sitting on the bottom of his boat, so I'm guessing he was doing the same and keeping it for some reason.

Well the trip to Onway Lake was some what successful. Caught only a few fish in the 6hrs we were there, but they were big fish. Both fish were a hair over 5lbs. That's what I've heard about that lake anyways. Overall, nice little pond tucked away in Raymond. Some camps on the pond and pretty clear water. The coontails and mil foil hasn't taken over, which is nice to see. I would go back there. It poses the age old question, "would you rather catch a few "big fish" during your trip or a lot of "little fish"? Some pics below. We went to Lake Massabesic on the way home for a few hours and only caught about 10 between the two of us, only a few were keepers. I can't believe how low that lake is. Judging by the lines on the rocks, it looks to be about 3-4ft low! I couldn't believe it. Saw a guy in a canoe at the launch, who doesn't look like he fishes very often, who kept and killed a nice 5lb+ largemouth. Sad to see and I didn't ask what he was going to do with it, but I overheard him telling others it was the biggest bass he'd ever even seen. To each his own I guess.

Ahhh! I see where the launch is now for the Merrimack. If you go down Hills Ferry Road, there is a small dirt road when you take the first 90deg left turn, that's where I thought others were talking about. I didn't keep going past the first 90deg left turn, I see on Google maps where it is now. Thanks for the help!

I went at 8am to try and get onto Bowers pond, I find a place to launch and a truck comes down and says that I cannot go onto the water as it is Pennichuck property and used for drinking water for the town of Merrimack. Well shucks! It happens. So then I tried to find the launch for the Merrimack River in Nashua across from Greeley Park, there is now logs put on that dirt road so you cannot drive down it. So then I figured I'd try Ottarnic Pond, since I was close and curious. Man, what a mistake, should have stayed at home. Not only were there white caps on this small 30ish acre pond, but the milfoil and coontails have eaten this place alive! The board said that they did some weed killing recently and I can honestly say that it did nothing. Caught a dink bucket, pickerel and a big yellow perch. The wind was bad, so I said screw it and came home. I'm hitting Onway Lake in Raymond very early tomorrow morning with my bro in law. Fishing until about 3pm-ish. My pops pulled an 8.79lbs bucket out last week. 8-) I'll let ya know how it goes!

If your bringing your Tracker, won't I be left in the dust?! ;D