Super User Jigfishn10 Posted December 21, 2015 Author Super User Posted December 21, 2015 MRI is done...boy, that thing makes a racket. Thankfully headphones and the radio kept me from listening to it. Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted December 21, 2015 Super User Posted December 21, 2015 I wonder if it would attract fish, or scare them away. It has a lot of different sounds and pulses. Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted December 21, 2015 Author Super User Posted December 21, 2015 It's supposed to get to around 69* on Thursday here in the Baystate. I got a stickbait ready to go! Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted December 23, 2015 Super User Posted December 23, 2015 Yeasssir, Don't know where I'm going, but I'm planning on catching at least 1 more bass this year.. Best of luck to anyone else getting out there! Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted December 23, 2015 Author Super User Posted December 23, 2015 Get your fishing in now, our overnight lows are going to be frigid next week. Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted December 24, 2015 Author Super User Posted December 24, 2015 Went out this morning for a couple of hours and nothing. It looked and felt like a front coming through which may have contributed to the outing. WHO CARES! How many times on Christmas Eve day in the Baystate are you going fishing in a t-shirt?!?! Anyway, the weather stabilized a bit in the afternoon and I ended up working out. Took a shower and threw on a pair of shorts and a baseball T-shirt and ended up throwing the baseball around with my son. Never, ever, done that on Christmas eve. My windows are still open! Love the weather, but I have a feeling our luck is running out!  MERRY CHRISTMAS!  John Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted December 25, 2015 Super User Posted December 25, 2015 Took a ride to Ponkapog Pond after breakfast. After  launching, my Lowrance settled in, showing a surface temp of 46 degrees. I threw chartreuse then black spinner baits as slowly as I could without success. My chrome & blue Rapala produced four pickerel. Two under a pound and the other two just under two pounds. Go figure. As I paddled back to the launch I tossed the Rapala one more time and came up with my Christmas bass, all 5 ounces of him. Sure can't complain, getting out on the kayak this late in the year in no more than jeans and a t-shirt (and PFD).  Merry Christmas to everyone on the forum and perhaps we can fish in groups in 2016. Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted December 29, 2015 Super User Posted December 29, 2015 OH well, the kayak's put away and winter looks like it's here.  The skis are ready.  March is only 12 weeks away....  Happy New Year everyone! Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted December 29, 2015 Super User Posted December 29, 2015 For real? The fishing season is now officially over. I admire your perseverance. As the last person to "leave the room", don't forget to turn out the lights. Wake me up when the winter is over. I'm leaving here in the middle of April for the warmer weather of Alabama and Tennessee, which means, "Pickwick Time". Happy New Year, and may next year bring even better fishing than last year. Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted December 29, 2015 Super User Posted December 29, 2015 Next year. This place. I'll be glad to show you some of the finest fishing in the state. This is the only public access. The ramp is in the top center of the image. You can see the roadway just above it. The small section of the pond is choked with lily pads, and coontail. There is a small channel which leads from the ramp to the twisting channel which leads to the main pond. It is not uncommon to see largemouth and smallmouth bass swimming along the "channel" edges. Largemouth over five pounds have been taken from this shallow area. I haven't seen any that big, but have seen several around two pounds. I have not made a single cast in this section, but that may change next year. I'll let you know when the fish start biting in earnest next year, and you can have the bow seat in my canoe, or bring your own vessel and follow me around.  The image below shows my home and the proximity to this pond and an even better smaller pond between home and Sawdy. It is surrounded by private property, but I have access to it. Devol is the closest to our home. Sawdy is to the left. Further left, in Tiverton, RI is Stafford Pond. The largest top center is South Watuppa. Upper left corner is Cook Pond in Fall River, MA. The nearly vertical line which jogs to the left where it touches South Watuppa is the MA/RI state line.  Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted December 29, 2015 Author Super User Posted December 29, 2015 I always wanted to fish Sawdy. I have a friend on here who hasn't signed in for quite a while now, fishes it all the time. We were supposed to hit it but our schedules never worked together. Good Luck! Quote
JG233 Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 Happy Holidays everyone! Bring on April already, jeeze. Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted December 30, 2015 Super User Posted December 30, 2015 8 hours ago, JG233 said: Happy Holidays everyone! Bring on April already, jeeze. Don't wish your life away. It goes by fast enough on its own. 1 Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted January 1, 2016 Super User Posted January 1, 2016 That looks like a big chunk of water for a kayak, Tom. Â I've got all winter to look for topos, and perhaps take a walk over it when it freezes. If I don't sell my Ascend 128T for an upgrade (I've got the Hobie/Native foot power itch...), I'll be sure to figure out how to get a trolling motor on the big girl. Â On a side note, we just booked a long weekend at our time-share in Orlando before the boss (err, wife) starts tax season, so I'll get half a day or so on the property's pond/lake with my Diawa Ardito travel rod and its T3 Ballistic (one of my favorites). Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 1, 2016 Super User Posted January 1, 2016 It's an ideal size for a kayak, a mile long, and a half mile across, give or take. Canoes and kayaks are the most common boats that launch at the ramp. Some use a jon boat or a small aluminum bass boat like a tracker.  There is good fishing anywhere on the pond, once you get to learn it a bit. Some areas are better than others, like any other pond, but there are no dead spots. That's why I've offered the guys on the forum to show them the basics of the pond, some of the hot spots, where the rocky shoals are, where to find the grass beds, etc. It's also a good ice fishing pond according to some I know that fish it.  Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted January 1, 2016 Super User Posted January 1, 2016 13 minutes ago, Fishing Rhino said: It's an ideal size for a kayak, a mile long, and a half mile across, give or take. Canoes and kayaks are the most common boats that launch at the ramp. Some use a jon boat or a small aluminum bass boat like a tracker.  There is good fishing anywhere on the pond, once you get to learn it a bit. Some areas are better than others, like any other pond, but there are no dead spots. That's why I've offered the guys on the forum to show them the basics of the pond, some of the hot spots, where the rocky shoals are, where to find the grass beds, etc. It's also a good ice fishing pond according to some I know that fish it.  Sounds like a plan.  Perhaps a casual Bassresource kayak tournament! And if I get a trolling motor on my 128T, I'll have a easier time transversing Great Herring.  I've grown to like that water very much, VERY quickly.. Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 1, 2016 Super User Posted January 1, 2016 Trust me. There is no comparison between GH and Sawdy. For two or three years, GH was one of my favorite fishing holes. That was when there was plenty of vegetation in the six to nine foot depths, that held plenty of fish. For whatever reason, over the past three or four years, most of it has vanished, and the fishing along with it. When the forage for bass and pickerel lose their cover, they become easy prey for game fish. It seems the bass are rarely hungry now. Mashpee/Wakeby has gone through the same transition during the last three or four years. Ashumet Pond, ditto. Lake Webster, also known as Lake Chaugoggagogmanchaugaggogchaubunagungamog (spelling from memory, so may be spelled incorrectly) has gone down the same path starting two or three years ago. Lake Singletary, more of the same. So far, "Lake X" has been spared the chemical defoliation treatments, and the fishing has remained consistently good.  Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted January 2, 2016 Author Super User Posted January 2, 2016 Don't forget, new year new license. 1 Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted January 3, 2016 Super User Posted January 3, 2016 Got my sporting license just before Christmas ? Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 3, 2016 Super User Posted January 3, 2016 Mine are free. Have been for a few years now. Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted January 3, 2016 Author Super User Posted January 3, 2016 On January 1, 2016 at 8:53 AM, DogBone_384 said: Sounds like a plan. Â Perhaps a casual Bassresource kayak tournament! And if I get a trolling motor on my 128T, I'll have a easier time transversing Great Herring. Â I've grown to like that water very much, VERY quickly.. Dicks Sports in Brockton sells trolling motors now, which surprised me a bit. I never thought to stop to check them out, but just wanted to throw it out there. Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted January 3, 2016 Super User Posted January 3, 2016 14 hours ago, Fishing Rhino said: Mine are free. Have been for a few years now. That's got to do with chronologic advancement, doesn't it.  My father is 75 and no longer pays to renew his gun license. Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted January 3, 2016 Super User Posted January 3, 2016 OK, let's start the off season right: http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20160401T05&p0=43&font=cursive Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted January 6, 2016 Super User Posted January 6, 2016 Drove through the Blue Hills. Your lure will bounce at St. Moritz and Hillside Pond, but Houghtons and Blue Hills Reservoir are still open. I'm going to try and catch a fish every month in '16.... Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 6, 2016 Super User Posted January 6, 2016 If you "know a guy", the pond in Foxboro at the BPS never freezes over. Quote
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