Eastern Ma & New England Area Fishing Reports

[MassYak85]

So my local lake was lowered dramatically the past two winters and sprayed, all in an effort to kill some of the weeds as they have taken over parts of the lakes in recent years. Well it worked, but unfortunately it may have ruined one of my go-to shore fishing spots. The thing that made it a great spot was you had rocks and sand that dropped off into a nice weed line, and you could almost always count on getting a couple along that weed line. Now, I haven't caught a fish there all year, not even a pickeral. There are other spots like this on the lake but I can only get to them if I take my kayak out, but they have produced this year so far. 

 

@DogBone_384 Sounds like a real hellish day, but at least you got a fish! I took my friend out for a few hours to fish a couple days ago and decided to let him try my bait casting set up for a few casts (I usually just give him my spinning set up for the day), that like you said yours is, is basically set and forget. First 3 casts went well for him, but on the 4th cast he shot the lure right into a tree....and since it stopped so quick and the spool did not, he managed one of the worst backlashes I have ever seen. He didn't know any better though, not knowing about thumbing the spool and all. RIP a spool of Sniper FC. Luckily I was going to have to respool it soon anyways since I had a phantom breakoff earlier in the year that took about 1/3 of my spool's line. I didn't even think about the possibility of him casting into the tree so that one is on me. 

[DogBone_384]

No, just one of those days...  Returned after work this evening and fared better. A few picks straight away and one bass, roughly a pound.

Lightning moved in just after the bass. I beat feet just before the downpour.

[Mr. Aquarium]

WEEKEND REPORT: got out of work at 11 friday night shot down to plymouth and fish  midnight to 10 am. 2 ponds. night bite was decent at spot #1. missed a few fish caught a couple 3lbsers.  topwater bite wasnt good no blow ups. caught fish on chatterbaits and big ugly texas rigged plastics. fished hear till about 5 am.  then went to another pond down the road! fished 5ish to 10ish. bite was decent on slammers slow twitched. nothing big all dinks.  i got a bullhead on a slammer right when i got there! i was so pumped! i havent got a bullhead in years and that i got a bullhead on a slammer to! theres supposed to be big bass in this 2nd pond ive seen em but they arent  bitting good even on the swimbaits. 

sunday went out 7-4. paddling down a river an owl flew into a branch 10 feet above me! it was soooo awesome! i love owls!  flew away to quickly to get a picture. 
bite was tough! lost a big fish. fish texas rigged,frogs,swimbaits and chatter baits.  couple of dink fish and a 3.5 pickerel. pickerel were biting good. bass sucked! 

[MassYak85]

A bullhead on a slammer? Interesting. 

I've been catching some pickerel around that size recently too. Big fat ones that all had bluegill in their stomachs. I actually got 2 on a savage gear line through blue gill. A little disappointing to set the hook on a swimbait and hook a pickerel but hey, it's still a fish.  

[Mr. Aquarium]

right! it sucks when your fishing a big bass pond and you hook into a fish thinking its a big bass but you end up catching big pickerel

[yosef]

On ‎4‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 1:07 PM, JG233 said:

I tried fishing the rocks at the southern end of Spot Pond today--no luck. I threw a small jig with a rage craw trailer and a rage menace on a 1/8 jig head. 

Anyone have advice on how to fish that place? 

spot pond is tough but there are big bass in there , ive had good luck by the boathouse, straw point "turtle rock" and the beach area before the zoo...usually fish spinners and crankbaits there but my friends fish senkos and have good luck

[massrob]

On 6/7/2016 at 8:25 AM, sd0a said:

I'm in Stoughton.  If there is any place you recommend in the Norwood area, I'll give it a try.

I figured you were in Stoughton my girlfriend is from there. The place I do the best in Norwood is ellis pond its right near Hannafords it looks like crap but theres some big fish in there. Buckmaster pond in westwood I caught my pb there a month ago but mostly small fish. Ellis is dirty water so black and blue plastics I usually just throw a senko when i fish from the bank. And a frog when I go in my kayak theres pad fields all the way back so its hard to fish anything else. Pm if you want 

[MassYak85]

11 hours ago, massrob said:

I figured you were in Stoughton my girlfriend is from there. The place I do the best in Norwood is ellis pond its right near Hannafords it looks like crap but theres some big fish in there. Buckmaster pond in westwood I caught my pb there a month ago but mostly small fish. Ellis is dirty water so black and blue plastics I usually just throw a senko when i fish from the bank. And a frog when I go in my kayak theres pad fields all the way back so its hard to fish anything else. Pm if you want 

I fished buckmaster a few years back in my kayak and was talking to this one guy on the bank. He said he got a 10lber out of there on a frog once. It would surprise me if there are still any that big in there though. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

went out from 6p-2a. right off the bat i catch a nice 3lbser on texas rig rage craw.   nothing else happening at this spot! saw a tank cruising shallow but wanted nothing to do with what was tossin. she did take a 2nd look at the real prey perch.  i work my way around to a wind blown point. noting for a little while here! i switched up to a sexy dawg and catch another twin 3lbser. few more hits on the topwater. fished a buzz jet and texas rig for  awhile but nothing on em! so i decided to try out my new strike king night spinner bait! first cast bam missed fish! 2nd cast as the bait was fallin the bass smoked it!  fighting hard like a smallie. nice 3.8lbser. i worked the area with it but nothing else. the spinner bait was catching a ton of weeds!  not the good kind either! the kind of weeds that cover your lures.i see some flash lights on the other shore line near the spot i always do good at. so i kinda hightail it over. just some kids having a good time sitting around the fire!   i catch a few fish here! lost a couple good ones on texas rig!  switch up to a chatterbait and they clobbered it! pulled out 2 4lbsers. biggest being 4.5. i worked my way down shore to another point but got  this weird feeling. then i hear some howling. oh ****! so i go back to where i caught the 4s. fished there for a little! calmed down! so i headed out! on the way back through woods i passed another little pond  fished there! then heard the woods erupt with coyotes pretty friggin close!  so i got the hell outa there! 

couple of good fish! nothing under 3lbs biggest was 4.5. zero fish on top after dark!  these fish were fighting like hell tho! they were jumping like smallies! 

oh and i found out my waders had a bad leak so i got friggin soaked! 

[massrob]

Went to my favorite spot today in my kayak after work caught one right away on a frog then throwing the whopper plopper caught three more. First time there in my kayak this year and if it wasnt so windy I think I wouldve done much better. Ive had my best week yet this year with only being able to fish in the morning after work for an hour or two. Caught a 3lber on monday then a couple on Wednesday and a few more today. Hope everybody is doing well

[DogBone_384]

Drove south to Plymouth and dropped into Little Pond for a little bit yesterday afternoon.  Water temps were in the low 70's and wind gusty from the East.  Got two straight away on my gourd green T-rigged worm and two more on a wacky rigged Senko.  Had to work last night so I bailed at 3:30.  Nothing over a pound and a half, but it beats nothing.

[sd0a]

On 6/10/2016 at 2:36 AM, massrob said:

I figured you were in Stoughton my girlfriend is from there. The place I do the best in Norwood is ellis pond its right near Hannafords it looks like crap but theres some big fish in there. Buckmaster pond in westwood I caught my pb there a month ago but mostly small fish. Ellis is dirty water so black and blue plastics I usually just throw a senko when i fish from the bank. And a frog when I go in my kayak theres pad fields all the way back so its hard to fish anything else. Pm if you want 

 

Thanks for the tip @massrob.  I've driven by Ellis pond before, few weeks back.  Checked it out and it looked good but never went back to fish it.  Maybe I'll hit that and Buckmaster this weekend and see what I can get.

 

My weekend was pretty uneventful, only nabbed a small pickerel on a texas rigged worm of all things.  Went back to a couple ponds I've been to before and tried a new pond on Sunday morning.  Went to Ames Long Pond.  It was a bit windy, so, casting was a challenge.  Even more of a challenge was casting and not pulling back weeds with you.  I didn't get any bites while I was there and the wind was just too much, so I moved on.  I ended up moving on to the northern pond of Ames Long Pond.  I pulled in to a little clearing to try my luck.  This is where I would like to give a little PSA about always knowing your surroundings.

I wasn't paying attention to anything but the lake in front of me.  As I walked down towards it I heard a rustling to my right and to my surprise I saw a rather large snake moving away from me.  I'm 34 years old, I've lived in the woods for most of my life and consider myself an avid outdoorsman, but, I've never seen a snake this big.  Largest thing I've encountered was a garter snake.  Well, after that one slithers off I notice another one just sitting there sunning himself.  I snapped a picture and after looking it up online I believe it was just a black racer which is as harmless as a garter snake.  Though, in my research I discovered that Copperheads and Rattlesnakes are indigenous, though rare, in this state.  So, always keep your wits about you folks.

 

[Mr. Aquarium]

yea thats the only snake i can think of that gets that big 

so i went back to the pond ive been doing well at but this time i decided to take the yak out instead of shore fishin. fished 6p-6a.  i pounded the back and the western shore the bite sucked.  i got 3 dinks in the 8 hours i fished that shoreline! i even targeted some offshore humps i knew of. fished a lot of topwater chatterbaits and spinerbaits. texas rigged creature baits craws and 10 inch worms. so at 3 am i was back to the spot ive been smoking bass at. i get out of the yak and shore fished here till 6.  first cast i catch a little 2lbs smallie. 
switch up to a texas rig.   i missed a good fish. next cast catch a 4.9 largemouth.   then a 4.1 smallie and a 3lbs even largemouth. 

oh and  a cool thing happened to me! as i was fishing i could see flashes of light and i didnt know what the hell they were. i got scared a storm was rolling through but the skies were partly cloudy  so i checked the radar map on my phone closest storm was south of marthas vineyard and nantucket. so as i got out towards the middle of the pond i could see the storm rolling through! i thought it was pretty cool that i could see a storm so far south! 

[MassYak85]

Nice fish there man. I've seen similar things with thunderstorms as well, it's really cool. I was on vacation in Maine last year and there were thunderstorms rolling through. After they had passed us I was looking at the radar and waaaaay south Boston was getting a really strong one. We could actually see the some of the flashes in the tops of the thunderheads as it moved off the coast from Boston. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

broke my PB yesterday! 7.8lbs caught it on a 9inch deep crank x2 blue gill ms slammer. cranked the bait down along a drop off near some shoreline pads

[massrob]

Congrats on the new pb. What a fish 

[MassYak85]

Went for a paddle on Whitehall today, saw some guy's truck getting towed out of the lake when I got to the ramp. Remember those parking brakes everyone!

[Mr. Aquarium]

caught a 5.10lbser wednesday afternoon. caught a 3.5 and 4.9 last night 

[MassYak85]

3 hours ago, Mike Dixon said:

caught a 5.10lbser wednesday afternoon. caught a 3.5 and 4.9 last night 

Dude you're killing them. Seems like every other time you post you are getting a fish bigger than my personal best (5.4). 

[Mr. Aquarium]

11 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

Dude you're killing them. Seems like every other time you post you are getting a fish bigger than my personal best (5.4). 

thanks man! i put in the hours to get these fish!  been doing a lot of night fishing! 

[MassYak85]

1 hour ago, Mike Dixon said:

thanks man! i put in the hours to get these fish!  been doing a lot of night fishing! 

That's something I honestly haven't done a lot of, I might try it more this summer from my kayak if I can get some safety stuff rigged up for it. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

all you need is a headlamp and life jacket but ive been having the best luck from shore

[MassYak85]

1 hour ago, Mike Dixon said:

all you need is a headlamp and life jacket but ive been having the best luck from shore

Yea I've got both, but I want to be able to set up a light that isn't on my head, so bugs aren't dive bombing my face. I will definitely do some fishing from shore too. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

I never keep my light on! Only when changing lures! Bugs haven't been bad

[DogBone_384]

Finally getting a day off... Hitting Great Herring @ dawn ?

ADD:

Hit the water at 0530.  It was surprisingly cool and expectedly windy.  Water temps were in the low 70s and BP just about 30.  

I started at the point left of the ramp with a green/red flake swim Senko, green/red NED, and my trusty smallie colored, jointed Rapala.  Not much happening here, just one dark small mouth on the NED.  I moved down the East shore for the first time to see what was there.  I managed just a few hits on the Rapala until I got to the docks North of Camp Bourndale where I dropped a 4" wacky rigged Senko at a dock's ladder and sure enough, a nice smallie, just shy of 2 pounds accommodated me.

By 1100 the wind was too much for my kayak so I made way to 'the red house' where I managed two more smallies, two Larrys, three perch, and one really bright Pumpkinseed/Sunny (?), all on a yellow perch flavored jointed Rapala.  

Had to beat feet at 1300 to get to work by 1500.  Nobody broke my scale, but all in all a good day, despite the wind.