Super User MassYak85 Posted June 20, 2018 Super User Posted June 20, 2018 Nice fish Tim! Uggggh, 1 more week and I'll be back up joining you guys. I haven't fished in like a month since I let my Virginia license expire in May and didn't want to pay 70 bucks to renew it just for a month. Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 20, 2018 Super User Posted June 20, 2018 I dropped into Great South just after dawn this morning and was met by G L A S S smooth water. Oh boy, I thought, TOPWATER SMALLIES!!! Four hours later I had two 3+ pound pickerels, four yellow perch, a frying pan bluegill, and four dink smallies ... ALL ON A NED RIG !?!?!?!?!!!? I have no idea where the big bite was, but three different topwater, a brown/purple jig, wacky Senko, and various DTs couldn’t buy a strike. Water temps were 71.x - 73.x. By the time I left the wind apwas too much for my five pound anchor. Great South sure has MY number this year. I know there are good size bass there ... ?... just WHERE they are ... Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 i went out for afternoon to night mission with a buddy, showing him a spot. shorefishing. had a bunch of blow ups on frogs, we both missed a few good fish. we both got pickerel at this spot. it got dark, i had a few hits on a magnum trick worm weedless rigged. probably some crappies or sunnies. he got a big crappie on a bait he painted. i missed a good fish on a mattlures meathead. he had big blow up on a swimbait. we fished old faith full for a few hours, i had a fish hit a scabellys jointed plug. slow night. no bass. Quote
JG233 Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 Slooooow day on the Quabbin yesterday. Although @Fishing Rhino did land a nice 5 lb LMB. 1 Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 3 hours ago, JG233 said: Slooooow day on the Quabbin yesterday. Although @Fishing Rhino did land a nice 5 lb LMB. Post spawn to boot, that's a heck of a catch 1 Quote
JG233 Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 He's a heck of a fisherman. Right next to gate 3, within sight of it. ?♂️ Quote
je1946 Posted June 24, 2018 Posted June 24, 2018 7 hours ago, JG233 said: He's a heck of a fisherman. Right next to gate 3, within sight of it. ?♂️ Got that right JG. I like fishing with him. 1 Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 25, 2018 Posted June 25, 2018 Got out on Norton reservoir yesterday with 3 of my buddies, we beat up on the post small males pretty good from about 9am to 2pm, then the sun broke thru the clouds and the bite died pretty quick on us. probably 20-30 bass caught between the four of us, nothing that broke 3lbs though. Wacky rig was the number one producer, but paddletails, jigs, Texas rigged tubes and topwater all caught bass as well. The Lund factory resumed production on June 18th, so I believe my Renegade is on the assembly line as we speak. Not sure how long it takes them to build it- hoping that I will have it from the dealer in mid July, but really not sure. 2 Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 25, 2018 Super User Posted June 25, 2018 I'm heading out with Tom tomorrow.... looking forward to some good Larries. Quote
je1946 Posted June 26, 2018 Posted June 26, 2018 3 hours ago, DogBone_384 said: I'm heading out with Tom tomorrow.... looking forward to some good Larries. Don't catch em all. Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 26, 2018 Super User Posted June 26, 2018 Pretty unlikely... I’ll give it a heck of a try though. Quote
Dunks N Dinks Posted June 26, 2018 Posted June 26, 2018 (Striped) Bass Cape Update With the passing of the solstice and the arrival of the full June moon, its just about peak Striper season on the Cape and this past weekend did not disappoint. Best two days of inshore salty fishing I can remember. The bass are up in the shoals off the southern point of Monomoy and are munching on mackerel and an abundance of squid. Saturday in the fog especially, there were hour long blitzes going on and while most fish are on the smaller side, there were some bigger ones lying below the fray. Here's a 40" fish I got Sunday on light tackle ...hit a bone white 4" Daiwa SP minnow 2 Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 26, 2018 Super User Posted June 26, 2018 22 hours ago, je1946 said: Don't catch em all. I didn't catch them all but the ones I caught were good. We caught Larries, pickerel, white perch, crappie, and one bluegill (Tom). Tom caught more fish and species, but I lucked out late and horsed a 4-5 LMB out of lili pads as we headed back to the launch to grab the biggest of the day. Probably my best day of the year. A big thanks to Tom for giving me the front of his canoe and staying a little longer than planned.... 4 Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted June 27, 2018 Posted June 27, 2018 any of you guys familiar with centerpin fishing in upstate new york for steelheads? Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 28, 2018 Super User Posted June 28, 2018 I took a friend’s son to Ponkie for a couple hours this afternoon. Evan came up with a nice 3-5 Larry on a T-rigged fluke. Water temp was 74.x and the level is down a couple feet from Spring. I’ll go back tomorrow, weather permitting. Sorry Mike, centerpin fishing !?!?!?!?!?!, can’t help with that. Never heard of it. 2 Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted June 28, 2018 Posted June 28, 2018 a centerpin is like a big fly reel, its designed for steelhead fishing on rivers with floats. there is no drag but super long rods 12-15 feet long. also with light lines. its designed for drag free drifts to give the most natural drift, great for pressured fish in the rivers. it was designed over in Europe i believe England. Quote
LadiMopar Posted June 28, 2018 Posted June 28, 2018 22 hours ago, Mr. Aquarium said: any of you guys familiar with centerpin fishing in upstate new york for steelheads? Are you planning a trip to the Salmon river in Pulaski? Used to go there with my former father-in-law. It was quite the experience, although I don't recommend ever going on opening day; unless you like being snagged and have really good medical insurance! ?? ! Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 28, 2018 Super User Posted June 28, 2018 I couldn't resist another trip to Ponkie so launched I did around 7:30. Keeping it simple with a wacky Yum Dinger and T-rigged Yamamoto Kut-tail I landed three dinks and a new PB (by 1 oz... but it's bigger - AND NO, I DIDN'T HAVE MY THUMB ON THE SCALE!) 4-12 Larry. Water temps were 72.x and thunder rolled in just after I released the big bass so I beat feet. Maybe I'll head back later when the T-storms pass. Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted June 28, 2018 Posted June 28, 2018 2 hours ago, LadiMopar said: Are you planning a trip to the Salmon river in Pulaski? Used to go there with my former father-in-law. It was quite the experience, although I don't recommend ever going on opening day; unless you like being snagged and have really good medical insurance! ?? ! i dont fish salmon river for that reason,. i fish other smaller area rivers. been going there for a few years! I LOVE IT!!@! Quote
Super User J Francho Posted June 28, 2018 Super User Posted June 28, 2018 On 6/27/2018 at 11:29 AM, Mr. Aquarium said: any of you guys familiar with centerpin fishing in upstate new york for steelheads? Yup! 1 Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 29, 2018 Super User Posted June 29, 2018 Dropped back in Ponkie after the thunder storms passed. Another good trip with 6 bass and 4 pickerel with a 3-11 pick devouring a bluegill Spook Puppy late in the afternoon. Water temps were 73.x, up a touch from the morning. The big winners were a green/red flake Yamamoto Kut Tail and the Spook Puppy. Unfortunately for another big pickerel who bit through my leader, that Spook Puppy is likely stuck to its face.... Quote
LadiMopar Posted June 29, 2018 Posted June 29, 2018 8 hours ago, Mr. Aquarium said: i dont fish salmon river for that reason,. i fish other smaller area rivers. been going there for a few years! I LOVE IT!!@! Smart move, there's plenty of water and fish to go around in NY, never could wrap my brain around that elbow to A-hole mentality....I like a little room to move personally...of course the other thought I've had about that is, if the fish were hunting us would they have H2O videos on why humans stack up on the bank in certain seasons? ? Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted June 30, 2018 Posted June 30, 2018 yep, if im at a river with elow to elbow people are pretty cool. other rivers some days im the only out there! Quote
Super User MassYak85 Posted June 30, 2018 Super User Posted June 30, 2018 Fished Whitehall today 6am to 4pm for my first outing in MA this year. All I can say is the pickerel must have had a good spawn a couple years ago because little 10-12 inch fingerlings were all I could catch. Slooooooooooow day. Never did try fishing the really deep part but gave the deeper weed edges on the steeper shores plenty of time with nothing to show for it. Fished everything from swimjigs, big worms to MS Slammers. Pickerel seemed to prefer a keitech on an owner flashy swimmer. You know it's a bad day when eve the pickerel are finicky. I messed up what was probably my one chance at a bass on a hookset on a 10" worm. My drag was too light so the hook didn't penetrate and it spit it immediately. Oh well though. It was also VERY hot, I thought I left this kind of heat down in Virginia lol. Hopefully the fish are in a bit better mood after a few days of this where they can get used to it. Quote
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