Chris186 Posted June 12, 2019 Posted June 12, 2019 On 6/11/2019 at 9:19 AM, Dunks N Dinks said: Anyone fish South Watuppa lately? Wondering if its worth the 1-1.25hr drive from the East Cape this time of year? Is it ever worth the drive? LOL Its been slow, past couple of weekends the tourney winning weights were around 12lbs, a couple of 5's caught nothing spectacular. I would give it a couple weeks. 1 Quote
LipRipper978 Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 Went out Sat and Sun on the North Shore in the kayak. No shortage of LMB's....just nothing big. My biggest was 2.2 lbs. Hope you guys were able to get out and enjoy the nice weather. Looks like this weekend is supposed to be nice as well. May be targeting Stripers this weekend as I have read that new fish with sea lice have shown up recently. I love fishing the surf at night so hopefully I can get out to the fruity island and grab me a big girl! Best of luck out there guys. Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 14, 2019 Super User Posted June 14, 2019 Dropped into Ponkapog for a couple hours before Game 7. Caught one pick, about a pound, on a Texas rigged Yum ribbon tail. Water temps were 77.x, winds were mixed, and barometric pressure was 30.2. Water levels seemed normal and were still just over 6 feet in the middle. Two other kayakers also said they’d not had much luck and a bank fisherman reported he’d caught a few bass (I think he was using live bait.) The weeds are in full bloom, so leave your pedal drive home. Numbers have been pretty good this year, but size is noticeably down. Gonna have to try bigger baits in deeper water. 1 Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 16, 2019 Posted June 16, 2019 Quite the frustrating day at long pond lakeville today. Definitely some serious post spawn funk going on there. Our club held a tournament, I think there was about 15 participants - 10 boats 5 coanglers. The winner had 4 fish (no one caught a limit) for 7.5lbs or so. Your man Janderson here zeroed. I caught about 30 pickerel, and one 10” largemouth, not a word of exaggeration. That seemed to be the theme amongst most guys - winner had the guts to throw a hollow body frog all day long and caught 3 of his 4 keeper bass on it. Water temps had cooled down a tad from the previous two weekends I fished there, it had been 70-72 but with all of the recent cold rain this morning it was down to 68 and only warmed to 69.5ish. Was calm in the morning but a very gnarly south westerly wind picked up in the afternoon, I think we had gusts approaching 40mph. I caught all of my pickerel (in case you’re dying to know) on a squarebill, numerous jerkbaits, spinnerbait, chatterbait, Texas rigged rage bug, senko, ned rig, drop shot - I think that’s it but I may be forgetting one or two. Yeah. It was one of those days. Tomorrow’s gonna rain and I welcome it. I’m headed to the nip to fish frogs, paddletails and senkos all day. Who wants to bet I set the state record pickerel? 1 1 Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted June 16, 2019 Super User Posted June 16, 2019 On 6/11/2019 at 9:19 AM, Dunks N Dinks said: Anyone fish South Watuppa lately? Wondering if its worth the 1-1.25hr drive from the East Cape this time of year? My experience with S Watuppa is that it's not worth a mile to a mile and a quarter drive to fish that pond. I've had a few good days, but not enough to keep me goinjg back there with any regularity. Every time we drive by it on our way to Fall River, or other points west my wife will check to see if anyone is on the pond. It's a rare day to see any boat on the pond. There has to be some reason for that. The pond used to be crowded with boaters of all ilk on the pond. But no more. One good thing. It's definitely not over fished. 1 Quote
Dunks N Dinks Posted June 17, 2019 Posted June 17, 2019 Hahahaha message received. I've got a tourney coming up there and guess i'll just have to try to figure it out on the fly. Anyhow, I got out on Wequaquet Saturday morning and had a pretty rough go of it. Got 2 fish in the boat within the first hour on the water before I broke the shear pin in my trolling motor head, leaving me totally to the whims of the wind. Ended up calling it a day shortly after. 1 Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted June 17, 2019 Author Super User Posted June 17, 2019 Saturday was my first day out with the new T-Rigs I made: These worked great! I redesigned the line eye attachment and even made a new bait keeper clip (not shown here) and was an excellent rig to fish with. The soft plastic stayed put and held up well to the 2 fish I got into in the 2 hours I had time for. The fish have retreated from shore. I'm getting bites on off-shore structure. 1 was on a hump and the other was on the second weedline. Have a good day fellas. Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 18, 2019 Posted June 18, 2019 I got out Sunday at the Nip with my buddy - it was as I predicted and post spawn fish were just starting to get active. Overcast sky all day, on and off light showers and a light southwest wind. We both crushed them on a frog. It was hard to put them down, I also got one on a jig and my partner got one on a senko. We both missed more on the frog than we’d care to admit - they were really just slurping at it for the most part not super aggressive takes. That combined with the fact that my drag was FAR to loose for the first half dozen frog takes of the day tempered our numbers a bit more than they should’ve been. I think we boated 9 bass in about 5 hours. Only one pickerel all afternoon! He smashed my frog in a foot or two of water but other than that I helped fix my bass to pickerel ratio quite a bit yesterday. Water temp was 69-70. All post spawn. 2 Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 18, 2019 Posted June 18, 2019 Sooo with the conditions ripe we got at it again this afternoon. West Monponsett this time around. Different weather conditions, partly to mostly sunny this afternoon with no rain kicking around. Water temps at Monponsett were 72. We found more shallow up in the slop. I started off with a frog despite the high bright sun and immediately connected on four keepers in the first hour, including a 4.32 - again, all post spawn fish. The bite slowed down a bit after that, and it was my first time fishing there so we were a bit clueless after hammering all the available emergent vegetation. I got one more largemouth on a senko and my buddy got 3 more throughout the day, on a frog and paddletail swimbait. 6 Quote
gjfisher Posted June 19, 2019 Posted June 19, 2019 Fished for about 3 hours this morning. Post-spawn fish was active and feeding. Got 5 fish into the boat--nothing big with two in the 2.5-3.0lb range. Hooked but lost three other fish including a 4 lber right at the boat. Tried frog and buzzbait early and got nothing--neither is my confidence bait. Gave up on topwater. Started casting a swim jig and a finesse spinnerbait to the edge of weedlines and that did the damage. Quote
JG233 Posted June 19, 2019 Posted June 19, 2019 Full 8 hours on the water today fishing with Tom down in his neck of the woods. We started right at 5 AM. It was pleasant and cloudy all day. I did almost all my damage, 20+ fish, with the small ned rig and the fat ika. Sometimes simple works the best. I fished both baits pretty slow. Fish were absolutely inhaling the ika no matter how fast I set the hook. This led to some minor surgery, but "no fish were seriously harmed in the making of this day." My biggest LMB weighed in at 3'4, and fought like hell. Tom kept catching pickerel, all day. Until further notice, he's the Pickerel King. 4 Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 20, 2019 Posted June 20, 2019 On 6/19/2019 at 6:05 PM, JG233 said: Until further notice, he's the Pickerel King. I’ll happily be dethroned, but if you come at the king you best not miss. Quote
JG233 Posted June 20, 2019 Posted June 20, 2019 Haha - I should add, we did double up on fish on 3 different occasions. That was pretty cool! Quote
Quarry Man Posted June 20, 2019 Posted June 20, 2019 has anyone on here ever fished lake Shirley, my cousin lives on the lake and I have only catfished, and bass fished it once, many years ago. Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 21, 2019 Posted June 21, 2019 Headed out to East Brimfield tomorrow morning I believe - if not there probably Whitehall. Looking for some striped ones off race point Sunday. Tight lines this weekend my friends. 2 Quote
Deeare Posted June 23, 2019 Posted June 23, 2019 On 6/21/2019 at 4:40 PM, Janderson45 said: Looking for some striped ones off race point Sunday Tons of stripers in the bay. Brewster flats. Non stop action on poppers all day Thursday. Quote
Dunks N Dinks Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 Derby & Cape Salt Update: Team tourney outing at S. Watuppa was predictably stingy; brought 3 dinks and one 3.25lber to the scales for a middle of the pack finish. Few had limits and even fewer had put a pattern together in the post-spawn conditions. Water temps were ~72 degrees and visibility was on par with chocolate milk. We thought we had a decent offshore rock-pile bite going first thing in the morning, but after two quick bites, we went scoreless for 4.5hrs. Tough place to fish! On Sunday, we got out on the south side of the Cape to chase Bass of another kind. We ended up scouring the miles of rips off the south side of Monomoy and connected with 8-9 fish. Caught 4 keepers and had biggest one go about 34". Caught a few drifting live macks, a few other on SP Minnows trolled. Had one very cool bite on a weighted treble that i threw into a bunker school that never made it back to the boat...bass picked it right out of the fray after i had snagged it. Saltwater bite should be getting better and better in the next few weeks given the density of the bait out there. Quote
Dunks N Dinks Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 https://sdfish.com/general/dark-secret-americas-big-bass-guru-mike-long/ crazy story if you havent seen it yet... 3 Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 2 hours ago, Dunks N Dinks said: https://sdfish.com/general/dark-secret-americas-big-bass-guru-mike-long/ crazy story if you havent seen it yet... Do I have to stop using my Dobyns mike long jig rod? It’s one of the best in my arsenal ?. Quote
Super User DogBone_384 Posted June 25, 2019 Super User Posted June 25, 2019 I met Fishing Rhino at Cook Pond, in Fall River this morning around 8:30. He launched before I showed and caught one good bass that he said was about 3 pounds. We worked the place for an hour and a half and agreed that nothing was happening there and it was best to move on. Tom's Hummingbird told me the water temps here were 74.x. Tom packed up the Nitro and I followed him to Watuppa. We covered a lot of ground in just under three hours, threw a variety of soft baits, trebles, and donned our rain gear because Mother Nature opened up on us less than an hour after launching. At the end of it I managed a white perch on a black/blue jig that was nearly half its size. Water temps at Watuppa were 70.x. Barometric pressure was 29.9. Quote
Janderson45 Posted June 26, 2019 Posted June 26, 2019 Saturday I fished Whitehall from 5am-11am. No good bass, bunch of dinks and a boatload of pickerel. Water temps were 69-71. We pulled the boat at 11:30 or so and headed west to Buffumville Reservoir in Charlton Mass. my first time there, what a strange spot. We managed to do fairly well there believe it or not, my buddy and I each caught a limit of largemouth between the hours of 1-6pm. Water temps were 72-73 and the water was very muddy. All of our fish came on Texas rigged plastics. My partner hooked into the best fish of the day just before we got off the water around 6PM. It was sent about 3.5lbs and ate a 7.5” Yamamoto kut-tail worm in black color. I didn’t end up getting out for striper on Sunday. Trip canceled due to “high winds” ?. Obviously the captain hasn’t met me... 2 Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted June 26, 2019 Posted June 26, 2019 Haven’t gone bass fishing in a month. Boats in the water time for some bass of the striped variety 1 Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted June 26, 2019 Author Super User Posted June 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Mr. Aquarium said: Haven’t gone bass fishing in a month. Boats in the water time for some bass of the striped variety Hoping to do that next week, good luck! 1 Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted June 26, 2019 Posted June 26, 2019 15 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said: Hoping to do that next week, good luck! Go get em! Hoping for the first keeper of the year! 1 Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted June 26, 2019 Author Super User Posted June 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, Mr. Aquarium said: Go get em! Hoping for the first keeper of the year! Hopefully they'll be in Southern, ME by then. Usually are, but the water temps are little colder this year for this time of year. Do me a favor, push some up north for me... 1 Quote
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