Eastern Ma & New England Area Fishing Reports

[Mr. Aquarium]

Went to Ny over the weekend with my buddy and his buddy. I was looking for my first drum, gar or coho salmon. We fished salmon river and Oswego. We caught nothin.  The guy we brought up couldn’t walk well so we were screwed from the start.   
 

I need to go back to bass fishin. Going on  These fishing trips and not catching is getting real old!  

[bass.slayer69]

Got a couple of free weekends in October. Haven’t caught a LMB since May so looking forward to getting back on em! October usually isn’t too slow, right?

[Frezzy]

How's everyone been doing with LMB now that fall has firmly taken over?  Are you finding them shallow, or still deeper?

 

For me the quality has been good, but my numbers are way down.  In the past few weeks I have a 5-9, 5-5 and a few solid 4's.  However, I went from catching 10-12 bass on average to only getting a handful of bites in my normal 3-4 hour bank beating session.  I just cant find any spots with more than a fish or two.  They seem very scattered out.  And I can't put together a patter either.   Hoping it picks up in the next week or so.

[Mr. Aquarium]

Fished the night night. My first 2 ponds weren’t producing. Super cloudy water. I did miss one on the T rig Rage smokin rooster up shallow. Fished another pond I’ve never night fished before. Couldn’t get anything on swimbaits, spinner baits, t-rig, and chatterbait. Worked hard for 3 small fish. 1 was on the buzz jet, 2 on the shell cracker. They loved these baits. Had a bunch of blow ups 

[DogBone_384]

13 hours ago, Mr. Aquarium said:

Worked hard for 3 small fish.

We'll cure that this week.

[MassYak85]

On 10/1/2022 at 1:08 PM, Frezzy said:

How's everyone been doing with LMB now that fall has firmly taken over?  Are you finding them shallow, or still deeper?

 

For me the quality has been good, but my numbers are way down.  In the past few weeks I have a 5-9, 5-5 and a few solid 4's.  However, I went from catching 10-12 bass on average to only getting a handful of bites in my normal 3-4 hour bank beating session.  I just cant find any spots with more than a fish or two.  They seem very scattered out.  And I can't put together a patter either.   Hoping it picks up in the next week or so.

Fished Friday and got the skunk for bass, fished yesterday and did better, got 7 fish on a chatterbait. Not big ones but some solid fish mixed in. Very subtle bites though.

[Don51]

On 9/30/2022 at 11:03 PM, bass.slayer69 said:

Got a couple of free weekends in October. Haven’t caught a LMB since May so looking forward to getting back on em! October usually isn’t too slow, right?

October can be epic if you hit it just right. You just have to get out there and hope you are in the right place at the right time. Cover water and look for baitfish activity.

[DogBone_384]

Tossed the waders in the car and headed off to Hedges in hopes for some fall smallies…

 

My hopes were dashed!  I threw a good mixture of topwater, jerkbait, lipless, and soft baits and came up with a couple ‘pick-pick’s from a perch with a T-rigged Yum swimmer.  Most of the vegitation died off and there were small baitfish, shallow in the N corner.  The one highlight was the otter I spooked out of some reeds in the SE shallows.

 

I moved over to scout Bloody pond.  Made just a few casts before thunder came in and sunlight went out.  Most of it’s private and posted.  It’s a long walk to the town’s conservation area.  It looks like a typical Plymouth/Cape Cod kettle.

[Don51]

Dogbone. Man I would love to be up there right now with waders! I would hit Little for a couple of hours and then walk over to Billington. Ever fish BS with waders? You can cover a lot of water. Very shallow unobstructed shoreline. 

[DogBone_384]

@Don51, I’ve only fished Billington with my kayak & Ranger. I’ve been told there are big LMB there. I can take it or leave it.

I focus on smallies when I’m that far south.

[Mr. Aquarium]

5 hours ago, Don51 said:

Dogbone. Man I would love to be up there right now with waders! I would hit Little for a couple of hours and then walk over to Billington. Ever fish BS with waders? You can cover a lot of water. Very shallow unobstructed shoreline. 

I love this area so many good ponds to fish!  I’m learning new ponds every year! 

[Don51]

Dogbone.  BS has smallies! I never believed it until I actually caught one there. How they survive in such shallow, warm water is beyond me!  

[DogBone_384]

On 10/7/2022 at 3:29 AM, Don51 said:

BS has smallies!

That's believable ... but for whatever reason, I've never grown a liking for the place when Great South, Hedges, and Great Herring are a short drive away.

[bass.slayer69]

Anyone ever fished White Island Pond on the Plymouth/Wareham line? Doesn’t seem to be any access and looks to be a good spot that holds some big fish 

[Don51]

On 10/8/2022 at 11:02 AM, DogBone_384 said:

That's believable ... but for whatever reason, I've never grown a liking for the place when Great South, Hedges, and Great Herring are a short drive away.

I never cared for it either. When I was up from FL a couple of years ago I put some time on there. It kind of grows on you. This time of year it should be very good. Much easier to find them in shallow water. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

On 10/9/2022 at 12:01 AM, bass.slayer69 said:

Anyone ever fished White Island Pond on the Plymouth/Wareham line? Doesn’t seem to be any access and looks to be a good spot that holds some big fish 

Good luck. It’s tough to get to. Require some dragging.  Lot of pleasure boaters in the summer. The ramp is private!  Very big place. Honestly you can fish it like 2 or maybe 3 different ponds!

Got out on the kayak, wanted to hit a couple spots. Hit one I haven’t fished much,  couldn’t put a pattern together. I got one smallie on a jerkbait shortly after launch. Fished deep and shallow, tubes, jerkbaits, lipless and hair jig. I did  miss  decent one on a jig I made.  Hit one of my favorite ponds to salvage the slow day. Got a decent one shortly after launch on the tube. It was still slow. Fished the area for a bit. Got a small largemouth on a jerkbait. Switched up tubes tried a different angles jigs and colors, I had the 60 degree on tried the 90. Missed a nice smallie on the jump picked off 2 more bass. Biggest going 3.3. Got a nice pickerel to end the day on my jig! 

I don’t get many smallies at the 2nd pond. It’s not big but I noticed that most of them are on one side, gravel side, while the largemouth are on the grassy side. I catch 9 largemouth to 1 smallie here, even dead winter. But I also don’t fish the whole pond. I sit in the grass and get the largemouth. They are aggressive and can be caught even when the pond is mostly frozen. I just noticed this today cuz I haven’t caught a decent smallie here in a while!  My buddy lost a giant smallie here a few years ago. I saw the fish come up and roll cuz it couldn’t jump. Just a football, big bright white belly. That fish was in the largemouth territory in February 

[Frezzy]

Do any of you throw orange/fire craw color Chatterbaits in the fall here in MA?  I know they work well in early spring, but was wondering about fall.  Thanks!

[Mr. Aquarium]

1 hour ago, Frezzy said:

Do any of you throw orange/fire craw color Chatterbaits in the fall here in MA?  I know they work well in early spring, but was wondering about fall.  Thanks!

Doesn’t hurt to try! I don’t fish chatters as much as I should 

[bass.slayer69]

14 hours ago, Mr. Aquarium said:

Doesn’t hurt to try! I don’t fish chatters as much as I should 

Never had any luck on chatters. Spinners always work better for me.

[Mr. Aquarium]

8 hours ago, bass.slayer69 said:

Never had any luck on chatters. Spinners always work better for me.

I’ve got some big fish on chatters in the summer. Fishin them like a jig

[DogBone_384]

Dropped into Massapoag this afternoon looking for an October bass.  A nice dark brown smallie grabbed my clown V110 but spit me at the kayak.  Two white perch made it to the kayak, both chewing a GP Pro Blue V110.  I hooked onto something good on a copper/green/shad Ott's Garage OG slim, but it spit me before I could see it.

 

A chatterbait, Ned, tube, and 3.8" Keitech proved ineffective. 

 

Water temps were 60.x - 62.x.  Air pressure was 30.2, and winds were STIFF from the SE.

[DogBone_384]

Had a good afternoon with @Mr. Aquarium on Great Herring in Plymouth.  I caught one SMB, one LMB and two pint sized yellow perch.  Mike grabbed a SMB in the 9th inning on a tube (?) by a rocky point.  Two of my fish came from a clown V110jr +1, my SMB chomped a copper/green/shad Ott's Garage Slim 6, and one perch thought a 3.8" Keitech looked good.

 

It was blue bird, with light winds and water temps in the mid 60's.  Air pressure was 29.9.

[ManchuSBF]

On 10/8/2022 at 11:02 AM, DogBone_384 said:

That's believable ... but for whatever reason, I've never grown a liking for the place when Great South, Hedges, and Great Herring are a short drive away.

Tried to hit great south last week in the kayak. Lots of new signage on drew road where I used to park.

Any idea how to access great south now? You can't get near it from Myles Standish

 

 

[DogBone_384]

45 minutes ago, ManchuSBF said:

Lots of new signage on drew road

Two cars can park by the pump house @ Little South.  That’s it.

[Don51]

9 hours ago, DogBone_384 said:

Two cars can park by the pump house @ Little South.  That’s it.

You can park on the side of Rocky Pond Rd. and launch at the beach area to the right of the pump house . At least you used to be able to.