A week on Island and Spectacle Pond

[Boomstick]

I just got back from a week long camping and fishing trip in the Northeast Kingdom with my two kids. On Sunday, we setup camp and walked the trail around Spectable Pond. A bald eagle flew right in front of us, less than 20 feet away, ironically on a point labeled "Eagle Point", named after the family who once lived there.

 

Monday was supposed to be the coldest day, so we hiked trails and fished the rest of the time. 

 

On Tuesday, we launched on Spectacle Pond, a 150 acre pond that is ideal for kayaking. I caught two bass just shy of 3 lbs, one on my first cast with the jig as well as a chain pickerel. I'm fairly sure I could have easily caught my limit if we did not decide to check out the entire pond for possible fishing spots and remained in the area I was getting hits, which is something we usually do on our first day.

 

Wednesday was cold and rainy, so we looked for shore fishing locations, but we did not find a whole lot of great spots. We spend most of our time near the boat launch for Seymour Lake, but did not try to take the kayaks out there because the chop on that water was quite aggressive.

 

On Thursday, we launched on the much larger Island Pond. We did not catch any fish but given the conditions, I'm not surprised. There are mountains on two sides but none on the end the wind blows from, so that created a rather strong current and chop. We saw two more bald eagles, one perched in a tree and one squawking and flying in circles.

 

On Friday and Saturday, we went out on Spectacle Pond but the bite died off. My oldest son did land a chain pickerel on a wacky rig on Friday and a nice bass on Saturday on a jig, and my youngest missed what had to have been a giant, which dragged him around the lake a bit until he eventually lost it when it wrapped around his brother's anchor line.

 

The weird thing is we could not get them to hit any moving or reaction baits. The only thing we did not try was a popper.