Jigfishn10

It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed meeting you all. Thank you all again for your hospitality. I especially want to thank Rhino for letting me fish off his boat. He is truly a gentleman.

Is the Home Depot parkig lot on the corner of Rte 109 & Rte 126?

Eastern MA guy here, welcome to the site. Glad to have you aboard!

I should be good as well. I agree with Jones, I don't think it'll be that bad.

I hope you can sleep at night, that's highway robbery... Then again, I wouldn't lose a wink...GREAT PURCHASE! Good luck with it!

Anyone have a lure or lures that you've had for years that you know, in a pinch, you can pull out of your well reserved spot in your tackle box and attach it to your line and catch a fish with it? My topwater year was really bad from Memorial Day to Labor Day, so after Labor Day I pulled out a Spit'n Image I had for 10-12 years and caught the most fish on topwaters in a 2 week span than I did the rest of the year combined. I also have a buzzbait I've had since the mid 90's. Round rubber skirt, black over lime green, yellow head (don't ask the brand, I have no idea). I got a few buzzbait bass this year, but after Labor Day, same thing, in a 2 week period I had more buzzbait bass than the rest of the year. Coincidence? Maybe, but my confidence is so high on those 2 lures that I can't go fishing with out them. Year in and year out, I know I can pull one of those 2 lures out and save an otherwise disappointing day. Anyone have anything similar?

Welcome aboard. Glad to have you with us.

Nice one. I'm glad you got to spend some time wth your dad. I don't get to spend nearly enough time with mine.

That's awesome A-Jay. You and your bride had quite a day. That's a real nice pike for sure, she must have been thrilled to finally get that one in? AHHH, why does it sound like she out-fished you? BAH-WAH-HAHAHAHA Seriously, congrats to you both, that sounds like quite the experience to be able to fish with your wife.

Looks great bbf. Were you able to try them out? If so, what kind of action did you get out of it? Looks like a shallow diver with a shimmy to it like a trap. Let us know.

NGaHB is on point, great technique right there! Try a buzzbait as well. My how bass love a killed buzzbait in that situation. Could be trout. Our fisheries just got stocked and they're always busting the surface, or going airborne this time of year here in the northeast.

Could be a tough bite...I'm coming armed with a c-rig just in case.

WOW! Nice oinker for sure. WTG Nashua.

IMHO: In both cases, obviously keep the stick baits and flukes. Both waterways you can use jigs, spinnerbaits, tubes, lipless cranks, worms (I'm sure I'm missing some things here) and any topwater of your choice. Lake 1 with weeds: I'm not a huge lipped crankbait fan fishing from the bank on weedy lakes. I'd rather throw a spinnerbait of lipless crank if I'm looking for a reaction strike. My opinion only. Jigs would be some type of finesse/flipping jig like an SK bitsy bug or bitsy flip (just using that brand as an example). Check out some of the sponsors here on this site (Siebert Outdoors and Northstart) you can't go wrong with either. The jig needs to have at most a 30* line tie otherwise you'll spend a lot of time taking weedes off your jig. Lake 2 with rocks/gravel: Screams lipped cranks, especially in a craw pattern (if any time would be the most ample time would be spring) or a shad pattern. Football jigs: You can't beat a football jig in rocks/gravel. I only scratched the surface and I'm sure some folks here will chime in on this, but I hope this helps you get started.

What's the lake composition like? Weedy, rocky, woody? Water clarity? Depth? I try and base my tackle around those things. Andy C is on point about fishing the same from a bank in comparison to a boat. There's really no difference other than you have more access to fishing spots in a boat.

Hopefully the bite will be as good as it was this afternoon. They were fairly shallow and liking the SK finesse football jig.

I usually do pretty well in the late fall season. It's awesome as well, you get the whole body of water to yourself. The latest I caught was a week before Christmas here in MA. I got about 4 that day on a spinnerbait and the bite was pretty aggressive.

"Ask not what a craw color can do for you, but what you could do for your craw color." Pick colors that will be most visible under water in relation to your fishing conditions. Make it visible and present it properly and the rest will hook into place.

I'll hit 495 from 95 in Canton. I'LL Meet you all at Homer D. Po's house.

Sounds good...I ready to fish now...LOL The bite has been slow, so I hope we get lightning in a bottle this weekend and have some nice fish caught.

I just cleared the domestic logistics hurdle. I'm in and who should I meet in the morning?

Is that a correct statement?

Niiicccce! You're certainly on em! WTG A-Jay! Man, I miss smallie fishing. Congrats, hopefully you'll have many more to come!

Whoa, WTG! That must have been awesome! Congrats!

I posted right after I read this and I never looked at the calender, this coming Saturday is the 1st and I have off. I'm working the 7th, but if you want to make it the 1st I'm still in if not I have to switchout for the following weekend which is the 7th. EDIT: The 7th is a Friday and the 14th is the following Friday. so it's the 1st, 8th, or 15th for Saturday's