DogBone_384

Welcome to the forum Andy! You'll meet & share with some of the best bassers around.....

Do you keep a net with you? I use a folding net on my kayak to land pickerel and other non-bass fish. I find they calm down some when in the net... You should be able to get a picture then.

Welcome to the forum. Hook onto the thread titled: Eastern MA fishing reports found in the Northeast section. Great info from great locals.

I gave it one last go... and boy it went... I launched at Long Pond in Plymouth at sunrise. It's supposed to be a great place for MA smallies, so optimistically I packed a couple of MH baitcasters and my trusty *** M/F worm rod, hoping for some type of bass to close out the season. After a lot of practice with a brown/craw colored jig, perch flavored lipless, and my trusty Zoom T-rig, I packed it in around 11:00. Surface temps were in the low 60s. I couldn't take looking at the other guys there (fishing for trout) almost watching the trout jump in their boats/kayaks any longer. The couple guys from shore were catching them too, seemingly on every other cast. I luckily had time off to fish Monday through today, but with not more than three pickerel to show for it, I believe it's time to hang up the baitcasters for the season and grab the light spinning tackle and wade for trout. I can say, though I still only catch one or two bass per outing, I managed one just under 4 pounds @ Ponkapog which makes this season a reasonable success for me. Next year I'm going to work on catching a bass or two on jigs, which I've never done before. Perhaps it's time to enlist the help of a couple of you 'experts' next Spring to see if I can close the disconnect I have getting fish into my kayak... would be fun, because I'm getting bored of fishing alone all the time. Tight lines everyone!

I'm no expert, by a long way, but my MH/F Veritas throws 1/2 baits much better than my M rods and is more than respectable with 4" Senkos. What reel is it matched with?

X2 - I've been bass-skunked three times this week, catching only a couple pickerel here & there... Congrats.

Switched it up today by driving down to Jacob's Pond in Norwell. It's a shallow pond about half the size of Ponkapog with a really nice car-top ramp. The surface water temp was about 60 degrees. I started on the Western side, working a mouse in and along the lily pads and weeds, nothing. Switched off between a yellow perch Rapala and a Mepps spinner as I worked across the pond. I snagged a GIANT 8" pickerel. After a while without so much as a sniff, I packed it up and headed to Wampatuck State Park. They were closing the camping area and getting a key for the boat ramp was an issue, so I stopped by Whitman's Pond in Weymouth where I got nothing with my mouse, craw flavored jig, Senko, and Zoom t-rigged worm. Water temps here were 62-ish. I've never had great luck at either pond, so no foul. With the water temps being where they are, I'd have to say bass season is pretty well done... I have tomorrow off, so I might give it one last go before I get back to my 2nd job and start fishing for trout...

I don't have 35+ setups (yet?) but do quite well keeping the 'Monkey' busy.... I keep a spreadsheet of each reel's tuning, type of line, etc...

I gave Ponkie another go this morning, regardless of the weather. Got there around 9:00, put my rain gear on and away I paddled. Caught two pickerel straight away on a red/red flake 4" Senko. I played with a new bass flavored Yozuri popper without anymore than a few pecks from bluegill. I also threw 4"smoke/flake, 5" watermelon w/red & green flake Senkos, and a black with bronze spinner bait without success. I worked the north & north west areas for the first time. It didn't look much different from the eastern part I've had good luck in: between 5 & 6' with many patches of hydrilla. I tried a brown/orange football jig but gave up after just a couple of casts becuse it just didn't travel through the weeds at all. Surface temps were right around 60 - 61 and the weather went from pouring rain to partly sunny in an hour. I don't know where the bass were, or what I was doing wrong today, but 2 pickerel is better than a goose egg.

They're probably tough to find these days, but a depth-charge might do the trick...

Took my friend's son who's winning his fight against leukemia to Ponkapog pond yesterday. He managed two pretty good pickerels on his new 'popper'. I caught weeds. Vowed to get back there ALL DAY today because of the spectacular forecast. Didn't get there until 11:30 and after two and a half hours of nothing more than a small pickerel, I packed it in. I believe I had similar luck the last couple 'blue bird' days I fished there, though I managed one or two decent bass on those days. My Lowrance showed surface temps in the low 60's. Being a holiday Ponkie was very crowded. There were five other 'yak fishermen there, the most I've ever seen there. Two I spoke to caught only one bass each and a third reported he caught 4. I have Tues-Thurs off. I'm debating whether or not to give it another go or pack it in for the season and try for Trout.

Sounds similar to my last MRI..... replacing the herniated discs with miscellaneous vertabre fractures and compressions, that is.

X2. Of the reels I own, my Revo is one of the best casting and the pickiest with respect to technique. If I've been fishing a long while and am not careful with my arm motion the Revo lets me know. It's a great reel and will make you a better baitcast user.

It's pretty well been said already: it's personal preference. I carry a 340PD in warm weather and Sig 239 when clothing allows. I like the 340 because it has an enclosed hammer and weighs almost nothing. The Sig is just a sweet shooting pistol.

I wrote a case study on Walmart for my MBA. In short they were charged with, and found guilty of locking employees in stores until they were finished working while not paying them OT. They also bought a chain of stores in Canada as part of their expansion: only the chain's non-union stores. I could go on for pages.... I don't shop there. As far a BPS, they've got nearly everything I look for though I've noticed during the last year or so much more shelf space is allocated to the 'house brand', which makes sense from a retail perspective. After all, whose name is on the door?

The Shining, for sure. As for MY wedding video, glad to say it went smooth as silk, and my wife, being from the Philippines, well, was traffic-stopping..

X2. Just picked up a new 9.1:1 Zillion and 7.1:1 1016 T3 C H E A P...

Buy ALL of them, one at a time...

X22 OT and side work is abundant right now, have some extra cash.... Monkey's got me pinned down at the keyboard .... My 9.1:1 Zillion showed up today.

I hoped to get out this week with the good weather but our plans changed quickly. We're hosting an exchange student from Spain for a couple weeks. My daughter dropped that request on us on short notice so that 'to do' list everyone has around their house just skipped 1st and went right to 5th gear... If I don't get out for bass while our guest is here, I'll surely get out for some trout fishing. I've been dying to try out my 9'6" 'float'n'fly' rod.... especially since I don't know ANYTHING about trout fishing. Anyone want to give it a go with me, drop me a PM. Have a great week everyone!

Thanks for the heads up but my schedule changed quickly. We're hosting an exchange student from Spain for a couple weeks. My daughter dropped that request on us on short notice so that 'to do' list everyone has around their house just skipped 1st and went right to 5th gear... Maybe I'll get up there, maybe not.... this year. I'll just buy another N/R license next year and use it more... Have a great week everyone!

Had an hour between jobs this afternoon. I stopped by BHR and on my third or fourth cast bagged a nice 3+ pound bass on a craw flavored chatterbait with a brown/red-flake Havoc something or another trailer. That was all, but I'll take it.​ I'm planning on NOT working Wednesday, just haven't figured out where to go and for how long to fish....​

Dang-it.... you beat me to it.... ​

Thanks. I have some time off this week and don't want to waste my NH non-resident fishing license...... I hear you guys have BIG bass up there...

I sometimes think about it, but in the world we live in today where 'everyone's right and nobody can be offended', I pretty well mind my own business. You know the old saying about opinions....