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GREAT fish! love how you under play its size hahaha ive been looking for one that big for years!! kudos!!

did it work?

nice! did that catch make you stay longer? haha

yeah sorry the water is murky compared to the ponds i fish. here you lose sight of the lure about 2-3 feet down. not sure of water temps. i dont know the pond yet still learning it. their are some weed lines and some lilly pads but not much at all. on left side of the pond their are weed lines about 10 feet off shore, here the water is about 5 feet deep. the right side of the pond is undercut banks with lots of trees and shrubs.about 4- feet of shore the water drops rapidly up to 20 feet deep. i assumed this would be the best side. but left side does get the sun about 1-3 hrs after the right side does at sun up. at the back is a spill way basicly. its a house in the water with a dam on one wall.( used to be a drinking water res) this house is about 30 feet from shore. the shore is all bank about 5 feet deep and has lilly pads but only for about 3 feet out.no trees or shrubs here. its a dirt access road for the farmer. their is also a small creek the enters on this side, this is where the shad come in from. can always get one bass in that creek but thats it. the creek is maybe 3 feet deep in places but mostly within 2 feet. as for the bottom structure im unsure yet. i was dragging a weight and bush hog to drag on bottom i believe its mostly mud and decomposing matter. didnt feel any rock patches, but could be wrong. i didnt spend alot of time figuring out the bottom. i was throwing some cranks, i wanted to smack them into the bottom but never felt a hit on bottom like you do when your on rock. when the bait got to the boat it had leaves stuck to the bill and hook. i know along the sides their is a lot of branches and wood in the water (caught plenty of branches) i understand that this is different fishing than my usual 10 feet deep ponds. not sure what mean here " Chuck-n-wind horizontally will kill you deep. Sometimes it will kill you shallow too -if you are expecting the fish to chase. I guess what I mean to say is lures don't catch fish, fisherman do.

my goal was to catch at least one fish per trip. i have managed that and skunked once this year. so im pretty happy and say its mission accomplished. my next is to land a autumn 5lber. never fished much in the fall

Nice fish!! top water blow ups are the best!! congrats on wedding 2.0 and best of luck with 11/11

was out fishing and my friend from new jersety was out fishing in his home town. we were sharing pics of our catches. after about 6-7 texts i get one with a fishing rod, so i ask what that was, he replied that was my last catch. lol he was trolling and got snagged and pulled up a brand new spinning reel and swimbait attached. (forgot the name but he said it was a good rod that you dont find at dicks or walmart) last year on a rain y day my friend and i went pout. left most of the gear in the truck and took our rods. i caught a nice 5.13 lb pickerel on a 6"jointed minnoy with three trebble hooks i reached down after about a minute or two waiting for him to stop thrashing, i reached down and BAM he spazzed and set one of the trebbles into my finger past the barb. i dropped the pickerel when i felt the pain and he spazzed more while the hook was in my finger. lessons learned ! ALWAYS bring pliers and lip grip 2 NEVER trust a pickerel

awesome fish! nothing better than catching a fish that gives you an extra lure!

congrats on the PB! your quest isn't over you just raised the stakes! was it a good fight?? pulling drag and making some splashing jumps? lol when i fish my first goal is to catch A fish just to get the skunk off then im constantly on the hunt for big mamma and whatever i get inbetween is icing on the cake for me.

ok thanks. i was using some crank baits but dont have any deep divers to smash the bottom with. i realize its different fishing here which is why i was using cranks. i dont get to throw crank baits a lot cause of the weeds. i was trying here for two reasons first some big fish have been pulled out of here according to a friend with pics(doesnt mean it was this pond for sure) and two is no one fishes here. their is no ramp to get in but their is right across the street at pond two. definetly wont be going here for a little while need to catch some more fish. thank you for the advice. edit: forgot to mention that shad enters in pond one. so i assumed some big mammas would be waiting at the point shad enter. not sure if shad has run yet. thats new territory for me. i need to learn more about shad. i also threw out my minnow trap to see what small fish were roaming around. dummy me let the trap down to far and mud filled the entire trap (made a homemade minnow trap out of 2 litre bottle incase someone happened upon it they wouldnt take my nice trap)

not sure if they sell them for bait, but they could have brought it their. i sometimes throw out my minnow trap and bring in some live bait to use.

started off this morning great! got on the water for 5 am. beautiful out! nice starry sky and flat glass across the pond. for Sure im landing a big mamma today! started off using my spitten wa frog and the buzz plug(black) made about 30 cast casts... had just ONE interest. he bite at the frog but not full hearted so i quickly grab my ultra light with rubber worm and tried to finesse her out. NOPE. i tried everything! i used plastic worms from 5"- 12" in purple, pumpkin seed, motor oil, yellow ribbon tail, pumpkin seed bush hog, swim baits. nothing! tried crankbaits started with a crawdad black/orange/red color. got one 1lb on it with a slow to moderate retrieve. was pumped thought i figured it out. after about 3 hrs and losing my tail hook to a underwater structure i had to try a different one. (forgot my spare hooks and rings) tied on a yellow belly kvd crank. NOTHING! switched one of my other rods to a chatter bait. tried whit skirt and a green/orange skirt with crawdad claws. not any interest. tried to beef them up with a trailer. tried 4' boot tail to a 2' crawdad trailer blue. nothing. now im getting agitated, of course now im agitated i make a cast and got the worst rats nest ever in my bait caster with braid, so had to retire the bait caster for the day. thankfully i got 3 other rods with me. i go back to the pumpkin seed bush hog. got a nice bite i set the hook(didntfeel I set it good enough) and she was coming right at me, I tried setting the hook good and either yanked it out or never had her hooked to begin with, bummer! i left that area right away in hopes i could come back in a few for her. about an hr later i came back and fished that area for a while nothing. i start heading back and see this monster break water had to of been atleast 3lbs. i set anchor about 25 feet away and tried my best and threw everything at her with all sorts of retrieves and even just letting the bait sit for minutes. nothing. start headed back again. cast into this little nook and got my line about 6 feet over the water.so i twitched it a few times n nothing start with heavy twitch to unsnag the line not to fish and BAM hooked one nothing special but i was happy. got one more dink on the way back. got to the boat ramp reach down and sliced my pam open on a dam bolt. get everything all set to go get about 2 miles and my canoe nearly fell off my car lol stopped and fixed everything. WHAT A DAY!! not sure if i shoulda stayed home in bed I have been fishing at the new bedford ma. res. its two long bodies of water, pond one is just over a half mile and pond two is just shy of one mile. both are connected bye a tunnel under the road. pond one is about 20 feet deep with undercut banks and alot of structure. pond two is about 15 feet deep with three little coves filled with lilly pads and at the end of pond two it opens to a circular pond jam packed with duck weed and lilly pads.with a tiny creek at the end. i have caught fish in pond two in the lilly pads at the end of the pond. but not having luck in pond one. fishing report above was pond one. why cant i catch fish in pond one but i can in pond two??? im not familiar with fishing such open water like pond one. any advice would be greatly appreciated

if its goverment owned id assume same standards as a government post office. but htese guys are right id call around a couple places make sure. wouldnt want to be wrong and suffer consequences

i was fishing at a cranberry bog pond and seen this one bass following my worm, i casted about 12 times with all sorts of retrieves, the bass followed but never hit it once, i switched to a 3" jointed minnow and she smacked it as soon as it hit the water. so whenever i see a fish following i immediately switch to a rod with different bait and cast back asap! one good reason for multiple rods

In Mass.anything over 7lb is a pin fish. so you would be hearing of ecstatic people with bass over 7lbs. weights are at bottom http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg/dfw/hunting-fishing-wildlife-watching/fishing/minimum-weight-requirements.html

yeah i figured they would move due to low water. the water here isnt deep i would be surprised if it reached 15 feet. the deepest open water is 3-4 feet till the tops of the low weeds. but everywhere else is solid lilly pads and thick ass weeds. i didnt mind catching the pickerel as it was the only ones this year so far which is amazing! usually ill catch a few pickerel per trip but not this year. its a tuough pond to fish at times.its either they bite everything or nothing at all. but so far ive noticed if i start catching 3-4 pickerel in the same spot their isnt any bass in that area, or atleast not biting my lure.

shouldnt they arent grounded to anything

i have had the same issue with power pro and it was new line no fish caught on it. i know it frayes quick when catching fish, i check now after every cast or when i have to yank harder than normal to get through weeds. but i honestly think that if their is slack in the line when you set the hook it snaps, so maybe slack line then a hook set is too much pressure and creates breaks.

awesome! thanks.

ok cool. thx was just wondering. didnt know if pickeral scared off fish like snapping turtles. i catch bass and pickerel just not in same areas

When pickeral are biting is the bass bite off?? i went fishing today to one of my favorite spots. i usually pull a a few bass out without a doubt. but today i got their and the water was down 2 feet. im assuming its due to the cranberry bogs and the daily pumping. the weeds were extra thick due to low water. i didnt skunk today cause i caught pickeral but that was all that was biting today. i was using a spittin wa frog, torpedo 3", curly tail worms, banjo minnow shad clr, and black buzz plug. i caught a pickeral on almost everything. the banjo minnow had no takes.(shad isnt common here) just trying to figure out if pickeral scare fish away. any tips or articles i can read about bass behavior when around other species??

i always thought it was how many of that species they netted in a certain time in a certain area.

i bring a pair of nail snips. ill cut the hooks so i can get them out if i cant extract the hook. i care more about the fish being released with no damage or hooks left in than i do about a $1 hook.

hello. im from south eastern mass. fall river to be specific. looking for someone in my area that like to fish towards the cape. i have a canoe so can use that or if you have a boat maybe i could toss some gas money. just wanna learn others techniques and styles. and fish different areas than i uaually go too.

cool thanks much appreciated.