Mr. Aquarium

Awesome dude. I live in Massachusetts we have the same as well. I fish when the herring migrate up into the ponds. Now that the run is pretty much over. I would look for juvy herring. Freshly hatched. you can get on some big bites. I would use smaller baits. I believe they move closer to shore. You can get on some good blitzes. My herring run fishing is strictly in the spring when 1000s move in. The prespawn fish love it and go nuts. I’ve seen massive fish actively chase herring schools and smash them. Here’s a couple from this year. I went 3 for 5 of bass over 5lbs. I lost an absolute giant right at shore. All one the one Real prey swimbait. They wouldn’t hit anything else

I fish the same area as you from shore. Let’s go fishin. I’ve been fishin this area for 28 years. PM me

How big are they? Are they an ocean run fish or landlocked? I fish a lot of herring run ponds. Small ponds. Like 20 acres to 100 acres. The ocean run fish are pretty big. 7-10 inches. Blue back and alewifes. Where I fish they are very particular in how they want the lure presented. I did very well on a real prey 7 inch swimbait. He makes a 6.5 inch alewife. Highly recommend it. It’s silicone so they will last fish after fish after fish. Some places they love topwaters. Some places they love soft swimbaits. But the one thing I found is go SLLLLOOWWW. creep it. It’s boring but that’s how you get the giants. I’ll sit on a Spot for days if I know there’s a giant sitting there. Casting the same 4 or 5 lures for hours. They are pelagic species. Meaning open water. so you have a few options. You can actively chase the bait schools. Or target structure where they will swim over or around. Like main lake points, choke points, creek channels, mid lake humps, mid lake rock piles, brush piles, etc . The big bass will sit there and wait for a school to pass by. lot of great lures are mentioned above. Flukes, glide baits, soft swimbaits, bama rigs, topwaters, spinnerbaits, Jerkbaits, underspins, crank baits, swim jigs. you have quite a few options. Try a few out. Different presentations. Slow and fast.

@MassYak85 now you need a 7

Keep hustlin bud.

@MassYak85 hell ya dude. Awesome fish! Congratulations buddy

I’d fish a rapala, Senko, a popper or spook. Tons of great spots. You could hit and shore bang multiple spots. Try and learn each spot you’re fishin. Some places they love certain lures. Most of my bass fishing is from shore

Makes freshwater fishing enjoyable. I can’t be on pond or lake when it’s hot

d**n that’s a beast. Congrats

Throw a dart at the map. So many good ponds in the area!

Haven’t gone bass fishing since April, Went out Friday night. Hot 2 ponds, 1st was a bust, got a few at pond 2. They wanted topwaters, a lucky craft Bulldog and a lanciotti psycho gill got it done. They didn’t want any chatter baits or t rigs. Got a handful of dinks. Biggest was 3.11 My buddy hit me up for some stripers on his boat. He got 3 good fish, one going 20lbs , I only got one small fish. Saw plenty of fish. Lot of follows and half hearted hits. I can tell ya I hate bright calm sunny days.

Got 2 small stripers, 2 sea robins and a fluke.

I’m braving the elements going to chase big stripers and blues in the surf! No bass fishin for me for the foreseeable future

Yes the hook sets are poor on the weedless hudds but they get chewed. Buy a top hook clip it, run a treble.

I’m going to have stock up on all the zoom flukes! They are honestly one of the best producing soft plastics. I catch everything on em

Pike are a fish of a 1000 casts, I’ve caught a handful in MA. They love hitting last minute at the boat. Some days are better then others. I’ve had days where you get one follow. Then other days they just don’t care they’ll hit anything. So just keep fishing. if the bite sucks. I’ll go catch a sunnie and live line it then continue tossin plugs for em. Usually works for me I’d fish for bass then you get pike lol.

Couple warm days would get them up and spawning. Water warms quick.

Had a good weekend catching stripers. Friday night was good. 6 fish at sunset, went home came back at 10. Missed 2 big fish. Then hit another spot, got one more and got a hickory shad. Hot lure this weekend was a 1/16 ounce trout jig I tied up. 6 Fish last night on it, biggest 26 inches. 3 fish Sunday.

I use live bait, Mostly for other species tho.

After a slow day of toggin. Went out striper fishing down the cape. Caught my first weakfish. Can’t believe I got this fish. I’m beyond excited. This fish is very rare and hard to catch in MA. They are very cyclical meaning each year is very different. Some years a good number return other years not many return. If someone told me a few months ago that I would catch a weakfish, I would laugh and tell em they are ***tin. I also did manage a schoolie and 2 sea robins lol.

Hell ya buddy. Awesome fish got some fresh migrant stripers today, first of the year

I catch skates, they are a ray with out the stinger just couple of spikes. I love fluke and winter flounder! They are awesome

Never. I got bit on topwater at night in early March. March is when I start tossing big topwaters. Day and night. Some big fish early season are caught on em. Water temps in the 50s they are aggressive! Go get em

Yea long pond has been crap. Heard from a few guys that the bite isn’t there

Lost another piggy today. I was close to landing it. Fish hit, no fight just lot of weight. Jumped twice. Spit hooked on the 2nd jump. If it didn’t jump the 2nd time. Or if it didn’t spit the hook then I would have landed it.