Mr. Aquarium

Wow that’s crazy! But sounds like a nice paddle

can’t wait to get out tomorrow! Hitting new spots

Battled the elements yesterday! Fished 2 spots! Got a few good whacks and a fat white perch at spot 1! Spot 2 got this chunky fish on a swimbait! Had a few good hits as well! This fish hit a Tiny Klash slllooowwee twitch and pause in 4 feet of water! I’ll be back out tomorrow!!!

I used to do that all the time, mostly rapalas, jitterbugs and old plastics. I still look in trees from time to time when im out on the water. Most of my lure hunting was when I was ice fishing.

I cant wait to get out this weekend!!! Hopefully this is the official start of the season

I wish I knew what the lakes setup like, IE: Offshore, shallow grass, flipping pitchin, Cranking, Smallies,spots, Largmouth. Also with these new guys, I don't know who what their strong game is. Like Greg Hackney, Flipping pitching, But Palinuk is a Smallie guy.

how do you guys pick? Do you guys read the articles, your favorites or locals?

Temps are looking good this week. Dogbone where we fishing this weekend?

The ones I mostly see are green and black! Walk around the shore line at night and look for craws. Some places I didn’t think had craws, had craws!

I go around at night, looking for craws then use that coloration to match my lures. my craws are black and green

Yea you'll be able to get out. Head south.

looking good for MA. It was super cold last week, but still open water around. 66 yesterday, mid 50s on Monday. 35 today. The forecast doesn't have super cold. Highs in the mid-upper 30s with some 40 degree days. My buddy was out yesterday water temps 39, pond 1/2 open. I was out saturday pond 1/4 open, water temps 39. On Friday my buddy and I were ice fishing. Open water in one pond, the pond next to it frozen solid with thick ice!

Good idea!! I'll be in NH this weekend

Got little brookie yesterday! They are so beautiful.

Thats the one. Im sure he could make a couple for ya. He's a great guy. facebook him or email.

My strengths are fishing, slow on bottom and top. Jigs, Texas rigs, chatterbaits, flip'n pitch'n, swimbaits and spooks. I can also skip pretty good My weakness are fishing in coldwater, jerkbaits and fast baits, Like crankbaits, spinnerbaits, buzz baits.

Thanks for the great info. Cant wait to see what this new season brings me! Hopefully an 8 plus

small cast masters, small spoons, the lindy micro slick jig is awesome, crappie jigs are awesome. small grubs on jig heads. I do a lot of ice jiggin. Mostly for crappies and perch. I tip my jigs with gulp micro 1 inch minnow. I use horizontal jigs a lot. When targeting perch, pound the bottom. So you drop the jig all the way down, lift up and let it fall back down, repeat a few times. This is kicking up the sediment on the bottom, this is also kicking up the bugs the perch eat. When I jig, I try to keep the my hand still. Its nearly impossible. So that slight movement makes the jig dance. They cant resist it. I've caught a few different fish jiggin. Smallies, largemouth, white perch, yellow perch, crappies, sunnies, perch, rainbow trout, pickerel I find smaller ponds. I set my tip ups near cover like blow downs. Then jig out in the middle. Thats mostly for warm water fish, Using shiners. Then I jig out towards the middle, but jiggin near cover is also a great idea. For trout, I fish shallow, the trout cruise near the shore. I'm sure they would cruise shallow flats that are out a good ways, but from my experience its always shallow near shore. Small shiners, worms, power bait works well on tip ups. For jiggin the previous mentioned jigs work!

check out samatis baits. He makes a 7inch craw, the thing its beastly! pumped to use it this year. It a new bait. I love his other craws, bit smaller but chunky for a jig trailer with different action

I cant figure out how to catch them in this pond. I've caught many fish over 6lbs, biggest is 7.8, in various locations around my area but this place boggles my mind. But I think the number 1 factor is not having a boat and not putting in time. When I get my new john boat, I finally really explore this place and fish it to its full potential. I'm very excited!!

largemouth! I live in Massachusetts. So a giant is 8lbs. I have no doubt theres bigger fish in here, wouldn't be surprised if there was a few pushing 10lbs. For the smallies, I think I just need to use more "smallie" baits. Like tubes and drop shots. Suspending hmmmm. So your saying they don't go deep and chill on bottom. ITS ALLLLLLWAAYYYSS WINDY HERE!!! ALLLLL THE TIME!!!!!!!!

Wow thank you for that awesome information! I have never seen that digestion time before. I'm really excited to explore this place with fish finders and a boat. I fished it yesterday on my kayak, this place is so deep, its amazing, very close to shore its 30-40 feet. I cant wait to bump and grind big baits on bottom.

SORRY FOR THE RAMBLING. It's winter and I'm thinking out loud. 1) finding bigger fish in general 2) bigger fish at night fishing. 3) declining smallie population? I have this lake, with big fish. Great forage, not a lot of pressure, lots of clear, deep water. good offshore structure. Its one of those places you wont go and crush it all the time or everyday. But if you know where to look and how to fish it, you will get good healthy bass. Theres very little shore and shallow cover/ structure. There is some in a few areas. No pads or surface weeds. The weeds are submerged. Not sure how high the come up. Most of my bass come off the steep drop offs. like 10-20 feet deep, near the shoreline drops. I fish a lot of smaller swimbaits and jigs on bottom, slow. But we cant get anything over over 5lbs in recent years. During the spawn, I've hooked some large fish, they spit the hook on the jump or go into the trees. I'v seen gorillas cursing deep. When I first started fishing here a few years ago. We had a great week of just slaying fish, they would push bait fish up on a shallow flat and HAMMER THEM. Full blown blitzing of smallies and largemouth. 4-5lbs of both fish. It seems like they school up. Both night and day, when you find one you usually find others. We know how to consistently get good quality healthy 3-5lb fish. But not the true giants. They dont seem to like bigger swimbaits its usually small baits. Maybe thats the ticket to getting the bigger fish slow big swimbaits. Not a lot of fish but bigger bass. Now I dont have a boat YET to get out off shore and dissect it. I think the bigger bass will stay deep and offshore away from the drop offs, and sit on off shore structure. Even though we have fished the offshore structure with no avail, very little action on what we usually use. I've done well night fishing here. They will move up but in a few select areas from what I've found. But I've really only night fished it from shore. once again NO BOAT. They dont really like topwaters. Only time I've gotten bit on topw was in one area, with trees and rocks close to shore with smaller baits. Other then that its on Texas rig, jigs, spinnerbaits and chatterbaits slow on bottom. So I'm thinking, the bigger bass will come up shallow to feed at night but aren't aggressive and dont want to waste their energy on snack. They want a slower bigger bait. Also thinking in keying on the key select areas. Maybe theres a reason we didnt get bass on that rocky hump? That could be a monsters home and he doesnt want any visitors. I also never power baits or reaction baits. Always slow on bottom We used to see a lot more smallies here and some large smallies to. but they arent as common anymore. Maybe they aren't handling the pressure as well? Decline in numbers? Rise in largemouth numbers? It could be the way we fish. I haven't tossed a drop shot in years!!! A tube bait works very well but its mostly smaller smallies. At night its mostly largemouth as well. I've caught the occasional smallie, last big smallie here was a 4lber on a buzz jet at night.

Thats awesome. I stuck around the Samatis baits booth for a bit. I was with my deaf buddy, If you saw someone signing it was most likely me. I got there just as the doors open. CANT WAIT TO USE MY NEW BAITS!!!! SPRING NEEDS TO HURRY UP!!!!

@LadiMopar congrats on the new beast. I was looking for ya but couldnt find you in the crowd. IT WAS PACKED!!!! spent a good amount, mostly at the Samatis baits. Bought a swimbait, some jigs, spinner baits annd a lot of plastics. Sunday I did the gun safety class for my LTC, it was a great weekend