jaystraw

I'm pretty sure it was NHBasstard (spelling?)

No problem with 8:000am. It's just your boat, my boat and wagns boat with bassmaster. I may have a an old friend from VT coming with his own boat, but I doubt it. I also may have an open seat in my boat. My partner for the day was unemployed and recently got a job that starts Friday. I have no problem fishing alone, but there is an open seat on the nitro.

OK. Just got back from driving by Hopkinton-Everett Lake. I think it will do just fine for us. Might be a lot easier to fish than Powder Mill Pond. It's got deper and shallower sections. Could be real interesting. It's pretty big, but it looks absolutely huge. There are several different areas to fish, the launch is adequate. It's a narrow ramp made of concrete blocks. From Nashua: Take Everett Tpke North to 293 North to 93 North through Manchester, to 89 North. Take Exit 5 off of Route 89 North on the left, and after you go over the bridge, take Stumpfield Road on the right (approx 1 mile). Follow Stumpfield Road and you will see a sign that read "Stumpfield Boat Launch". Follow the road and take a left when you see the boat ramp sign. The ramp is about .2 miles on the right with parking for 20 rigs. From Peterborough, Take a left on Stumpfield Road. Follow Stumpfield Road and you will see a sign that read "Stumpfield Boat Launch". Follow the road and take a left when you see the boat ramp sign. The ramp is about .2 miles on the right with parking for 20 rigs. See y'all friday at 7:30am!! I think we will be having some spawn action if we are lucky!

Yeah it as a great time today wagn! Thanks for coming out, and I'm glad we got on the fish. Here comes the spawn boys! We saw SMB & LMB on the beds today

Great fish Jawstraw! Love the fight smallies give. Is that Massabesic? I was wondering if they were on bed yet. Nope, it's a little pond up here in Hillsboro. But if they are on the beds here, they must be there.

It was the big fish of the night, but I did not have a chance to weigh her. I wanted to get her back on the beds ASAP. I'd say she was about 2.5 or so. I love smallies!

Hey Guys, Got out today and after looking around for the fish for a while, we found them on super shallow beds! They were pretty spooky, but we managed to each catch a half dozen from about 5:00pm-8:00pm. It was fun to be fishing smallies off of beds, and they all got released and went right back to them. Water temp ranged from 60-63 degrees. All fish were caught on senkos or a creature type bait.

I'm gonna do a drive by and check out the scene soon. i"ll let everyone know ASAP!!

Yeah, I saw someone out there on a nice Triton on Sunday. The ramps must be open again. I've only launched a jon boat fromn there, but there is a great ramp at Elm Brook State Park (on the other side of the lake I think). I think there is also a great ramp right off Stumpfield Road (Clarks says so anyway) . Tom, I think this place will be a lot closer for you. Alll you have o do is get on The Everett Tpke North, follow 293 to 93N, get on Route 89N in Concord and get off at exit 5. Hopkinton Lake would be about 1 mile off the exit. I'd be up for fishing the Pisq. River, but I'd prefer to pick a place with a really stable water level.

I think it's also (incorrectly) called Stumpfield Marsh, and I just found that it's also called Evertt Lake (not that I had heard before, but...). Part of it is the lake you drive over when you take exit 5 off of Route 89 North. There is a lot more on the right hand side of Route 9 heading west that you cannot see through the trees. It also opens up the possibility of fishing Stumpfield Marsh as well because it's just across the street. Hopkinton Lake the main lake that Drew lake is the overflow for. Here is a link: http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/hel/helhome.htm Fish and Game does not have a link to it. I'm not sure why. It's in Clarks on page A-54 of the 2003 edition. It's got crappie, as well as LMB's. I actually caught a huge crappie (pictured below) there one night. I've only fished it once, but I know people have good luck there. I'm still open to Powder Mill as well. It does seem like a good spawn lake, but it's bigger than I thought. It could be tough for Tom if he does not have a gas motor.

Hey Guys, After going to Powder Mill Pond this past weekend, I was thinking of changing it to another place that has more numbers of bass. There are some good ones in there, but I''m wondering if we should go to Hopkinton Lake instead. The access is open, and it gives us the chance to catch numbers as well as pull in a monster. It would also make the trip a little shorter for the Nashua guys. Wagn, this would probably affect you the most because it will make your drive a lot longer. Please let me know if you have any strong objections. Sorry to be flip-flopping on this. I like Powder Mill Pond, but I'm a little afraid it could be tough to catch them there with the amount of pressure it gets and how oddly contoured it is. Also, if someone does not have a good sized motor, they could be at a real disadvantage to even get all the way out to the pond.

Nice fish fmoore! WOW!! I could only get out yesterday. I got out on Powder Mill Pond from 8:30am-12:30pm. It was pretty slow fishing but I pulled in a nice 3 lb 10 oz LMB out of a deep tree and a small smallmouth in super shallow water. Both were on senkos. By the time we left there were over 20 cars in the parking lot! It got super busy. Here's a pic of the LMB:

I made the meetup tiine 7:30am and the start time 8:00am now so Tom and his fishing partner can get some extra time on the water because he may have to leave earlier than 3:00pm. the stop time has changed to 2:00pm, but I'll stay later if others want to. Please let me know if these times do not work for anyone. Glad to see you'll have a short drive wagn!

Sounds good wagn! Let's make this fairly solid right now: Rain or Shine : Friday May 14, 2010 at Powder Mill Pond in Greenfield. Fishing from 8:ooam to 2:00pm. We can go later if everyone wants to. I know I'll fish all day long if given to opportunity and good weather Let's meet no later than 7:30am at the launch/parking area. I can make the times later if people are still going to travel from the Nashua area. If people want to, we can go to Rick and Diane's Brick Oven Pizza in Antrim afterwards. Great food and a nice atmosphere.

No problem man. Family first!! Tom are you still in? I know you and unhbasss were going to share a boat. If it's easier, we can change it to later in the summer. I just wanted to hit the spawn together as a group, but we can change things to get everyone included. I know there was another person thart could not make the date. But like I said before, I'll be out fishing that day, and everyone that can is welcome to join me.

Nice pigs fmoore! I gotta get over to the river!

unhbass..do you know when you will know if you have a conflict? I can change the weekend if you do, but I just wanted to it early enough not to cause problems. I just want to make it easy on Tom. Regardless, I"ll be fishing that day and everyone who wants to can join me!!

Yeah, Mt William's does get packed for such a small place I do not even fish there anymore becaue of how busy it is. Glad to see people are having luck!

Went to Loon in Hillsboro from 7:30-10:30am. Caught a grand total of 1 SMB on a joes flie spinner. Water temp was 50 degrees

Just got back from fishing in Sutton from 7:00am-1:30pm. It was cold and pretty windy on most of the lake, but I managed to catch about 15 LMB and 1 SMB. Biggest LMB was 3 lbs. Almost all were caught on senkos near wood cover or in the frist dropoff away from the shore. Caught the SMB on a perch fat rap and one LMB on a Mepps spinner. Pretty good day.

I got out on my smallie spot tonight from 4-7 and caught 2 nice smallies and 1 big smallie. Also caught a good sized pickeral as well. All on senoks near wood in the water. could not buy a bite on anything but a senko.

Yeah, they say "no public access" because the park/launch is supposedly only for Hillsboro town residents. It's actually a paved launch with a dock!!!! I've never launched there, but I've fished froom shore and caught a LMB. I was at the launch a couple weeks ago and the water level was too low and the dock was not in. I'm going to head back over there later next week to see where things stand.

got out for about 10 casts on the new boat today. I got a call after that and had to go. Managed to catch a nice 2 pound LMB and a pickeral in those 10 casts. I wish I could have stayed a lot longer.

I just wanted everyone to know that the NH get together still has plenty of room for anyone that wants to join us fishing on Friday May 14, 2010. Please check out the thread if you want to come. No fee or anything like that, but we may decide to do a lunker pool if folks want to. http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1271333273

I can do that. Both lakes are also easy to get to..and I'm sure you will catch something. You'll probably end up catching the monster of the day!! So far we have: me and Matt W. in my boat wagn- with open seat possibly with Matt-who needs a seat Derek and Tom- Same boat That's it so far. Hopefully we can get a few more folks, but if not, I'm still planning on it.