22 minutes ago, DogBone_384 said:

Got back from Florida last night.  Didn't bring any fishing gear, which was the right call.  My resort closed the lake again due to wind & cold.  I spent 2 1/2 days at the Mecum auction, bid on a couple cars, but they got past my budget.  A '70 Skylark convertible and '67 Cutlass convertible. 

 

Going to keep the tackle monkey locked up for a year and bring something home next year.

 

Looking forward to meeting members on the 21st.

 Thats Ironic!,.In the 80's 2 of my buddies had the same cars. Dave had a gs convertable, I think it was a 70, same body style,... and Gary a 67 cutlass convertable. Both white, and abused in the heat off the summers,...lol

Not so ironic. They were great cars.  I had a '72 Skylark convertible in college that I paid $2,500 for.  Before that I had a '72 Cutlass I bought from my 5th grade teacher (she finally got tired of my hounding her for the car) and grew up riding around in a '70 Olds Vista Cruiser.  I'm an Olds guy first, but there weren't any in a range I could touch.  The Buick I was outbid  for sold for $23,000.  Best sunroof you can get.

 

My wife and daughter both have Jeep Wranglers.  If I didn't need a pickup for work I'd have one too.  We'd be the crazy Jeep family in my neighborhood.

 

OK, it's mid January.... half way through winter, I'm getting itchy...

51 minutes ago, DogBone_384 said:

OK, it's mid January.... half way through winter, I'm getting itchy...

 

Sawdy is looking pretty good for this year.  Went by it the other day.  Water is above the highest stain marks on the rocks.  About six inches higher than the top plank on the dam at the ramp.  Hope it stays high.  Will make coming and going a breeze.

 

Last week when I went by the ramp, there was a pickup with a trailer parked on the upper road.  Temps were in the fifties, but the wind was blowing 20 - 25 mph.  Would have been a great day but for the wind.

 

Will get more interested after we get back from Daytona and our daughter's place in GA the first week in March.

 

Devol is probably the same.  Water levels must have recovered there as well.

Still in that awkward stage or thin ice, but no open water to cast into in my area. Sigh. Hopefully in a couple weeks there will be ice (or spring can just come early, either works). 

I went by Blue Hills Reservior and Sunset lake yesterday. Both were skimmed over.  I might  drive to Plymouth and scope out deeper waters.

i went out this past weekend. managed a small bass and big perch. had a few other hits lost some decent fish. went out thursday had a few hits but didnt get anything! ponds were open! 

Thanks for the info Mike, you're fishing southern waters in the Plymouth, Carver, etc. areas?

yep! plymouth carve cape, south shore is open! 

 Meet , greet, and eat is today at 1:30,... Basspro shops fireplace,...stop by if you can. The more the merrier.

I'm not working Monday. If the weather cooperates I might get out and try for a January bass.

 

BHR & Houghton's was still skimmed over on the ride home this afternoon, so south I will try...

Sine we talked about Oldham at the M-G-E this afternoon, I dug this up when I got home:

 

http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dfg/dfw/habitat/maps-ponds/dfwoldham.pdf

 

 

Sweet Mike!,..alot of info I didnt know about that place.,... If you get to fish it soon, the deep water straight out from the ramp area should be holding most of the fish.

 I wont be un-buttoning my boat til "at least" after February's freeze.

 

tried over the weekend. got skunked  fish swimbaits  most of the time. 

I drove by Jacobs Pond in Norwell.  It was wide open.  They've got a nice kayak ramp where you can launch and stay dry.

 

They say there are big bass in there, but I've not caught anything north of two pounds.  There are lots of pickerel and yellow perch too, so odds are pretty good at getting something, even in the cold weather.

 

It's 5' deep at its max, when water level is at its highest, just past the island with the lone rock at your 4 o'clock.

 

ADD: What do you mean you got skunked this weekend Mike?!?!?!?  That doesn't happen to you! what happened?

 

 

Yea Mike what's up? Were you fishing with bananas? 

i was fishing big swimbaits mostly!  only got out on sunday for a few hours.  i had one whack on a swimbait! 

been skunked the last 3 times ive been out! AHHHHHH

Next week looks good for ice so hopefully I'll be able to get out before the superbowl that weekend. If not I'll be getting my 68 wet the first opportunity. 

68? 

17 hours ago, DogBone_384 said:

68? 

its a swimbait! huddelston 68 

good luck with it.... If I don't work tomorrow I might just get a kayak off it's perch and into some water

 

The weather is testing my sanity. last weekend I was half tempted to launch my kayak at A1 and break through the skim ice to get to the open part of it. 

went out yesterday for a quick trip. tested out my new bait. finally got my first pats.  caught a small 1lbser on it! 

Be careful putting your boat on skim ice.  It may break the ice, but that ice will act just like a saw on your hull.

 

Several years ago I was scalloping on the Westport River in late Nov., early Dec.  There was a skim ice on the river, but the wooden skiff pushed through it with ease.

 

The ice darn near cut through the one inch planks on the side of the boat in hardly no time.  

 

If your vessel rides high in the bow, it might break the ice without it cutting into the hull.

7 hours ago, swamp hawgs said:

went out yesterday for a quick trip. tested out my new bait. finally got my first pats.  caught a small 1lbser on it! 

Glad you got out. I had a small job this morning that ran just long enough to keep me off the water today.