Now has no access. If anyone has a way to launch my bass boat or my Jon boat I and would be willing to share in the info I would appreciate it. This was one of my favorite places to fish.

Pelham sucks when it comes to ponds and access. Almost every place to fish there is blocked.

I hear ya,But Gumpas has huge bass in there. I personally have caught them there.

http://www.beangroup.com/real-estate/Pelham-NH/waterfront-gumpas%20pond

no access that i am aware of either. lets buy one of these and put in a launch

http://www.beangroup.com/real-estate/Pelham-NH/waterfront-gumpas%20pond

no access that i am aware of either. lets buy one of these and put in a launch

I would like to if I had the money. This is the best pond around here and most productive for big bass. I caught my PB there. I am so ticked that they won't allow us on it any more. The cops were down there at the old launch today talking to the land owner. My guess is they will be watching it. Grrrrrr!!!!

i told you about this a while back derek. i have personaly seen you pull out two 5 pounders out on the same day from there. you could try talking to the guy who lives across from the ct path. he's cool. his wife/girlfriend is a ***** the couple that lives right by the hot spot are ********. this was my favorite spot too.

i told you about this a while back derek. i have personaly seen you pull out two 5 pounders out on the same day from there. you could try talking to the guy who lives across from the ct path. he's cool. his wife/girlfriend is a ***** the couple that lives right by the hot spot are ********. this was my favorite spot too.

Have you asked? I wonder why he put the signs up. We never blocked his driveway or the path. Btw have you been out in the bass tracker yet? I'M seriously thinking about selling my jon boat and getting another inflatable. Jon boat is to heavy, plus my old inflatable was much less tippy.

I grew up on Gumpas Pond.  When I was a kid it was a pickerel pond with huge sunfish and perch.  in 1964 a local brought a pail of small largemouth and smallmouth bass from Lake Winnisquam and dumped them in the pond. By 1969 5-lb largemouth were fairly common.  I've heard a couple of people have caught a smallmouth.  I wonder if they were some of the original small mouth dropped in or have they managed to spawn.  The pond is spring fed with a 45 foot deep hole on the west end of the pond that should be cool enough for smallmouths.

 

Dropping the bass into the pond was a big mistake  because it really screwed up the pond.  There was a sucker or carp in the pond that I never saw any place else.  They used to spawn at the pond's dam every spring drawing in huge perch that fed on the carp eggs.  The carp are now gone from the pond along with a large black and red leach that once lived there.  There were never any worms in the pond's fish until the bass were put in and now they are common.   The huge perch and sunfish that used to be common have been replaced by small puny fish that could be the result of the worms or the bass.  I can now see why putting fish  into a pond is ilegal.

I fished Gumpas 2x a few years back, I ended up going all the wat around the west end of the pond and dragged my bass raider (reget that I sold it) down the hill to get on the water.  The guy that built the new house was pretty cool.  He said I could launch off his property anytime.  Funny I never went back to Gumpas after the workout to drag the boat back up the hill.

 

I did land some nice fish there!  I wish I could get access as well.

Out of all the ponds/lakes in the Pelham & Salem area that are now private, which ones do you guys feel were/are the best smallmouth fisheries and the best largemouth fisheries? For this group I am thinking of Gumpas, Little Island Pond, Big Island Pond, Arlingont Mill Reservoir and Cobbetts.

Cobbetts