Caught 3 bass today on my new Aldebaran and finesse jigs. I never imagined I would be fishing at this time of the year in Boston 

 

 

Had some fun on the hot side today, fish on the right was 4.46, didn't weigh the other. Everything else I caught was little.

What bait is that in the second picture? Looks awesome!

Mattlures Hardgill. "Heavy Floater"

This fish fought way harder than its size. I was thinking 5+ and was surprised when it finally surfaced. 

Well, I'm doing my best to make good on my 2016 goal of learning how to fish a drop shot. They're not monsters, but any fish is huge when you catch it doing something you're trying to learn at. I was using a 7' 3" ML/XF Ethos with a 25 size President spooled with 5lb Maxima ultragreen with a YUM Warning shot in Oxblood/red. 

It's great little puddle to try new techniques on!

Great fish. You have to cull 1000 15-20" fish per year? Man that seems like a lot of your big spawn fish.

Oops, typo, I meant 10"-15".  I'll edit that.  Thanks for catching.  

Lol, I was in shock! 

We'd have some world records if that was our mid-to-small range!  I wish.  

i was about to ask you what it would cost me to fish there if that's the case!!

Ha, I'm still figuring this lake out, we've had it less than a year and it's about a 3 hour drive away from me.  Once I get it dialed in real good, there's a possibility we may open it up to outside fishermen as a weekend retreat with a lodge, etc., but right now that's a long way off and we may decide not to do it at all.  There's a ton of stumps and trees in it, so all you can use are small aluminum jon boats and trolling motors.  It was a private hunting and fishing club (one of the oldest continually operating ones in the state) since 1921 until we bought it, but the fishing lake was created in the mid-90's.  

the more people i meet, the less i like people!!  keep that baby to yourself and family!!

The river is finally fishable again. Went for an hour in the snow after school, caught two small ones. Happy with that!

This little chunker...

nice!

21" and 5.19 pounds this morning, just stopped for lunch and going back out again.  We got about 5-6 crappie and another 6-8 bass in the 12-15 inch range too!  The 5 pounder went back and we're culling the rest to keep the pond healthy.  I will update with a full report and accurate numbers for the weekend when we're done.  

 

 

Total count for today was 22 bass and 4 crappie (on bass lures).  I was a little off on the crappie count earlier, but that's why I write down everything, to get clean records at the end of the day.  

nice!

Caught this beauty on a strike king midnight special since the water was so muddy. 

 

dont know weight. 20 inches exactly. on a tube in 2 feet of water

no.7 Shad Rap

Congrats on a nice bass

 

Bluebird skies and a high pressure system had the fish doing something I sure couldn't figure out. Two babies, one brown one and one green one was all I ended up with, but it was the first brown one of the year! When I was throwing the swimbait, the largemouth knocked a ton of slack in the line he hit it so hard and my heart skipped a couple beats until I swung and he skidded in across the surface.