On 10/16/2018 at 11:46 AM, Mr. Aquarium said:

my buddy in maine catches good bass 5s and 6s into november at night on topwaters. im from Massachusetts and will get bass into november at night on topwaters. i bet i could into december

I live in mass also, I havnt been able to catch anything lately day or night. Not for lack of trying I’ve still been going atleast three times a week. Top water, cranks or plastics and I get a random dink if I’m lucky. I only fish from shore and I really feel like I’m fishing wear they are not right now. But I keep trying. 

43 minutes ago, Derek1 said:

I live in mass also, I havnt been able to catch anything lately day or night. Not for lack of trying I’ve still been going atleast three times a week. Top water, cranks or plastics and I get a random dink if I’m lucky. I only fish from shore and I really feel like I’m fishing wear they are not right now. But I keep trying. 

 

Try the ned rig. That's what I'm using right now and I'm catching a lot of fish - big ones, too. 

7 hours ago, Harold Scoggins said:

Have you ever fished the Delta?

Several times, never at night. Caught my 1st striper on a black jig with 9" black widow pork trailer bass fishing near the Rio Vista bridge the delta back in the 70's, it was 32 lbs! GPS makes fishing the Delta a lot easier, easy to get lost without it. If you ever fish the Delta remember it's a massive maze with about 3' tidal depth change, it's a river moving 2 directions.

Tom

On 10/20/2018 at 9:09 AM, Derek1 said:

I live in mass also, I havnt been able to catch anything lately day or night. Not for lack of trying I’ve still been going atleast three times a week. Top water, cranks or plastics and I get a random dink if I’m lucky. I only fish from shore and I really feel like I’m fishing wear they are not right now. But I keep trying. 

coldest night of the year, last thursday, caught a couple MS slammer fish( big topwater) biggest 4lbs. also caught a nice brown trout and had a few other hits.   saturday my buddy caught a 3lber on a small swimbait at night, we didnt fish long in the dark, fished ALLLL DAY at that spot, we were beat. 

Nice fish

On 10/20/2018 at 9:54 AM, hawgwash said:

 

Try the ned rig. That's what I'm using right now and I'm catching a lot of fish - big ones, too. 

At night?

On 10/22/2018 at 8:22 AM, Mr. Aquarium said:

coldest night of the year, last thursday, caught a couple MS slammer fish( big topwater) biggest 4lbs. also caught a nice brown trout and had a few other hits.   saturday my buddy caught a 3lber on a small swimbait at night, we didnt fish long in the dark, fished ALLLL DAY at that spot, we were beat. 

Nice. They stopped selling slammers last I checked... but Ive have a Evergreen 180 on back order for a month. LOL 

good seeing it work into the late fall. What’s the weather like there right now? Day/night temp?

19 hours ago, Joshua Vandamm said:

At night?

Nice. They stopped selling slammers last I checked... but Ive have a Evergreen 180 on back order for a month. LOL 

good seeing it work into the late fall. What’s the weather like there right now? Day/night temp?

STOPPED SELLING SLAMMERS??????? WHHHHATTTTTTT. thank God i got alot of them. 

its been in the 40s and 50s during the day. that night it was at 30. water temps are in the 50s.
the herring are moving out of the ponds, saw a lot of surface activity on saturday at dusk

I usually throw a topwater until the end of October. 

Besides lurking on this site I also check out a few swimbait forums and every year there are guys posting up pictures of big fish caught on various wake style swimbaits at night even when the water temps are in the low to mid 40's. That said I haven't tried that yet so I can't speak from personal experience. 

31 minutes ago, Primus said:

Besides lurking on this site I also check out a few swimbait forums and every year there are guys posting up pictures of big fish caught on various wake style swimbaits at night even when the water temps are in the low to mid 40's. That said I haven't tried that yet so I can't speak from personal experience. 

That I could see working. Like a big BBZ-1 floater

check out swimbait underground, lots of good info on there for night fishing, mossypumpkin on there my buddy from maine, still getting fish  up there with air temps in the 20s.  hes put A TON of good info on there

 

That's who I was thinking of. There are few others in the New England area as well, the Slammer seems to be the go to bait. My intuition tells me they are creepin it with a few pauses. Give 'em a big target !

17 hours ago, Primus said:

That's who I was thinking of. There are few others in the New England area as well, the Slammer seems to be the go to bait. My intuition tells me they are creepin it with a few pauses. Give 'em a big target !

 yea i creep it slllllooowwwww, some pauses, or slow twitch.  lot of guys LOOOVVEEEE and swear by the black dog G2 shell cracker.  i dont have one yet.  ive caught some large crappies on the slammer in mid late fall at night. 

On 10/25/2018 at 2:28 PM, Primus said:

That's who I was thinking of. There are few others in the New England area as well, the Slammer seems to be the go to bait. My intuition tells me they are creepin it with a few pauses. Give 'em a big target !

They havent made any new slammers all year. Where you guy getting them? 

The evergreen 180 is the same basically just more expensive. LOL I still ordered one

I just saw some for sale in the Flea Market.  Keep your eyes peeled, or wait until December.

4 hours ago, J Francho said:

I just saw some for sale in the Flea Market.  Keep your eyes peeled, or wait until December.

I don’t know if they’re actually making more in Dec or not. I heard they may not

The Evergreen is a little noisier, I haven't caught anything big on it yet but it has stuck me a few fish  in the short time I have fished it. 

On 10/26/2018 at 3:12 PM, Joshua Vandamm said:

They havent made any new slammers all year. Where you guy getting them? 

The evergreen 180 is the same basically just more expensive. LOL I still ordered one

Mike Shaw makes them all year long.Contact him directly.If you do Facebook join Swimbait Universe.People are always selling them daily.I just got a 9" and two 7" x2 in last week.Directly from him.

These are a few of the bigger NH Slammer fish from the last two weeks.One is obviously not a slammer.Waked on top slowly.Water is in the upper forties.