After about 4 days of not hitting any lakes or ponds, I went to a small pond yesterday for about ½ an hour.

The water felt VERY warm compared to other days and I seen big schools of small bass.

Though I only caught one, I am sure today when I focus rather then just walking around the pond staring at the fish

I was out on a pond on the Mass. RI border yesterday. Water temperature was around 60 degreesall around the lake.

ajr

Low to mid sixties in the dirty dark lakes and upper 50's low sixties in the clear lakes. Fishing season has arrived in southern New England.

Dirty....I know where that is!!!!

Yeah the last two weeks have been crazy. Two weeks ago I was fishing Silver Lake with jerkbaits, inline spinners, and crankbaits.

Now I'm fishing it with flukes and frogs. It was wide open 2 weeks ago, now it's all lily pads. Crazy - I never remember the pads growing in that fast.

Ponds around my part of MA have temps between 63 and 68 for the most part. We've had some warm, sunny days over the past week and today I found a cove with water at 70*!!! Found a couple nice sized bass making nests with their males. Biggest female I saw looked like a 6lber, another about a 5 and then a couple 3s.  They hadn't laid their eggs yet however so they were extremely spooky and didn't care much about protecting the nest. I camped out one nest for 30 minutes and they didn't return, left it alone for probably 15 minutes and went back to it, saw the big girl around the nest, casted to it and it took off again. If she was ready to lay eggs she's probably be less spooky and more finicky...unless it was just a hawg of a male...

Forecast for next week looks more like Spring temperatures (50s and rainy) instead of 70s and sunny.