no luck at horseshoe pond yesterday. we fished the whole perimiter of the pond using cranks, jigs, spinerbaits, senco's, and spinners. saw a couple schools of fish on the fishfinder but they wernt interested in what we were throwing.

guess its back to mill pond today. wife want to explore the canal. heard there are some big ones in there.

Nice. I hope to get out at some point today after my son's baseball practice.

I was not trying to seperate Southern NH from Northern NH. Hope I did not PO anyone.

No problem man, no one is PO'd.

no problem at all UNHbass!!!!

Thanks guys. I will make sure I post on other thread also.  

fished the nashua canal. another perch for :-/ me.

Went out today and didn't catch any bass. I thought for sure today would have been good. Caught like 10 pickerel though. The water temp was between 60-63. Its about that time for them to start making their beds, right?

I'm thinking that even with the warmer water temps, the majority of the fish are still waiting to move in.  I'm not sure if its forage related or moon phase related, or both, but it seems like there are no fish in the shallows where I'm fishing.  All the fish I've caught have been in almost 10+ feet of water.  

Of course, our water temps are still in the low 50's, so I"m not expecting a huge rush just yet.  But, it warming up fast all of a sudden.   Soon enough!

yea, I think it depends on the body of water. Almost all my fish have been shallow, but I fish at Powder Mill, which is a shallow reservoir with barely any deep water. So I'm guessing the bass there are more shallow oriented and may even spend the winter in shallow water 6ft and under.

Hey nice fish everyone!! Went out today to long pond in danville caught my first LM of the year.

bassmaster6

Nice fish guys. I did not get out today either, It was to hot by the time I could of got out there and figured the ponds would of been filled with boats by then.

The bass were definitely waking up on the pond this weekend.  It was nice not catching pickerel for once.

Went out yesterday and only caught a pickerel. It was HOT out there and the water has warmed up to 64 already. I wonder how this effects the spawn?

I had the same experience yesterday. The water temp was the about the same. All we managed to get were pickerel. The past two days the bass have been nowhere to be found, but the pickerel bite has been incredible. We were hitting areas that looked like likely spawning areas with different presentations and retrieves. I wonder if the high pressure had anything to do it?? the barometric pressure was 30.33 at the time we went out.

I thought high baro. Was good fishing, but I could be wrong. I know there were a ton of boats out there this past weekend so that could have alot to do with it.

From everything I've learned about high baro. it's supposed to pull the bass tight to cover or send them deep and it shrinks the strike zone.  

You could be right, Because I could not catch any.

went to flints pond in hollis today with the wife after work for a couple hours. we caught a bunch of pickeral in less than 3 feet of water. i had a few big ones and a good sized perch come off but the wife reeled in a real nice one. ended up leaving cause the wind made manuvering the boat kind of aggravating. had fun anyways. sorry, no pics.

Went out today and caught this HAWG at mill at a whopping 10 ounces ;D. I was just glad it was not another pickerel. I did go out late today so I'm hoping that's all it was,

nice one unhbass37.

the pickeral were out in full force again today at flints pond. we dont mind catching them, to us its better than nothing. i also caught another perch. we are using $1 spinnerbaits from walmart and are having a blast ripping them through weeds, brush and lilypads, learning how to fish them without losing them. having a boat and using braided line helps.

Nice fish. How do you like the braided line? Are you using a bait caster reel or a spinner? I have been using mono and was thinking of tring it.

were both using spinning rods. i like the braided line alot except it seems to tangle real easy and if you get a big tangle you might as well cut the line. nots are real hard to pick out. its hard to cut too so weve been using swivels when we know we will be switching lures often. casts pretty good though and pretty indistructable imo.

Took my son out today and he wanted to fish from the shore with a worm and he caught 11 blue gills. He was happy. He said it a good way to start the season. There was a guy out on a boat that said he caught a 4 pounder, But I did not see it.

he caught 11 blue gills

thats great. sometimes when im desperate to catch something cause the bass aint biting ill throw on a jig/grub or inline spinner and catch sunfish. the actual thing that got us back into fishing was taking the kids sunfishing. where did you go? seen a bunch being pulled out at the boat launch at mill.

We went to mill pond. He was doing the old sight fishing. He looks for the big ones and casts there LOL. He had alot of fun.