New England Bass Fishing ??
Hi All,
Been lurking a lot, was wondering how people here from New England are doing ? We have been seeing it really slow, with action during the day very spotty...finding them in the deeper waters, and then up against the shore later at night...using 5-6" T-rigged Senkos and floating frogs and mice up on topwater. Seems to pick up around 6-7PM until dark, that's the best time. Maybe 6-10 fish during this time, that's it. Anyone else ? |
New England Bass Fishing ??
6-10 fish is a good day, dude :-)
Yes, it is a strange summer, I agree, but at least for me fishing has been OK so far. Cheers, Nikolay On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, K-Style Kid wrote: Hi All, Been lurking a lot, was wondering how people here from New England are doing ? We have been seeing it really slow, with action during the day very spotty...finding them in the deeper waters, and then up against the shore later at night...using 5-6" T-rigged Senkos and floating frogs and mice up on topwater. Seems to pick up around 6-7PM until dark, that's the best time. Maybe 6-10 fish during this time, that's it. Anyone else ? |
New England Bass Fishing ??
I've been fishing Champlain a lot. Last weekend was the best yet. We had a
good day on Sat doing a variety of things way down south, then on Sun, we smoked 'em fishing green pumpkin creature baits in the scattered cabbage in 9 to 12 feet of water. This weekend hasn't been bad here at home. Yesterday morning I did Hatch pond and got 20 fish -- most under 2 pounds, but one was about 3.5. Basically just bank fishing on a steep (for hatch) rocky shorline with a lot of fallen trees. Creature baits and wacky riged spankies. Today I went to mudge. Caught fish doing everything -- fishing the pads, soft jerkbaiting the flats and outside weed edge, hard jerkbait on the outside weed edge, and drop sotting in deep water. Stopped counting at 35 fish, but that was at 2, and I didn't leave till 6PM, and it didn't slow down. Most fish were under 2, but I had 4 in the 3.5 to 4 pound range and one 7 pounder. All the good fish came on the drop shot except one 3-1/2 pounder on a jerkbait. I'll post a link to the picture of the big fish tomorrow. Need to go to be now. Got up at 3:45 the last two mornings. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
New England Bass Fishing ??
RichZ wrote:
I'll post a link to the picture of the big fish tomorrow. http://www.richz.com/fishing/images/..._drop_shot.jpg |
New England Bass Fishing ??
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RichZ wrote: I'll post a link to the picture of the big fish tomorrow. WOW !! |
New England Bass Fishing ??
RichZ wrote:
I've been fishing Champlain a lot. Last weekend was the best yet. We had a good day on Sat doing a variety of things way down south, then on Sun, we smoked 'em fishing green pumpkin creature baits in the scattered cabbage in 9 to 12 feet of water. Rich, when I bumped into up there at the Ti boat ramp when my buddy and I were scoping the area out, you gave me a small handful of the creature baits from that big bag of them you had on the boat. you gave me a couple of the green pumpkin with red flake and pumpkin pepper, assuming the colors. they look nice and I was meaning to ask you what brand were these. thanks. we did OK for the four days we were up there for a first time on water that is infinite with places to fish and not bad if you were to use Nikolay's gauge but only average or slightly below if using yours, the fishing machine. one really good day just above the paper plant - allot of pike on spinnerbaits that day was worth the trip - and a couple of nice moments with one medium waste of a day fishing in the rain thrown in and I think we probably fished a little too much with too little sleep and sparse catching the last 2 days (the rain) which made for a little grumpiness by the end of the week - so much water, so little time. still, not bad for a couple of relative newbies to fishing for bass and aside from hitting the Conn. river heavy at times a first experience on any lake. hope to make it a annual occurrence, we can understand your attraction and really for as productive as it can be, not that crowded as again, there is so much water there even from around Ti and down. in the end I am coming to believe the old saying that I heard Bill Dance say once on his show a few years back about the 90/10 rule of thumb - 90% of the fish are in 10% of the water. I have come to believe its not that dramatic but it seems a good rule to keep in mind when approaching water and I would say despite all your reports from the lake (greatly appreciating) they offer some good starting off strategies but you still have to spend precious fishing time hunting out those spots. I'll be back! |
New England Bass Fishing ??
RichZ wrote:
I've been fishing Champlain a lot. Last weekend was the best yet. We had a good day on Sat doing a variety of things way down south, then on Sun, we smoked 'em fishing green pumpkin creature baits in the scattered cabbage in 9 to 12 feet of water. Rich, when I bumped into up there at the Ti boat ramp when my buddy and I were scoping the area out, you gave me a small handful of the creature baits from that big bag of them you had on the boat. you gave me a couple of the green pumpkin with red flake and pumpkin pepper, assuming the colors. they look nice and I was meaning to ask you what brand were these. thanks. we did OK for the four days we were up there for a first time on water that is infinite with places to fish and not bad if you were to use Nikolay's gauge but only average or slightly below if using yours, the fishing machine. one really good day just above the paper plant - allot of pike on spinnerbaits that day was worth the trip - and a couple of nice moments with one medium waste of a day fishing in the rain thrown in and I think we probably fished a little too much with too little sleep and sparse catching the last 2 days (the rain) which made for a little grumpiness by the end of the week - so much water, so little time. still, not bad for a couple of relative newbies to fishing for bass and aside from hitting the Conn. river heavy at times a first experience on any lake. hope to make it a annual occurrence, we can understand your attraction and really for as productive as it can be, not that crowded as again, there is so much water there even from around Ti and down. in the end I am coming to believe the old saying that I heard Bill Dance say once on his show a few years back about the 90/10 rule of thumb - 90% of the fish are in 10% of the water. I have come to believe its not that dramatic but it seems a good rule to keep in mind when approaching water and I would say despite all your reports from the lake (greatly appreciating) they offer some good starting off strategies but you still have to spend precious fishing time hunting out those spots. I'll be back! |
New England Bass Fishing ??
Dscotts wrote:
you gave me a small handful of the creature baits from that big bag of them you had on the boat. you gave me a couple of the green pumpkin with red flake and pumpkin pepper, assuming the colors. they look nice and I was meaning to ask you what brand were these. thanks. That would be Lunker City's new Ozmo, which despite my best efforts is still not on the market. Waiting on packaging (I just redid all their packaging, and the new lures will never see the old packaging if I have anything to say about it. Which I don't, actually) and on the last two or three colors to be shot. The colors I gave you were watermelon redflake and peanutbutter pumpkinseed. FWIW, the day we ran into you on the water way down south, we had a real good spinnerbait bite early (chartreuse/gold) and then it settled in to a jerkbait/soft jerkbait bite on the hard-stuff spots once the sun came out strong. Plus a bunch of mostly smaller fish on the drop-shot rig. RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing |
New England Bass Fishing ??
RichZ wrote:
That would be Lunker City's new Ozmo, which despite my best efforts is still not on the market. Waiting on packaging (I just redid all their packaging, and the new lures will never see the old packaging if I have anything to say about it. Which I don't, actually) and on the last two or three colors to be shot. The colors I gave you were watermelon redflake and peanutbutter pumpkinseed. that explains it .... cause I vaguely remembered you said it was Lunker City but I couldn't find it on their sight. they look good, all kinds of undulating appendages! FWIW, the day we ran into you on the water way down south, we had a real good spinnerbait bite early (chartreuse/gold) and then it settled in to a jerkbait/soft jerkbait bite on the hard-stuff spots once the sun came out strong. Plus a bunch of mostly smaller fish on the drop-shot rig. like I said, we're learning. but at least we caught fish every time out - always a decent one or 2 - so better than some of the reports I read around here from guys that are fishing their home waters, let alone a new lake or on a lake for the first time. unlike you, that day we saw you down south we could hardly buy a fish, although that spot you saw us in we caught 6-7, mostly juniors, we were their for a reason. for whatever reasons, that is a 10% spot. we bumped into it the day before and probably caught 15 fish on a couple of 3 visits out of it over the course of a few hours in the drizzling rain after we hardly sniffed a fish all day, as well as another half dozen (couple acceptable ones) up and down that bank all along those reeds with the Mann's ghost. as for that spot, mostly juveniles in the 11- 12 in. range but every once in a while a decnt 2, 3, pounder came out of there, caught some white perch out of that school of juves as well. the funny part is 10 yards above or below and we rarely found a fish but right back in that spot of maybe a 10 yard circle and bingo. even if we'd drift it wrong because of the wind and theoretically disturb the spot, it wouldn't matter. still caught them and its only like 5 feet deep and sometimes we were right over top of them but it didn't seem to matter. when their on, their on, I guess and could give a crap about the world. every time we went buy we could see some fish working and busting the top a little, obviously chasing bait fish gathered their. why that spot for 2 days straight, or who knows how long, out of all the rest of it, it would take a mind like yours to better understand. but, I have it stored away for further review. |
New England Bass Fishing ??
RichZ wrote:
That would be Lunker City's new Ozmo, which despite my best efforts is still not on the market. Waiting on packaging (I just redid all their packaging, and the new lures will never see the old packaging if I have anything to say about it. Which I don't, actually) and on the last two or three colors to be shot. The colors I gave you were watermelon redflake and peanutbutter pumpkinseed. that explains it .... cause I vaguely remembered you said it was Lunker City but I couldn't find it on their sight. they look good, all kinds of undulating appendages! FWIW, the day we ran into you on the water way down south, we had a real good spinnerbait bite early (chartreuse/gold) and then it settled in to a jerkbait/soft jerkbait bite on the hard-stuff spots once the sun came out strong. Plus a bunch of mostly smaller fish on the drop-shot rig. like I said, we're learning. but at least we caught fish every time out - always a decent one or 2 - so better than some of the reports I read around here from guys that are fishing their home waters, let alone a new lake or on a lake for the first time. unlike you, that day we saw you down south we could hardly buy a fish, although that spot you saw us in we caught 6-7, mostly juniors, we were their for a reason. for whatever reasons, that is a 10% spot. we bumped into it the day before and probably caught 15 fish on a couple of 3 visits out of it over the course of a few hours in the drizzling rain after we hardly sniffed a fish all day, as well as another half dozen (couple acceptable ones) up and down that bank all along those reeds with the Mann's ghost. as for that spot, mostly juveniles in the 11- 12 in. range but every once in a while a decnt 2, 3, pounder came out of there, caught some white perch out of that school of juves as well. the funny part is 10 yards above or below and we rarely found a fish but right back in that spot of maybe a 10 yard circle and bingo. even if we'd drift it wrong because of the wind and theoretically disturb the spot, it wouldn't matter. still caught them and its only like 5 feet deep and sometimes we were right over top of them but it didn't seem to matter. when their on, their on, I guess and could give a crap about the world. every time we went buy we could see some fish working and busting the top a little, obviously chasing bait fish gathered their. why that spot for 2 days straight, or who knows how long, out of all the rest of it, it would take a mind like yours to better understand. but, I have it stored away for further review. |
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