08-06-2007, 08:05 PM
Woke up early on Sunday morning and decided to have another go at catching my first MA LMB of the year using my new 7' jigging pole (Note to self - 7' poles are much harder to re-string on a float tube after a hang-up than the 5 1/2 foot and 6 foot poles I usually use). Decided to head south to try to find "Lake 2X" again. Last time I tried to find "2X" I got lost and ended up at a familiar farm pond in Syracuse.
As fate would have it I drove right to "2X" this time. Upon arrival it was pretty clear that I would have the murky 15 acres all to my lonesome this day. Looks like I could have it to myself most days based on the lack of bank tangling locations except for a very primitive and rutted "boat ramp". The whole lake was surrounded by cover that would make it impossible for any shore anglers to make it a go. Launching anything bigger than my float tube would be impossible with the huge ruts in the road leading to the "ramp". A couple locals that I had talked to did say that because of the access and such, that this particular puddle was used mostly during ice-on season.
Although my main goal was to chase that elusive MA LMB -- I had my second pole along dragging a worm along the bottom just in case the Bass did not want to play. I soon found out that this second "don't get skunked" pole was going to create too big of a distraction to allow me to concentrate on the Bass. Within the first 15 minutes I had 3 pretty nice sized eater cats (16" - 20") pull me around and get in the way of my jig-fest on the other pole.
After putting away the worm pole I was finally able to concentrate on chasing bass. Nothing for about 20 minutes until the WIND started to kick up and move me right over a crappie hole. Not lucky enough to get into any big ones like last week at the farm pond -- but the little 8 to 11 inch ones I did catch sure seemed to be feisty when I got them on board. A few of them even managed to jump out of my lap. I did get a couple of pictures of the average sampling. (I ended up playing with them for about a half hour and caught about 15 or 16 of them in total, with the biggest just over 11 inches.
By this point the wind was really making it tougher to stay in one place, so I decided to give up on the bass and troll the worm on my other pole while I kicked back to my car. On the journey back, the bluegill decided to start playing and in the half hour it took me to kick against the wind back to where I started I brought in about 10 of them all between 8 and 9 inches. Most of them right at 8 inches.
All in all not a bad morning to fish, and I enjoyed the peaceful almost weird silence of this location.....Might try again one evening this week.
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As fate would have it I drove right to "2X" this time. Upon arrival it was pretty clear that I would have the murky 15 acres all to my lonesome this day. Looks like I could have it to myself most days based on the lack of bank tangling locations except for a very primitive and rutted "boat ramp". The whole lake was surrounded by cover that would make it impossible for any shore anglers to make it a go. Launching anything bigger than my float tube would be impossible with the huge ruts in the road leading to the "ramp". A couple locals that I had talked to did say that because of the access and such, that this particular puddle was used mostly during ice-on season.
Although my main goal was to chase that elusive MA LMB -- I had my second pole along dragging a worm along the bottom just in case the Bass did not want to play. I soon found out that this second "don't get skunked" pole was going to create too big of a distraction to allow me to concentrate on the Bass. Within the first 15 minutes I had 3 pretty nice sized eater cats (16" - 20") pull me around and get in the way of my jig-fest on the other pole.
After putting away the worm pole I was finally able to concentrate on chasing bass. Nothing for about 20 minutes until the WIND started to kick up and move me right over a crappie hole. Not lucky enough to get into any big ones like last week at the farm pond -- but the little 8 to 11 inch ones I did catch sure seemed to be feisty when I got them on board. A few of them even managed to jump out of my lap. I did get a couple of pictures of the average sampling. (I ended up playing with them for about a half hour and caught about 15 or 16 of them in total, with the biggest just over 11 inches.
By this point the wind was really making it tougher to stay in one place, so I decided to give up on the bass and troll the worm on my other pole while I kicked back to my car. On the journey back, the bluegill decided to start playing and in the half hour it took me to kick against the wind back to where I started I brought in about 10 of them all between 8 and 9 inches. Most of them right at 8 inches.
All in all not a bad morning to fish, and I enjoyed the peaceful almost weird silence of this location.....Might try again one evening this week.
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