Jon's Journal

Updated 05/04/2009

Jon (my son) and I are going to publish our logs this year. I invite you to make yours public as well. Anyone looking for fishing info on the web is probably pretty into fishing. Most people into fishing are catch and release. SO what have we got to loose? We can help each other enjoy Berkshire county fishing that much more.

March 28th 2009: Woods Pond was the first lake to ice out and it still had a little ice here and there. Woods pond is a catch and release lake along the Housatonic River near Lenox Dale, Berkshire county. Water temp as you would expect is still around 40 degrees. Jon went out with his friend Mark, I had to work. They caught two fish. One was a Coy (I think) and the other was a bass. Not bad for a 55 degree sunny day with water temps of 40. This lake has some Bass but I don't seem to find them as well as the Crappie which are normally in great abbundance. The water in the shallow flats should have warmed up first. I thought it would attract some fish. Pike was the target but they did not find any.
1.5 lb LM Bass caught on a huge musky BUCK 3 or 4 inches long! That bass must have been hungry. Interesting to see a 5.5lb Coy caught by accident. BOTH fish returned to the water.

04/18/09 Jon and I (Jon is my son) went to Woods pond for the day. We saw a Pike that seemed to enjoy following our lures but would not hookup. We worked the river edge next to the flats between thw pond and the river with no luck except that follow. The main lake had no success either anywhere. Where did the fish go?

05/01/09 Jon went fishing with a friend at night looking for carp but found none.