Woods Pond

Want to have fun! use a small spinner bait with a small jig head tipped with a 1 inch white shad and 6lb test line and a light 6 foot rod. We have caught tons of Black Crappie, Sunfish and even 45 inch PIKE with the same rig. Picture below shows locations of fish.

• PCB lake. Use appropriate precautions. Fish seem to be normal except they are very large, in part due to the catch and release policy and some what lighter fishing pressure .
  
• WOW! This is a lake that is not listed in any of the normal fishing places.
• WOW! BIG PIKE! July 23, 2006 we had 3 major pike, 32 (9 lbs) and Jon's 45 inches (23 lbs by length not scale)
• Much info not available since this is not a listed lake. At least not by the name on the maps.
  
• Very BIG Lake, 122 acres, BUT!
  
• Very little parking no charge.
• I found a spot at least 24ft deep.
• Visibility to 5 or 6 feet. Muddy or slightly green water in July and early August. Floating weed pods in spring from the river and storms.
  
• Small boat able dirt ramp.
• Canoe access.
• NO BIG BOATS and no gas motors allowed. (My kind of Pond!).
• Difficult to wade because the bottom sometimes drops off quickly and very muddy in places.
• Bottom is a mixture of mud, tree stumps and rock.
• Lots of stumps and pads/weeds but not all over the place!.
• State park so the lake is all public all the way around.
• Fish:
• Nice sized yellow perch
• Huge  Blue Gills (Feirce!)
• Rock bass (May 2007)
  
• Large Mouth Bass are here but they are harder to find then any of the other fish.
  
• MONSTER PIKE. Three on my first trip, 2.5lbs, 32inches (9lbs) and my son Jon caught 45+ inches (14 lbs).
  
• Even in cold front conditions in July I have had tons of fun catching fish.
• Many Many Black Crappie.
  
• July 23rd 2006 6 hour trip, 12:30 - 19:00
  
• Cloudy/rain 70degrees 10-15 wind. Not to nice but calm, warmed and sunny by 19:00.
  
• 0 Bass caught. 3 BIG pike. The third one was scary big. Broke the line while we were figuring out what to do with it!
  
• many many black crappie. Big ones too. on spinner baits tipped with 1inch long white plastic shad.
  
• Quite a few Yellow pearch. One was at least 2 lbs.
• Conclusion, even though this pond is not listed or rated it is will worth the trip for the fun of it!
• Fair number if good sized Pumpkin seeds and Yellow Sunfish.
• August 13th, 2006 9am - 3pm not such a great day of fishing.
  
• Several Sunny high presure days in a row. Cooler, 72 degrees Barometer is way high and the winds calm in morning, 10-15 gusty later morning.
• 2 bass, the first in all the trips I have made. 13inch 1 pounder, 14+ inch 1.5 pounder. The bass were caught at the north end of the main lakes cove along the thick weed line. I parked the boat on top of the weeds a JIGGED a white grub in 5 feet of water a foot off the bottom.
  
• A few big half pound Yellow Perch.
• a couple of Sun fish and black crappie.
• A bad day for fishing. I spent 6 hours to catch 4 fish. My son did well at the start but it dies off for both of us in the afternoon.
  

November 12th, 2006 Dejavu: Sunday morning has a New England outdoors show I happened to turn on. The story for the day was ICE Fishing on Woods Pond in Lenox Mass. That's where Jon hooked his 15lb Pike. They showed some pictures of 15lb Pike coming up through the ICE and we compared his fish to those. We measured his fish by a tape measure. I tried wrapping the fishing line around the hook on the scale so we were never too sure of how much it weighted. I see now that we may have under weighted it.


The only map of the area I have found so far is this one. Woods pond is on the left. There is an aerial photo below the map.


Here is a photo of the lake with fish locations. P=Pike, B=Bass, F=funfish(sunfish, bluegill etc), C=Huge Crappie.