ไม่สามารถเล่นวิดีโอนี้
ขออภัยในความไม่สะดวก
Bass Fishing one of NH's most Pristine Lakes, Grafton Pond
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2022
- In order to keep the fishing videos somewhat interesting to the viewers and in my relentless search of quality Bass Fishing I try to shake it up and go to new places as often as I can. Grafton Pond is one of the most Pristine bodies of water here in NH and a place where me and my boy Jesse used to go to back when he was a kid, in fact he caught his first Bass here when he was about 4 years old, a dandy little Smallmouth. I haven't fished this pond in well over 20 years so I decided to get out early and give er a go before the Hoards of Recreational Kayakers / Loon Watchers filled the parking area.
I should have done a little research before I went because while talking with some other kayakers at the launch I learned that they had almost completely drained this pond 2 years ago while replacing the damn. This would explain why most of the fish were on the small side and why Largemouth dominated the catch where it used to be all Smallmouth. Oh well it was still a beautiful day spent on a beautiful pond and I managed to put another 7 Bass on the Board to add to my previous tally of 147 taking it up to 154 for the season.
Thanks for coming along.... Peace !
Beautiful lake! Thanks for showing us around!
My pleasure Kenny.
Nice and peaceful day out on the water. Large or small, they still count towards the goal. Have a great Wednesday, my friend.
Definitely a beautiful place to spend a morning. Some may laugh but I do indeed count em all, a Bass is a Bass is a Bass in my book . Those Big ones are rare, making them all the more special.
All I can say is…..THANK YOU BOBBY for lending this man a scale that actually works 😂 Nice pickerel to keep the PK sharp 👍
Hahaha , yep cuz he’s too cheap to go out and buy himself a new one 😂. I was beginning to worry that the pickerel were on strike or something. Thanks for coming along Dave. 👍
Nice to see you closing in on the goal. Beautiful area as usual. Well done out there!
Thanks Ryan ! I’m pushing to reach that goal but time and other obligations are getting to be a factor. Fall is coming and I am just gonna enjoy being out there as much as possible regardless of the numbers.
Wow, Don. The reflection of the pink clouds on the water as you were putting in was incredible. You're over the 150 mark. That's awesome! Keep up the great work.
Thanks John, my favorite times to be on the water are sunrise and sunset. If I ever doubt there is a God and he has created this world for us to enjoy, I only have to get out on the water at this time of day because no mortal man could paint as beautiful a picture.
☾⭐️👍🏻🔔The way you do the work gracefully - I am very proud of you. Thanks for going through the trouble and it's worth it. You have the absolute power to rise above any situation or struggle and transform yourself into the strongest and most beautiful version of yourself ever. The secret to happiness is doing what you love and learning to love what you have to do to get it. Congratulations and best of luck for your promising future. Great job, you are amazing, you are important, you are special, you are unique, and you are valuable! Never give up, go ahead, fight for your dreams, everything will get better for you, I wish you good luck. You have my full supportt 🎁
Thank you
I'm glad to see the hellgrammite rig is working great for you. Great outing right there. I wish we had ponds like that in our area. It's rivers or massive TVA lakes here. Good stuff. have a great week.
Thanks Mike , I may never put the Hellgramite on a Ned Rig again. We have some Big Lakes around here too but I avoid them. Heading up to the Big River ( The mighty St. Lawrence, in my home town of Massena NY ) this weekend. Will be a total change of pace. Hope you have a great week as well.
Nice to see you getting out fishing so much this summer, I believe you are becoming my role model! Life is too short "not" to fish, & kayak fishing beats a boat most of the time.
Thanks Andy ! I guess I really am getting out quite a bit this Summer, although I thought I’d actually get out more hahaha. You are right, life is too short not to fish and the season will be over up here before you know it. I didn’t even put the motor on my 16” StarCraft this year, I enjoy the kayak much more.
Those first couple of fish made me think it might be a dink fest. That was nice of Bobby to let you use his scale. Wow... that water is low! I love fishing ponds over big water bodies. Another fine day on the pond.
It’s funny, my local favorite is 45 acres and the State calls it Waukeena Lake, this one is 320 acres and is called Grafton Pond, go figure.
I found out when I was getting off the water that this pond was almost completely drained except for the deepest holes back in 2021 when they put in the new dam. I think it’ll be a few years before the fishing recovers and we get some size again. I was also told that the pond had not fully recovered but it was 2 feet higher back in June.
@@bucktalesoutdoors7566 I've noticed all the so-called "ponds" up in Maine. They're gigantic. They do the same thing here in FL but on a much smaller scale. Wow.... yeah that was probably hard on the fish last year during the water level reduction.
I need to get up there to NH. You are tearing it up this year Don. A fish is a fish regardless of size and it is still a lot of fun.
I am definitely having a better than normal year for sure Titus and have been enjoying it a lot ! I think the Dog Days of Summer are catching up with me though.
I think I’ve been to Graften on one of my backpacking trips in NH.
Beautiful area for fishing. You are definitely adding to your total. Nice of your friend Bobby for the fishing scale.
I’m going fishing this weekend at the Lake. Mine will be more of catfish than Bass. I hope I have as much luck as you do.
It’s a beautiful pond for sure, I know for sure you were in Grafton County and if you were actually in Grafton you were probably 10 miles from where I live, heck if you took Rte 4 which you probably did you were about 2.5 miles from my place. Hope we get to meet in person one day. Good luck with your fishing trip, wish I had some good catfishing around here.
Getting close to your target for this year. Finally got a scale on board but no heavy hitters like last time but still some quality fish.
Hoping in a couple of years this pond will produce some bigger fish. I found out afterwards that when they put in the new dam they just about completely drained it except for the deepest holes. The population is gonna take some time to rebuild since they don’t stock warm water species here in NH. Thanks for coming along Adrian.
What a beautiful morning and a gorgeous lake. Doesn't matter if the fish are smaller in a setting like that. Too bad about the wind.
Man you’ve got that right Sean, such a beautiful place I would have enjoyed the morning without a single fish. The peddle drive really makes fighting the wind a breeze.
Hellgrammite is at it again. Glad you can still catch a pickerel. I was starting to question your angling prowess after all those big bass. 😂 always good to see you Don.
Hahaha yep, I can still get a pickerel, I was beginning to question myself as well Delvin. Thanks for coming along !
Haha couldn't even do a decent dink drop. Sounds dirty 🤪 A beautiful body of water right there and some nice memories flooding back of you and your son Jesse. Crazy how low the water is. It's been a dry summer. Another great morning on the water Don, with some quality largies caught. And that much closer to 222!!
I don’t know why I haven’t fished this pond in so long FitzY. Someone wrote an article in Canoe & Kayak magazine several years ago talking about how beautiful and pristine this lake is and the place became crowded with Loon watchers / recreational kayakers and if you didn’t get there early there was no place to park. It still gets crowded but when you arrive early like I do, no worries and there is rarely another angler on the water. The pond was almost completely drained a couple of years ago and the fishing has yet to recover but I think hitting the deeper holes may be where the smallmouth were hanging out…I’ll be back. Headed up to Massena to fish the Big River with my nephew’s 15 yo son Samuel on Friday , can’t wait to see the kid , been a few years.
@@bucktalesoutdoors7566 oh yeah, that probably took a toll on the smallies too. Safe travels buddy and I hope you crush em on the mighty St. Lawrence with Samuel 🤞
Looks like a great day my friend
Always !
Minute on the Mountain sent me here. Greetings from Canada. 👋 🇨🇦!! Your channel seems totally in my lane. I fish, camp and hunt (ice fishing too), which I see you do. You have a new subscriber here. Watching along with my morning coffee.
Welcome Dan , glad to have you . Your channel looks like my kinda place too, looking forward to going thru some of your videos. Where abouts in Canada ? I am heading North in about an hour to meet up with some of my relatives in my Hometown of Massena NY and will be fishing the mighty St. Lawrence River which separates NY from Ontario. Played a lot of Hockey in Canada growing up. Thanks for coming along.
@@bucktalesoutdoors7566 I live in Edmonton and am born and raised in the area. I do the majority of my outings within a few hours of the city. Good luck fishing!!!!
bass fishing great buck
Thanks Crubby
You've got some beautiful water up in your neck of the woods. I'm surprised you don't catch more Smallie's, seems like mostly Largemouth's.
There really are a lot of beautiful places to fish up here Dana and I’m trying to take you guys to more of them than I have in the past. I was totally shocked that all I caught in this “pond” was largemouth, like I said I was totally expecting Smallmouth. I may come back here and fish the jig and fluke in the deeper water, I thought I had a rod rigged up with one but realized I left it in the other kayak. After this trip I saw some pics of this lake from 2021 when they drained it and the only area where there was water were the deepest spots. I’ll guess that 70% of the water volume was drained. Maybe in another couple of years the smallmouth fishing will be better again. Our Big lakes like Winnipesauke and Squam are Smallmouth Meccas but I don’t like to fish the big lakes from the kayak.
Nice trip Don! 👍
Thanks Kyle , for the second time I tried to catch a bass on the ice rod but no luck once again so the footage didn’t make the cut. I will have to get out with nothing but the ice rod and then I will have no alternative but to catch something or admit defeat.
Beautiful place to go fishing Don, Wow the water level was low.
Hopefully and I hate to say it…. We get a lot of snow this winter to alleviate the drought we are in now. All of our lakes and ponds are low this year but a good amount of snow will help a lot.
very nice video..have a nice day ma friend
Thank you
Great day to be on the water! You've been tearing it up lately buddy!
It’s been a good year so far Nathan and the bite has been pretty good most days. Thanks for stopping by.
The Largemouth's are showing they like Hellgrammites also, Haha. I guess the dominant Smallmouth population to a swing to the Largies. The water level being low, I know you're glad you're not having the problem that Lake Mead has. That Pickerel wanted to be in the count, but you have to let it know this count is exclusive to Bass.
I think just about everything likes the Hellgramite. I hope when this lake recovers fully from them draining it for the Dam rebuild that the smallmouth population will rebound to it’s former glory but I’ll take Largies and enjoy the beauty of this pond regardless.
I'm at 111152 don🤣nicely done nice looking place, I'm hoping to get into some better fish in the fall, also saw the biggest buck I've ever seen back there Saturday, maybe he murdered that doe in the lake🤔
111152 ! Damn ! You are a fishing God Matt 😂, I wish I could catch as many as you but I have a hard time keeping track of my measly catches, hell I can’t even count that high. 🙄 On a serious note, I think you better go back in there this fall and make sure justice is served on that big buck. Good luck !
@@bucktalesoutdoors7566 he looked more like an elk than a whitetail my jaw dropped when he ran in front of the truck easy 250 plus giant rack maybe still a little bit in velvet but yeah maybe I should keep track of bass or everything in general that's an interesting concept you got there.
@@MatthewJessOutdoors that is awesome , nothing gets the blood boiling like seeing a giant buck, hope he’s somewhere that you can hunt. If you keep track of your fish you’re gonna need one of those little clicker counters 👍
I know I've mentioned it before, but why are your lakes up there called ponds? lol It is pretty though. OK, back to the video
You were way overdue for a pickerel. All in all, a good day. Your 7 closer to your goal, and fished a beautiful pond (lake).
For the life of me CJ , I don’t know. One of my locals is 45 acres and is called Waukeena Lake, this one is like 320 acres and is called Grafton Pond. I don’t name em, I just fish em but it is kinda weird don’t ya think. Hey , I’ll take a 7 bass day any day but it looks like the dog days of summer are starting to catch up with me. That would make Randy happy if he was still watching cuz my videos are getting shorter. Hahaha.
Grafton pond
Yes 🙏