Top Water Action On Kingsbury Pond
The bad news was my girlfriend and I had to dog sit for her parents and sister's dogs. The good news is they live on Kingsbury Pond in Medfield and have a canoe.
I started out yesterday at about 8:30am. I began by working a jig in and around the pads, nothing. I moved to a 5" watermelon senko and still not even a bite. Finally I tied on this Purple Flash Popper I had just picked up at Bass Pro Shops for $2.99. Third cast and boom, nice little 1.5 lb. I moved to the other side of the pond by the Grist Mill to work the edge of the shadows and picked up two more around 1.5lb. Right before heading in at around 10:30, I grabbed one a little bigger that gave up a nice little fight.
This morning I launched the canoe at about 7:15am and fished until about 9am. Using the Purple Flash Popper with a quick retrieval, I got another 4 fish with the biggest one being a solid 2lbs. No lunkers but I did land 8 quality bass in about 4 hours of fishing over the two days. Definitely my best trip of the summer. I think I'm going to have to invest in a canoe really soon.
Nice! I've tried Kingsbury on my Kayak once and hated it, but it was also because I didn't have any topwater bait with me. It was just when the ponds started getting really weedy and I got frustrated with every cast coming back covered in salad. I'll go back and try more topwater.