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saltfly · 06-09-2013, 04:02 PM

1963..........My uncle had a house on Great Herring Pond.The family would go down on weekends.When the herring started up to the pond we'd go down to therun and watch them swim up and through the swimming pool accross the street.We were watching the herring at the mouth of the run and this bass blew out of the water chasing the herring.It was the biggest fish I'd ever seen.My uncle or father didn't fish in the salt but my uncles neighbor did and he took me the next morning with his son.We tossed out 2 herring on bobbers and BOOM..............the bass nearly pulled me in the canal.2 herring,2 bass over 25# and we were home before 8 a.m.I was hooked on salt water for good.I had previously caught cod,haddock,and a searun rainbow trout in the Neponset river[Granite Ave. bridge 1958].they were about 5-8#s max.

06-09-2013, 04:02 PM	#17
saltfly Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Back to C.Cod x'd Rangeley Me. Posts: 922	1963..........My uncle had a house on Great Herring Pond.The family would go down on weekends.When the herring started up to the pond we'd go down to therun and watch them swim up and through the swimming pool accross the street.We were watching the herring at the mouth of the run and this bass blew out of the water chasing the herring.It was the biggest fish I'd ever seen.My uncle or father didn't fish in the salt but my uncles neighbor did and he took me the next morning with his son.We tossed out 2 herring on bobbers and BOOM..............the bass nearly pulled me in the canal.2 herring,2 bass over 25# and we were home before 8 a.m.I was hooked on salt water for good.I had previously caught cod,haddock,and a searun rainbow trout in the Neponset river[Granite Ave. bridge 1958].they were about 5-8#s max.