Fall is a great time for freshwater fishing. For one thing the ponds on Cape Cod aren’t as crowded as they were in the Spring. Then there’s the weather. Fall fishing begins with warm October days and gradually gets cooler giving the angler the chance to acclimate just as the freshly stocked trout are acclimating to their new surroundings.
This year I fished the usual Upper Cape Ponds. As always Spectacle Pond produced the most trout, an almost equal number of Browns and Rainbows. Pimlico Pond was the hotspot for Brown Trout. Johns Pond was the place to go for a mixed bag of trout, Smallmouth Bass and White Perch. Hoxie was a disappointment this year in the trout department but not when it came to Chain Pickerel and Largemouth Bass.
Other locations included: Mashpee Wakeby Pond, Peters Pond, Long Pond in Yarmouth, Hathaway Pond in Hyannis, and Hamblin Pond in Marstons Mills.
I use live bait, night crawlers, mummichogs and Banded Killifish, for most of my freshwater fishing. The bait is fished below a sliding bobber. Sometimes I’ll cast small metal spoons for trout or swimming minnow plugs for bass.
My son Nate caught this Brown Trout at Spectacle Pond with a live Banded Killifish
A Chain Pickerel also caught using a live Banded Killifish. This one was at Hoxie Pond.
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