Green Turtle Pond 5/22

[River Renegade]

Sounded like a great time out on the water nicely done!

[23cardinal]

Originally Posted by River Renegade

Sounded like a great time out on the water nicely done!

Great day.
Some of those sunnies were huge

[icebadger]

was everything caught on a rooster tail? big sunnies are good eating.i have ice fished that place in the cove to the left of the boat launch and in front of the island.open water fished it once in my canoe,olny caught small bass crappies and one decent slime dart through the ice and two small bass on a texas rigged 3" slug-go down by the dam.place was gin clear tough bite. congrats on a successful maiden voyage.

[23cardinal]

Originally Posted by icebadger

was everything caught on a rooster tail? big sunnies are good eating.i have ice fished that place in the cove to the left of the boat launch and in front of the island.open water fished it once in my canoe,olny caught small bass crappies and one decent slime dart through the ice and two small bass on a texas rigged 3" slug-go down by the dam.place was gin clear tough bite. congrats on a successful maiden voyage.

Bass and one of the pickerel took a live herring. Everything else was most rooster or spinner bait. Same yesterday, will get to post it later.

Water is really pretty

Thank u kindly

[Inishmore3]

Where is Green Turtle Pond?

[23cardinal]

Originally Posted by Inishmore3

Where is Green Turtle Pond?

West Milford, the awosting section. Above monksvile, bout 4 miles from green wood lake

[River Renegade]

Originally Posted by 23cardinal

Great day.
Some of those sunnies were huge

Awesome good to hear, keep whacking & stacking 'em.

[briansnat]

I've seen some pretty big bass there cruising the shallows, but haven't caught other than dinks. I've had best luck with trout there though. They hold over and you can get them all summer long in the deep end near the dam. Green Turtle gets heavy pressure in ice fishing season, and from shore anglers, but I rarely see more than half a dozen boats on the water.

[23cardinal]

Originally Posted by briansnat

I've seen some pretty big bass there cruising the shallows, but haven't caught other than dinks. I've had best luck with trout there though. They hold over and you can get them all summer long in the deep end near the dam. Green Turtle gets heavy pressure in ice fishing season, and from shore anglers, but I rarely see more than half a dozen boats on the water.

Quite a few yakers, and yea I grabbed a trout. U can see that bass, but they don't bite. Think they eat herring.
Yea it's nice. We've been on weekends and it's not over crowded
Road to boat launch is a little prickly, but i scouted it in a Subaru Impreza, so it's not that bad

[Fred E. Goose]

I read someone on here called it Monksville Jr. before, and that's a great line! It can be a wonderful lake or a terrible lake depending on what the fish want to do that day (just like monks). Amongst the largemouth, pickerel and trout, there's also some smallies in there and some nice yellow perch. It's definitely a welcome peaceful retreat from the summer crowds at monksville. I just don't trust the road leading to the boat launch for a few days after it rains. It's a mess when it's dry, let alone when it's muddy.