Stillwater Pond

The VRBO listing for this house mentioned good fishing on Stillwater Pond, so we decided to check it out. Our first adventure was finding a bait shop to get worms and 3 day fishing licenses. The two bait shops in Chatham were closed. We used to get bait for surf casting there but the owners retired. The other one closed due to COVID and hasn’t reopened yet. We found a bait shop in East Harwich and we got some worms. It turns out that getting a fishing license is automated in Massachusetts and is done online. With only a little trouble we got our fishing licenses.

A major part of any fishing tale is how big the fish are. Of course this discussion is all a matter of perspective.

Now images don’t lie and neither do statistics. It is important to get the right perspective when doing a fishing blog.

We fished from both the dock and the row boat. We caught panfish (bluegills and pumpkin seeds), largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and perch. Meg hooked a catfish but we didn’t land it.

We were able to catch fish from the dock. With the light tackle, it was fun catching the freshwater fish. We caught panfish, perch and even decent sized largemouth bass from the dock.

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We fished from the row boat three or four times. We jigged, casted or trolled and all worked well.

One of the bass bent the hook I was using.

Because Stillwater Pond is a private pond we suspected it didn’t get a lot of fishing pressure. The panfish were huge, probably upwards of one pound each. That made for fun fishing.

One of our goals became to catch the catfish. The pond was so clear you could see into the water pretty well. If we left the baits rest, the turtles would find them before the catfish. So we failed to catch a single catfish.

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We all enjoyed the freshwater fishing.

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy.

Mark, Wink and Meg