Osgood Pond

[Tanimal85]

Hittin' Osgood this Saturday, never fished it before, any reccomendations?

[33Canuck]

Get ready for some flying flags, Osgood is full of toothy's, you won't get many giants but should have lots of action

[nypike]

just use big -huge bait..... keep the hammer handles away. I have seen a couple 16-18lb fish out of that pond and quite few 10's

[fishlakegeorge]

Is that near Paul Smiths College?

[jlaclair]

yah thats near smitty's. theyve been pulling fish averaging 30" this year....and i know there are some monsters, i went out only once so far, but yah use big bait, those hammer handles are every where, you should get lots of action, pull up a contour map, i went straight out from the launch towards the first island...

[fishlakegeorge]

I went to college there and remember some good keg parties on Osgood.

[jlaclair]

no...I went to college there 

[NatefishNY]

beautiful country up there... great fishing

[33Canuck]

I also went to Smitty and had some awesome keggers on the pond! Good times Good times, fishing was always good there

[jlaclair]

I have a strange feeling that next year there might be a smitty alumni get together fishing somewhere

[33Canuck]

I'm headed up and will be fishing March 5-7 if anyone is interested in fishing on the 5th I'm looking for someplace random to try.  I was either thinking Oz, Kiwassa or Ampersand

[GDominy12]

I've caught a few nice pike in osgood, lost one over 10 at the hole once!

[jlaclair]

I'm headed up and will be fishing March 5-7 if anyone is interested in fishing on the 5th I'm looking for someplace random to try.  I was either thinking Oz, Kiwassa or Ampersand

i'll be around...see if i cant get some other people to

[Flag!!Man]

I went to college there and remember some good keg parties on Osgood.

Same here   Good Times 8)

[eplank88]

Fished Osgood last week and was catching 30" pike.  Flags most of the day (sometimes with a smallmouth on the other end).  Jigging up a bunch of big fat perch as well. Used some of the smaller perch as bait which we caught most of the pike on.  Good luck out there!

[Bender]

I fished there one day last week too. I didn't have a single pike on medium shiners, switched to a small perch I caught and caught a pike within 15 minutes. I too had some fat perch coming on the tipups and jigging, biggest was 12 1/2".



I've never had that happen where pike wouldn't hit a shiner, but I'm new to ice fishing. Maybe a big sucker would work better.

[jlaclair]

where were you to set up? i couldnt catch perch last time i went out....thinking bout going out this week

[Bender]

I pretty much walk until I get tired and think there might be good depth changes. I walked out from the launch and followed the south shore and went around the second or third point. It was past the island closer to the south side just when you get into the big part of the lake. I tried 6-14' with all the perch in 12-14'. Got the pike back closer to the launch in 8'. I saw a lot more fish on the sonar but they weren't biting, just curious I guess or I wasn't doing it right.

[33Canuck]

Thanks for the updates guys and like I said I will be up to fish on the 5th its a 5 hour trip from here we will probably get there 9:30-10 on the 5th and try to punch a few holes and maybe ice a few.  Shoot me a pm if your interested in meeting up with me and my buddy

[NatefishNY]

whats up there for ice thickness?

[jlaclair]

there is around 18"..so lots

[Tanimal85]

Caught a few perch, but no pike on large shiners and suckers.  Did catch two 4+ pound largemouths on suckers.  Should've tried using the perch for bait.

[IcemanADK]

Osgood is alright, but there are much better waters in the ADK's for pike. We tend to fish Osgood for a lot of fast action, lots of company since it's easy to get to and a short walk to get into fish. I wouldn't label it a water to fish for monsters, but that's just me. You'll catch fish, but you may find your stringer full of pencils at the end of the day.