My New York fishin’ buddy “Wild Bill” & I started the morning at the lake whose name shall not be mentioned, and after catching a jillion little bass in a few hours, high tailed it to old reliable Mudge Pond. In the time it takes to put the boat on the trailer, drive from one place [...]
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After yesterday’s disturbingly slow day, Jim & I wanted to do something entirely different. So we hit a river for smallies. Three hours later, we’re wishing we hadn’t. On the trailer at 9:30 and we’re off to Mudge. It wasn’t fast and furious, but we ended up with a couple more bass than yesterday in a [...] I’m usually a big believer in natural signs. Active wildlife equates to active fish, etc. This morning on the way to the lake, we saw more deer along the roadside and in adjacent fields than ever. And there was the largest flock of crows by the lake I’ve ever seen. A group of crows is called [...] My son Tom & I fished Champlain this weekend. The weather was cloudy and warming on Saturday, and rainy on Sunday. Wind didn’t blow enough either day to be a factor at all. Everything pointed to this being an exceptional fishing weekend. Except it wasn’t. It wasn’t even average. Mediocre. That’s probably the best word to describe it. That and [...] Saturday, 8/14 A saltwater trip with Steve & Dave wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad, either. After hooking up with a triple of stripers on our first drift we thought it was going to be gangbusters. But but things quickly settled down to a slow pick of stripers and blues, plus a sea bass and a porgy, [...] Lakeville was so good to me yesterday that we figured we could smack ‘em today. First, we get to the ramp and there’s a club tournament. I swear it wasn’t listed, but I just checked again, and it was. I’ve got no business griping about it then. Should’ve just turned around and fished somewhere else when we [...] Not sure what the problem has been, but Lakeville just hasn’t been herself this year. Today though, Lakeville — aka Lake Wononscopomuc — seemed very much like herself. After a sluggish start, I ended up with 34 bass — most of them over 2#, which is what I think of as typical for Lakeville. Got one [...] This was not a great fishing weekend for me. A salt water trip on Saturday proved a near bust, as I managed 7 or 8 bluefish to Steve’s 4 stripers. Sunday’s bass fishing was better, but not by a whole lot. Alex & I went to Mudge, looking for a flipping bite in the pads. Ended up [...] Between the Bass Open that ended Saturday and the FLW a week earlier, an awful lot bass had been relocated to the northern end of Champlain recently. How was the fishing likely to hold up in the lower end? How long can the VT and NY Fisheries managers keep allowing the size selective relocation of LMB [...] Jim & I hit the water at 7:30. Water temp 80+. Very slight algae tint to the water. Worked relatively hard for 17 bass and a double barreled squatload of big pickerel between us. View the entire post — Sunday morning at Lakeville Had a picnic at my daughters house this afternoon, so I only had a few hours to fish this morning. Hatch is only about 45 minutes, and it’s pretty easy to fish the whole place very thoroughly in 3 hours or so. So that’s where I headed. View the entire post — Quick hitter Saturday morning This weekend was kind of a return to the places I used to fish. Candlewood, for one. Love the fishery, and considered it my home waters for the better part of two decades. But I just can’t put up with the crowds any more, and being limited to fishing weekends for the most part, I almost never make it out on ‘the wood’ these days. View the entire post — Returning to my roots. |
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