Quabbin reservoir - Gate 43…Finally a good day!
This week end, we went back to Gate 43 on Quabbin. I was sick last week end, so Don went on his own to Gate 31 and did not really catch anything. To be honest, after the past few weeks, we were not expecting much…but since Quabbin is closing soon, we have fish the gates at least once more each…
Late start….9:30AM meeting
Well, since the weatherman AGAIN expected some possible early showers (when you listen to these guys it’s like it’s going to rain all morning long), we decide to wait, just call each other early in the morning and see how things go from there. So we ended up meeting at the Gate 43 around 9:30AM, which actually made our morning really relaxing.
Fish where ya know the fish is!
We directly went to our usual #1 spot near the little dam. Only after 1/2 hour of fishing, Don caught 2 bass in a row, around 1.5lb each, both on Senko…is the day going to be like that? Not a bad start at all, so yeah, we were starting to feel like it could turn out to be a great fishing day…finally!
The magic spot (I can’t tell….)
There is one spot we know we always catch fish from…and big ones, largemouth bass usually. They feed off an old river 20 feet down and every time we get there, we catch them. Last year, Don caught 2 BIG bass in a row, I believe 2 casts apart from each other, and these bass were monsters. I think I might have a picture somewhere, I’ll post it when I find it.
I also cannot precisely disclose the location of the secret spot for specific reasons, which I won’t get into…but Don knows why 
I threw my green with black seed senko at the spot and after 2 casts, BING! a nice 1.5lb largemouth…I guess he did hit the right spot…Don follows up with a nice 2.3lb of which I made a video (while trying to find the fishing net…I knew i’d get yelled at if I did not grab it quickly )
Basically we caught these 2 nice largemouth with 4 casts in 5mn of being on the Golden spot…damn birds
Wrap up a nice day
We cannot complain, it was a very good day, the weather was beautiful, we caught 5 really nice fish, and I have a really funny picture of Don! Come on Don, you’ve got to agree, this is a hilarious picture!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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