Fishing With Don

…and only largemouth! I won’t complain at all, neither will Don. What started as the worst day, ended up with the nice catch of several good size largemouth bass.

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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…

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Alright, I need to get this off the way. So far this year, we have not had ONE day of nice “fishing” weather…I don’t mean nice weather, because it is different that nice “fishing” weather. Not one day out on the water without wind, showers or heat!!! We are not for asking much, just give us a calm, overcast warm day!

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Today wasn’t a day to spend outside, we probably went through 20 showers and basically spent the day in our rain gears. Gate 31 was a first for me, Don went the previous week already where he caught 3 nice smallmouth bass within a few hours (and he broke my smallmouth record of the year!) so we decided to give it a shot for a full day.

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We’re on! Don beat my record for the largest smallmouth of the year!

Don went fishing on Monday (Memorial Day) to Quabbin Gate 31, great area for smallmouth bass. Don told me that he missed a few smallies but accomplished to beat my smallmouth record so far this year: a 2.8lbs Smallmouth! And he was not lying, we’ve got the picture!!

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Back to the Quabbin reservoir this week…we could have gone fishing somewhere else (Quaboag river) but it seems that fishing isn’t that good so far this year, maybe because of the weather we’ve got so far in May, lots of rain. I drove by the river via Route 148 in the morning and the water is really high for the season, so that could be it, the bass are still in deepest part of the river and have not yet moved up. Well, hopefully within the next few weeks we can try going over there, with higher temperatures and the water warming up, the fish should start becoming a lot more active and aggressive…we have some great memories of fishing the river, we caught lots of nice bass at Quaboag in the past few years and our largest pickerels.

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