On the board finally

[albacized]

Well it's been a long winter since I was catching Scorton's Creek holdover stripers, the last time being the week before the blizzard. Today I went across the street from work to fish Cochituate Lake in Framingham. In an hour and a half, I got 2 small rainbows and lost 3 others on a beaded head olive wooly bugger.The wind was blowing pretty good from a southerly direction making it a bit difficult to cast. However, the fish weren't far out anyway. Oddly, other fisherman using a variety of baits, including inflating worms, power baits and shiners didn't get even a sniff as far as I could tell. The only down side was the size of these fish. They were in the 10"-12" range. But I kinda like the idea that my first fish of this season was a fly caught rainbow.

[benmed]

I recently moved to the area and have been eyeing Lake Cochituate, would you be willing to part with a little more info, i.e wading from shore vs. boat, in which general area?? Any help would be appreciated.

[albacized]

I was fishing from the shore around the boatramp area off rt 30. This is pretty much where they stock the trout. It supposedly is also a good pike and bass fishery but in since I'll be turning almost exclusively to the saltwater scene after the striped bass show up, I can't personally vouch for that, although I can say that I wouldn't consider the boat ramp area a good area for the warm water species. In fact, the only reason the trout fishing is ok in that area (aside from the obvious stocking comment I mentioned) is because the season for all the boaters and swimmers hasn't started up yet. As soon as it does, you need to find somewhere else to fish. It gets crowded there as soon as the warmer weather becomes more consistant. For me, it's a matter of convienience since i work across the street.