Saltwater guy looking for Freshwater Help!

[Docyoung]

Looking for some help !!!

I am mostly a Plum Island saltwater surfcaster and fly guy but a friend has convinced me to give fresh water streams in Mass a try as the stipers aren't in yet. So I picked up a 5wt, as I was told the 10wt is too heavy so I am eager to go fishing within 1 hr or so of the metro boston area, so about the 495 belt. The only problem is we don't know exactly where to go.

What I am looking for are some spots that have parking nearby, moving water, kinda like the movie "A River Runs Through it" you know the stuff fly fishing dreams are made of, and fish. Spots that can be waded with hip waders and room to back cast and not hit a bush or a tree limb.

Also looking for fish that we could possibly keep as well as spots for catch and release. Concerned about water quality on the keepers.

Thanks, Mike

[ssully]

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwrec.htm#Locations

[MKDeceiver]

If you bump that driving time up a bit, you could hit the Millers river out off rte 2 in Orange/Athol...

Otherwise the closest you will come to bigger water like that is the Charles River in the suburbs...

[Bob Parsons]

If he wants to eat a fish, that rules out the Millers.

While not stream, there is Walden pond.

[moxie]

horn Pond in Woburn is stocked with trout and a few broad stock salmon.
Easy parking and very wadeable.

MOXIE

[WeeHooker]

Lots of productive and scenic ponds just onto the cape in Sandwich, Mashpee etc. Many are wadeable too. Not really moving water but great fishing for trout and bass.
hth

[fleshfly]

If you fish in the Plum Island area, and looking for some areas within an hour(good luck) try the Ipswich River. Talk to Paul at the Rivers Edge in Beverly he knows the river very well and is more than helful in sharing his knowledge of the river.

[benmed]

Pretty water, both recently stocked, both about 1 hr or less outside of Boston.

[teflon_jones]

The upper Charles is your best bet. If you want to drive a bit further, the Swift is a good bet.