Wachussett....first weeks

[bb1]

This has got to be one of the worst opening weeks ever....KNOWONE is catching ANYTHING (except for a couple big ones), and the water is SO high you can't walk around or even get to many spots.
Day after day....you won't even SEE someone catch a keeper.

Then there was the 3 (overweight) men w/ 2 (skinny) boys who left used toilet paper (and boys underwear) all over the ground next to the causway yesterday. Can you imagine middle aged adults acting like such PIGS.
And another generation of low lifes being brought up!

[BobG]

Then there was the 3 (overweight) men w/ 2 (skinny) boys who left used toilet paper (and boys underwear) all over the ground next to the causway yesterday. Can you imagine middle aged adults acting like such PIGS.
And another generation of low lifes being brought up!

Well, there's good news. Come July, man/boy pig team won't be on The Res, but will likely be crapping up the Canal somewhere with their tp and boys underwear (there's got to be a joke here somewhere?).:rolleyes:

[DAQ]

This has got to be one of the worst opening weeks ever....KNOWONE is catching ANYTHING (except for a couple big ones), and the water is SO high you can't walk around or even get to many spots.
Day after day....you won't even SEE someone catch a keeper.

Then there was the 3 (overweight) men w/ 2 (skinny) boys who left used toilet paper (and boys underwear) all over the ground next to the causway yesterday. Can you imagine middle aged adults acting like such PIGS.
And another generation of low lifes being brought up!

I saw the pigs you are talking about, I was fishing on the causeway while they were there. I wanted to say something but I always feel strange when kids are involved.

Unfortunately I lost the only fish I hooked, which felt like a decent one.

D

[PJT]

Yuck. You mean some guy/kid took a dump on the rocks? First off, the woods are just another 30 yards away. I'm sure with some help, you can scamper your way in there and not cause a disgusting mess for all to see. At least use the googan white bucket you keep your tackle/bait in. Secondly, how can you not get stage fright with all those cars whizzing by and people all over the place. I suppose if you gotta go, you gotta go but you should have that spidy sense go off way in advance to save the shame.

I wonder what kind of treatment the water goes thru before it winds up in people houses.

[Chuckster]

I experienced a similar scenario on my first (and last) trip to the Salmon River.

Some people are just plain rude and disgusting. I'm a plumber and it even grossed me out.

Find some woods and dig a shallow hole if you gotta go that bad. It's the 21st century for God's sake; not the Dark Ages.

[Tynan]

Or take the kid to McDonalds a mile away. Took my two boys 5 and 2 and we caught 2 ticks.

[albacized]

Or take the kid to McDonalds a mile away. Took my two boys 5 and 2 and we caught 2 ticks.


Where is the McDonalds that's only a mile away? When I'm leaving the causeway area to head home, I head back on 140, taking a left where the convenient store is to stay on 140 - is the McDonalds on that road that goes straight past the convenient store?

[bb1]

They (the pigs) were not on the causeway rocks, but next to the high tension wires....I guess the youngest kid had an accident, his underwear and toilet paper just tossed all around the area. These guys didn't even have the brains to put that material in a plastic bag or something!

Most people are just catching small (micro) lakers now....it may get a little better with the warming water, but it just may suck like last year at Wachusett.
It sucks because most use regular size tackle in case you hook a nice fish. But if you used UL tackle the micros and the 'usual' size lakers could be fun.

[bb1]

The McDonalds is in a small shopping mall/area before you get to Wallmart (on the left). Yes, go straight instead of taking that left on 140.
The hobby shop in that shopping area had Zap-a-Gap at a good price....but that part of the building is being torn down now.
Is it time to glue up some sluggo jigs for the canal?
Or will the canal equally suck this year....lol.

[Tynan]

Where is the McDonalds that's only a mile away? When I'm leaving the causeway area to head home, I head back on 140, taking a left where the convenient store is to stay on 140 - is the McDonalds on that road that goes straight past the convenient store?


Yes, Rt. 12. Just up on the left from there.

[albacized]

Yes, Rt. 12. Just up on the left from there.


Thanks....


As far as hitting the res, I finally took advantage of the last two hours of sunlight after work yesterday and fished the causeway area. My observation is that the water in that area is already turning for the warm water species and that if you want lakers/salmon, you might want to head to some deeper parts of the res. I did manage one micro laker, but then hook/lost a large mouth (and saw a few others in the area I was fishing) as well as a rock bass: another guy caught a sunfish on his fly rod...and when removing the hook from these fish, they felt relatively warm as did the water itself. All fish caught on 1/4 oz kastmasters. Vegetation is picking up as well.

An indicator that the water temps are rising was that I fished the open res side of the causeway and even with an east wind blowing right in from the water, the air did not feel cool at all. While I did go down wearing a sweatshirt, I was actually getting kinda warm at times.

So now I've been down one time and if I fish the res again this spring, it will be over in the area where deeper water lies...Probably won't hit the causeway area again until the fall - I can catch large mouth and sunfish two minutes from my house in Framingham.

[hq2]

I would guess the cold water fish are already starting to go down; it's warmed up a lot the last two weeks. Need to go deeper for salmon and lakers.

A pet peeve: does anybody read the OntheWater descriptions of Wachusett fishing? The descriptions bear absolutely no resemblance to the actual reality of the situation; one or two people catch something decent, the other 95-99% of the people get skunked. And they write it up like everybody was catching fish! It's total nonsense! Hasn't anybody ever tried to set Ron Powers straight? He
knows what's actually going on, but he never writes it! Are all the writers in collusion with the bait shop owners?

[bb1]

The causeway area hasn't even started to get hot with landlocks yet, and will be good for months to come.
Nice smallmouths can be found in 25-30ft of water right now.

Does anyone think that Wachusett has 'turned over'? Nope.
The laker fishing will also be getting better soon, as the smelt come into shore to spawn. By the way, I hear there killing off the smelt again (w/ poison near the dam)....they clog up the turbines I hear.

Yes, the tackle shops there exaggerate the fishing sucess....we got 4 micros last evening. I have caught about 8 or 9 so far, all on spoons fishing only a couple hours a few days last week.....w/ only one keeper.

[albacized]

For me, it wasn't the lack of samoid activity as much as it was the warm water species activity that told me the water is warming up (and the bath water temps also help convince me as well). There was also a big school of tiny (as in small shiner size) yellow perch mulling around the rocks.

But I hope you're right - I'd like to think the best part of the spring (not including bass/sunfish/etc) are ahead of us.

[bb1]

Use a small hook w/ a piece of worm on a bobber to catch those YP....then use them in deeper water for lakers, they are GREAT bait in Wachusett.
Also use YP color spoons/flies there for everything.

But when the fishing gets better at Wachusett, where usually chasing stripers at the canal!

[jewmont3]

Wachusett has been terrible for myself and my cousin this year as well. A couple of rats and many skunkings. Tried many different spots as well.


-Mike

p.s. Anyone been to quabbin?

[bb1]

Yes, most reports in most areas are terrible....I have found one area that seems to have at least some fish.

[coltranem]

Well I was thinking of heading over there tomorrow with the kids to try something different. Chuck shiners for bigger fish....but maybe I should stick with sunfish and worms on the ponds.