Despite my best intentions, I’ve been a bit remiss in my blog entries lately. May was an exceptionally busy month for fly orders and I spent a lot of my days tying up a storm and rewarding myself at the end of the day with a few hours of fishing whenever the weather allowed it (it was a very windy, cold month of May and early June wasn’t much better). And at the end of each day I was often much too tired to sit down at the computer and think of something interesting to write about. I did, however, take the time to keep my fishing log up-to-date and tonight–after a great day of striper fishing in the inner harbor–the thought occurred to me that this fishing log might be of interest to some of my readers. And here it is: my log (somewhat abbreviated) for the past three weeks. Hope you find it interesting.
Saturday, May 17
Sunny but very windy and cool. Decided not to fish for stripers but to fish for largemouth bass.
As part of my plan to add to my range of fishing knowledge one new fishing spot a week I drove to Brooks Pond in Medford, located on the Brooks Estate. A very pretty pond with lots of trees lining the banks and scattered lily pads here and there. Very bassy. It was lots of fun but difficult to wade; much of the shoreline is littered with deadfall which makes for slow going. I caught numerous bluegills and some bass, mostly small, around half a pound. Made a note to return here with a belly boat some day. Around 7.30 pm went to Mystic Lake (middle). Saw fish rising offshore but only caught one small bass before dark. Saw one larger fish break near shore but couldn’t get to it. I’ll have to return someday soon and explore these lakes further. Continue reading “From my fishing log: May 17 – June 8”