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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jul 29, 2013
Subject:
Winchester Lake 07/28
Message:
I've been really, really busy, lately. However, I haven't been too busy to [i:1753ad195c][b:1753ad195c]go[/b:1753ad195c][/i:1753ad195c] fishing, even though I've been to busy to [i:1753ad195c][b:1753ad195c]write about[/b:1753ad195c][/i:1753ad195c] fishing. I have photos from five trips, but I'll start with the most recent one. After fishing all day for the first time ever at Colebrook River Lake and having dinner at The New Boston Inn in Standisfield, MA, mep21 (aka Mark) and I decided to fish some more at Winchester Lake, because there was a little bit of sunlight left. Of course, the sky was completely overcast all day, but the clouds were still lit up bright enough for us to see. :D When we got to the boat launch, there were only a couple of trucks in the parking lot and only one had a boat trailer. We got on the water in The Other Woman, Too at about 6:40 pm. The air was cool, but not cold. Mark and I both decided to leave our rain gear in my Jeep, even though the dark clouds threatened rain. The wind was blowing out of the south, but the water was perfectly calm at the ramp on the south end of the lake, Our plan was to drift with the wind through the stumps in the middle of the lake. After we launched at the ramp, we motored up to where the stumps begin and let the wind take us. I made Mark take the front deck and run the trolling motor as needed, which wasn't much. The surface water temperature was 76 degrees, which is much cooler than I've seen anywhere in the last two weeks. In the dim, fading light, we could see down into the water only a foot or so. The wind was more blustery than we thought and ended up pushing us along at up to one mile per hour. Mark decided to throw a black and blue jig he got in a Mystery Tackle Box that came packaged with a blue craw trailer, while I stuck with the same drop shot Berkley Gulp! Minnow that I threw all day at Colebrook. I usually drop shot 2-1/2 inch Gulp! Minnows, but we had used up all of mine at Colebrook. Luckily, Mark had a package of three inchers that he had gotten in the tackle pool from last May's kayak fishing tourney at Moodus Reservoir. Although we had used most of them at Colebrook, there were still several left in the bag. I set a goal for myself to catch four different species of fish and called my shot; I said that I would catch a sunny, a yellow perch, a rock bass and a largemouth bass. As we began drifting through the stumps in 11-1/2 feet of water, neither of us got any action, other than some little nibbles on my minnow. When we were 2/3 of the way up the lake, Mark snagged his jig on one of the stumps. At 6:54 pm, as he motored us over to it, I finally got a bite and boated the first fish: [img:1753ad195c]http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/6633/4f86.jpg[/img:1753ad195c] Sunny! :D We continued our drift up into the shallower stumps on the north end of the lake. At 7:13 pm, I got another bite: [img:1753ad195c]http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8167/6nwi.jpg[/img:1753ad195c] Rocky! :D And at 7:17 pm, I got another: [img:1753ad195c]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5223/805w.jpg[/img:1753ad195c] Okay, so it was a dink, but the largemouth bass was the third species of fish that I had caught! :D Mark finally got fed up with the [i:1753ad195c][b:1753ad195c]absolutely nothing[/b:1753ad195c][/i:1753ad195c] he was getting with his jig, so he tied on a drop shot, too. It wasn't long before he got a bite and reeled a small chain pickerel up to the boat before it shook itself off. When we reached the stumps in the far north end of the cove that are in only four feet of water, we decided to motor back down to the south end to get out of the wind. At that point, a tiny sprinkle of rain began to fall. When we passed the small island that's across from the ramp off of the east shore, we began throwing our drop shot minnows, again. We each got a bite or two, but lost the fish. At 8:06 pm, after Mark caught a deep snag with his drop shot in 15 feet of water, I got a bite on mine directly underneath the boat: [img:1753ad195c]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7373/rmd6.jpg[/img:1753ad195c] A brown bullhead?!?! :o It wasn't the yellow perch that I expected, but it was a decent size, well, for a brown bullhead, at least, and was the fourth species of fish that I had caught. Whoo Hoo! :D As a light rain began to fall from scattered, fast moving clouds, we caught a glimpse of some sunlight to the west: [img:1753ad195c]http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6549/s1z1.jpg[/img:1753ad195c] We got off of the water at 8:30 pm, after having been reminded that a day of fishing on the water, even when you're not catching much of anything, is always a terrific day.
Author:
bass tracker
Date:
Jul 29, 2013
Subject:
Winchester
Message:
Nice report (s) Phil, two lakes in one day huh? Good job guys, lots of different fish caught, way to spread it around. Mark you must be worn out after having fished Moodus Saturday too. BT
Author:
Wanna Fish
Date:
Jul 29, 2013
Message:
Excellent Phil! You should be publishing for a Outdoor Magazine.
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