It's just a change in the way I get some fresh air and exercise; what a weekend to do it too. Although when I was teeing it up yesterday and looking at the glass surface of the pond on 15, I couldn't help but think back to how many times I'd have taken advantage of a weekend like this fishing somewhere.
In my freshwater days, I'd have been out on mill pond or the agawam (never quite sure what to call it) river watershed in Wareham, a place you couldn't move a bait thru in the summer due to the millfoil. The water would be cold in December but on a still day like this rapala sitting still on top over the now dying weeds with a twitch every minute or so would tempt some nice largemouth and some gater pickeral. That same spot in the spring a long, long time back was a lock to catch some sea run browns and an occassional smallmouth who somehow found it's way down from Glenn Charlie Pond.
When I moved to saltwater and discovered the Thames winter fishing, man a day like yesterday would have had that harbor covered in boats of all types and sizes, but there were tens of thousands of stripers willing to bite on a warming trend like we have had. I think on a day similar I landed my largest a 42 lber and on 10 lb fluro and light spinner to make it a bit of a challenge. A catch of 50 stripers was a slow day back then.
Then an old board member passed on a sweat spot in Mass that saved me a lot of driving and the purchase of a CT license and put me on shallow water for a lot more fun. Clammer knows the spot and boy didn't we have some fun on a weekend like this, which would almost guarantee you a handful of keepers too. On a day like yesterday with my son, we landed six fish over 20 lbs on a warm January thaw day, all caught in water that was 2 feet deep.
Well I have a ten am tee time, so I'm going to grab a cup of coffee and do some stretching, but it was a good trip down memory lane. I hope to have a boat or kayak after the winter shows, so next year if the pattern repeats, I might have to wet a line on some of those old spots to see if there is any life left in them.
Mike at least I have some balls
and white is better than blue balls ever day of the week.
Hybrid Mode
