trout fishing this weekend

[joppahoppa]

heading out on Sunday, maybe plugs, maybe round, maybe stiles.

might do some trolling with metals; will post a report.

if anyone has any info, would be happy to share.

[Xiphias gladius]

these are the ponds stocked this past week: Ashland Reservoir, Hopkinton Reservoir, Lake Cochituate, Lake Massapoag.

[joppahoppa]

saw the stocking on the Mass. website.

I'll do some searching for holdovers; not sure which place will be the target.

I'll post a report; likely heading out tomorrow, looks like the calmer of the two days, but i'll break in the new drift sock.

[Xiphias gladius]

same, maybe I'll drift around some chromies under an indicator for a while in the late afternoon at pleasant...

[joppahoppa]

round pond was pretty quiet, floated some crawlers under bobbers, no love.

tossed some metals at plug's, one guy said a handful of holdovers have been taken on power bait.

will hope to have the boat in trolling somewhere this coming weekend.

[Xiphias gladius]

i threw some double bunnies around this weekend at various bass lakes without any luck. However, next weekend should be a trout slaughter. Combat fishing can sometimes be an art in itself..

[joppahoppa]

all the ponds this way have been stocked.
let the combat fishing begin.

i'll be out and about somewhere on sunday morning.

[joppahoppa]

I've had a theory that finally paid off.
Vertical jigged my first rainbow of the year from 22' of water! Used a northland forage minnow.

(http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/store ... rchResults)

I'm sure if I ever made the transition away from spinning gear to leadcore I would have done better but here's to trying something that worked.

Of course the guys in the lawn chairs with coffee and cigars did much better than I did on PowerBait but I broke in the new motor, new rod holders and the drift sock!

The only boat in a while to fish both Stiles Pond and the Isle of Shoals was back in the water!