Cool Anglers-Abundant Wildlife-The Occassional Bass
So a few of us decided to meet up at the ramp at the Charles River in Waltham MA. I was the first one there as I arrived at 6:10am to a pitch black ramp....I thought to myself I could have slept in for another hour but ohh well, the weather was mild and I was amped to have a full day on the water at a place I've never explored. Mark and Mitch rolled up next, followed by Bobby and Chris, Chuck and Meat and then Brendan. We were also treated with an appearance from Jonny-Bag-A-Bass himself....as he checked in and shot the s*** for a half hour before we launched.....Thanks Buddy!
Since everyone arrived before we had adequate light it gave us some time to talk some smack and catch up. While we were chatting a massive Raccoon stumbled towards the ramp and started to make it's way under the dock. Chuck was quite intrigued so he decided to approach the animal and with a condicending voice, says "hey little buddy." It's still dark and I think to myself this 30 pound wild animal may not be so amused...fortunately it continued to mind it's own business and vanished under the dock. A few minutes later and Mark though he spotted swamp thing in the water....from a distance I admit it looked like a larger specimen but shortly after we all realized it was a small little duckling. Although there were a couple close encounters, we didn't have an episode of "When animals attack" occur.
All five boats were finally in the water by 7:15am including Brendan's new Skeeter which is an awesome rig....congrats again bro! Now that we had light, it was time to go Lunker Hunting. I fished solo and explored for a bit before seeing some bait fish on one side of the river. I was throwing the jig and crankbaits without any action. I switched over to a white spinnerbait and was able to catch 2 small bass. A few minutes later and I threw a cast near some sticks in the water and burned the bait back in.....half way in and I saw a rip in the water so I paused for a second and then boom, a decent bass on. It would be my only keeper of the day! I threw everything out there too- jigs, swimbaits, cranks, spinnerbait, creature bait and even shiners.....jk guys, no live bait!
It was slow for everyone else too and with 5 boats and 8 anglers...we all combined for a solid limit lol! I had fun exploring the river and enjoyed being out on such a warm day. I headed back towards the launch and during a stretch on the water I felt like I was in the movie "Birds" as I went through a flock of around 100 seagulls, ducks, geese and swans!
1) Mark & Mitch- 5lbs (2) and lunker at over 3lbs
2)Chuck & Meat- 4lbs (2)
3) Jeff -2.5lbs (1) tied with Bobby & Chris- 2.5lbs (1)
4) Brendan - no keepers
Althought the fishing wasn't what we had all hoped for it was still great to get out with a cool group of guys! Hopefully we have one more in us before the ice!