Brookline Res Fishing Report

Brookline & Chestnut Hill Reservoirs

I snuck out of house early in the morning to fish before I could get veto'd out of the trip. Headed over to Brookline to see if I could hook up with some of the LM bass I had seen spawning earlier this year. I brought my fly rod and my spinning rod so I could have options. I assembled the fly rod and tied on floating hopper pattern. I started casting "southern" side of the pond between the two "bowls" that form the shallow on the west and the depths to the east. on my 3rd cast I hooked up with a small LMB. He hit the fly close to shore so he was real fiesty as I tried to release him. He helped himself off the hook and swam away.

He must have clued in the rest of the fish in that area because the bite shut off after that. So I moved on to the shallow end. I rigged up a 5" zoom green worm on no. 2 circle hook wacky style on my spinning gear. After about 10 casts I hooked up with another small LMB. This is the first time that I have ever caught anything on a plastic worm so it turned out to be a fun fight. He jumped several times but the circle hook held fast. in fact he was so well hooked I had to use needle nose pliers to flatten the barb on the hook so as not to injure the fish too much trying to release it.

Then I switched back to the fly rod casting a black wooly bugger. I got my third bass of the day close to shore again. Watching the fish hit fly was just cool because he inspected it first and the he just slammed it.

Then the call came on my phone...and that part of my trip was over.

After I got home it rained pretty hard for about an hour so the recall saved me from getting wet. By this time my daughter was up so I asked her if she wanted to go fishing. She said yes so we headed out to Chestnut res. The water was clear but there where lots of weeds growing close to shore. Celery colored Eleodea I think.

We didn't see any fish at first because it was sunny and they where hiding in the weeds. I had her start out with a rubber worm rigged wacky but she didn't have patience for that style of fishing. She switched up to our goto bait which is the Berkeley powerbait honey worms. She tied on a 1/16 chartreuse jig (All by herself but had me check the knot.) with honey grub bait dressing the hook. It got windy so she also put on a bobber to assist with casting.

Then she started to catch fish...Every other cast she hooked up with a bluegill or pumpkinseed. She got so many that she tired of catching and releasing fish.

While she was catching fish I was working the fly rod which proved to be a challenge because I had to mind that I wasn't going to hook a jogger, bike rider or dog walker on my backcast. Since I was fishing wet flies roll casting in the weedy soup was...challenging. I started out with the wooly bugger but switched to a honey worm on a hook and nymphed for bluegill myself as they where the only active fish in the spot we choose. We caught and released about 30 fish between us.

• Added By: thorn168 on 08/03/11 04:44 PM
• Location: Brookline Res
• Report Date: 7/23/2011
• # of Photos: 2
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