Place has been packed on the weekends. Get there early if possible. Good luck!!
Thanks Dr.
Like I said, I just wanted a hike and to do some casting. That crazy huh? Yikes.
There's room to cast and move but there a lot of groups of 2-4 people in the gate 6-8 areas and they are using mostly live bait. I would still go but you'll be walking more than usual. The causeway was JAMMED with people last weekend and the rook looked pretty busy also.
Thanks. Wow, lots of interest this Spring!
a lot of people like to eat the trout and salmon and it's a basic human right to be able to forage or catch or grow your food....we shouldn't always have to be slaves to an expensive , greedy, toxic food industry - legal limits are calculated based on a system that manages fish populations and it is necessary for people take fish or game to eat , on top of it being what god intended....you should see the food that gets tossed in the dumpster at a grocery store and to compensate , we have to pay $ 10 a pound for a fish that nature grew and someone else caught it ?...are we not entitled to put in our own work and catch a free meal ? there's a lot of people against hunting also that don't mind going to the grocery store and buying chemical infested meat that lived un-natural lives in pain and misery....shake my headI see one more pic of a salmon or laker from the Chu on a stringer and I am going to lose my mind. WTF is wrong with people? Why kill everything you get your hands on?
Grocery store or Amazon has all the meat you need.
Couldn't have said it better myself
Look all it's not my aim to start a flame war (I think the Tourney thread has that covered!) and you have to understand I really don't think anything I wrote applies to anyone that signs up, makes posts, and engages here on the board. I trust anyone making that kind of effort knows a thing or two and practices selective harvest. I have zero issue with that at all.
I think you know the type I mean. "Bucket Brigade" type that keep everything (legal size or not) they catch. Luckily places like the Chu and The Quabbin are tricky enough that most people don't get the chance to hurt the fishery.
Up my way North of Boston (Lowell, Billerica, Chelmsford) I can tell you the places have been cleaned out of good fish by these types. It's sad.
I was reading reports on another site I'm on. The hot bite seems to be Salmon on hardware lately. Also, they're coming across anglers who are fishing 5 or 6 six rods a piece, campfires, drinking, smoking, and plenty of litter, all of which are illegal there. Not every angler, but what a shame.
What's the limit? Is it alright to have two?
I hear you grayrider if I see them filling buckets near me I toss my biggest lures where their fishing and scare the panfish n small bass away from them until they get pissed n leave. I dispise them.Not only do they fish places out they are slobs n leave trash everywhere.
haha that's funny.