Report; Quinnisgamond Lake in Worchester, MA

Walt was laid up with a medical issue for today. Hope he gets this under control soon! Anyway, with a beautiful stretch of weather coming our way - for a change - Jim & I hit a lake he is more familiar with than I am. Quinnisgamond Lake in Worchester, MA. Nice body of water. We launched around 7:50 am today with the air at a brisk 48 degrees and the water at 66. Water clarity around 3' - 4'. Winds calm to slight breezes from time to time.

This is a pretty lake:



Depths average around 18' in the "bowl", to various shallow areas. We fished the southern most pond, so we were out of the main "weekend warrior" crowd. Those folks were plying their skills in the upper, deeper sections of the lake.

We started trolling around 8:10 am and I had 4 fish in the boat by 8:20 - a crappie, a yellow perch, a white perch and a bluegill! Jim was just getting wound up though and we both started nailing a variety of fish, for the next several hours, on various plastics - straight tails, curly tails, paddle tails and Roadrunners. The latter accounted for most of my success for the morning.

We pulled off around 1:30 pm with a total of 49 fish. Most were bluegill, but a decent representation of white perch, yellow perch and crappie. Here are some pictures of our venture today:



The gills were really decent! But Jim assured me the best was yet to come.









We didn't get any giants today, but the hits were frequent and the weather phenomenal. We also "bumped" into a new brood of swans making their way across the pond:



All in all a decent day spent on the water with another fine fisherman. God Bless America!

BTW, for those folks believing that black crappie do not go after crankbaits, I got 3 that way today! What do you know!