Can't wait too much longer...

[bmik]

...to get on the water. I picked up a new stick at the show yesterday and need to break it in. Okay winter, enough snow....let's start warming up a bit.

[flytire]

As long as the streams in your area are open per regulations, you can always go fishing! :)

[fessiewig]

bmik,

Ever fish the Nashoba (sp?) in Acton?

[petegas]

amen, to that bmik, all work and no play, too much time in lab, too much time studying for a final, dont even have a chance to tie a wooly bugger.
can't wait for spring!

[bmik]

I've usually been to the Swift and the Deerfield by now, but this year the opportunity just hasn't presented itself yet. It's been a couple of years since I've been to the Newfound but after the thread about it I read here I probably haven't missed much.
I will hit the Nissitissitt (sp?) this month. The problem with the Deerfield now is there is no where to park with all the snow. Plus the flows have been very high.
I don't usually even start thinking more north until the beginning of May.
I've never fished the Nashoba in Acton.

[fessiewig]

Just curious. I grew up fishing that river. Of course that was almost 50 years ago. Back then it was a fantastic Trout river.

[browntrout]

Fessiewig- Interesting you mention that. Living locally to that area, over the years I've heard snippets of brook trout taken from Nashoba, some supposedly wild. Itrs more of a creek now than anything, much of it overgrown with heavy brush and vine. I do notice from t ime to time along rt 2 towards the concord rotary, cars pulled off in the field to the left, some obviously fishing. Just curious, where did you spent your time on the river?

[fessiewig]

When I was a kid (12 through 17) my married sister lived on 127 (?) in Acton. Me and my fishing partner, Eric, fished that river (I'd call it a stream or brook more than a river) from the intersection of 2 & 127 all the way to the source, which was a marsh. Some of the favorites were "Dropkick Murphy's" and "Brett's Pool" That stream, river, brook, what ever, was loaded with trout in those days. Eric and I would fish it in the middle of August and take our limits almost every time out. Of course, back in those days trekking back where others would/could not go was our speciality.

[Venzulo]

I've usually been to the Swift and the Deerfield by now, but this year the opportunity just hasn't presented itself yet. It's been a couple of years since I've been to the Newfound but after the thread about it I read here I probably haven't missed much.
I will hit the Nissitissitt (sp?) this month. The problem with the Deerfield now is there is no where to park with all the snow. Plus the flows have been very high.
I don't usually even start thinking more north until the beginning of May.
I've never fished the Nashoba in Acton.


BMIK, where is the Deerfield?

[Jackiechan]

Fessiewig-
I know exactly of where you speak. It certainly is more of a brook or smal stream these days with encroaching development and brushy growth along its borders. The state does stock it in a few obvious spots, mostly small fish that I'm sure they expect to be either pulled out , eaten by predators or simply die off from summer temps. I'll have to give it a crack some day when I'm stuck close to home with 2-3 hours to spare...
Thanks.

[fessiewig]

I'd offer to come down and fish the Nashoba with you, but would rather remember it as it was then see it as it is. But then again, I haven't aged all that well either.

[bmik]

Venzulo,
The Deerfield and the Swift are tailwaters in western MA. I know they are not NH, but in winter they are open and fishable.
I caught this brown last year on 2/29 at the Deerfield.
http://www.myfishingpictures.com/img/015115.jpg

(I hope the pic appears!)...

[fessiewig]

Beautiful Brown! I don't care if it was caught in MA. We were just talking about the Nashoba, which is in Acton, MA, so I guess you can talk about the Deerfield and Swift Rivers.

[bmik]

Thanks...but my heart still belongs to the waters above the notches!

[fessiewig]

So when are you coming up?

[bmik]

I want to spend a lot of May weekends up there, depending on the flows.
I haven't explored much on the Pemi. I drive past the Ammonusac along 302 and there sure are some fishy looking spots.
I didn't think there was too much fishable in that neck of the woods until May?

[fessiewig]

O.K. It's May then. Let me know when you're coming up and perhaps we can meet someplace and scare the hell out of a few Trout. :D I'll also let you know if it's worth coming up . . . . water conditions and such.

[bmik]

Excellent!...I'm there! Bartlett is my home base when I'm up there so I'm right in the neighborhood.