First-time poster here, hello to all you Mass bass fishermen and fisherwomen.
I have been reading articles on this site for a long time and haven't even bothered to look at the forums; looks like there's a bigger bass community in this state then I thought! But I figured I would give a report on a couple of my recent trips...
I mostly fish, some of you as well, at A1. I'm not sure what it was but the first couple of weeks of July there I did not have a lot of luck on. But the latter half of the month has been excellent (perhaps) because of some of the rain we have received in that time. On 7/22 I went out there pretty much all afternoon on my kayak, with the exception of an hour and a half break for food. It was cloudy and a little windy almost all day and rained from 5:30 - 8pm. I was using (my favorite in rain) a black spinnerbait and caught around 20 bass that afternoon along with a lot of picks. They were HAMMERING that bait. The bites were jarring to say the least. Nothing too big, biggest probably a little over 3 lbs. The rest were cookie-cutter for A1; nice solid 2 lb fish after 2lb fish.
I went this past Saturday as well. Got there later than I wanted to but was still surprised at the action that I did get being the middle of the day (fished from 11am-2pm). This time, since there was a good chop on the water, I threw a chartreuse spinnerbait and caught 6 bass in about 3 hours on it. I lost a couple of decent fish on a 6in dinger too.
I sure am glad that the water level of that place has been steady this year. Normally, like in years past, by this time in the summer the water level is very low and the fishing becomes difficult with all that milfoil.
Here's to hoping the water stays high and the lines tight!
