Today, for the last day of the long weekend, I travelled down to Chicopee to f.ish the river of that same name.
(Another sunny, warm (80 degree) day.
I arrived around 10:15 AM and fished till about 2:45 PM.
Practically the first thing I saw when i got down to the stream was a great blue heron, which I was able to approach within about 40 feet before it flew off under protest.
The river was down some since the last time I was there, which made wading a bit easier.
There were a few other fishermen on the river, but not many, and they didn't seem to be catching very much, as far as I could see.
Over the course of the four and a half hours that I was there, I caught a dozen (mostly large) sunfish and eight small mouth bass of various sizes (from 4" to 16").
I caught most of the sunfish under the "stepped waterfall" upstream from the Davitt Bridge, and the two largest small mouth a little below the dam (toward the left hand side) upstream from that - - although I did lreel in one sunfish and a good-sized (15") small mouth bass below the trestle about a half mile downstream from the Davitt Bridge.
