I drove to Chicopee and fished the Chicopee River from 10 AM to 4 PM today.
It was sunny and pleasantly warm (75 degrees when I started and 85 when I finished) and water levels were norm.a
I ended up catching 24 sunfish and 14 small mouth bass.
I'm generally a bait fishing purist, but departed from my usual practice by alternating between bait and lures.
I reeled in most of my fish today on night crawler segments, but landed my two biggest (a 14" and a 17" small mouth) on a rooster tail.
I also saw an osprey and a great blue heron.
Then I drove home and had a cookout - - a lamb chop and a saucepan of Dal Palak (an Indian dish with yellow lentils and spinach), followed by a Don Elias cigar and madeira wine, while reading "The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl (pretty good so far, albeit a little creepy).