Good work guys.

38*, Calm with haze from wild fires in Nova Scotia

I already have a couple 10 inch gills mounted or I would have mounted it and yes the gills and crappie were on beds still not spawned out water is 65 so should spawn soon also smallest were on beds as well

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.

nice slab