How many of you knew that weather system wind does not blow it sucks?  Seriously wind gets pulled from high pressure to low pressure like a vaccum. And the stronger the pressure gradients between the high and low pressure the stronger the wind.

So perhaps we have been getting weather systems with stronger pressure gradients? 

Without spot burning, it has been a great weekend fishing downeast. 21 salmon to the net 2 over 4 lbs and 3 true humpback white perch (my favorite). My buddies also put up great numbers of quality fish.

This morning my younger son and my buddy Bob and I took a drive to Chicopee to try the Chicopee River for shad and small mouth.

We arrived around 11:30 AM and left about 2:30 PM.

It was partly sunny and about 60 degrees.

My son and Bob religiously fished for shad with darts and leaves, but without success.

I did a bit better, switching to worms after a while, and landing several feisty sunfish and one foot long American eel - - my first in nearly 40 years if you don't count the pencil long (and thin) specimen that I caught in the same stretch of river a couple years ago.

There were a fair number of other fishermen, but no one seemed to be doing much, except one gent who hauled in a half dozen shad and left.

After returning home and taking my wife and kids out to dinner for Mother's Day, I hit the South Hoosic for around 45 minutes this evening.

It was cloudy and about 50 degrees.

I managed to reel in one 14" brown below the Cheshire Harbor dam, as well as harvest a few ramp mushrooms a bit further downstream.

Funny because I had the same conversation with my sons a week ago. Of course I "Googled" it and apparently it has been windier than normal overall the past 2 years.

Swordfish, zucchini and burgers