This afternoon, while driving the back road to North Adams to fish Fish Pond (Windsor Lake), I spied an unusually wide but poorly defined rainbow, which fortunately proved to be a harbinger of things to come.
When I arrived, the weather was mostly cloudy, breezy and cool (57 degrees).
A couple hours yielded a 12" and a 13" rainbow (both near the Town Beach) and five sunfish (some near the Town Beach and some closer to the SW corner heading toward the Boat Ramp) - - one of which gave me a better fight than the rainbows.
Heading home, I had an early cookout dinner - - steak, boiled potatoes and a salad with 20 mostly homegrown and/or foraged ingredients - - including two, dock and mustard greens, that I just learned about yesterday from a friend who took my older daughter and I mushrooming - - all chased down with a Smithwick's Red Ale.
Later on, I took my younger son fishing on Lake Onota for an hour shortly after dark (between 6:30 and 7:30 PM) while it was still breezy but the thermometer had dipped to just 47 degrees.
After 10 or 15 minutes of fishing, my son hooked and landed a 24" carp on a few pieces of corn (hence the "gold" of the subject line), which turned out to be our sole catch of the night