I have seen countless more Bluegills at Quabbin and often more room for casting a fly rod... My father, Will, and I have had a great time getting nice Crappy on the fly rods with some Blue Gills mixed in. We were in a boat rental at the time. When you are ready I can get you some waypoints...
I know I keep catching them on 5/8 oz Jitterbugs...
It is just that you have wimpy fish out your way! LOL!
Was there yesterday, slow slow. 1 laker and and second run. No smallie love on jerk baits..the epo that checked me said that was the theme of the dayI have spots in mind Keith but I've never hammered them hard enough to point you there..I need to spend more time as well
The smallies in the chu get massive. We were soaking bait a few years ago and my cousin almost lost his rod to this pig. He’s like 6’ 215# for reference. Didn’t take any measurements back then.
Finally got out yesterday. One 4 lb 9 ounce smallie on a med shiner was all I could manage. Wind was pretty bad in the spot I went to. Didn't see any lakers or salmon landed just a couple smaller smallies from other fisherman bouncing jigs.