PowderBeard

Would love a "Downeast" type summer.

Dalton cleans up wherever he goes.

One way to tell is the taste/texture. The "old legend" I've heard from DCR folks is it takes about 12-18 months for the diet of the fish to change the meat. I can see some truth to it. The stockies are more soggy/mushy no matter how you cook them, thus why I make a version of "crabcakes" with the meat. Whereas native fish/long-term survivors the meat flakes and chips, so those are filleted and seared/baked.

Agreed, those natives are hard to come by. I'm always nauseous when I see people taking tons of smallies from the Quabbin to eat or "fertilize" their gardens. Damn things take a decade to get 4 lbs. Speaking of the shallow lake trout convo from earlier. Stumbled across one the other day while smallmouth fishing in about 12' of water. Went 28" and just over 7 lbs. I looked down and couldn't see the blade bait with its mouth closed and knew he would be moving on to the big pond in the sky. Us and our neighbors enjoyed him for dinner though. Did get a couple dozen bronzebacks between 3-4lbs.

Really got into finance a few months ago but I'd bet Archegos was the tip of the iceberg and I'd bet many funds have engaged in similar crazy leveraging practices. Seems like cryptos (e.g., Doge) and penny stocks being pumped and dumped to raise $ in ways only whales can (e.g., CXC was $0.01 mid February and hit $3200 earlier this week). Banks are claiming all is well, selling tons of bonds, and closing locations (e.g., BoA). Bread and circus like the Roman Empire to distract. Goalies - I'm all in on Swayman and he will probably have "sophomore slump" in the next year or two.

9.5" on 4/16 62.5" on the season. edit: forgot PMs

Just under 9" and no signs of slowing.

When I used to trout fish it was all I did, especially the old Mepps Comet Minnow - my old reliable trout lure. I catch more trout when bass fishing now than I ever did when fishing strictly for trout. The next few weeks there will be packs of lakers cruising the shallows eating newts and such in the Quabbin while people are trolling in 60' for them. Saw one about 15 lbs last year cruising around a beaver lodge in 4-6' and thought it was a pike at first.

Feel like we are living in one of your snow globe pictures lol

30-35 dbz popping up over head again on radar. Just keeps going.

Yea if the air is much warmer than the water, largemouth will get very shallow, but we were watching reeds and sticks move almost on the bank with fish moving around them. I'm so done with trout right about now. Cannot keep the stockies away from a 5" jerkbait when bass fishing. That plus the 3 treble hooks on each, the boat looks like a crime scene of scales and blood. No point in putting them back after they get hooked on one of those since they won't make it. I keep making "trout cakes" out of them for my wife and the toddler. They love them.

Don't boot pack the skin track lol

7.5" on the deck.

We are at about 650'. Heaviest snow of the storm now. Might see double digits.

We are at about 650'.

Measured multiple spots in the front, average was 6.3". Still going around 1"+ per hour. Neighbors just lost a good size pine. Edit: that band keeps pivoting west another ~15 miles and this will be our biggest storm of the year.

Just won't quit. Been ripping at 1" per hour since 6:30. Over 5" now.

Just over 4" now.

A firehose of 1-2" parachutes. Will be pushing 4.5" by 7:30 at this rate.

Hit Quaboag the other day and it was a fun surprise. Water was around 50, air around 70, bass were in less than a foot of water on any cover they could find warming up. Made for an excellent day of pitching the jig around. Grabbed 3 largies between 2.5-4 lbs off a single long on a sand flat in 5 casts, doubt I will ever do that again in my life time. Finished with over a dozen largemouth. Quabbin opens this weekend, will be a different story. Probably yo-yoing blade baits in 30-40' for smallies.

Going to stack up now, 2" per hour rate of cotton balls coming down.

Street finally covered. Over 2" down and really pounding now. Gonna have to plow the boat ramps at the Quabbin for opening day tomorrow.

Woke up at 2:45 to a covering. 1.5" now and really starting to rip.