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gecabert · Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 55

I spent a week with the family at my uncle's place on the lake. Luckily one of my other uncles has his boat docked there, so I was able to get out onto the lake fishing each morning and evening.

For those of you not familiar with Webster lake, also known as Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, is the second largest naturally formed lake in Massachusetts. It covers 1,442-acres and has numerous islands and coves. There's a large town owned boat launch which is very expensive $35 to launch, and a very small, free state launch.

Throughout the week the water temp ranged from 81-83.5 degrees and the air temp was in the mid 80's to low 90's.

Over the course of the week, I probably caught 30 bass, and only 1 pickerel and 1 perch. The fish were hitting on a wide variety of bait, Senko's, crankbaits, but I caught most on various spinnerbaits. The keepers ranged in weight from 1.5 to 3 pounds, and had a mix of SMB and LMB. I found the areas around the islands in the main pond to be the very productive, although the cove near the town boat launch was great in the early afternoon.

Maybe because it's such a large lake I found the boat traffic on weekends to be considerably less than I would have thought. It's possible that the high cost to launch at the town launch keeps most non-residents away from using the lake. I spent close to 15 summers at Gardner Lake, and the boat traffic at Webster was much less than I experienced at Garner.

slimecoat · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 1576 Location: Newington, CT.

Sounds like a fun week of fishing, nice report.
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PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

A whole week of fishing on a boat. Sounds like heaven to me. Nice.
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gecabert · Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 55

Yeah, it was a great week, both fishing wise and weather wise. We only had 1 rain day, and that was the day we drove up to Bass Pro to stock up.

Fishface · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 308 Location: New Britain

Nice week, seems a little large for the Kayak.

Tim

PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

A little large, you say? Surprised

Anything over 275 acres is too large for my little kayak.
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basswacka19 · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 217

Nice job! I love webster lake, i fish there quite often seems how it is only a 15min drive for me. Theres a lot of tournaments there each year and a lot of big bags in the spring and fall.
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