Sudbury Reservoir Fishing Report

A Rainy Saturday Morning On The Sud

I was watching the weather all day before and it looked like my plans to go fishing Saturday Morning weren't going to happen. I already got soaked earlier in the week when I didn't plan ahead and got caught mid trip in a thunderstorm. (Lightning ain't cool when you're on the water, torrential downpours aren't either especially when you have a mile to walk back to your car without an umbrella). Let's just say I was overly cautious this morning.

So I ended up sleeping in a little when I woke and saw rain, but the forcast said the rain would be light for a few hours before getting heavy with possible thunderstorms, so I figured I had a small window to fish and decided to hit the water around 6:30am.

I stuck mostly to a few spots I already knew had good cover for both me and the fish.

Got one LMB in the first few minutes, and then shifted to a different location and hit 2 more. All in the 1 1/2 to 2lb range. Good solid LMB's, but nothing worth getting out the camera for. All caught on assorted dark senkos with a 4/0 red worm hook.

The rain would get heavy, then light, then heavy, then go away, then come back in light downpours. It was a mixed morning, but the tree cover and my hat kept the rain at bay.

I switched it up a little and tried frog fishing the pads for a while when the rain got light, but no luck. I then said "what the hell" and switched over to a classic texas rigged setup with 1/8oz weight and basic Walmart variety Strike King rubber worm (dark green with flake).

The weight really helped and the first cast gave me some good distance a few extra yards and I was able to cast it right on the edge of some lily pads. All of the sudden I got a nice hit. Nothing crazy, but you could tell it was a good one.

The fish swam directly for me and into a patch of lily pads and then stopped.

I couldn't budge him. He seriously just stopped. He was still a good 50 feet offshore and hidding in this patch of pads. If I pulled hard I'd break my line or knot(of course I hooked him on my lightest setup rigged with 10lb line, instead of my main stronger rig). I gently let up tension to see if he'd run, but not enough to let him go, and sure enough he swam out of the pads and straight toward me and to the right into some tree cover, but I reeled hard and brought him to shore.

Not a huge lunker, but a solid 3lb 4oz.

I've been catching a lot of fish this year, but believe it or not this was my first shore fish over 3lbs, so even at 3lb he felt like a lunker to me. :-)

After about 2 hours I decided I wasn't going to tempt the rain gods anymore and started heading in. On the way of course I couldn't resist tossing my frog out to a few pads on my walk. After a huge splash on one cast however, I tossed out another strike king worm and after a few minutes hooked another 1 1/2lber.

So there you go. Love those rainy mornings. 5 fish in 2 hours. One psuedo lunker. All in all. A solid rainy saturday on the Sud.

Oh yeah, and I made a video of the rain. (Although it's not the same location I caught Larry) ;-)

• Added By: taez555 on 08/18/12 02:49 PM
• Location: Sudbury Reservoir
• Report Date: 8/18/2012
• # of Hotspots: 1
• # of Photos: 3
• # of Fish Caught: 5
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