Conference wahoo::fishing

    Robin, there is a fantastic place for 'poutin which you can fish
    365 days of the year, 24 hours a day.  Why?  because at this spot
    the ice never freezes.  What it is is an "overflow hole".  Hence,
    hornpout (mostly whitebellies) are forced to concentrate in this
    30 ft. x 30 ft. hole.  Since this "hole" is made out of concrete,
    there are exceptional "vantage points".  All you do is drop in your
    nightcrawler and fish from above.  You'll catch roughly 1 'pout
    every 3 minutes.  (Although, sometimes it gets too hectic 'cause
    you rarely have time to rest!!).  
    
    Anyways, it is located in Littleton, Mass.  It is right off of
    Rte. 495, but you get access to it via West Mill Rd.  I fish
    there all 'round, and I think the catfish taste best in the 
    winter.
    
    Happy 'Poutin,
    
    Kim Mikrut

      exactly where is this place?? i have lived in acton 14 years never
    heard of this place....
    
    
    					wh.

    Actually, W. Mill Rd. is right off of Rte. 2A.  Take Rte. 2A west
    until you come to St. Anne's Calothic church.  Right before the
    church, you take a left.  This is W. Mill Rd. and is a dead end
    road.  Go all the way to the end (about 3/4 mile) and you'll be
    facing Rte. 495.  Park you car there, walk towards the right (or
    same direction that traffic is heading) about 200 yds. and you'll
    see the damn.  You can't miss it.  There is plenty of room to walk
    there without getting near the highway, by the way.
    
    Enjoy, and may all your 'Pout be whitebellies!!! :^)

    
     That must be the overflow from Mill Pond. I've fished Mill Pond
    before but never knew about the dam, or hornpout. Thanks forthe
    "hot" spot. By the way, in the pond you can catch quite a large
    bucket of pan fish in a short time - calico bass mostly.

    
    If your using a map, the pond is called Lake Warren. I fished the
    spot years ago with Kim and caught some decent fish.
    
    							=Paul=

    
     If you want to come down to Shrewsbury there's a nice place where
    you can fill up a 5 gallon bucket with nice jumbo pout in about
    a couple of hours. It's called Flint Pond and there's a state boat
    ramp/access right off of route 20 about a half mile west past the
    edgemere drive-in. We get em on crawlers or chicken liver or shiners,
    or what ever else you feel like using.
    
      We skin em, marinate them in a beer and barbecue sauce mix and
    then barbecue them on the grill.  pretty goood eating. anyone have
    any other ways to cook em ??
    
    
      Bob
    

    Oh, forgive me if I do this wrong - I'm a first timer who has just
    discovered these wonderful files.  I'm also an old Texas and Louisiana
    ?fisherman? who hasn't fished consistently for 10 years.  This year
    I am buying a boat and heading for the waterways with my two kids
    (and the wife when we can talk her into it).  I intend to do mostly
    bass fishing, but I can sure be tempted to throw in a catfish trip
    occasionally as I think that is the best eatin' fish there is. 
    I also live in Townsend so I'm just down the road from the Littleton
    hotspot and not adverse to a short trip to Shrewsbury.
    
    In answer to your question on cooking the 'pouts (I'm trying to
    get the hang of calling them something other than catfish - it ain't
    easy), we always roll them in yellow corn meal and deep fry them.
    If they are large enough, you can filet them and give the filets
    the treatment.  They are then served with the Southern bread delicacy
    known as "hushpuppies" which I don't happen to have the recipe for
    because I have been told by my wife's relatives up here for 10 years
    that "nobody eats the Hornpout up here.  They must not be fit to
    eat".  Oh, well, all those years wasted.  I will be writing my Mother
    for the recipe, if anyone is interested in trying the "puppies"
    
    You can contact me at DECXPS::TERRELL or on DECMAIL by GENE TERRELL
    @DAS.
    
    Glad I found you!!
    
    Gene

    Catfish an hushpuppies....OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
    
    Dats de bes eatin fresh water fish chew kin fine...
    De fust ting is to git sum onyons(dem sweet kind), chop dem op an
    den chew brought yousef some corn meal(de fresh groun is de best)
    an a pan ob cold water, wit ice cubics an water. Chew mix op real
    good some corn meal an chopped op onyons an dip yore hans in de
    cold water an grab op a hanful ob meal an onyons. Mak a little ball
    out ob it an drop it in de hot grease dat chew don fried de catfish
    in. De way to tell if de greas is hot enuf?? Drop a match in it
    and wan it lites op, its hot enuf. Oh yea, use beef renderins instead
    ob grease if chew kin, chew kin use dem ober an ober agin an deres
    no taste.
    
    De corn meal kin be fond rat next to de grits in de store....Teach
    dem folks good eatin an dey luv you forever!!
    
    Bonne Chance,
    
    Coonass

    
    Thanks for the COONASS...
    
    I can't resist this.. When we were in Texas last week,  We aproached
    a small cove, and as our speed reduced, I tossed out a med. divin crank
    bait to troll as we aproached.  Boom.. I hit a log/no it's
    a fish/no it's a rock/no it's a fish.  The dam thing is fightin
    like hell.  That aint no rock/log/etc.  IT'S A FISH, DAMIT..CUT
    THE DAM MOTOR.............It was infact a Trot line and it was fightin
    back.  This trot line had been abandoned.  Evidenced by the Gar
    fish carcuss that was hooked up and very much decomposed.  I had
    to really pull at this trot line to unhook my crank bait.  "HEY,
    WHAT'S THIS YOU GUYS?"  WOW---- A BLUE CAT FISH MUST BE 10 lbs.
    Yep I cought a cat fish.  I admit I took it off the trot line.
    Now before you folks start your crap about stealin from a trot line,
    remember what I said about the fact that everything including the
    fact that it wasn't marked, indicated that it had been abandonded.
    
    I did get my lure back and a nice coupla catfish filets
    
    HOW I SPENT MY SPRING VACATION
    
    By
    
    TBDW
    

    Hey TBDW,
    
    Chew gotta wach dem Texyuns. Dey cum after chew wit a twice-barrel
    shootgun!! But in Loosiana we jes make chew bring de fixins an we
    make a jumbalaya wit it...
    
    Coonass

    Yea, dem "strake nowhere" kind!!
    
    Naw, it don burn much, an it don hurt de flavor none...
    
    As Leonard Kahrs sez:
    
    "If you were born east of the Sabine River, west of the Pearl, north
    of the Gulf of Mexico; can suck the head of a crawfish; drink Dixie
    beer; and can pronounce Tchoupitoulas; Then YOU are a COONASS brother!!"

    I got dat on my bumperstickum....
    
    Coonass