Conference wahoo::fishing

    
    
             Hey,Nightcrawler,I Know of a place that you can go fishing.
             It is even posted "FINE FOR FISHING".The Sudbury river was
             posted a couple of years ago with signs that tell you not
             to eat the fish because of high levels of mercury,but this
             river has some huge bass and is not fished much because of
             this problem.I would continue to fish it but I wouldn't
             eat anything in there.
    
    
    
                                               The Keg (with legs)
    

    
    Caution is advised!
    
    The recent findings of high concentrations of nastiness in Quabbin
    fish really brought home to me the wisdom of not eating my catch.
    If Quabbin fish are unclean, guess what a Charles River bass is
    full of!
    
    I haven't seen any two headed bass either, but I do see with alarming
    frequency, fish (mostly bluegills, but some smallmouth, carp, perch,
    cats) with unpleasant growths that I've assumed to be some form
    of cancer.  I fish the Connecticut and Westfield Rivers in WMass.
    The CT is rated class 2 I believe.  I'm not sure of the Westfield.
    
    Steve 

    	I rarely eat anything from fresh water with the exception of
    some of the northern NH lakes and ponds. I usually rely on my salt
    water catches for my fish fries. I'm probably going to do an overnight
    party boat trip in May. Last year in June, my father, myself, and
    a friend went on one and wound up with about 100 lbs. of "fillets".
    Since my father had already been previous to this he only wanted
    about 10 lbs. of cusk. This left my friend and I with about 45 lbs.
    of fillets each. Needless to say it kept me in fish for awhile.
    
    RAYJ

    Hey Keg,
             I fish the assabett on lunch hour when the ice fades.......
    I know it holds nice bass because I get back to work and smell like
    em! Any other places worth the trip?
                                             Nightcrawler~~~~~~~~

    Nightcrawler, Nightcralwer, Nightcrawler,
    From what I've been hearing about the bass they're pulling out
    of the A-1 in westboro, Sounds like your dangeling your worm in
    in the wrong waters, I cant varify they are good eaten or not but
    they say two heads are better than 1.
    

    
    
    re.4 
    
            Yo,Nightcrawler,I fish the assabet in spring at Thanksgiving
            pond near the mill and have caught some beauts.Kinda expensive
            because of the nuclear pickeral that love them worms.The bass
            are healthy? looking but the smell of the assabet makes me
            think of sewerage treatment plant.Did they finish building
            the treatment plant in westboro??
    
    
                                                   The Keg

    Just a quick reply on mercury in the rivers. We  fish the Concord
    river for muskie and northerns and this is the first year we seen
    dont eat the fish markers. Upon calling the Fish and Game we found
    that the Nashua and Asabett are loaded with mercury. Both of these
    dump in on the concord and have now caused problems with fish quality.

    YO-----Keg,      
           I fish the assabett in Hudson and can vouch for large bass...
    It makes for a great lunch hour in the spring/summer/fall. The smell
    as you say is nasty. As for the treatment plant I do not know. I
    thought the brown matter floating in the river was wood! 
      "this is not my beautiful Bass, this is not my large pickeral,
       how did I fish here?"

    
    
    No, your health is too important, don't eat anything with two heads.

    
        I have a friend that caught and ate a 4 pound bass from the A1 project
        and I haven't seen him glow in the dark, or grow and shrink with
        temperature changes. The A1 is supposed to be fairly clean but
        the pond right across the street is posted "NO FISHING,NO SWIMMING
        and  NO HIKING". 
    
        In an earlier note I asked about Horn Pond in Woburn and didn't
        get much response does anyone know about that pond.
    
        One other quick question does anyone know how long a fish would
        have to be exposed to polluted waters before becoming unsafe
        to eat or show signs of deterioration.
    
    

    re .10> ate a 4 pound bass from A1.
    
    The quality of the water in the A1 sight is very good.  If you look
    at it it is very brown and smells.  The reason for this is the decaying
    of of the standing timber in the lake.  I meet the state bioligest 
    at some show once and he says that water tests almost good enough
    to drink out of the lake.   The smell and the color may get to you!!
    
    As for the lake up the street.  That is HUCKOMUCKA!!!! (sp)  lots of
    BIG BIG BIG bass.   The problem with that lake is if you go to the
    back side neer the railroad tracks you will see what is left from
    the good old telephone company or may be from old Lester light bulb!
    There are telephone poles and big pits that used to be filled with
    creasole (sp) they use to dip the poles in these pits.  The shit
    got into the ground water and the lake so it is considered poluted.
    I believe the water is ok but the creasole is heaver and settles
    on the bottom so the food chain gets effected!
        There is a big buck law suit out to clean it up...  It is one of
    the states noted pollution cleanup spots!
    
    Bassin Bob

    Caca waters (no offense ledgend yuk yuk) does not deter me from
    fishing, I believe that if you eat enough fish from questionable
    water you are gonna have the trots....fact. Can you say MISERY?
    Sure you can. And if you eat it it long enough you gonna die Jack!
    
    I support catch and release unless I am on vacation in Canada or
    Wisconsin! Then I'm eating fish!
    
    Bob.....directions to A-1 site? Sounds like great fishin'. How do
    you get there from 146 south to Worchester?
    
                                                  NIGHTCRAWLER~~~~~~~~~~
    

    
    
    Call TBDW for dir to A1A.
    
    Also speaking of the trots.............your homemade beer does that
    toooooo!
    
    

    
    
           re. .12
    
                 Hey,Nightcrawler,Ya cain't git theare from heare! AYUH!
    
    
                           
                                                 The Keg
    
    
    
                                         

    re:14
          I figured you had Radon poisoning......
                      
                                                 NIGHTCRAWLER~~~

    Along the lines of this topic.  I was fishing up in Newfound Lake in
    Bristol N.H. and caught some keeper perch and small mouth.  After
    cleaning and filleting the fish I noticed some black parasitic worms
    throughout the fillets.  My questions are; What are they, can these
    fillets be eaten, are these worms parasitic or symbiotic, and does this
    only happen in warm water fish or would they also affect the trout and
    salmon in Newfound.  By the way I caught a 17.5" smallmouth that was
    very fat, but didn't have a scale to weigh him before I released this
    beautiful fish.  Any estimates on weight?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Jim
    

Jim,

    Check out MTBLUE::FLYFISH  note 283.18 thru 283.23 .....

    If these parisites(sp) are the ones refered to in those notes (about the
size of the o's in this text) then I've eaten them for years with no ill
effects ...........................

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    Jim,
    
       Regarding the weight of the smallmouth.  On a trip to the boundary
    waters last year, a friend caught a 21" prespawn smallie that weighed
    in at 5 1/2 lbs. I believe.
    
    Bear