Monthly Archive: August 2019

chain pickerel

Best bets for trophy pickerel in Massachusetts

Artificial s can score on pickerel at any depth. For fish holding in deep water, try weedless spoons, diving crankbaits and jigs tipped with pork dressings. However, shallow water is where lures really shine at catching chain sides. Here you’re targeting fish laying in ambush next to weeds, logs or brush, waiting for a minnow to swim by. The water depth can be anywhere from 4 feet to as little as 12 inches! In this situation you can often see as well as feel the strike,...

striped bass

Why Striped Bass Fishing Is So Popular

The Striped Bass, also known as Rockfish or simply striper, is an extremely popular fish in its native habitat of the East Coast of the USA, as well as on the West Coast and in land locked lakes in many other states and countries as diverse as Iran, Ecuador, and Turkey. It is anadromous by nature, living in salt water but migrating to freshwater to breed, primarily up rivers. When landlocked in freshwater, either naturally or by man, stripers also thrive....

Wolfpack

Wolves Repopulate Massachusetts

Before Europeans arrived in North America, what is now the 48 contiguous states, i.e., all but Alaska and Hawaii, was home to an estimated 250,000 wolves. And 10 to 20 million deer. Nowadays the estimates are 5,500 wolves, and 25 to 30 million deer. There has been lobbying to restore wolves to the east, much as was done for bald eagles, but no action expected in the near, middle or distant future. Because it is one thing to restore the national symbol, and another...

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