The rain of the last couple of weeks has made it possible to get the Lund into Round Pond for my family fishing trips. It is great fun to be finding new perch spots and there are certainly plenty of perch to be found. Thursday afternoon I had a family with two teenage sons fishing and they were doing quite well. Both boys had fifteen or sixteen fish and we had a school of perch under the boat a good part of the time. I was busy keeping lines straight and looking in another direction when I hear a very loud splash.
We have gotten into a very wet weather pattern for August. We are having showers or thunderstorms on a regular basis. Not our usual bone dry August, in fact it seems amazing that only a month ago we were watering the garden almost every day and talking about how dry it was getting. This is after all New England and if you don’t like the weather just wait a minute and it will change.
As the water temperatures begin to gradually drop turtles spend more time sunning themselves on warm afternoons. On canoe trips and many freshwater fishing trips it Is not unusual to see many of them on various logs and rocks. We see mostly painted turtles which are small but once in a while a large snapping turtle is out where you can see it. I was guiding a couple of fishermen on Monday afternoon when we came on this good sized snapping turtle far up on a large rock.
