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Offline Mogli21

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Lake buel
« on: Feb 25, 2022, 04:58 PM »
Anyone been on lake buel since the warm spell. Went a few weeks and from the ice that was still there after that warm spell I’m guessing it would be fine.  There was 13-14 inches of black ice then

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #1 on: Feb 26, 2022, 05:31 PM »
Did you mean the one in Monterey/new Marlborough, went there and it was locked up good. About 12 inches of ice, edges were soft just a few feet out.  I jigged one rainbow trout and caught a couple pickerel after many flags. My girlfriend jigged up a rainbow, a brookie, a mix of a half dozen sunfish, and two pickerel.  She killed it

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #2 on: Feb 26, 2022, 05:35 PM »
Good going, Mogli!

I'm glad to hear you and your girlfriend had a more productive day on the ice than I did.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #3 on: Feb 28, 2022, 04:53 AM »
Thanks, hope your luck changes the next time out.  Had a ok day at Cheshire reservoir(north end) for the afternoon yesterday.  I got two pickerel and two bass on tip ups and she got a bass and a perch off tip ups and a perch jigging. One pickerel sat on our spot not biting but just going between our jigs for hours. Killed the action but the wind and snow were fun to watch.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #4 on: Feb 28, 2022, 10:29 AM »
Can confirm buel edge at boat launch holds over 7000lbs.  That is all.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #5 on: Mar 01, 2022, 10:32 AM »
Can confirm buel edge at boat launch holds over 7000lbs.  That is all.
7000 pounds 4 wheels and engine and transmission. ::) Nice to hear.
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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #6 on: Mar 01, 2022, 11:02 AM »
7000 pounds 4 wheels and engine and transmission. ::) Nice to hear.

Yes sir.  For now.  That launch gets tricky. 

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #7 on: Mar 01, 2022, 03:42 PM »
Anyone been on lake buel since the warm spell. Went a few weeks and from the ice that was still there after that warm spell I’m guessing it would be fine.  There was 13-14 inches of black ice then
Yeah I’d like to know to. Haven’t been there in a few weeks, my favorite new Pike spot

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #8 on: Mar 01, 2022, 04:49 PM »
Yeah I’d like to know to. Haven’t been there in a few weeks, my favorite new Pike spot

Fish there more, that feeling will fade.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #9 on: Mar 01, 2022, 07:17 PM »
Buffumville is a far better pike fishery more natual reproduction going to be a top notch pike fishery in worcester county and hardly any pressure. Guys are too lazy to walk to the good spots
shhhh there are no pike in buffum :whistle:

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #10 on: Mar 01, 2022, 07:39 PM »
Neither are great for pike if that's what you are looking for. Just saying.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #11 on: Mar 01, 2022, 08:30 PM »
Neither are great for pike if that's what you are looking for. Just saying.

One was great but I counted at least 9 20+ pounders killed for pins or the wall in the past decade.  I know of 4 others that were released.  One by me, one by a friend, another by a friend on my boat in open water and 1 caught by 2 guys fishing next to me one year. 

Can't be great for pike when that happens...and even before those harvests it was never the spot to do numbers.  It was the only spot I fished until I got the fish I was after. 

Offline Mogli21

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #12 on: Mar 12, 2022, 09:22 AM »
Anyone been on buel since the warm up this week

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #13 on: Mar 14, 2022, 10:37 AM »
Anyone been on buel since the warm up this week

Nope that launch gets F'd first when it warms up.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #14 on: Mar 14, 2022, 11:36 AM »
Launch held and ice was solid, only four groups on the ice all day Sunday.  About twelve inches of ice under the crusty slush.  Fishing was good. I caught a few pickerel, a perch, brookie and a rainbow.  Felicia killed it again jigging.  A tiger trout, 2 rainbows, and about a dozen gills.  Kept seeing pike on the underwater camera for the last few hours.  Set off one tip up but dropped the bait and another time through snagged the bait without setting off the flag.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #15 on: Mar 14, 2022, 06:09 PM »
Was there today ramp was good. 13 inches of ice where we fished….top 3 or 4 total junk. Shorelines starting to open up. Saw open water from road on opposite end from ramp.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #16 on: Mar 14, 2022, 07:10 PM »
Crazy it’s still winter in Massachusetts some places, I was on the beach today in a long sleeve T digging a bushel of quahogs, haven’t seen ice since the end of dark winter a few weeks ago

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #17 on: Mar 14, 2022, 09:26 PM »
Crazy it’s still winter in Massachusetts some places, I was on the beach today in a long sleeve T digging a bushel of quahogs, haven’t seen ice since the end of dark winter a few weeks ago

That's awesome.  I sold some calls on crude to make the extra cash for fuel.  Tuna time nears.

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #18 on: Mar 14, 2022, 09:33 PM »
The summer season is so short 8 dollar Marine fuel won’t slow me down, I am signed up for 2000 gallons

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #19 on: Mar 14, 2022, 09:45 PM »
Me either...I spend more on THC.

Offline Mogli21

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #20 on: Mar 15, 2022, 11:37 AM »
Me either...I spend more on THC.


That’s why I grow year round and a lil extra in the summer ;)

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #21 on: Mar 16, 2022, 02:03 PM »
That’s why I grow year round and a lil extra in the summer ;)

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Re: Lake buel
« Reply #22 on: Mar 17, 2022, 05:27 AM »
That’s why I grow year round and a lil extra in the summer ;)

Have buddies that do this.  My cost without growing is cheaoer than buying all the stuff to grow. 

 



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