North Lake cochituate Fishing Report

North Lake Cochituate

Drove to the north lake of Cochituate on a whim. The last time I fished this location was summer of 2010 with my daughter. The weather on this day was chill and partly cloudy which become overcast during the trip.

The access road to the parking lost is severely pot holed, use caution.

I chose my eagle claw medium 6' spinning rod & my shimano IX 2000 spinning rod with spooled with 10 # clear trilene mono.

I tied on a blue fox #2 gold in-line spinner and I started casting toward the route 30 over pass. about 3 casts in I noticed a fish following my lure so I felt that the location was fishy. As I had a fish follow my lure. About 5 casts later the local yokel walks over to chat me up. I honor him with my attention and he proceeds to tell me that cochituate has recently been stocked with rainbow trouts (Monday 10/17/2011). He also informs me that several other anglers where skunked just before my arrival, Approx. 2pm EST. He also tells me about the behavior of the e-police in the area. Apparently, they have the habit of seizing beer from anglers in this area. (I personally do not drink when I fish so this is not an issue for me.) If you wish to fish Cochituate leave the booze at home.

He leave me to my task with well wishes for my fishing fortune.

Now that I know that Cochituate is stocked with trout I change my strategy I start fishing jigs with Berkley honey worms. I remove the snap swivel and tie the lures directly to the line. Spend about 45 minutes technically fishing for trout with spinning gear before I change back to casting an in-line spinner. I change out the gold blue fox spinner for a Mepps #3 yellow black fury spinner. I am fan casting left to right moving toward the parking lot. When I finally hook up with a fish. It was a 9" yellow perch. This fish totally was hooked on two of the three treble hooks on my lure. I landed the fish measured it and took a photo before releasing it with as much care as I could offer it. I was able to remove the hooks without having to harm the fish. I returned this fish back to the water from which I took it.

I continued to fan cast but did not hook up with another fish.

I used the count down method to slow roll the spinners at a depth about 7'.

• Added By: thorn168 on 10/23/11 05:57 PM
• Location: North Lake cochituate
• Report Date: 10/22/2011
• # of Hotspots: 1
• # of Photos: 1
• # of Fish Caught: 1
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